I would like to get a book thread going over here. I know Dutch probably has plenty to say on his latest tome. In fact, I heard about the book I am currently reading from his book thread in general a lonnnnng time ago.

My current reading book: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

My current audiobook: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome (I listen to it while I am eating/walking somewhere, unless I have company)

What are you guys reading/what have you read lately? If you feel like it, tell me what it is about and whether it is any good too.

I just got my shipment from Amazon which included A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Infinite Jest, and Consider the Lobster all purchased after David Foster Wallace's death. Dutch and BigD recommended them to me in the thread Dutch started about his death. I'm starting with A Supposedly... and will try to have that finished within a few days.

As a matter of fact, I'm re-reading Infinite Jest at the moment, as my own personal tribute to the departed author. I'd love to here what you think of supposedly, i think it's completely hilarious...



Lady Grey: have you ever read Infinite Jest or any David Foster Wallace? If you like Pynchon, I can't see how it would be possible for you to not love IJ.

Read a book?

What is this ... 1850?




Actually..I'm re-reading a book I read a few months ago "God Makers"


Also reading "12 Ordinary Men"

Let's see....I just read 9 of the Dresden Files series, reading Sandworms of Dune and Legacy of Ashes currently. Waiting for the next installment of Song of Ice and Fire to come out in paperback.

Same here. Next one should be awesome if he is taking so much time on it.

I'm into all the fantasy sci/fi stuff also. I'm currently reading Chainfire which is the 10th book in the Sword of Truth series. I really like this series.

Been sick the past week so I re-read Lord of the Barnyard Tristan Egolf, one of my favourites and At Swim Two Birds by Flann O'Brien most likely my favourite book. Haven't found many good English book stores here, Israel, so the old ones and swaps will do.

reading The curious incident of the dog in night time by Mark Haddon, a really clever book.

Plan on getting infinite jest as soon as I can

Just finished Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman, and I'm currently reading On The Road and A Confederacy of Dunces.

I hear they are in the process of adapting that for HBO/BBC.

No, I hadn't heard of him before he died but based on all the recommendations I have seen here I am really interested to try some. I will put that book on my Amazon wishlist for sure.

Going through my Tom Clancy books again. re-read in the last couple months Red Storm Rising, Patriot Games, Hunt for Red October, Cardinal of the Kremlin and Clear and Present Danger. Can't find the next in the series, The Sum of All Fears, so I'm reading Rainbow Six out of order, although it's basically a standalone. Same with Without Remorse, which I'll probably read next.

Well, I personally gurantee that you'll love Infinite Jest.

It's not even out in hardcover yet. I've been waiting forever on that.

Feel free to ship me a copy and I'll confirm/deny.

I've heard that too. I'm torn on the subject. As awesome as it would be to see it brought to life, the storylines and cast of characters could become overly complicated quite easily.


I enjoyed Rainbow quite a bit, pretty much all the Clarke strories were fun reads. I re-read the The Bear and The Dragon and the Debt of Honor/Executive Orders story arc fairly often as well.

I'll ship you mine after I'm done re reading it. I've given my copies away about 6 times by now.

I just finished reading Icons of Evolution last night. I am currently reading The Iliad. I was reading the collective works of Plato and Socrates quoted it all the time so I decided to check it out. Not through the introduction yet so dont know if I will even understand it at all.

An Introduction To Quantum Field Theory, by Peskin and Schroeder

Spacetime and Geometry, by Sean Carroll

Gravitation, by Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler

Quantum Field Theory, by Mandl and Shaw

Quantum Mechanics: A Modern Development, b7y Leslie Ballentine

Well after monsieur yorke's visit I'm sure we all feel properly abashed.

Go Dog Go
Hop on Pop
Goodnight Moon
The Foot Book
The Goodnight Gecko

These are just some of my nightly reading rotation. How many of you here can say you read between 3-6 books a night? Huh?















Didn't think so.

What, no " There's a monster at the end of this book?"

OOooooo Hop on Pop is one of my favorites !

I've stopped reading fiction, essentially.

(Oddly, LG, following the DFW suicide, in a funk, I revisited my Pynchon love, but that's about it. Oh, also, I've developed a somewhat less literary fixation with Tom Robbins, but I'm gay like that.)

Given my limited mathematical/scientific background, would any of these actually be readable?

I enjoyed his performance in Bull Durham.





wait, what?

I just finished Michael J. Fox's autobiography for the second time.

Is that some kind of Alzheimers joke?

Um...what?

I read another road side attraction, and it was okay, if a little hippy. Then I tried to read another book, but it was too hippy, and I think I read american psycho instead, plunging me down a po-mo dirrection, and forsaking the hippy earnestness of robbins. Maybe it's because Olympia had so many Tom Robbins fans that I hated, but I have a strong aversion these days.

MJF has Parkinsons, not Alz.

Seriously?

Yes.



Yes.

I remember the second chapter of Jitterbug Perfume contains one of the funniest sentences I can recall. There are two characters who are lesbian waitresses, intentionally 2-dimensional (one of whom is also a brilliant part-time scientist), and the narrative notes of one lesbian that the length of the Seahawks' cheerleader's skirts is "the standard upon which she bases her currency of joy." Beat that.

I agree, although I hit this point somewhere around the 5th grade.

Oh oops, that was an honest mistake. I thought he was making a joke about memory loss but it didn't really make sense to me and now I realise that's because Fox doesn't have Alzheimers. I hope I didn't offend anyone.

If you like biographies, loog, Phil Esposito's is good.

http://www.amazon.com/Thunder-Lightning-B-...r/dp/1572435399

I got a hardcover for like $8 including shipping

I'm not really into figure skating. I keed!

I recently reread Gilda Radner's autobiography. What is the matter with me?

Not really, they're all advanced graduate texts. The closest to "readable" would be Gravitation by M, T, and W. It's about a thousand pages, but it's written in a very charming style.

Has anybody read World Made by Hand by James Kunstler? I just randomly picked it up at Borders and finished reading it a couple of days ago.

If you're into the whole post apocalyptic genre, I'd definitely recommend it.

It's set in a "not too distant future" where global warming, nuclear terrorism and an oil shortage has pretty much collapsed the world economy and set society back to the mid 1800s.

Re reading Harold Coyle's books

Tom Clancy recommends him, he is to ground warfare what Clancy is to spy books.

Trying to get through Christian in Complete Armor, 17th century english is hard to follow though, and it's 1,600 pages

Finished 'Asia Future Shock' by Michael Backman and going through 'Good to Great' by Jim Collins

Outside of that most of my reading is newspapers and magazines.

I don't even know if I belong in this thread.

I've been pretty lax on my fiction reading lately.

I've got "All the Pretty Horses" and I plan (hope) to start it soon.

Love You Forever
and
Primary Colors

Just finished A Farewell to Arms and I'm now deciding whether to continue down the Hemingway path with For Whom the Bell Tolls or jump over to Faulkner with The Sound and the Fury.

I prefer the Hemingway short stories to anything else he wrote.

Old man and the sea might be the perfect short story.

The Bible

You need to read everything Hemingway.

"The Sun Also Rises" being my favorite.

"The Old Man and the Sea" being a masterpiece.

American Psycho> The sun also rises.

fine, i'll read it.