Your current reading material

What book are you currently reading? I'm about to get an Agatha Christie Novel tomorrow but nothing right now.

>>79
People lie about having read it because it is one of the defining novels of the late twentieth century, but most people can't be bothered reading any book, defining or not.

>>81
Quite true.

>>79
Books that are so shittily written that reading them to the end is a major acheivement should not be read by anyone, period.

Meanwhile, I haven't read 1984, but I bet my socks it's bullshit that written really poorly. Of course I may be mistaken, but, all in all, looks like it's one of those concept over artistic merit kind of things that impress stupid people and thus become popular.

>>83
Actually, it's well written with a strong, interesting flowing plot to it with a strong message behind it.

There are many possible reasons for which a book might be difficult to read - length, difficulty or complexity of subject or treatment, emotional power, literary style.  Some books are hard to read now for no reason other than having been written at an earlier point of linguistic or cultural history, so that language or references are obscure now that were not to contemporary readers.  To dismiss a book simply because it's popular and well regarded and known, or one can't be bothered to read it, is unwarranted.  Orwell in particular, btw, had well developed ideas on style and the use of language, based on his experiences of politics, journalism, publishers' censorship, and life in general, and this ideas influence both the style and the subject matter of 1984, which appeared shortly before his death.  It's also worth remembering that, though it's less often the case now, Orwell was writing in a time when it was not especially uncommon for well written literary novels, that have gone on to retain or enhance their reputations, also to be commercial successes.

>>83
This is a very silly and uninformed post.

Just So Stories. This is my Re-Reading Childrens' Books month.

Over half of Baltasar and Blimunda. Saramago's style is really amazing.

I just got my signed copy of Chronic City at St Marks Books.  Time to crack this open...

I just started Nausea, should be fun

>>90
I've been looking for that with no luck. :(

Just finished '5 greatest warriors'

was a great read

just finished so long and thanks for all the fish. it was alright, probably my least favorite of the hitchhikers guide books i've read so far though.

I just started the Sten series and am on the 3rd book court of a thousand suns.

Brawe New World by Aldous Huxley

sex and drugs, fuck yeah!

Moral Panic by Philip Jenkins is like a drop of sanity in a vast ocean of hysteria!

Finally finished The Man Who Was Thursday, pretty damn good, but the ending went over my head because I know next to nothing about Christianity.
Moving on to finally finishing Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? And then the Count of Monte Cristo

just started reading Catcher in the Rye. so far so good.

The call of Cthulhu

hustler

>>100

You read it for the articles, right?

Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson

What an excellent book.

>>102
Shit, yeah. See also: Green Mars, Blue Mars.

Just finished Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie, by Hunter S. Thompson.

Probably gonna take a break from real shit with LOTR: The Two Towers next.

The Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge - Rainer Maria Rilke

Finished reading His Dark Materials trilogy. I really liked The Golden Compass but fuck, the other two books turned to lolwat and super religion bashing pretty quickly.

Picked up the first Dragon Age novel because of the game. Surprisingly good for a first novel of an author, though he's been writing since Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights.

I've been catching up on Steven Brust's last few Dragearean novels. Issola and Dzur were both pretty good but Jhegaala was a bit disappointing.

Finished Stephen King's Dark Tower I and just got a few chapters of Dark Tower II done. A bit excited to see how it goes but I have yet to lose my mind and be fanatical about it like some people.

you must be talking about the gunslinger.  roland crops up in a lot of king's earlier and later works.  if nothing else, the inclusion of his other universes into the dark tower series (allegedly a composite of every universe ever) is an interesting decision

>>107

Oh shit there are novels for it? I'll be all over that, the game was pretty awesome.

>>111
Yeah, written by the head writer for the game. The first one, The Stolen Throne, is set over 20years before the game. Follows the story of King Maric and Loghain. The second novel just came out a couple of weeks ago I believe, haven't had a chance to read it yet.

Reading Hesse's "Strange News From Another Star," Nietzsche's "The Antichrist" and "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," and "A Game of Thrones" by George R R Martin.

In the middle of RANT by Palahniuk, very entertaining

>>114


I really enjoyed Rant. Of all the books of his I've read it's probably one of my favourites.

Halfway through Anna Karenina. Tolstoy's author-insert Levin is mucking about with peasants and agricultural methodology. No-one warned me about that!

I'm reading through all of Palahniuk's stuff right now for a project. I've read everything except Invisible Monsters and Diary, and am about halfway through Haunted.


All the comments on the back claim how "disgusting" Haunted is. but asides from Guts, and maybe Exodus, there's nothing really gross in it. I do like the constant thoughts of "how will this play out in the movie?" though.

I thought Pygmy was alright, but the characters were pretty hollow.
I loved Rant
Fight Club was good
Choke was alright too
I loved Survivor.
I enjoyed Lullaby more than Choke.
For the all the gripe it seems to get I enjoyed Snuff as well. Perhaps that's from being 19 and having watched the subject matter of snuff all through high school.

I am reading around three books one is Red Emma Speaks: Selected Speeches and writings. So far loving it I rarely read political books ,but this was a great book. I am also reading Dune I have hundred more pages to go and I started Dracula.

>>117
Finished Haunted today. I liked it a lot better than I did when I started.

I'm reading Atlas Shrugged for the 36th time and The Fountainhead for the 24th time.