Thread: [Books] What are you currently reading?

I picked up One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. Will be diving into it this weekend.

Originally Posted by coqauvin

Animal Farm, and then some other dystopian novel.

I've been given a couple of options, standards like Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, Catch 22 and others such as A Canticle for Leibowitz, a few Philip K Dick ones.

i'm thinking about King Rat as well, but any suggestions would be welcomed

Catch-22 may very well be the only book in my life, thus far, I have never completed.

unaccustomed earth by jhumpa lahiri.

it's 8 separate stories, and i'll probably only read the first one since i'm not really all that interested in stories about indians or people of indian decent in america.

yeah imagine that.

Originally Posted by coqauvin

sycld we are as aware of your self-loathing as we are of your homosexuality

haha, this time i don't think it's an issue of self-loathing. i guess the indian experience in america just doesn't grab me so much. almost all of it is a variation upon the same narrative: you immigrated to this country, became a rich professional, and bore two children that don't care about your culture. the only emotionally compelling parts of the story usually deal with feelings of alienation and disillusionment, which i have more than enough of in my life as it is.

on the other hand, i enjoyed white tiger immensely, and that was set in india. so it has nothing to do with the presence of indians in the book per se.

Originally Posted by Atomic

Have you ever ridden an elephant?

yes

And by riding an elephant I mean porking a fat dude...

no

Originally Posted by Atomic

Oh and I found an app for my phone that will let me view and download ebooks and free ebooks so I'm reading that binjammin button one.

i've heard about this. but i mean how could you tolerate the small size of the screen? either the text would be extremely tiny or only a little of the text would be displayed at a time.

maybe it wouldn't be as much of a pain as i'd imagine, but i doubt it.

Originally Posted by Atomic

Nah it's okay. I mean you're not going to get a huge book size screen but my phone is the G1 so it's big enough that you can read it with no problem.

hum. if the app is free or cheap, i might check 'er out.

i'm back to reading faggot poetry.

Suetonius Lives of the Caesars and How to read a film by James Monaco

Originally Posted by gorefinger

I just finished reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. The hype around it is kind of bloated, but it was very good.

Iit was incredible, but i think the hype rests on the author and the eventual film.

I am reading Father Brown by G.K Chesterton and also The Problem of Pain by C.S Lewis

and Asterix of course

Originally Posted by Woofness

I am reading Father Brown by G.K Chesterton and also The Problem of Pain by C.S Lewis

and Asterix of course

On first glance I thought the title of that book was The Problem of Palin and I got really interested.

Originally Posted by Woofness

I am reading Father Brown by G.K Chesterton and also The Problem of Pain by C.S Lewis

lol

so you really are a thinksheknowsit clone. and here i thought you were merely acquaintances in real life.

Originally Posted by sycld

lol

so you really are a thinksheknowsit clone. and here i thought you were merely acquaintances in real life.

its the other way around I assure you.

Originally Posted by Woofness

its the other way around I assure you.

you have a point. i mean cloning usually results in some genetic defects in the clone, and thinksheknowsit can't draw.

???

profit

Originally Posted by Atomic

Nah it's okay. I mean you're not going to get a huge book size screen but my phone is the G1 so it's big enough that you can read it with no problem.

which e-book reader are you using, kindle for iphone or stanza?

those are the only two i saw in the itunes store. the other related application, quickreader, looks like a speed reading trainer with a fixed selection of books.

I'm reading about the history of the Oxford English Dictionary. It's a griping tale about stuffy British gentlemen sitting around, reading books, and talking to each other.

For example, did you know that Herbert Colridge, grandson of the poet, was the second editor of the dictionary but was sickly because of tuberculosis and died at the age of 32?

I know it's... it's just... exciting. But really, I'm actually enjoying it.

A few days ago I started reading Everything's Eventual by Stephen King. It is an unremarkable but entertaining collection of short stories.

Maybe that's not fair for me to say. Some of the stories, in particular "The Man In The Black Suit" and "The Death of Jack Hamilton", were really good.

I'm reading the new Splinter Cell book


That's right, I'm nothing if not consistant.

Finished reading One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Friday night up past midnight. Absolutely enjoyed this book. Haven't read a book like this that really put a lot of me into it. I was rooting for McMurphy the whole entire time.

Picked up Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. Read the first few chapters to get a feel for it.

just read The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown again so i could use it in one of my assessed essays

i could rip it to shit, but i only have 1500 words to do it in. I'm afraid thats one I'll have to do in my own sweet time

Going through some leisurely reading of the Ender series and working through Calc book.