[Books] What are you currently reading?

**solecistic** · 06-22-2009, 11:18 PM

Flowers For Algernon.

It makes me so sad.

**gwahir** · 06-22-2009, 11:34 PM

there's a character in my play called algernon wooster.

**simonj** · 06-22-2009, 11:37 PM

Yes but you can hardly take credit for that, can you?

**gwahir** · 06-22-2009, 11:43 PM

well i can because he was not in the book don'tcha know

**simonj** · 06-22-2009, 11:47 PM

No. I did not. Clearly.

I keep meaning to get around to reading something by Wodehouse but I have yet to do so.

I almost certainly will do over the summer though.

**Undead Overlord** · 06-24-2009, 09:15 PM

3/4s of the way through the Five books of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

**simonj** · 06-25-2009, 07:59 AM

Found a pristine copy of 'Of Mice & Men' in a charity shop for 50p yesterday so I bought it and have already nearly finished it.

**MalReynolds** · 06-25-2009, 08:57 AM

Achievement Unlocked: Short Book
You've read a really short book in 24-48 hours. 25gp.

**simonj** · 06-25-2009, 09:36 AM

I wasn't bragging about it.

**MalReynolds** · 06-25-2009, 11:16 AM

I wasn't really making fun of you. Just felt like posting.

**simonj** · 06-25-2009, 12:02 PM

Well congratulations, you certainly managed that.

**MalReynolds** · 06-25-2009, 12:47 PM

I know. It's pretty tough.

**coqauvin** · 06-25-2009, 01:29 PM

Flowers for Algernon is one of my favourite books of all time! I haven't watched the movie yet, but i've read that story many, many times and it never fails to move me

**MalReynolds** · 06-25-2009, 03:43 PM

Oh, I just finished "Tell No One", a novel that is supposedly a beach-read, but transcended that to me. Excellent thriller. And it doesn't star a retard.

Just kidding I love Flowers for Algernon.

**solecistic** · 06-25-2009, 06:04 PM

Originally Posted by coqauvin

Flowers for Algernon is one of my favourite books of all time! I haven't watched the movie yet, but i've read that story many, many times and it never fails to move me

This was my second time with it, and while I do really really really love the story, it just makes me so goddamn sad. :/ I don't think I can read it again.

**sycld** · 06-25-2009, 08:58 PM

Originally Posted by fm2176

Right now I'm reading Manhunt: The Definitive History of Serial Murder Investigation by Colin Wilson and realizing I fit the profile of most serial killers quite nicely.

Here's the books official site: www.manhunt.com

I'm taking my sweet time finishing the Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay. Next up is probably going to either be the history of the Oxford English Dictionary or the history of potatoes.

**SUN** · 06-26-2009, 01:22 AM

Philip K. Dick: Best from the 1960s and 1970s

**jack burden** · 06-29-2009, 01:48 AM

heart of darkness. short but incredibly boring

**gina** · 07-06-2009, 07:52 PM

i'm once again seeing what mischief harry potter and his pals are getting into.

i've been so bored not working that i've read years 1-4 in 3 days. this all changes next week when i start my new job and see the sixth movie.

**djwolford** · 07-06-2009, 08:53 PM

I just picked up Glenn Beck's Common Sense, but I don't know how long it'll be before I actually read it. The book is only 180 pages or something like that so it'll be an afternoon read through, but it looks to be pretty interesting.

**solecistic** · 07-06-2009, 09:08 PM

Glenn Beck is a fucking moron.

(Sorry, just. I want to punch him right in the cock.)

**djwolford** · 07-06-2009, 09:09 PM

I'm sorry you feel that way sole, can we still be e-friends?

**solecistic** · 07-06-2009, 09:11 PM

Maybe.

I'll get back to you.

**djwolford** · 07-06-2009, 09:16 PM

Woman look I'm a 10k a day CEO this being on hold stuff just isn't going to work.

I don't even know what "I'll get back to you." means.

**simonj** · 07-06-2009, 09:23 PM

Recently started Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. The plot is thus far impenetrable, superseded by long, stream of conscious diatribes on the thoughts of the few characters so far introduced. I like it though, the prose is beautiful and has an air of Joyce about it, were Joyce more of a feminist (although I suppose, in some ways, he was - he certainly believed in equality).

I think I'm going to go and read more in bed before I attempt sleep.

**sailor jack** · 07-06-2009, 09:43 PM

amo, amas, amat and all that by Harry Mount

Described as an "inspired romp through the language, literature and history of ancient rome"

It isn't bad

**jared** · 07-07-2009, 12:57 AM

currently reading catch 22

not impressed so far!

**Think** · 07-07-2009, 01:19 AM

Originally Posted by jared

currently reading catch 22

not impressed so far!

how are you not impressed?!
I find Heller's style of writing to be awesome (and hilarious at the same time, though not as funny as some find it admittedly), and well I mean his weakest point is his characterisation and his characterisation is better than most other writers'.

Horses for courses I guess

**Think** · 07-07-2009, 01:27 AM

no scratch that I just flicked through it
it is incredibly funny and the characterisation isn't as bad as I've made it in my memory either
it did take me a long while to acclimatise to the style though, I found it grew on me, because it was so different to anything else I had read when I started. Where are you in it?

**jack burden** · 07-07-2009, 03:13 AM

Originally Posted by djwolford

I just picked up Glenn Beck's Common Sense, but I don't know how long it'll be before I actually read it. The book is only 180 pages or something like that so it'll be an afternoon read through, but it looks to be pretty interesting.

I have seen his show so many times and he is an enormous dick. Just about everything he says is stupid, and equating himself with Thomas Paine makes it even worse.

**jack burden** · 07-07-2009, 03:13 AM

Originally Posted by jared

currently reading catch 22

not impressed so far!

I didn't like it either until I got farther in, then I loved it.

**djwolford** · 07-07-2009, 07:45 AM

Originally Posted by jack burden

I have seen his show so many times and he is an enormous dick. Just about everything he says is stupid, and equating himself with Thomas Paine makes it even worse.

You know I enjoy the show because of some of the information that I get from it, but I can't argue with anything that you just said. Glenn Beck really does seem like the kind of guy that has a very punchable dick.

**sailor jack** · 07-07-2009, 09:31 AM

I just couldnt stand Catch 22 from the beginning, so never bothered to reach the good bit

**piranhas** · 07-09-2009, 12:18 AM

I have My Almost Epic Summer by Adele Griffin sitting on my desk. It boasts a splash proof cover so that I can read by the pool. I doubt I will be reading this. Anyone want it?

**djwolford** · 07-09-2009, 04:52 PM

Just started/finished Beck's part of that book today, it was pretty good to be quite honest. The original Thomas Paine Common Sense is in the back of it so I'm about to read it again.

Next up is The Book of Thoth by The Master Therion himself. It's been a long time since I've read it and I've forgotten a lot of it, so I thought it was a good time for me to get a bit of refreshment on the subject.

**Infernus** · 07-09-2009, 05:52 PM

Just finished up the HBO Mini series Generation Kill, was contemplating picking up the book but has anyone read it and do they recommend it>

**hippopotamus** · 07-09-2009, 09:27 PM

I don't feel like going through 5 pages to see if anyone has already read/suggested this book.

I hope they serve beer in hell by Tucker Max

I just finished it a couple days ago. I highly recommend this book to everyone.

**coqauvin** · 07-09-2009, 10:10 PM

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell was a pretty hilarious read, even if the veracity of the stories is dubious at best.

I paused reading The Fountainhead in favour of Scar Tissue by Anthoy Kiedis, and I gotta say it's pretty fascinating. It's no real surprise that he really, really likes drugs, and he's done a lot of them, but what really makes the book gripping is the combination of his intense childhood (I was surprised to find out that him and Flea were boyhood friends) and his absolute passion for music and his strange, almost surreal perspective of the world that I find pretty inspiring.