What are you reading right now?

Starting Martin Amis' Success. It has a lot of swearing on the first two pages.

the girls with the dragon tattoos

Plotwise yes. I just couldn't stand the translation job.

They are pretty good in the original language, haven't read them in English yet.

Read: World War Z by Max Brooks, and Animal Farm by George Orwell.
Currently reading The Great Sharkhunt by Hunter S Thompson, and Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut. I've also bought Pan and Mysteries by Knut Hamsun - which are on my next to read list.

The Sign of Four, now.

The Sound and the Fury

fucking challenging but rewarding narrative so far

I finished this one at the end of December. I really enjoyed it.

Just finished the second Dark Tower book. Loved it.

Started The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo the night before last. 100 pages in (which is fast for me), and I'm really enjoying it despite my familiarity with the story. I'm reading the first book mostly so I can get to the second and third.

I don't know if I'd say he nails the ending, but he gets it as well as he ever really does. But I'm not one much to judge-- climaxes in novels always feel underwhelming to me because of the amount of time that's been spent reaching them.

Damn. I didn't like it at first, but Success was really great. Loved how the style of writing shifted between the two characters (and changed depending on their emotional state). My heart was thoroughly wrenched by the end of it. I want to wear capes and snakeskin boots. Gonna have to read more Martin Amis. He reminds me a bunch of Vonnegut (humour), DFW (perspective on the world), and Nabokov (style, at least in the Gregory bits).

Now reading William James' Pragmatism and Fay Weldon's something something She-Devil.

finished On the Road recently. bought years ago, never really got into it because I was expecting things to happen.
It's about getting there man
Working through JG Ballard's short stories in chronological order. Noisy as fuck
also Lost in the Funhouse. Suddenly gets very difficult halfway through the collection. Can't read this shit at dogwork.

Reading James Welch's Fools Crow right now for my Native American Lit class, really enjoying it.

read Echo and Glossolalia out loud and you will SUDDENLY UNDERSTAND

also Menelaiad is impossible without a pencil/note-taking

Reading the first book of the Kingkiller Chronicles. Loving it so far. Just quit the first book of the Prince of Nothing series because it was pretty bad. Getting to the next chapter was a constant struggle, and I wound up putting it down because I just didn't care at all anymore even after reading 3 quarters of it.

finally out of the song of ice and fire shackles and the first thing I've moved on to is A Brief History Of Time by Stephen Hawking lol

Strait is the Gate by André Gide

How are you liking Needful Things?

I'm slowly reading Infinite Jest. It's really awesome but also really confusing.

Yeah, they way he sets things up in the early part of the novel is great. Very meticulous.

After the first couple hundred pages it starts to make sense. I recommend several bookmarks for going back to old things you're confused by. Everything gets explained or is given context.

I think you will find the ending at least good enough. I'd call it satisfactory. Like almost all of his endings, there's a little bit of a cheeseball factor at play (and I bet you that you already know what the source will be), but it definitely doesn't override the events that play out. I was much more accepting of the end of NF than UtD.

I don't know The Regulators, though. What is that? I don't think I've ever even heard of it.

Bret Easton Ellis - Less Than Zer0

I tried reading The Name of the Wind--the author lives about an hour from me and I heard him talk on the radio. He was really interesting and it motivated me to at least give it a try. Started promising but I got fed up with it pretty quickly.

I think I'm about to need a third bookmark.

I finished Bernhard's Concrete. I had a difficult time connecting with this one, but Bernhard is always worth the journey, anyways.
I picked up Pynchon's V. and the second volume of Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time. Not sure if I should start one of those or work on finishing the second Pleiades volume of Remembrance of Things Past.

Finished Fay Weldon's The Life and Loves of a She-Devil. She had a nice sense of humour but the whole book seemed incredibly bitter (mostly about feminist stuff but she also comes across as a bit misanthropic in general).

Now reading Iris Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea. Also Cicero's On Moral Ends

Yeah, me too.

And yeah. I was bummed with what happened to Nettie. I liked Nettie and wanted to protect her.

Yeah it works occasionally but after a while (as in, all the books after NT), he needs to cut the shit.

It's been years--was that the dag?

Finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo this morning. As a 600 page book, getting through it in two and a half weeks was really quite the accomplishment for me (considering I was too busy to read for a whole week). I fucking adored it, and am severely tempted to interrupt my reading schedule and jump right to The Girl Who Played With Fire. But I'm not going to!

Tonight I started Stephen King's 11/22/63.

80 pages into 11/22/63 and I'm digging it.

Almost finished Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay and pretty much loved every minute of it. Its the first fantasy book I've read in a while so that might help, but its one of the better ones I've read. Hopefully the ending doesn't disappoint as it has for some :/

I've been thinking about picking up another of his books (got Under Heaven new for $4 ). Seems like Tigana is the go unless anyone can suggest otherwise?

In revving up to do my just-made reading list, I'm on page 1050 of Vol. II of Remembrance of Things Past, book IV a.k.a. Cities of the Plain a.k.a. Sodom et Gomorrhe a.k.a You'll Never Guess Who's Gay! and I'm going to finish this beast for real and move on to Vol. III.

Finished Iris Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea. 'twas a pleasant meditation on obsessive love and how we can never know other people or ourselves because we're trapped inside a momentary perspective.

Now Nabokov's Despair.

reading this later on this year. actually I'll be done with Cat's Cradle tomorrow, you tryina simu-read motherfucker??

I don't know what happened but I haven't been able to finish a book since Infinite Jest. I pick something up and get bored and put it down and don't pick it up again. Maybe I need some good genre fiction to change my pace.

Okay. I'm at the end of the first chapter I'LL WAIT

lolita
the road

picked moby dick back up, gonna start white noise soon

How does one find time to read during the school year? I'm always, always behind on my school reading....

Nevertheless, spring break is coming and I would like to read something. Can't decide between challenging myself with Infinite Jest, challenging myself to read 100 Years of Solitude in Spanish, or going for something good but more relaxing.

Infinite Jest would probably spill over past spring break. I recommend Don DeLillo because fanboy

it's really a matter of setting aside time for it, even if it's as desperate as 20 pages before bed

garbage by ar ammons

nommet no

DeLillo