Books you are currently reading

[grungePIG]

haven't read anything else, i started with still life and couldn't stand it so i've never bothered with anything else.



now onto the plot against america by philip roth.

[KYLESTYLE]

Bumped this since i like reading more than I like listening to obscure bands.
recently read:
Hollywood - Bukowski
-I love Bukowski, and I loved this. Every time I read him I need to smoke too many cigarettes and drink too much wine.
Brave New World - Huxley
-it took me a long time to get into this book. Once I hit halfway I started to enjoy it, but then it fizzled again. I can't say it's a great read, but it's genius and I'm glad I finally gave-it-a-go.
Slaughterhouse 5 - Vonnegut
-I haven't been disappointed by Vonnegut before and this certainly exceeded my expectations. Brilliant.

just started The Grapes Of Wrath - Steinbeck and it's blowing my mind. I read Of Mice and Men in high-school and I remember loving that, but for some reason never indulged in more of his work, but I'm so glad I'm reading this.

Anyone read Oryx and Crake by Atwood? I was told it's a must-read but I've never enjoyed Atwood so I'm weary to endeavor...

[officespace]

Orwell's Message 1984 and the Present-George Woodcock
an intersesting perspective on Orwell and it's not a biography althoufgh it does have some biographical aspects

Ismael-Daniel Quinn
Read this for school didn't have my mind "blown" like most of my peers

-Darren

[trappedinside]

Speaking of which I just re-read 1984 over this past week or so, awesome awesome book.

[Jordan f.]

Speaking of which I just re-read 1984 over this past week or so, awesome awesome book.

one of the few books I actually read in high school. Solid book for sure.

[dalamar501]

Speaking of which I just re-read 1984 over this past week or so, awesome awesome book.

one of the few books I actually read in high school. Solid book for sure.

dude you should also read Homage to Catalonia. Possibly my favourite Orwell book. "George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War."
Some fucked up shit going on if i remember.




Also to go along with this thread

just finished
High Fidelity

Reading
Eleanor Rigby by D. Coupland

[grind/bro]

The Trial Of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens.

[officespace]

Speaking of which I just re-read 1984 over this past week or so, awesome awesome book.

one of the few books I actually read in high school. Solid book for sure.

dude you should also read Homage to Catalonia. Possibly my favourite Orwell book. "George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War."
Some fucked up shit going on if i remember.




Also to go along with this thread

just finished
High Fidelity

Reading
Eleanor Rigby by D. Coupland

I also just finished re-reading Homage to Catalonia. My favourite Orwell book.

[darcy]

Soul on Ice

[ian]

finished hot water music by bukowksi about a week ago and it was awesome. so awesome i stayed in to read it on a friday night and skipped a party at empress.
re read catcher in the rye this week too. great book.
just picked up breakfast of champions yesterday.

[Jordan f.]

Speaking of which I just re-read 1984 over this past week or so, awesome awesome book.

one of the few books I actually read in high school. Solid book for sure.

dude you should also read Homage to Catalonia. Possibly my favourite Orwell book. "George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War."
Some fucked up shit going on if i remember.




Also to go along with this thread

just finished
High Fidelity

Reading
Eleanor Rigby by D. Coupland

I also just finished re-reading Homage to Catalonia. My favourite Orwell book.

hm... i will look into this

[KYLESTYLE]

Reading
Eleanor Rigby by D. Coupland

I don't understand why Coupland is popular...

[dalamar501]

Reading
Eleanor Rigby by D. Coupland

I don't understand why Coupland is popular...

neither do i really. Just happened to be around the house and started reading it. Got halfway through and put it down forgot about it for awhile.
Maybe i will finish it.

[Ubik]

Bumped this since i like reading more than I like listening to obscure bands.
recently read:
Hollywood - Bukowski
-I love Bukowski, and I loved this. Every time I read him I need to smoke too many cigarettes and drink too much wine.
Brave New World - Huxley
-it took me a long time to get into this book. Once I hit halfway I started to enjoy it, but then it fizzled again. I can't say it's a great read, but it's genius and I'm glad I finally gave-it-a-go.
Slaughterhouse 5 - Vonnegut
-I haven't been disappointed by Vonnegut before and this certainly exceeded my expectations. Brilliant.

just started The Grapes Of Wrath - Steinbeck and it's blowing my mind. I read Of Mice and Men in high-school and I remember loving that, but for some reason never indulged in more of his work, but I'm so glad I'm reading this.

Anyone read Oryx and Crake by Atwood? I was told it's a must-read but I've never enjoyed Atwood so I'm weary to endeavor...

What's yer favourite Bukowski? Unfortunately sold all mine recently, but Women is by far the best... I spent about a year reading some Bukowski every night. He made me want to grow old...

I'm reading some Tim Leary, and then I get started on Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey. Then perhaps Trout Fishing in America, picked up a pristine copy from Dark Horse. Brautigan paperbacks are probably the niftiest looking books I have ever seen.

[FANTASTIC WOUND]

IT

[KYLESTYLE]

What's yer favourite Bukowski? Unfortunately sold all mine recently, but Women is by far the best... I spent about a year reading some Bukowski every night. He made me want to grow old...

I liked Post Office the best so far but I haven't read them all - still have women and HWM to read. He makes me enjoy growing old drunk.
Also picked up Naked Lunch (Burroughs) today and i'm excited to crack it.

[grungePIG]

philip roth is my boy this summer, i just finished american pastoral a couple weeks ago and picked up the human stain to read next. but right nowwww i'm mixing it up and reading the woman in white by wilkie collins. victorian stuff is rarely my thing but i like collins so...we'll see.

[krisribs]

Picked up a shit ton of books on my roadtrip. Been simultaneously reading From Hell by Alan Moore (actually finished it last night, extremely jarring as well as impressive in terms of the amount of research that must've gone into it), Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers, 9 Stories by Salinger (my first taste of him, haven't read Catcher), and Animal Liberation by Peter Singer. I think everyone should give that last one a go, vegans and animal rights activists as well as people who've never given a thought to the movement or those who have even opposed it. It's arguments are solid and clearly outlined.

[grind/bro]

In Defense Of Atheism by Michel Onfray

[SewnFlesh]

The Arms of Krupp - William Manchester

For anyone with a penchant for history this is a very interesting read on the Krupp family who designed and sold armaments to all of Europe for much of resent history.