What are you reading? (Literature)

[Flux]

Woaaah! Lucky bastard!
King Lear must be my favourite Shakespeare play! How was it?

Hehe! You're a Red-ish Senior Member now!

I've not seen KL yet, I think it comes to town in late February - early March of 2011. I cannot wait, plus we read it next year so it'll be really valuable to have seen this before-hand.

[misshu]

in order of persistence:

blood meridian - cormac mccarthy
the women - tc boyle (what a lousy title...)
vinland sagas ('cause their progeny raised me)
go rin no sho - musashi, eh?
wassermusik - tc boyle (german)
das parfum - patrick suskind (german, hangul)
the road - cormac mccarthy (hangul)
the histories - herodotus
physics and philosophy - werner heisenberg

there'd be lots more samurais if i could've included an unforgiveable quantity of manga. forgot my german and only know the hangul alphabet, so those'll take a while.

hope you liked the stand. i read that, the soong dynasty and battle royale each in a day. stories are better than food but maybe not pubs. i read one piece volumes six to whatever chapter it was that shanks stopped the war in about a week. the reason i picked it up again was that i heard by chance he'd shown up with such flash. when i'd previously stopped at volume five, wow, did i stop reading before it kicked in.

:D

[Smudger]

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett.

Its a real shame this wasn't part of a trilogy or perhaps just a little longer.

[RobbyBevard]

I finished off James Clavell's Shogun the other week, fantastic book. I'm preparing to start up Tai-Pan.

Also rereading the Robotech novels on the side.

And a bunch of comics.

[Platz]

Just Finished reading Heresy looking very forward to the sequel

[Sky]

I'm reading the second book in the Septimus Heap series: Flyte by Angie Sage.

[Bucephalus]

Lowry's Under the Volcano

the horrors of alcoholism, depression and the human mind

[Smudger]

I'm quite an odd person, in the sense that I can totally avoid things like the plague from ancient views I adopted as a kid. Be it food, sports, author etc.

Now one of plagues was none other than Terry Pratchett. I've avoided his many books for years until a few days ago when I stumbled upon a book he did with a rather decent author called Neil Gaiman.

Its great, and even better I've opened up another author to add to my extensive, if not biblical collection. If all goes well his entire series will carry me until march...

...then I can finish off Steven Kings books.
(the two I haven't read)

[Airflow]

bunch of assorted shit including

The Making of the English Working Class
The Keynesian Revolution in the Making
History of the Russian Revolution
The Prince (which is really fun)
The Dark Tower IV: Wizards and Glass
and Dan Brown's new book (I have to buy it first). Me and some friends have a competition going where who ever grinds through it last pays for the next couple of pub trips.

[Bucephalus]

Dan Brown - the worst writer of the 21st century

[Silverblade]

Do we even consider Dan Brown and Stephanie Meyer as writers.

[Nia]

A book about the German Civil Code and one about the history of the law.
Interesting stuff, I tell you.

[Legendary Beast]

The Shining, one of Stephen King's many masterpieces...
And Jane Eyre in english class, which pisses me off because I'm reading like fifty pages a night and I have better stuff to do than read about a boring little girl. Everyone says it gets better, though. I just have no patience for fat classics...

[misshu]

I have better stuff to do than read about a boring little girl. Everyone says it gets better, though. I just have no patience for fat classics...

be glad it's not something by nathaniel fucking hawthorne or that awful woman who wrote "ethan frome".

[Sakonosolo]

I'm reading Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

Also, I'm trying to read Equal Rites but keep getting interrupted by my English class. Also Roadside Picnic.

[Vivvi]

I´m reading Les misérables and Notre dame de Paris borthby Victor Hugo.
I´ve alreadyread them once but I like those books =)

And I really liked Jane Eyre, it can be a little boring in the beginning though.

[IrishLuigi]

1984, A Clockwork Orange and The Handmaid's Tale.

All dystopian novels, for English Lit

[Smudger]

I hate how fast I go through books.

When its silent and a little dark I can stare at a page and absorb the text in a dream-like, yet blistering fast state. (Though it really does have to be silent)

Not many people I know can do that...

Anyone here?

As for the book: Currently waiting on a handful of Pratchett books to arrive.

[raj]

I tend to juggle books quite a bit, but the main enchilada for me this fall is

Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow

adorable so far :3

better than Vineland, on par with Crying of Lot 49, but I am not that far yet. I do love Pynchon's tongue and/or ear for prose.

[Sakonosolo]

Gravity's Rainbow was extremely confusing for me. I'll probably get around to reading it eventually, though.