What are you reading?

[gsamsa]

started reading first couple of pages of 'a thousand splendid suns by khaled hosseini, been told by the old dutch its as good if not better than the kite runner so looking forward to getting stuck into it and shedding a tear or two.

Is it common for you guys to shed tears from books? I'd like to know since I've never cried from it,and I cried quite at lot during films,regarding wars,sports (no matter how cheesy,it almost always gets me.)human detachments.

Trying to finish a couple of stories I left over two years ago,of Laughable Loves (Kundera)

[LupinTheFourth]

3/4

3/4 done with Viktor Pelevin - Generation P
loving this... It's so decadent.

[Faust]

3/4 done with Viktor Pelevin - Generation P
loving this... It's so decadent.

but very outdated. the problem with his books is that they reflect a very specific place/time. a few years later, and it becomes irrelevant. it is pretty funny though, and sometimes very insightful.

[Faust]

Is it common for you guys to shed tears from books? I'd like to know since I've never cried from it,and I cried quite at lot during films,regarding wars,sports (no matter how cheesy,it almost always gets me.)human detachments.

Trying to finish a couple of stories I left over two years ago,of Laughable Loves (Kundera)

Not really. Maybe at the end of the little prince.

[LupinTheFourth]

True

but very outdated. the problem with his books is that they reflect a very specific place/time. a few years later, and it becomes irrelevant. it is pretty funny though, and sometimes very insightful.

I agree.
This hasn't bothered me while reading, it even made the book even funnier.
The anxiety, scrabble and the incoheretence were on the 'break of the wave', which the book reflects very well.

But I understand your point.

Have you read his other books?

[Faust]

Everything, except the last one. He was very fashionable for a while. The book before the last one was worthless.

[deius]

Read Graham Greene's Monsignor Quixote, then Antony Beevor's brilliant history The Battle For Spain, and after a comforting digression into Terry Pratchett I'm going to start For Whom The Bell Tolls by Hemingway.

It's interesting that, despite its significance as the prelude to WW2, the Spanish Civil war is rarely mentioned. It certainly taught me a lot about the disastrous effect of Britain, France and America's negligence in allowing, and in some cases supporting, European fascism.

[MaxM]

Thus spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche.
As he put it himself, the "deepest ever written".

[Faust]

The Tradition of the New - Harold Rosenberg

[LupinTheFourth]

seems like a great autumn book.

Sartre - La Nausée

[genevieveryoko]

The Rosy Crucifixion Book Three - Henry Miller

[MikeN]

Can anyone recommend a good book on the French resistance?

[Faust]

Can anyone recommend a good book on the French resistance?

The Rise and Fall of the Will at L'Eclaurier, co-written by Christian and BSR.

[MikeN]

Haha, well we know THAT group of Frenchies have no resistance...

[AKA*NYC]

Haha, well we know THAT group of Frenchies have no resistance...

just like celine