What are you reading?

[Real Real]

Got 2666 this weekend - off to a very good start.

[laika]

Struggling with this. Laika, have you read it?

Sorry I missed this before. I have read parts of it. Just a guess, but I'm assuming you haven't read Mauss' The Gift? (No offense meant, i just don't know why you would have read it if you're not in anthro )
Because I think it underpins much of Hyde's book, and it might be hard going if you haven't digested that book already.

Anyway, I'm very interested to here your thoughts on Hyde.

[ahlefeldt]

Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann.

[Faust]

Sorry I missed this before. I have read parts of it. Just a guess, but I'm assuming you haven't read Mauss' The Gift? (No offense meant, i just don't know why you would have read it if you're not in anthro )
Because I think it underpins much of Hyde's book, and it might be hard going if you haven't digested that book already.

Anyway, I'm very interested to here your thoughts on Hyde.

No, I have not and Hyde acknowledges that's the influence. I wasn't crazy about the book. Lots of wishful thinking, little pragmatism.

[Faust]

Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. Light reading before the semester starts.

[destroyed]

^ ah that is a really enjoyable book. interesting to think about libraries----and who gets access to information. you should read that in tandem with Borges' "The Library of Babel".
:)

[Faust]

^ ah that is a really enjoyable book. interesting to think about libraries----and who gets access to information. you should read that in tandem with Borges' "The Library of Babel".
:)

I've read that about empteenth times. My favorite Borges story

[loveless]

Reading hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world

im gonna say thats one of my favs from him..... the ending rules!

[loveless]

Crime And Punishment

I've been putting this off for like 15 years. And now I remember why. Damn this book is dense. Only Dostoyevsky can take 15 pages to describe a walk down the block.

I am hoping my endurance holds up, not the kind of reading im use to.

[mumma]

blaise cendrars - moravagine

that's my favorite book by blaise, also don't know the other
author that would be so bright-eyed/ crazy and subtle and the
same time..., language and constructions are so incredible. i like
quite a lot his quasi reportage from the south america, called "rum".
it has the same kind of bravery of overtaking the world, still being
super sensitive and somehow lost.

i've been reading john barth's "the end of the way",
quite good one though.

[Bosozoku]

After Dark --- Haruki Murakami

[034936]

I've been putting this off for like 15 years. And now I remember why. Damn this book is dense. Only Dostoyevsky can take 15 pages to describe a walk down the block.

I am hoping my endurance holds up, not the kind of reading im use to.

i know what you mean. its an effort that spanned a ffew months for me (a very very slow reader). more than worth it though. safe to say it's the greatest novel i've ever read.

[loveless]

i know what you mean. its an effort that spanned a ffew months for me (a very very slow reader). more than worth it though. safe to say it's the greatest novel i've ever read.

thanks for the incentive! just what i need to through.

[Schadenfreude]

i hate reading kerouac but i keep doing it.

[justine]

Starting "The Peace War" by Vernor Vinge.