What are you reading?

[jamesd]

The Symbolist Movement in Literature by Arthur Symons.

[Jorge Hache]

Calvino's Invisible Cities

[mamaboy]

"contre saint beauve"

[Faust]

Christopher Hitchens - god is not Great.

[Aleks]

Currently in the middle of Snuff by Chuck Palahnuick

Next in line (as in Ive bought too many books and need to read them, haha):

1984, George Orwell
Atlas Shrugged, Ayrn Rand
The Picture of Dorian Grey, Oscar Wilde
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
Spook Country, William Gibson

A friend of mine swears by The Picture of Dorian Grey, says its his favorite novel ever. Anyone have recommendations as far as finding a novel as (i havent read it) enthralling and amazing, and stylistically similar to it?

that's funny, both Atlas Shrugged and a Picture of Dorian Grey are on my to read list as well.

Right now I'm in the middle of Lolita.

[Enaml]

Currently reading Unbearable Lightness of Being

[BECOMING-INTENSE]

Rereading...

Venus im Pelz Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

What becomes essential is waiting or suspense as a plenitude,
as a physical and spiritual intensity. The rituals of suspension
become the novelistic figures par excellence, with regard to both
the woman-torturer who suspends her gesture, and the hero-victim
whose suspended body awaits the whip. Masoch is the writer who
makes suspense, in its pure and almost unbearable state, the
motivating force of the novel.

[cabl3]

that's funny, both Atlas Shrugged and a Picture of Dorian Grey are on my to read list as well.

Right now I'm in the middle of Lolita.

Nice man, I'll get back to you when I'm done with either....really looking forward to them.

[Dropt]

I'm reading again all the Lovecraft books.

So powerful writing, this guy knew how to play with your brain, in an horrific way. I don't know why everyone's so interested in the Call of Cthulu, definitely not the best story from him imo.

[mamaboy]

i adore lovecraft....but too scared to read him at night... try "against the life, against the world"....stephen king says its the best book on lovecraft....houllebecq totally sold him to me....so much poetry in lovecraft goes unnotised.....such a racist....

[Dropt]

I red it, it helps figurating some faces of his personality.

Actually the racism's more a consequence of the isolation of his mind. He was just scared of all the other persons surrounding him outside, excepted his own people.

Anyway, still one of my favourite writers.

[Aleks]

Currently reading Unbearable Lightness of Being

Very good book read it a couple of months ago. How far are you?

Yeah, sounds good Cabl3, would love some discussion up in here. My sister adores A picture of Dorian Grey, says it's her favorite. I'm extremely excited for it as well.

I'm not too excited by Atlas Shrugged (since I'm a romantic), but I believe that I'm at the point of my life where I should read it and see what the thought processes are like. It's a bit of a test of character really.

[laughed]

Any recommendations in regards to great Noh works?

[Jorge Hache]

I'm starting Toole's "Neon Bible"...so far so good

[Schadenfreude]

I'm starting Toole's "Neon Bible"...so far so good

i heard that this was very juvenile compared to confederacy of dunces so i never really bothered with it. let me know how it goes?