What are you reading?

[deadboy]

I guess one can only keep up with this thread for so long without eventually deciding to give Murakami a try. Reading through Hardboiled Wonderland now, loving it.

Also just finished a hockey player's autobiography, for work. I prefer Murakami.

[Kœnig]

Currently reading Hard Boiled also, I love the quote about sofas.

"There are people who drive luxury cars, but have only second or third rate sofas. I put little trust is such people. An expensive automobile may well be worth it's price, but it's only an expensive automobile. If you have the money, you can buy it, anyone can buy it. Procuring a good sofa on the other hand, requires style and experience and philosophy. It takes money, yes, but you also need a vision of a superior sofa. That sofa among sofas"

Reads like something from SZ

[TriggerDiscipline]

I've taken to reading for fun so I breezed through the Mistborn Trilogy by Brian Sanderson and will probably just end up reading the rest of his works asap.

[nomemorial]

Been on a cyberpunk kick. Read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson and that was a blast, then immediately followed it up with Neuromancer. Neuromancer is so hard to compare anything to. Just constant movement, chaotic and dense and full of character. I love it.

Now reading Kierkegaard's Fear & Trembling -- a pretty hard turn in a different direction.

[t3hg0suazn]

I've taken to reading for fun so I breezed through the Mistborn Trilogy by Brian Sanderson and will probably just end up reading the rest of his works asap.

I like the Stormlight Archive series much more than Mistborn (a bit more "adult") so I recommend that

[TriggerDiscipline]

I have practically committed myself to reading everything he's written and this is on the list as well but I will give it more priority. Thanks

I would say that anyone could enjoy mistborn, but it does do have a little bit of a Disney flair in the way it handles its romance.

[mk85]

Notes of a dirty old man by my favorite author Charles Bukowski.

Read that last year - so so good!!!

[RK1]

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque.

[Sufi]

The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat. Probably one of the finest novels in Persian literature. Recommended for those interested in surrealism. Raul Ruiz made a great film on it which is just as good as the novel.

[Faust]

Just finished Love in the Time of Cholera by Marquez. Beautiful and brilliant, and totally not of this world. He surely has a way with language, even in translation. I can only imagine how wonderful it must read in Spanish.

Re-reading A Clockwork Orange for work. Up next, in no particular order:

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (a big gap in my classics)
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Spectacle of Skill by Robert Hughes
and need to go back and finish There Is Too Much to Think About by Saul Bellow

The last two books are collections of essays, which is the writing mode I am beginning to appreciate more and more in our ADD times. I am slowly trying to gear myself to read one essays instead of reading an umpteenth article on Trump. Much more enlightening.

[julian_doe]

Just finished Love in the Time of Cholera by Marquez. Beautiful and brilliant, and totally not of this world. He surely has a way with language, even in translation. I can only imagine how wonderful it must read in Spanish.

Re-reading A Clockwork Orange for work. Up next, in no particular order:

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (a big gap in my classics)
The Handmaiden's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Spectacle of Skill by Robert Hughes
and need to go back and finish There Is Too Much to Think About by Saul Bellow

The last two books are collections of essays, which is the writing mode I am beginning to appreciate more and more in our ADD times. I am slowly trying to gear myself to read one essays instead of reading an umpteenth article on Trump. Much more enlightening.

That is an incredible book by Marquez, Faust. If I may, allow me to recommend The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor. It has an underlying message about corruption which may interest you.

And yes, it is much better in Spanish, haha.

[goldsamxo]

One of my favorites, which I've re-read multiple times is called 'Bore Hole' by Joey Mellen. It's about his experience with drugs & than transitioning into trepidation (one of my favorite topics). I learned about Trepidation from the manga 'Homunculus' by Hideo Yamamoto. If you have the chance I highly advise reading 'Bore Hole', it really is quite good & lends a nice vocal presence to a topic that time has seemingly forgotten.

[FollowYourSeams]

"It" by Stephen King. So many flashbacks. It's really testing my patience lol

[mne]

Just started reading "Intimacy" by Osho. Maybe I will learn a thing or to on how not to be a robot.

[Faust]

Started The Handmaid's Tale early this week, and now this popped up! Worth reading.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/books/review/margaret-atwood-handmaids-tale-age-of-trump.html