what are you reading? (1 Viewer)

[wazz]

the recent thread by oumahexi has me inspired to ask: "What are you reading now?"

me? Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. (1979) By Douglas R. Hofstadter. Vintage Books Edition.

what's on your nightstand/barstool? just post your current book. when you start your next book, come back and post the new one.

we will judge your mood accordingly.

 

[PaulJR]

Book I'm just finishing is called "The Family Way" by Tony Parsons, a fantastic book that really brings things home! Want to read another Nick Hornby book next, after reading "A Long Way Down", recommendations anyone?

 

[Fifty2One]

Green River, Running Red by Anne Rule. True crime story about America's Deadliest Serial Murderer. Its the third book from the same author, I really enjoyed her writings.

 

[Mile-O]

I'm reading The Mirror In The Well by Micheline Aharonian Marcom, which is out at some point this month.

A woman's sexual awakening is a tragedy when the woman is married to someone other than the man who awakens her. But until then, her marriage, now doomed, was a sleepwalker's tragedy. This novel will shock and offend some readers. Unapologetically explicit in its language, extreme in some of the acts it catalogues, it makes no pretense of submission to middle-class decency, let alone to expectations of happy endings. All three people in this love triangle are flawed, damaged, human. Things fall apart, and the resolution is unclear. Why does she do it? Why should we read it? The answer is one word: Ecstasy.

The bit about "this novel will shock and offend some readers" sounded like a promise, so I had to read it. So far, it's very graphic sexually, and its prose style is reminiscent of a Brazilian writer called Clarice Lispector. But, beyond the harsh sex and acts, I think I can see some deeper metaphor and will keep reading to confirm.

 

[KenHigg]

http://www.borders.com/online/store/TitleDetail?sku=0688161499

 

[pbaldy]

Just finishing Ron Paul's book:

http://www.borders.com/online/store/TitleDetail?sku=0446537519

 

[redneckgeek]

The Devil's Larder - Jim Crace

A collection of short stories about many different subjects.

If we're talking books - I have to tout my wife's books
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/s...e,+availability,-daterank/104-5797787-9150301

 

[KenHigg]

The Devil's Larder - Jim Crace

A collection of short stories about many different subjects.

If we're talking books - I have to tout my wife's books
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/s...e,+availability,-daterank/104-5797787-9150301

You're Amy's hubby?

 

[redneckgeek]

You're Amy's hubby?

Yes - lucky her

 

[KenHigg]

Really - That's pretty cool. Are the booxs listed recent? Does she still write?

 

[redneckgeek]

Really - That's pretty cool. Are the booxs listed recent? Does she still write?

2004-2006. The next one in the series is at the publisher now. It should be available late Oct.

She has a small but rabid fanbase. The books are christian/romance/mystery. I've helped with proof-reading, but never actually read one from beginning to end

 

[KenHigg]

She has a small but rabid fanbase.

Kind of like Rich huh -

booxs - ? How I do that- the x and k keys are on opposite ends of the keyboard -

 

[Mile-O]

The Devil's Larder - Jim Crace

I read Crace's first book, Continent, earlier this year. It was quite good, although lacked that ultimate cohesion that would have made it great.

 

[redneckgeek]

I read Crace's first book, Continent, earlier this year. It was quite good, although lacked that ultimate cohesion that would have made it great.

I'd never read any of his works before - but some of the stories in this book are good enough for me to think about reading one of his novels.

 

[georgedwilkinson]

Tricks of the 3D Game Programming Gurus by Andre LaMothe. Helps me get to sleep, especially the chapters on math.

 

[oumahexi]

My lovely joiner man bought me a book when he found out I was looking! Hammer of the Gods - the Led Zepplin story! So far so good. But eek, those boys were bad

 

[oumahexi]

If we're talking books - I have to tout my wife's books
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/s...e,+availability,-daterank/104-5797787-9150301

My mother out law can help you with that. She's always banging on about your wife's books, she's a huge fan !

 

[maxmangion]

i'm currently reading "Strangers Among The Dead" by George Bellairs which i borrowed from the library. It's rather an old book as it was published in 1966.

 

[Rabbie]

Kind of like Rich huh -

How do you know Rich is small.

 

[KenHigg]

? - I think it was the rabid fanbase which I referred to as small ?