What are you reading?

[Paul_C]

I'm currently reading The Silence of the Wilting Skin by Tlotlo Tsamaase, enjoying it so far

[coldbrightsunlight]

Bump because I've been interspersing recommendations from this thread with other reading for a few months now (bugger all to do so I'm smashing 3~4 books a week) and there is so much fantastic stuff here that I probably wouldn't have come across otherwise.. very grateful..

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Also just passed the halfway mark towards reading every published Murakami book (in Japanese - there are 70+ volumes, most of the nonfiction/short stories/miscellanea are untranslated)

Cool! Interested in that Paul Auster book, I have read quite a few of these and enjoyed them a lot.


Recently I've read a bunch of stuff, the things which really stick out are Lolita which was very disturbing but also kinda brilliant. And This Band Could Be Your Life, which is a very interesting account of all the bands involved.

[Seance]

Recent favourites:

Have you read Enrique Vila-Matas? You might enjoy Dublinesque.

[Seance]

I am currently reading Italo Calvino's If On A Winter's Night a Traveler.


I recently finished reading:
Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck & Ed Ricketts


If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi


The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi


Miserable Miracle by Henri Michaux

[MrNovember]

I'm the only lifelong Trekkie who's never read much sci fi, so I bought THE BIG BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION edited by Jeff Vandermeer (of Annihilation and Borne), sci-fi short fiction from HG Wells onward.

This sounds awesome! I'm a big fan of Jeff Vandermeer, although I've only read Annihilation and Borne. I really need to get some more of his work!

I finished 1Q84 awhile ago (and I'm pretty sure I read a book or two after), but I am reading the Dune series now. About halfway through the third book (Children of Dune) and I am loving it. I can't believe I never read this until now!

[coldbrightsunlight]

Oh what a trip! I've been considering reading them again recently (before the film I guess, though not 100% I'll go to see it). Great series.

[the_bright_undead]

Most recently: The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio de Maria. Great cult horror novel that sort of predicts something like Facebook that erodes society and clears the way for giant stone monsters to slay everyone.

Also keep trying The Left Hand of Darkness but can never seem to finish it, sort of too dense for reading on the subway.

Mr November - Dune is maybe the ultimate sci-fi book, the new movie is due out end of year I think.

[MrNovember]

Yeah I'm excited for the movie; it was one of the reasons I finally decided to tackle the book. I also tried to watch Lynch's Dune and was horribly confused

[the_bright_undead]

Yeah I'm excited for the movie; it was one of the reasons I finally decided to tackle the book. I also tried to watch Lynch's Dune and was horribly confused

Takes a few viewings, I actually re-watched it last week. tbh, some weed helps get through the last 45 minutes

[coldbrightsunlight]

Lynch's Dune is amazing if for nothing else than the design. It is not a great movie in many respects though

Also keep trying The Left Hand of Darkness but can never seem to finish it, sort of too dense for reading on the subway.

Oh this is one of my favourites, definitely give it another try.

[cosmicevan]

I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I am close to completing the longest book I've ever read...and it's a book I've been reading to my 7 year old son before bed...the 4th Harry Potter - Goblet of Fire. It's 700+ pages!!!

It's a departure from the weird and wild stuff I love like Tom Robbins and Tim Sandlin...or the business/career books I read, but I've been digging the Potter books, plus the bonding time is untouchable.

[Dowi]

Just ended Confession of a Crap Artist by P. K. Dick. While it lacks of the sci-fi component, it's an intriguing reading. Not a real happy one, but the constant change of perspective (each chapter is told by a different person point of view) caughts the attention, and the dysfunctional characters are very vivid.

@Evan: can't wait to get to Harry Potter or stuff like that, right now I'm stuck at Peppa Pig

[coldbrightsunlight]

Good to hear you enjoyed it, one of the many many PKD books I haven't got round to reading yet (but one day I'll catch em all)

[MrNovember]

I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I am close to completing the longest book I've ever read...and it's a book I've been reading to my 7 year old son before bed...the 4th Harry Potter - Goblet of Fire. It's 700+ pages!!!

It's a departure from the weird and wild stuff I love like Tom Robbins and Tim Sandlin...or the business/career books I read, but I've been digging the Potter books, plus the bonding time is untouchable.

The Harry Potter books (and movies) are pretty great, even if JK Rowling has gone off the deep end.

Also, just want to give you a heads up as it doesn't sound like you've read them before, but they get quite a bit darker at the end of the 4th book/after the 4th book.

[Olin]

Seance posted some slappers on this page, that bi-decade Levi binge that so many seem to have is a good one.

I've been crawling through 2666 lately, it's not really what I wanted it to be but it's still good.

Recently re-read a bunch of Harlan Ellison stuff and Richard Stark things, short and entertaining because it feels better than watching a lot of the wank I'd usually watch.

Looking for more grim westerns if anyone has and neat recs that might have flown under the radar.