what book are you reading this time?

[miss.myra]

Originally Posted by lithe

Disgrace by JM Coetzee - this one's actually a re-read, but i love love love this book. it's quite depressing, about life in south africa, but it's masterfully written and entirely engrossing.




Microserfs by Douglas Coupland - i love coupland, it's been too long since i've read any of his stuff. (and he's coming here in a few weeks i believe, anyone have any details?)

:)
A few things

if you like Coetzee, read "foe" by him, it's a retelling of the famous story of Robinson Crusoe, but through a woman's eyes (apparently a woman who was shipwrecked with him.) if you've studied the original, it does a pretty good spin on it.

And Coupland's apperance (the first public one in ages!) is scheduled at the planetarium on the 19th (I think). He's discussing his latest, Eleanor Rigby. Tickets are at ticketmaster for something like 10 dollars. I want to go, but I haven't read it yet.

[lithe]

i'd go regardless of if you've read it! i saw him at the writer's fest a couple of years ago paired with irvine welsh, before i'd read any of his stuff, and it was a blast. very funny man.

and thanks for the coetzee recommendation, i'll put that on my "to-read" list. ;)

[sidekick]

i just finished "skipping towards Gomorrah" by Dan Savage.

and now i'm reading "the corrections" by Jonathan Franzen

[Quin600]

DeathKiller by Spider Robinson (support local authors!)
Its the books MindKiller and Time Pressure in one volume.

Hey Jake, how was Skipping?

[mugsy]

odipus the king - sophicles.

[sidekick]

^that's a pretty cool play.

and angus: savage's book rocked. it was hilarious and interesting. although, you get the impression that a lot of information which he seems to present as facts are really just his own biases and stereotypes. if you can recognize that then it's a really great read.

[Quin600]

I read his column on a regular basis, and that is the approach I always have with his stuff, that being that it is His stuff. His opinions and His facts presented His way.

The same way I take Micheal Moore.

[crookedking]

i put down that last one and started up some hp lovecraft.

IT IS SCARY ANGUS!

[Quin600]

My fav's out of that book are The Music of Eric Zahn, Rats in the Walls, Whisperer in the Darkness, and the one about the the coffin maker.

[Hot Karl]

crossroads of twilight by robert jordan. book 10 of the longest goddamn fantasy series ever. (i dunno if it actually is)

[Quin600]

I think longest fantasy series goes to Piers Anthony (Xanth) or Terry Pratchet (Diskworld). Both series have over 25 books.

[mugsy]

all messed up (unpredictable graphics) - anna gerber

it rocks.

p.s. so does terry pratchet

[crookedking]

heretic by bernard cornwell.

angus i've been reading the lovecraft before i go to sleep.

[-DLO_604-]

The Da Vinci Code.

[miss.myra]

'hey nostradamus' by coupland.

almost done.

[-ff-]

Just finished 'civilization and its discontents' by Freud.

Also reading the Ethical Slut, which I got for christmas

[Liqwid]

Oscar Wilde "pictures of dorian grey"

~dalyn

[Gusto]

microserfs, douglas coupland. almost done, good read so far.

[sidekick]

Originally Posted by -ff-

Also reading the Ethical Slut, which I got for christmas

more information! this book sounds cool.

[-ff-]

Originally Posted by Sidekick

more information! this book sounds cool.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...92146?v=glance

[sidekick]

^hehe wicked. i hope you are taking notes, simon.

[Executive J]

My favourite book that i read recently was "the red star." Its about Russia's army (as im sure you guessed by now), but it has a future twist to it. The author (who's name i forgot) can really throw down a description, making it a lot easier to visualize what was going on.

[TheCooker]

"The Last Juror" John Grisham

[crookedking]

rereading "a coven of vampires" by brian lumley.

oh yes angus, i'll lend you this book soon!

[mapleleaf4ever]

^ I need to get that Book you tried to lend me but I was too drunk and forgot it from you ... That looked real good!