Leeway Posted August 30, 2011 Report Posted August 30, 2011 Continuing my Dickens journey, just finished GREAT EXPECTATIONS (if you have not read Dickens, start there), and now on to: Quote
Joe Posted August 31, 2011 Report Posted August 31, 2011 Thomas Ligotti's TEATRO GROTTESSCO Short stories; Ligotti's main inspirations appear to be Lovecraft, P. K. Dick, Borges, and his own Rust Belt surroundings. The writing is always as sharp as I'd like it to be, but he has a deft hand when it comes to atmospheric effects, and there are ideas aplenty herein. Quote
BillF Posted September 1, 2011 Report Posted September 1, 2011 Just read the book for the first time, as opposed to seeing the film. Very revealing: written at the same time as the film was made, this is what Wikipedia says about it: "The film contains little explanation for the events taking place. Clarke, on the other hand, wrote thorough explanations of "cause and effect" for the events in the novel." Quote
Serioza Posted September 1, 2011 Report Posted September 1, 2011 Mulliner Nights -P.G.Wodehouse Quote
alankin Posted September 1, 2011 Report Posted September 1, 2011 Charles C. Mann - 1491 - New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (2nd edition) Everything you've been taught about native Americans is wrong... Quote
BruceH Posted September 1, 2011 Report Posted September 1, 2011 Mulliner Nights -P.G.Wodehouse :tup Quote
TedR Posted September 3, 2011 Report Posted September 3, 2011 At the library I checked out Nica's Dream: The Life and Legend of the Jazz Baroness by David Kastin, published this year. I haven't kept up with this thread but I'd be interested if anyone has read this yet. Quote
jazzbo Posted September 4, 2011 Report Posted September 4, 2011 Trying one from another series of ancient Egypt mysteries. So far, interesting, not as "realistically brutal" as the Doherty series about Amerotke. Quote
jlhoots Posted September 10, 2011 Report Posted September 10, 2011 Fascinating I agree. Don't know why Roth hasn't won the Nobel prize. Quote
BillF Posted September 11, 2011 Report Posted September 11, 2011 Fascinating I agree. Don't know why Roth hasn't won the Nobel prize. Read it some years ago. Seem to remember it as a very strong novel that went into serious decline towards the end. The details escape me now. Quote
jazzbo Posted September 12, 2011 Report Posted September 12, 2011 (edited) The second in the Elric complete compilation series. Quite a lot of non-Elric material in this volume, which I've never read before, so a good thing. Really enjoying revisiting this stuff. Edited September 12, 2011 by jazzbo Quote
paul secor Posted September 15, 2011 Report Posted September 15, 2011 Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore A wonderfully inventive and disturbingly moving novel Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted September 16, 2011 Report Posted September 16, 2011 Just starting the Norman Granz biography. Quote
medjuck Posted September 16, 2011 Report Posted September 16, 2011 Michael Ondaatje's "The Cat's Table". Quote
Leeway Posted September 16, 2011 Report Posted September 16, 2011 Fascinating I agree. Don't know why Roth hasn't won the Nobel prize. He's not politically correct. I think he's a great author. Quote
porcy62 Posted September 16, 2011 Report Posted September 16, 2011 Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore A wonderfully inventive and disturbingly moving novel His best work IMHO Quote
Royal Oak Posted September 16, 2011 Report Posted September 16, 2011 An Idiot Abroad - Karl Pilkington The book of the Ricky Gervais TV series. I literally cannot stand to look at/listen to Ricky Gervais, so I refused to watch the show for a long time. Pilkington is hilarious, but what is worrying is that I find myself agreeing with almost all of what he says. Quote
ejp626 Posted September 16, 2011 Report Posted September 16, 2011 I.B. Singer's Satan in Goray His first novel, set in 1649. Just starting Uzma Khan's The Geometry of God. Probably the last book I'll check out from the Chicago library. Quote
alankin Posted September 16, 2011 Report Posted September 16, 2011 Probably the last book I'll check out from the Chicago library. Are they confiscating your library card? Now reading: "Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman" by James Gleick Quote
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