What Are You Reading

[Harp]

Hey Harp!
Please let me know if you read Wallflower. I do highly recommend it.
Cheers!

I mentioned Wallflower to a nephew today. He said it was a favorite read, but loaned his copy out at school.
The quest continues....

 

[WH1]

The Green Hills Of Africa

just finished the Green Hills Of Africa by Hemingway. Great read for those in the adventurers thread elsewhere on this illustreous website it should be a required read. Enjoyed it immensely but I am a confirmed Hemingway fan. Best part was I enjoyed the final chapters with a good Padron cigar and a glass of jack daniels single barrel under the stars at home with the horses in the background. I think Papa would have approved

 

[gluegungeisha]

The Blind Assassin (I love Margaret Atwood!), and the Buddha graphic novels by Osamu Tezuka.

 

[Harp]

just finished the Green Hills Of Africa by Hemingway. Great read for those in the adventurers thread elsewhere on this illustreous website it should be a required read. Enjoyed it immensely but I am a confirmed Hemingway fan.

I believe that The Sun Also Rises is his best work, followed by The Old Man and The Sea.

 

[Jack Scorpion]

I believe that The Sun Also Rises is his best work, followed by The Old Man and The Sea.

When it comes to Ernest, I'm a firm The Old Man and The Sea Swear-Byer. Some of his other stuff that I've read has failed to turn my head. I've since passed him by. However, I've never read The Sun Also Rises. Maybe I'll give old Hem another shot.

 

[Feraud]

I am working my way through a book on gangster movies.
The next few titles in my reading queue are:
Citizen Soldiers, S. Ambrose
The Meinertzhagen Mystery, Garfield
The Few, Kershaw
The Battle of Alamein, Smith & Bierman
..among others. Too many books, too little time.

 

[Harp]

When it comes to Ernest, I'm a firm The Old Man and The Sea Swear-Byer. Some of his other stuff that I've read has failed to turn my head. I've since passed him by. However, I've never read The Sun Also Rises. Maybe I'll give old Hem another shot.

Peer beneath Hemingway's simple declarative prose; lift off his crisp,
tight construct, and therein lies a certain nihilism that neither France nor Spain
fully expunged; also an evident narcissism reflected in his personal life.
The Sun Also Rises speaks of a man crippled by war and seeking to
live a dignified life. A man capable of love but incapacitated from physical
intimacy. One suspects that Hemingway perhaps suffered an innate
deformity, capable of expessing Eros physically but somehow denied her
innate possession. Toward the end of his dissolute life; after his youth
and talent had fled, his narcissism remained, and Hemingway seems to
have collapsed within himself. I believe The Sun Also Rises to
be the best of Hemingway, and his most revealing work.

 

[Jack Scorpion]

Peer beneath Hemingway's simple declarative prose; lift off his crisp,
tight construct, and therein lies a certain nihilism that neither France nor Spain
fully expunged; also an evident narcissism reflected in his personal life.
The Sun Also Rises speaks of a man crippled by war and seeking to
live a dignified life. A man capable of love but incapacitated from physical
intimacy. One suspects that Hemingway perhaps suffered an innate
deformity, capable of expessing Eros physically but somehow denied her
innate possession. Toward the end of his dissolute life; after his youth
and talent had fled, his narcissism remained, and Hemingway seems to
have collapsed within himself. I believe The Sun Also Rises to
be the best of Hemingway, and his most revealing work.

Well then. Nicely played.

 

[ShooShooBaby]

The Blind Assassin (I love Margaret Atwood!), and the Buddha graphic novels by Osamu Tezuka.

i like margaret atwood too, but for some reason didn't get into blind assassin.

have you read joyce carol oates? she's wonderful as well!

 

[K.D. Lightner]

I read The Sun Also Rises when I was in college. I liked it then, but ought to re-read it, as I am sure it would be even more meaningful now. I thought then it would be neat to be called Lady Brett Ashley. Now, of course, there are so many Ashleys.

I liked some of Hemingway's short stories, The Snows of Kilamanjaro being my favorite.

Right now I am doing some light reading, Sharon McCrumb's If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him. I enjoy her wit, her descriptions of the Appalachian mountains, her characters.

karol

 

[Smithy]

I've got two on the go at the moment...

"The Swarm" - had to see what all the fuss was about

and

"Marius: Skil??per, Jageress, Krigsfange" - the autobiography of Norwegian Marius Eriksen who was a Spitfire ace, international ski jumper and film actor. Great stuff!

 

[Fleur De Guerre]

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. Enjoying it so far!

 

[Baron Kurtz]

I, Claudius . . .

bk

 

[poetman]

At the moment I have a few things going.

Confessions of St. Augustine.
The Imitation of Christ Thomas a Kempis
God in the Dock by C. S. Lewis
I've been struggling through some of these for a long time, now. Picking them up to read when I can draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag myself off of the Web.

I just started Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose, I'm through four chapters, and I'm enthralled.

Augustine's Confessions are WONDEFUL!!!!! Don't miss it!!!!!

 

[Harp]

Augustine's Confessions are WONDEFUL!!!!! Don't miss it!!!!!

Quite the mea culpa, with as much historic as philosophical
content to recommend it.

 

[Sunny]

Over the weekend, a variety. Old school science fiction - A. E. Van Vogt, Leigh Brackett, and E. E. Smith - and Mickey Spillane (Mike Hammer).

 

[Ms. McGraw]

Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century by Betsy Israel
I just stated it yesterday, but it's a great read so far!

 

[RedPop4]

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

 

[Orgetorix]

Quite the mea culpa, with as much historic as philosophical
content to recommend it.

A devil of a confusing read in the Latin, though.

 

[Orgetorix]

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Hey, me too!

Also reading (listening to) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain.