What Are You Reading

[plain old dave]

John C. Calhoun biography....

 

[Marlowe P.]

Snow Crash was awesome...

You know...I've heard rumors that Neal Stephenson and William Gibson are the same person...

Well, they do cover similar ideas and theories and both reside in the Northwest. ... At this point I just believe that Thomas Pynchon just writes every book that is decent and he has a whole staff to create new alter-egos.

 

[deadpandiva]

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky. I had a lot of trouble getting this book but I am enjoying it so far. I'm about halfway through Storm In June.

 

[Socrets]

I've actually just started reading Hatless Jack by Neil Steinberg and I gotta admit hat history is kinda of interesting. Especially when it starts talking about hat laws.

 

[Patrick Murtha]

Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End

I'm midway through this recent acclaimed novel, set in the advertising world during the layoff cycle around 7-8 years ago, and innovatively written in the first person singular ("we" did this and "we" did that). Despite the acclaim, I am uncertain as yet how much this amounts to as a novel. It has a manner, to be sure, a definite bag of tricks, but I'm already feeling that whatever point that manner can make has been made, and there are still 200 pages to go. The lapses in realism seem purposeless, the "characters" are cardboard, and there is no plotting to speak of, only observation. There are funny bits, to be sure, but those are not hard to come up with in depicting the business world.

 

[zaika]

working slowly through two. Blackbelly by Heather Sharfeddin. not sure how i feel about it yet, but she's a local author so i thought i'd give it a try.

and...The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. much love for Bulgakov.

 

[Harp]

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky....

dibbs when finished, please.

 

[imported_the_librarian]

Hi all,

Doing research this morning and ran across this on NARA:

Document for Today, March 10th:
Letter from Upton Sinclair to President Theodore Roosevelt, 03/10/1906

Here's the link:

http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/

Shudder...I'll never look at processed food the same!!!!

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Help a confused girl?

I just finished listening to The Postman Always Rings Twice. I own the book so I always insisted I'd read it but, I'm a dumb cluck, I hadn't.
Can anyone answer two questions?
1. What the heck does the title even mean?
2. What happened during the pool 'game'? I thought Frank was winning, with all his bank shots and English? Now, I'm naive about con games but I suspect the conman got conned? I was having a hard time figuring out who was talking, too.
I enjoyed the story, though.

 

[jayem]

The Other Boleyn Girl

Border's crafty advertising sucked me in. Plus, the movie looks gold.

 

[Patrick Murtha]

I just finished listening to The Postman Always Rings Twice. I own the book so I always insisted I'd read it but, I'm a dumb cluck, I hadn't.
Can anyone answer two questions?
1. What the heck does the title even mean?

A rich subject, that. Some possible interpretations of the title here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_postman_always_rings_twice

 

[Marlowe P.]

The Motorcycle Diaries-
It has a sweet 1938 Norton in it that the boys keep crashing. It was a good movie but I was tired and got bored. Sorry Che maybe Raoul will keep my interest longer now.

 

[classyguy]

Right now im reading The Long Firm by Jake Arnott and am also reading Shakespeare's The Midsummer Nights Dream.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

A rich subject, that. Some possible interpretations of the title here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_postman_always_rings_twice

Thanks, friend. I knew that a story about the title was in a preface somewhere but I didn't want to start looking through all of my books since I have about 5,000 and they're in no order.
Now I know how and why I called Fred Derry 'Frank' in another forum.
I'm reading Hornet Flight by Ken Follett on my breaks at work. It's good, as usual.
The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu, written in 1916, is keeping me up nights. I like lurid.
Ashley

 

[Highlander]

Right now, "The Life of Billy The Kid" by Pat Garrett, "The Divine Comedy" Dante, and struggling with Pike's "Morals and Dogma"

Steve

 

[LadyStardust]

and...The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. much love for Bulgakov.

I really enjoyed that book, but at the same time, it's pretty disturbing.

 

[Copper]

working slowly through two. Blackbelly by Heather Sharfeddin. not sure how i feel about it yet, but she's a local author so i thought i'd give it a try.

and...The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. much love for Bulgakov.

I loved The Master and Margarita as well. It was a nice surprise to see you mention it here; It is not a book that comes up in conversation often.

I do regret that my Russian was never good enough to take in the originals of works like this.

 

[MississippiLong]

What I'm reading

I just finished Theodore Rex. Its a biography of Pres. Roosevelt while in office...4 stars. At the age of 40 he flung himself off a horse in mid-gallop onto a cougar and knifed it to death....sweet. also he was a keen politician.

 

[DeaconKC]

Just restarted The ABC Murders by Dame Agatha.

 

[TessTrueheart]

Are there any bookcrossers in the lounge?

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