Current reading material?

[rockmeamadeus]

Didn't Wind-Up put out Creed's first albums?

Yeah...

[Sing The Children Over]

I'm reading Jose Saramago's The Double which is all kinds of fun. Anybody read anything else by him they would recommend?

Also, if anyone happens to know what the Portuguese word Tertuliano means in English and why it is both 'ironic' and 'offensive' that'd be good to know as well.

[Lucy]

I read "All the Names" a while ago, but I don't know how I feel about it yet.  It was thoughtful and an interesting concept, and I'm not sorry I read it, but it was definitely something I had to slog through.

I keep meaning to read Blindness, though.  That tends to be the universal recommendation.

[davy]

before i get into that, though, i've got to finish slogging through neverwhere by neil gaiman. unfortunately, he's not a very talented wordsmith, and that makes it tough to get into the story.

[Sasha]

before i get into that, though, i've got to finish slogging through neverwhere by neil gaiman. unfortunately, he's not a very talented wordsmith, and that makes it tough to get into the story.

TELL ME ABOUT IT.

Sandman was AWFUL to get through.

Oh and as for Saramago: Yeah totally go for Blindness. It's rockin'.

I'm reading The Sun Also Rises, I need to catch up on my Hemingway, In Our Times crushed me awhile ago but I haven't read anything else since.

[hannah]

Read all of David B.'s Epileptic on the plane from Newark to Los Angeles yesterday. Read a lot of the Anthology of Graphic Fiction. Ordered Jeffery Brown's Unlucky and Clumsy just now as a result. Ho hum.

[Sing The Children Over]

Oh and as for Saramago: Yeah totally go for Blindness. It's rockin'.

Ha, it's set in a post-apocalyptic world! I'll be all over that as soon as I'm done with The Double. Cheers.

[andronicus]

I finished reading Moby-Dick last night.

Hurray!

[Sasha]

Big round of applause for that one. It is a feat. You are a Man Now.

[davy]

before i get into that, though, i've got to finish slogging through neverwhere by neil gaiman. unfortunately, he's not a very talented wordsmith, and that makes it tough to get into the story.

TELL ME ABOUT IT.

neverwhere, p. 198: "An underground train went past a few feet from them; the wind of its passage whipped at the table. The noise of its passage went through Richard's head like a hot knife through brains."

that, my friends, is some SERIOUSLY bad writing.

[jebreject]

before i get into that, though, i've got to finish slogging through neverwhere by neil gaiman. unfortunately, he's not a very talented wordsmith, and that makes it tough to get into the story.

TELL ME ABOUT IT.

neverwhere, p. 198: "An underground train went past a few feet from them; the wind of its passage whipped at the table. The noise of its passage went through Richard's head like a hot knife through brains."

that, my friends, is some SERIOUSLY bad writing.

it's not like dan brown bad, though.

[Andrew_TSKS]

Didn't Wind-Up put out Creed's first albums?

Yeah...

yes, and two boy sets fire albums. HAHAHAHAH!!!

[Andrew_TSKS]

also, all the neil gaiman hate in this thread needs to stop. NOW.

[Lucy]

i am not working and actually have time to read now. and even when i start work, i have a commute. suggestions, please!

[jebreject]

Didn't Wind-Up put out Creed's first albums?

Yeah...

yes, and two boy sets fire albums. HAHAHAHAH!!!

no, just one.  well, one new one and one re-issue.

[jebreject]

oh i guess unless you're including that live for today ep but really that's like a non-thing

[Andrew_TSKS]

i meant the reissue. didn't even know about that ep. still funny though.

[rockmeamadeus]

i am not working and actually have time to read now. and even when i start work, i have a commute. suggestions, please!

Pushkin, Luce!

And Gogol!!!

More specifically The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories and Dead Souls, respectively.

[rockmeamadeus]

I finished reading Moby-Dick last night.

Hurray!

Dog your written piece on Moby Dick brings up a lot of intersting ideas. F'real, shit I hadn't thought about.

Also it was refreshing to see an interpretation free from Freudian sex-jive.

[curtis]

I'm reading "Desert Solitare" by Edward Abbey and "Jacob's Room" by Virginia Woolf.

"Desert Solitaire" is life-changing in the least.

[Greg Nog]

The first book I chose to read after graduating from college was Moby-Dick.  This says something about me, but I'm choosing not to wonder exactly what, because I doubt I'll like the answer.

IT SAYS HE LIKES DICK

HEY EVERYBODY ANDRONICUS IS READING ABOUT DICK

[theartlessmonster]

I finished reading Moby-Dick last night.

Hurray!

Dog your written piece on Moby Dick brings up a lot of intersting ideas. F'real, shit I hadn't thought about.

I re-read Moby Dick recently too! I looked up a bunch of references I didn't before and all kinds of interesting ideas set about.

[nonotyet]

I am rereading the Robber Bride for the first time in several years because I have finished all my library books and do not wish to read, like, Anna Maxted for the 803rd time.
And furthermore, I do not think Neil Gaiman's writing is bad in the least, I don't know what y'all on.

[RoyBiggins]

Truth.  I liked all 3 of the N.G. novels I've read. Y'alls on drugs.  And not the good kind.

[theartlessmonster]

Also, currently reading...

"Zodiac, Unmasked" The identity of america's most elusive serial killer revealed.  I didn't realize some thought him "moon mad" in that he was killing in junction with the phases of the moon. For some reason this kind of stuff around concealing identities and mysterious sociopaths interests me.