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Do you read? If so, what? (pg. 4)
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| occrider |
| quote: | Originally posted by PhloTron
ohhh...the suspense and excitement :o :thepirate :confused:
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This is what I'm reading for work ...
I'll trade you. |
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| Estella |
| quote: | Originally posted by lücid
amazing book. probably my favorite book that i've read in the last couple years. some of the plot twists were a little far-fetched but i fell completely in love with the characters.
right now i am reading a non-fic/history book titled The Devil In The White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, by Erik Larson. i don't normally read non-fiction but this book was recommended to me by 2 friends so i decided to give it a try. it's really engrossing.
i normally read fiction and memoirs. one memoir i read recently that i absolutely loved was Augusten Burroughs' Running With Scissors. the whole time i kept thinking, "this can't possibly be a memoir. it's too freakin' weird!"... i bought Dry a few weeks ago and i can't wait to read it.
i'm a book freak. i go to the used bookstore almost every weekend, and i order books off Amazon all the time. just got 3 more books yesterday! i'm gonna have to buy myself a bigger bookcase soon.
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Ditto ! "Running with Scissors" I bought just based on the cover and title. I finished it in a day. Absurdly wacky and entertaining!
Clovis: Tim O'Brien also wrote "In the Lake of the Woods." It's also VERY good. It's so frustrating and dark.
I am reading "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac, king of the Beat!:D and "Les Miserables" ---> Don't think I'll be able to get through it, therefore resorted to Kerouac.
heh, im a nerd. I even wrote down some others you all have mentioned. |
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| trance4life627 |
| the client - john grisham....intense book |
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| jdat |
I never was able to concentrate on one book for enough time to complete it.
Nowdays reading multiple books at once seems to keep my interest so I'll go through a reading session of 30 minutes of one book then 30 of another.
Last interesting read ( reread actually ) was Zero the Biography of a dangerous idea.... yeah math crap
Otherwise daily newspapers : Herald Tribune american paper and Le Monde french paper
TONS of magazines.... when I was back in the US I used to get tons of free subscriptions to engineering mags and such .... weird stuff like Connector specifier ( dedicated to CONNECTORS ) was my fav :stongue:
But seriously mags like Remix, Xlr8r, Wired, Communication Arts, Metropolis etc etc
and my fav metrosexual mag: Surface ... half fashion ( mostly girls :happy2: ) half design/architecture |
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| Krysta_101 |
| I read all the fackin' time. Right now I'm attempting... though only attempting to get through Naked Lunch. That's one hard book to read though since it makes about the least amount of sense a book has ever... not.... made. |
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| UWM |
| quote: | Originally posted by Krysta_101
I read all the fackin' time. Right now I'm attempting... though only attempting to get through Naked Lunch. That's one hard book to read though since it makes about the least amount of sense a book has ever... not.... made. |
Yeah that's a ed up book, to say the least. |
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| Estella |
| quote: | Originally posted by Krysta_101
I read all the fackin' time. Right now I'm attempting... though only attempting to get through Naked Lunch. That's one hard book to read though since it makes about the least amount of sense a book has ever... not.... made. |
Burroughs! Yeah, I couldn't do it either. What a trip. I had to start with "Junky." He also has a book(cant recall name) where he dices and chops excerpts from other books and then meshes it all together, like a puzzle. What a genius of a madman. He was a local here!
Has anyone read House of Leaves? |
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| Krysta_101 |
Hmmm, I think I've heard of it.
But up next after Naked Lunch I'm gonna get my Kurt Vonnegut on with some Breakfast of Champions. It's gonna be a re-read. How can you not like this classic though. He devotes an entire chapter to the penis. :wtf: |
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| Moral Hazard |
| I read a lot of philisophical work, currently I'm reading Nietzsche's Twillight of the idols. I try to hit all the biggest thinkers.... Machiavelli, Marx (skip the manifesto and go straight to Kapital... more detailed), Roussea, Smith, Hobbes, Locke, Plato, etc. Oh, and porn, I read a lot of porn. |
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| twisted |
| im not much of a reader...but im reading American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis right now. Before that, I finished reading The Teachings Of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda. good . by the way, to anyone who say the movie, it doesnt even come close to the book, as always... but its so much more graphic and descriptive. fun read. |
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| Estella |
First page : "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta."
- Vladimir Nabokov.
It's a story of an elder man and his obsession with a particular "nymphet." Yes, yes. An engrossing pedophile love story. |
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| zokissima |
| For leisure, I read quite a bit actually. Seldom is anything on TV as stimulating. General interest magazines, such as PopSci top the bathroom reading list. Otherwise, lately I've been reading a lot of Ayn Rand, Dostoevsky, Nietsche, and some Freud. Heavy reading, but so interesting. I was very partial to Hardy Boys and The Wheel of Time when I was younger :p |
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