What are you currently reading?

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Mine, too. And Les travailleurs de la mer (Toilers of the Sea)

Still haven't read those two. :/ After I have read unabridged les Miserables, I think I'll  finally pick up Ninety-three. And considering Les miserables is one of the longest novels ever written, in its unabridged form, it may take a while. But it's Hugo so I think I'm gonna have a good time.

[NikF]

Dancing on my Grave by Gelsey Kirkland.



A reread.

[ludwigii]

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Essays and Aphorisms




INGO F.WALTHER
Picasso
Taschen

[Ken B]

The Big Clock, by Kenneth Fearing

[asin] 1883011469[/asin]

Now onto Nightmare Alley by Gresham

[Bogey]

This is an excellent story.  Much better than the Roger Moore adaptation which I find unwatchable.  Other notable recent reads:

 
 
 

[Ken B]

How was the Goodis, Bill?

[Bogey]

How was the Goodis, Bill?

You know, a lot of folks over at Good Reads at the pulp fiction group really enjoyed this one.  I found it slow, not much of a page turner, and overall, meh.  I really enjoyed his Night Patrol book, and this was suppose to be one of his best.  However the Stark (Westlake) was terrific....but you already knew that.

[kishnevi]

Might be of interest to several people here. Covers both his book and movie work, including unused posters and originals of art on which the publishers unleashed Daniele da Volterra.

[Bogey]

Might be of interest to several people here. Covers both his book and movie work, including unused posters and originals of art on which the publishers unleashed Daniele da Volterra.

Absolutely.  I am guessing you are a Mitchell Hooks fan as well.

[Karl Henning]

This is an excellent story.  Much better than the Roger Moore adaptation which I find unwatchable.

Indeed, by then they had passed the point of no return from the goofiness.

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Jaws trying to fly by flapping his hands.

[Karl Henning]

I am not reading George Gershwin: His Life and Work by Howard Pollack, which is the book I want to finish.  (It is on a shelf somewhere at home, and I must hunt more diligently.)

So instead, I am reading an e-book edition of Ean Wood's George Gershwin: His Life & Music which is four or five clicks nearer a fanzine biography than I quite like, but, faute de mieux . . . .

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Reading Mark Twain's "Roughing it".

[Ken B]

Third time for Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler.

[Bogey]

Third time for Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler.

I can see that.

[SimonNZ]

[aligreto]

A collection of short stories.

[ritter]

Two short essays from this:


In Small Proust Commentaries (originally a radio broadcast), Adorno makes some insightful remarks on In Search of Lost Time (a work he had in high esteem and that features rather prominently in Minima Moralia). In Words from Afar, the author justifies and explains the use of foreign words in the Proust comentaries (as a reply to a listener's letter complaining exactly about that). Interesting in that it sheds some light into the author's approach to writing, and also that there are some (uncharacteristic) moments approaching humour. A pleasure to read, I must say...

[North Star]

Just ordered now, but posting in the non-Classical purchases thread didn't seem quite right either...

[NikF]

Just ordered now, but posting in the non-Classical purchases thread didn't seem quite right either...

Lovely.

"Whatever rules you have adopted, abide by them as laws, and as if you would be impious to transgress them; and do not regard what any one says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours."

Good stuff.