What are you currently reading?

[Karl Henning]

Picking off about one a year. Moonraker was fantastic and makes me scratch my head of why the movie was the way it was.

Well might you scratch!

[Karl Henning]

Thread Duty:  Started this the other day, good fun.

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[Spineur]

First novel by Kenzaburo Oé (Nobel)

Crisp laconic style very different from his latter style full of humanity.  I find Oé way of writing stunning.

[SimonNZ]

An excellent book. Even better is his In The Shadow of the Sword

I've got that on the pile to read shortly after. Have you read his book on the Ceasar Dynasty?

[Ken B]

I've got that on the pile to read shortly after. Have you read his book on the Ceasar Dynasty?

It is one of several books I have on the go at the moment. So far, good but not up to his others.

[Crudblud]

Unfortunate, but in this imperfect world, unavoidable, I fear.

Well, at least he isn't dressed in his Zardoz gear.

[bwv 1080]

Finished my reread of Gravity's Rainbow, and what stood out is how much stranger and  barely comprehensible it is compared to Pynchon's later work like Against the Day, Mason & Dixon or Vineland (but still entertaining)

now another reread but something a little more sober

[MN Dave]

The Darkest Part of the Woods - Ramsey Campbell
CIRSOVA magazine, issue one.
And a bio on Ernic Kovacs.

[Artem]

1133 pages. Done.

[Spineur]

now another reread but something a little more sober

A very good book, as most Sebald works.  On this topic I am reading this book on exiled composer.



An annecdote from this book: Giovanni Baptista Lulli was abducted in Rome for la Duchesse de Montpensier who wanted a young italian to teach her the language.  You know the next part of the story.

[Draško]

Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Re-reading The Great Gatsby.

[aligreto]

Re-reading The Great Gatsby.

That is a great read 

[SimonNZ]

Very poorly written. I'm about a third of the way in and already amazed that someone can make an insiders story of flipping mob wiseguys so dull. I doubt I'll make it to the Trump parts unless I jump ahead.

[Baron Scarpia]

Very poorly written. I'm about a third of the way in and already amazed that someone can make an insiders story of flipping mob wiseguys so dull. I doubt I'll make it to the Trump parts unless I jump ahead.

Well, he's a cop, not a writer. Good evidence that he actually wrote it, that it was not ghost-written (attributed or not).

[MN Dave]

The Darkest Part of the Woods - Ramsey Campbell
CIRSOVA magazine, issue one.
And a bio on Ernic Kovacs.

The Bones of Avalon by Phil Rickman (great!)
The Black Company by Glen Cook

[NikF]

I don't know anything about this but thought I'd give it a try.

[Ken B]

I don't know anything about this but thought I'd give it a try.

I have not read that but Trollope is a favorite. The Way We Live Now or The Warden are the usual first Trollope.

[SimonNZ]

The Way We Live Now is a book I keep meaning to get to. Would you rate it as one of his best?

TD:

One of the few Geoff Dyer books I hadn't read. Short and fast, but with his trademark freewheeling intelligence and unexpected digressions and connections.

[Crudblud]

Trying to get into the habit of writing more about what I read. I posted some thoughts on my blog about Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, which I finished reading about a week ago.