What are you currently reading?

[karlhenning]

Good to be back, and especially good to hear from YOU!

Well, he's put on 39 opus numbers since you were here last!

[Haffner]

Well, he's put on 39 opus numbers since you were here last!

Hi! Well, 39 could be numerologically our lucky number...

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[karlhenning]

I like 39 (= 3 x 13).

Arnold would have hated it . . . .

[Opus106]

[Haffner]

I like 39 (= 3 x 13).

Arnold would have hated it . . . .

But Ahhhh...Arnold!

The dude rules (and I don't mean the Big L.).

[Bogey]

Ange,
Is that you on the far left of your new avatar?

[Haffner]

Ange,
Is that you on the far left of your new avatar?

Hi!

Sigh. To be Ian Gillan in 1970....

[Dr. Dread]

This fat fantasy book just arrived from jolly old England.



I think I'll crack it open. I already know I like the writer.

[karlhenning]

This week I finished re-reading John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor . . . so now I've started History Play: The Lives and Afterlife of Christopher Marlowe by Rodney Bolt.

It's certainly pretty good. If I were in theatre, I should get more of the sly allusions, I suppose;  but I am getting enough of them, to feel that my back is being sufficiently patted 

[Diletante]

Finished reading Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. It amazed me how many times the phrase "erect penis" came up.  I enjoyed it very much, although I liked the other book by Murakami I've read (Kafka on the Shore) better.

I think now I'm going to start reading Rayuela by Julio Cortázar. I bought this a while ago and started it two times but didn't get far either time. I really want to read it, though, because Cortázar is one of my favorite writers. Third time's a charm, I guess.

[Lilas Pastia]

I like 39 (= 3 x 13).

Arnold would have hated it . . . .

Was Malcolm suffering from Triskaidekaphobia?

[val]

HANS KÜNG:    Der Anfang aller Dinge (2005)

Küng is one of the greatest German theologians. In this book (The beginning of all things) he gives a good description of the most recent perspectives of the science. Refusing a literal approach of the Bible, he tries to find the kind of questions that are excluded from science, metaphysical questions, that can only, if accepted, have religious answers.
I suspect that many Christians will not like much this book, because Küng is very far from the traditional positions sustained by the catholic hierarchy.

[Lethevich]

(art book)

Oh man, this degenerate stuff would make Josquin vomit 0:)

[Valentino]

Finished something rather bland: Tarnished Beauty by Cecilia Samartin. Maybe it was the Norwegian translation that messed it up.

Now the latest Anna Gavalda. French title La Consolante. My French is offendous, so I read it in Norwegian, where the title is Lykka er ein sjeldan fugl, or Happiness is a rare bird (my translation). I do not know if it's yet out in English. EDIT: It is. The Consolation Match. Terrific prose, anyway.

Welcome back, Andy!

[Dr. Dread]

Y'know, I bought this used and though someone had scribbled on the cover with a fluorescent pen. But, WTF? They're all like that.

[Valentino]

Finished reading Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. It amazed me how many times the phrase "erect penis" came up.  I enjoyed it very much, although I liked the other book by Murakami I've read (Kafka on the Shore) better.

So did I. There are other books by Murakami I liked better than Norwegian Wood:

A Wild Sheep Chase
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

in particular. Happy reading!

[jwinter]

Planning to make the best of some down time this summer, I have checked out The Teaching Company's Classics of American Literature course from my library.  My plan is to take my time, follow along and savor some good books.  My focus back in college was in British lit, so I haven't read a lot of these in many a moon, and more than a few are new to me. 

First up, Benjamin Franklin's autobiography.

If anybody else is silly enough to care to join me, give a shout, maybe we could start a reading/discussion thread.

[CD]

Elias Canetti's Auto-da-fe was everything I look for in a novel; dreamlike, hallucinatory, hilarious and terrifying. It's one of the best things I've ever read.

Now reading: Ivo Andric - The Bridge on the Drina

[Florestan]

everything I look for in a novel; dreamlike, hallucinatory, hilarious and terrifying.

Then you don't make much of War and Peace, do you? 

[CD]

Then you don't make much of War and Peace, do you? 

I haven't read it, but course the fact that a book couldn't be described in this way doesn't preclude me from enjoying it -- it's just that my favorites tend toward the surreal.