What are you currently reading?

[val]

JORGE LUIS BORGES:          El Libro de los seres imaginarios

This "book of the imaginary beings" is not, and by far, one of Borges best works. The only interest is the description of same obscure mythologies.

[Brahmsian]

Affliction - Russell Banks

[Philoctetes]

My favorite book of poetry:

[MN Dave]

[CD]

[Philoctetes]

Yes, and yes.

[Philoctetes]

[Scarpia]

I've not finished the book, but I think I have to post now because this book is so boring I may never get the enthusiasm to read a book again.  "The Years" by Virginia Woolf. 

My lord, nothing, but nothing happens in this book.  I'm within 50 pages of the end, and the various characters seem to be at a party in which they are all rather annoyed with each other, and reminiscing about various monumental events, like having bumped into each other near Saint Paul's and having had lunch in a restaurant on the Strand, 20 years before. Again, 50 pages to go, maybe one of the characters will pull out a Thompson sub-machine gun and slaughter the whole lot.  I've got my fingers crossed.  (One of those books where 2/3 of the sentences are in the subjunctive.)

[SonicMan46]

Well, getting back to some musical bios, first up:

Johann Sebastian Bach - The Learned Musician (2000) by Christoph Wolff - just through the first 100 pages and his marriage to wife #1 - quite DETAILED!  But enjoying - 

[Scarpia]

I've not finished the book, but I think I have to post now because this book is so boring I may never get the enthusiasm to read a book again.  "The Years" by Virginia Woolf. 

My lord, nothing, but nothing happens in this book.  I'm within 50 pages of the end, and the various characters seem to be at a party in which they are all rather annoyed with each other, and reminiscing about various monumental events, like having bumped into each other near Saint Paul's and having had lunch in a restaurant on the Strand, 20 years before. Again, 50 pages to go, maybe one of the characters will pull out a Thompson sub-machine gun and slaughter the whole lot.  I've got my fingers crossed.  (One of those books where 2/3 of the sentences are in the subjunctive.)

An update.  I read another 30 pages and there was some stunning action.  Someone looked out the window.  Hoping I'll finish it soon.

[AndyD.]

Charles Rosen the Classical Style

Rereading the part about Beethoven, especially the longish part about the Hammerklavier.

[Bogey]

Picked this up at the library today and really enjoying it....murder mystery genre with Virgil Flowers of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension  (Yo!  Dave!).  It is the second in the series, but reads fine without having read the first.  More here:

http://www.amazon.com/Heat-Lightning-Virgil-Flowers-No/dp/B003NHR78A/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1286758629&sr=8-1-fkmr0

[MN Dave]

Picked this up at the library today and really enjoying it....murder mystery genre with Virgil Flowers of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension  (Yo!  Dave!).  It is the second in the series, but reads fine without having read the first.  More here:

http://www.amazon.com/Heat-Lightning-Virgil-Flowers-No/dp/B003NHR78A/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1286758629&sr=8-1-fkmr0

Hell, yeah. Me and Sandford go way back. My wife Roz has kept up with him whereas I stopped reading for no good reason years back. Check out his Lucas Davenport PREY books. Virgil Flowers is a spin-off character.

[Bogey]

Hell, yeah. Me and Sandford go way back. My wife Roz has kept up with him whereas I stopped reading for no good reason years back. Check out his Lucas Davenport PREY books. Virgil Flowers is a spin-off character.

We'll do.  Already 50+ pages in with a bit more time to read tonight.

[greg]

I'm going to start on this sometime:


(this is the novel where the anime and manga were derived from)
Interestingly, the author happened to be a NEET who wrote this and got famous, but sadly hasn't recovered yet and has been living off of the money he made for this book, while not really working on much else.

I just read the Preface which basically sums up the psychology of conspiracy theorists in 2 pages- I wish Rob Newman could read this! 

[jlaurson]

Frozen Assets
P.G. Wodehouse
[Everyman Wodehouse]

[AndyD.]

We'll do.  Already 50+ pages in with a bit more time to read tonight.

Eyes of Prey, Silent Prey. A really cool series, Davenport is an excellent character for that genre.

[karlhenning]

Finished Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family by Alexander Waugh. And now . . . what should I finish reading? . . .

[Florestan]

Amos Oz--- A Tale of Love and Darkness

Excellent.

To think that it contains first hand information that Russian Communism is a Jewish creation. The author is clearly an anti-semite! 

[Mirror Image]

I look at this book every now and then. It's interesting read other people's perspectives on recordings.