What are you currently reading?

[Ken B]

Across the pale parabola of joy . . . .

... ran the fretful porpentine?

[Karl Henning]

Is it pork or is it turpentine?  It's porpentine!

[Philo]

Reading sections from this (only when I've completed by Daily Proust):

[stingo]

Two new reads for me...

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[Bogey]

On to the fourth book in this quietly amazing series.

[Ken B]

On to the fourth book in this quietly amazing series.

One of the best series ever.

[Bogey]

One of the best series ever.

It's the grind of the first three that draw me in.  The pacing is absolutely brilliant and make you feel as if you are along with the characters.

[Ken B]

It's the grind of the first three that draw me in.  The pacing is absolutely brilliant and make you feel as if you are along with the characters.

Reading some of the threads here makes feel as if I were right along with Kvant and Kvastmo ...

[Moonfish]

Yeah, except for that they would not rant in English!

[The new erato]

This:



Brilliant, entertaining and educating as usual from Bill.

[Bogey]

This:



Brilliant, entertaining and educating as usual from Bill.

Wow. That looks cool.

[Ken B]

This:



Brilliant, entertaining and educating as usual from Bill.

A fun book as ever from BB.
Recommended for all Double Indemnity fans! The sash-weight murder ...

[The new erato]

A fun book as ever from BB.
Recommended for all Double Indemnity fans! The sash-weight murder ...

I love that movie and found that part of the book very interesting. Also some nuggets on Barbara Stamwyck's backgroud (she wasn't always named that).

[Mookalafalas]

I haven't been reading much the last couple of years, but just had a little binge:
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   A fine memoir.

  I was sick all day (again), and read a Rex Stout, which was fun but whet my appetite for the real thing--some Dashiell Hammett.  Been a long time since I read two novels in one day.  I should do it more often

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[Henk]

Eckermann - Conversations with Goethe

[Ken B]

I haven't been reading much the last couple of years, but just had a little binge:
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   A fine memoir.

  I was sick all day (again), and read a Rex Stout, which was fun but whet my appetite for the real thing--some Dashiell Hammett.  Been a long time since I read two novels in one day.  I should do it more often

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First time I read RH I thought it a lot weaker than the Glass Key. Second time I read it I thought it was a masterpiece. Still think so after a third reading. 
Might be time to rerereread some more Hammett. Only Dain is weak.

[Daverz]

On to the fourth book in this quietly amazing series.

They must of run out of umlauts for the cover.

[Mookalafalas]

First time I read RH I thought it a lot weaker than the Glass Key. Second time I read it I thought it was a masterpiece. Still think so after a third reading. 
Might be time to rerereread some more Hammett. Only Dain is weak.

  I like Dain a lot, although it is even more over-the-top than the others. Re-read "The Thin Man" today. I didn't remember anything from it, except the one "secret" you aren't supposed to find out til the end.   I hadn't read it in 25 years.  Read Raymond Chandler's "Killer in the Rain" last night--which turned out to be an early version of "The Big Sleep".  Still fun to read.  It's too bad those guys have so few novels between them.   Hammett's books are so crammed with people and events that if I wait enough years, I really don't remember much of what happened and can get a really enjoyable re-read.  I doubt that will be the case with Chandler--but I don't think I've re-read any of his yet.  I'll have to give one a go and see what happens. I've really got the hard-boiled detective bug these days.

[Ken B]

  I like Dain a lot, although it is even more over-the-top than the others. Re-read "The Thin Man" today. I didn't remember anything from it, except the one "secret" you aren't supposed to find out til the end.   I hadn't read it in 25 years.  Read Raymond Chandler's "Killer in the Rain" last night--which turned out to be an early version of "The Big Sleep".  Still fun to read.  It's too bad those guys have so few novels between them.   Hammett's books are so crammed with people and events that if I wait enough years, I really don't remember much of what happened and can get a really enjoyable re-read.  I doubt that will be the case with Chandler--but I don't think I've re-read any of his yet.  I'll have to give one a go and see what happens. I've really got the hard-boiled detective bug these days.

When I reread Chandler I was pleasantly surprised how they held up. He's due for a third reading.

[Philo]

Interspersed amongst Proust and Bloom is Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil.