What are you currently reading?

[Ken B]

Decided to beef up my holdings of Greek poetry

With the companion volumes for Sophocles II, Aeschylus I and II
I have the full run of Euripides in this series since college.  These are updated or new translations of the Grene/Lattimore originals.
Sophocles and Aeschylus I have already in other translations.  Next up will be Aristophanes, to keep company with the Hadas translation I also have had for years.
Also



Apollonius and the Hymns are new.  The lyric poems I have in (again)Lattimore's translation.  (I also have his Homer, Hesiod, and Pindar.)

That Argonautika is sitting in my pile, glowering at me. Unread for many years now. As is the Fagles Homer.
Can't say I could ever abide Lattimore in anything. Fitzgerald or Lombardo are more to my liking.

[kishnevi]

That Argonautika is sitting in my pile, glowering at me. Unread for many years now. As is the Fagles Homer.
Can't say I could ever abide Lattimore in anything. Fitzgerald or Lombardo are more to my liking.

At least read the introduction Green wrote to the Argonautika.  He takes academic snark to a new level.

[Bogey]

While I am waiting for Genius of the System to land:



As an Amazon review put it: Wallace's "ruminations on various happenings in Tinseltown's history".

[André]

Henning Mankell, Before the Frost. A mystery and crime novel author, Mankell's books have sold over 40 million copies. Left-wing social activist, widely involved in african issues (he lived in Mozambique for many years). He is the son-in-law of movie director Ingmar Bergman.

[Karl Henning]

It Took Us Just 38 Minutes To Buy An AR-15 In Orlando

Just two days after Omar Mateen used a semi-automatic rifle to murder 49 innocent people and injure dozens more, we were able to purchase an AR-15 — a rifle similar to Mateen's that has been used in several other mass shootings on American soil — in less time than it takes to buy a cart full of groceries.

We would have been locked and loaded within five minutes, but the gun shop employee we spoke to said the queue on background checks was longer than usual because people were scrambling to buy AR-15s in the wake of the shooting. That's both terrifying and unsurprising — gun sales often skyrocket after mass shootings.

[NikF]

I picked up these two volumes in the local used book shop. Sadly, I did not pick up Anouk Aimée at the same time.

[NikF]

Nabokov: Laughter in the Dark.

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[Bogey]

Second time in past two years:

[Ken B]

Second time in past two years:

Read the Parkers?

[Bogey]

Read the Parkers?

We'll do.

[Ken B]

We'll do.

Uneven but usually enjoyable. Deadly Edge is the best.

[Bogey]

Uneven but usually enjoyable. Deadly Edge is the best.

This one above is an incredible crime/"noir" type read.  I feel like I am watching an excellent film from the genre.  Its original title was The Mercenaries and I believe it was re-titled once again as The Cutie.

https://www.amazon.com/Cutie-Hard-Case-Crime-Book-ebook/dp/B005O0ZSDU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1466505335&sr=8-1&keywords=westlake+cutie

You need to read this one, Ken if you have not.  I'm 100 pages in after a day  and cannot wait to get back to it later.

[Ken B]

This one above is an incredible crime/"noir" type read.  I feel like I am watching an excellent film from the genre.  Its original title was The Mercenaries and I believe it was re-titled once again as The Cutie.

https://www.amazon.com/Cutie-Hard-Case-Crime-Book-ebook/dp/B005O0ZSDU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1466505335&sr=8-1&keywords=westlake+cutie

You need to read this one, Ken if you have not.  I'm 100 pages in after a day  and cannot wait to get back to it later.

No, have not read that one. I've read a lot of DEW though!
That one is available from my library as an audiobook ...

[Bogey]

Before the movie, there was

[Karl Henning]

Well, I had never heard about this.  But, we wouldn't have expected me to.

"More barn!"

[NikF]

I'm in the gym and waiting for a bench. I knew it would be busy so I brought a book which I'm reading while alternately checking out the women and sneering at the hoi polloi.



You might have seen the film based on the book http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049291/

[andolink]

This is turning out to be significantly better than I expected.

[Ken B]

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One of several on the go. Another is Likelihood by Edwards.

[AndyD.]

A terrific run, one of the best for this title.

[Bogey]

Before the movie, there was

A lot of the movie was within....some differences, but it was a fun read.  FWIW, Marilyn's character in the book was a redhead.

TD:



Picked this up for the McGinnis artwork on the front.  Same guy that did all the Bond Thunderball art.  There are 80 or so of these Mason novels out there, so thought I would give one a go.