what are you reading?

lowdaddy · March 30, 2011, 03:58:01 PM

oil! - upton sinclair
the inspiration for the film there will be blood. i gotta say the book only bears a very vague resemblance to the film. very vague. good book. good film. completely different stories. i think paul thomas anderson read the book and then made up a completely different story based around some of the characters from the book. whatever. it's a compelling read.

lowdaddy · April 14, 2011, 09:14:01 PM

tropic of capricorn - henry miller

i think miller has become my favorite writer. i guess. if i have a favorite. when he's on fire there's nothing close. when he's on fire there's more for me in one paragraph than there is in all the other books i've ever read put together.

SpaceTrucker · April 15, 2011, 07:46:37 PM

"Notes from the Underground and The Gamber" By Fydor Doechevsky.

Pretty good so far, I hate that I am so much like the Man from Underground. Speaking of the book I really need to get back to it.

Dejube · April 25, 2011, 12:57:52 AM

white noise- love it!

The Shocker · April 25, 2011, 08:40:33 PM

Michael Crichton's Next. Not one of his better works.

frobbert · April 26, 2011, 04:52:36 AM

Just finished The Passage by Justin Cronin. Pretty good read, if you're into that The Stand/Swan Song kind of epic horror, only in this case the apocalypse is caused by a virus that turns people into a sort of vampires. Yes, the echoes of Matheson's I Am Legend are pretty loud. Not a bad read at all, and too well written to be pulp, but in the end it's not much more than an adventure story that would make a pretty good action movie. Compared to a truly devastating apocalypse story like Cormac McCarthy's The Road it doesn't do much.

SabbathJeff · April 26, 2011, 11:26:12 AM

I'm slowly reading A Clockwork Orange. The full version.

lowdaddy · August 10, 2011, 11:12:14 PM

expelled from eden - a william t. vollmnann reader.

never read him before. got a buddy who's a big fan and loaned me this as an introduction. we'll see...

SLeePY GiaNT · August 14, 2011, 01:17:43 AM

reading some stuff out of Larry Niven's The Draco Tavern

It's kinda like alien bar stories.. like the mos eisley cantina type shit

RAGER · August 25, 2011, 06:39:58 PM

I'm embarrassed to say.

black · August 29, 2011, 06:49:37 PM

^I know the feeling!^

I read a lot of mindless fiction for the escape factor and often take a lot of flak for it.
Oh well.

essleweb · September 21, 2011, 08:07:20 AM

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

Business Logo Design

lowdaddy · September 21, 2011, 01:15:04 PM

under the volcano - malcolm lowry

beer · September 22, 2011, 03:22:00 AM

1493, by, uhhh, Mann?

Sorry, brand new cat on my lap, so I can't go check.

giantchris · September 23, 2011, 09:07:30 PM

Just finishing book 3 of the dark tower series. This is a really cool series I gotta say its really imaginative. Its a little cheesy in parts but its so trippy it works.

RAGER · September 24, 2011, 12:09:29 PM

Read em all years ago. Killer series.

Just about finished with To Have and Have Not-Hemingway

gritty_fingers · September 24, 2011, 11:46:45 PM

Manhunt - The 12 day chase for Abraham Lincoln's killer by James Swanson

Just finished reading that this morning. I give it a strong recommendation.

RAGER · September 25, 2011, 10:25:49 AM

The Sun Also Rises-Hemingway

demon gal · October 07, 2011, 09:22:06 PM

Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Linqvist, the dude that wrote Let the Right One in. This one is about Zombies. I just started, so far so good.

lowdaddy · October 08, 2011, 02:18:09 AM

taras bulba - nikolai gogol

The Shocker · October 08, 2011, 11:05:47 AM

Quote from: demon gal on October 07, 2011, 09:22:06 PM
Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Linqvist, the dude that wrote Let the Right One in. This one is about Zombies. I just started, so far so good.

Good God I have to get that!

I'm reading Thinking In Pictures: My Life With Autisim by Temple Grandin.

demon gal · October 08, 2011, 12:25:58 PM

I have to warn you Deaner it's not a horror book per se, it's more about how people deal with their loved ones coming back from the dead.

The Shocker · October 08, 2011, 01:35:37 PM

Quote from: demon gal on October 08, 2011, 12:25:58 PM
I have to warn you Deaner it's not a horror book per se, it's more about how people deal with their loved ones coming back from the dead.

Still sounds interesting, thanks!

peoplething · October 09, 2011, 01:21:44 AM

lord of the rings. 2nd attempt

I dig the D&D type stuff, but only one time before gave lotr a shot... right after the movies. at the time I only got thru the first book. I thought it was terrible, and really couldn't understand how this foundation led the way for so much influence of the D20.

This time around I'm approaching it with a much more critical eye. I've realized that it's really, really dense. Just started Two Towers, and entire plot holes/points are mentioned and sorta explained or resolved in a sentence or two, albeit buried in a large chuck of brit speak.

Also, as far as battle sequences so far, there's squat.

But I think this time around I finally appreciate Tolkien as a 'world crafter' using med-evil europe as a model, rather than the typical sci-fi futuristic worlds of the day.

The Shocker · October 12, 2011, 08:44:18 PM

I've read the first 2 books twice. The 3rd book zero times. I give up.