What Are You Reading

[Corto]

I'm reading Pattern Recognition by William Gibson.
Totally engrossing. Full of tomorrow's vintage trends and sensibilities. Reads like a pulp mystery novel about today, written in the future.

If you're a Buzz Rickson fan (even if you're like me and can't afford Buzz Rickson) you'll especially love this book.

 

[Mike1939]

I'm currently reading two books that go together like peanut butter and jelly. 'Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939', by Virginia Nicholson and 'Antic Hay', by Aldous Huxley.

 

[RebeccaMUA]

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Jerusalem Poker by Edward Whittemore. The first part of his Jerusalem Quartet, Sinai Tapestry was a wonderful romp, and Jerusalem Poker, the second part, is shaping up to be more of the same. Excellent.

Highly recommended. During his lifetime his 5 books combined sold fewer than 10,000 copies, according to Wikipedia. he had a very interesting life and died in poverty. I was first turned on to him by a Christopher Hitchens review in The Atlantic about 5 years ago.

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[Luke 42]

I'm reading Moby Dick by Herman Melville currently. So far it's good

 

[Archéologue]

"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. Its amazing how much of this 1930s fictional novel about the future actually came true. We live in a world where the individual is drowned in a sea of pleasure and consumerism.
Michael

 

[John Boyer]

I just completed The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh selected and edited by Ronald De Leeuw and I am starting Adam Bede by George Eliot. Primarily, becuase Vincent Van Gogh recommended Adam Bede. John

 

[ShoreRoadLady]

Two stories into Honest Money, by Erle Stanley Gardner - a collection of short stories published in Black Mask from 1932-1933. So far they're pretty mediocre, but it's interesting to read some of Gardner's early magazine work, which he wrote a lot of before even dreaming up Perry Mason.

 

[Diamondback]

If you can call it "reading", old USGS 15-minute quadrangles mapping the former New York Central System during its heyday--specifically, trying to trace out a lot of the branches and subsidiary lines.

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Now playing: John Barry - Gunbarrel/Traction Table/Gassing The Plane/Car Chase
via FoxyTunes

 

[Martinis at 8]

I just finished The Queen of the South. Very good story.

 

[Feraud]

Chasin' That Devil Music - Searching for the Blues by G.D. Wardlow.
Good reading if you are interested in pre-war blues performers.

 

[RBH]

NIGHTMARE TOWN Stories by Dashiell Hammett

 

[Harp]

...and I am starting Adam Bede by George Eliot. John

I never finished Daniel Deronda.

 

[Joie DeVive]

I'm plowing through Liberal Fascism.

And for fun, I'm perusing Decades of Beauty; The Changing Image of Women by Kate Mulvey and Melissa Richards. This one is a great overview for any of our newcomers who want an overview of fashion history by decade. It has sections on undies, hair and hats, makeup, style icons and more. Very enjoyable.

 

[Tallulah]

I am usually juggling several at once. Right now I am reading East Wind, West Wind by one of my top three faves; Pearl Buck. I am also rereading Jane Eyre for the mugjillionth time, Time Enough for Love (for the first time) by Robert Heinlein and then for religious devotionals, "Calvin and Hobbes" .

I also read through the Bible for inspiration and wisdom.

...Yup, I'm a dork....

 

[Harp]

I am usually juggling several at once. Right now I am reading East Wind, West Wind by one of my top three faves; Pearl Buck. I am also rereading Jane Eyre for the mugjillionth time, Time Enough for Love (for the first time) by Robert Heinlein and then for religious devotionals, "Calvin and Hobbes" .

I also read through the Bible for inspiration and wisdom.

...Yup, I'm a dork....

I favor Emily over Charlotte; she's one of my favorite poets.
Pearl Buck (The Good Earth) is another; but haven't done
any Hobbesian since college and Leviathan.

...I'm a nerd myself.

 

[Randal]

I'm reading "Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk....again.

 

[Harp]

I just completed The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh selected and edited by Ronald De Leeuw and I am starting Adam Bede by George Eliot. Primarily, becuase Vincent Van Gogh recommended Adam Bede. John

John:

Saw AB on a bookshelf yesterday, but was really looking for
Middlemarch. Then I walked out with Schopaneuer....

Have been reading a bio on Simone Weil, which examines the
circumstance of her illness and death; leaving open the possibility
of suicide. I've never been so intrigued by a philosopher.

 

[Lily Powers]

Dangerous Men - Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man. by Mick Lasalle, a film critic (and pre-code film lover) for the SF Chronicle. I have to love a book that deals with Warren William in more than just a nod to his roles as a slimy, pre-code womanizer, and Mick LaSalle writes the book in a narrative that seems like he's speaking right to the reader. (I've also read and recommend his first book, Complicated Women - Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood).

 

[carter]

rediscovering an old friend

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm. I last read this book 30+ years ago.