What are you reading?
I’ve started on The Ice Shirt by William T. Vollmann, a reimagining of Norse myths and sagas. It’s weird and riveting, like a caffeinated Tolkien. What are you reading? Maybe we can get a discussion group going that doesn’t involve self-help books.
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March 10th, 2008 at 07:12
I just finished a spoof W. Bush autobiagraphy called ‘Destined for Destiny’ by writers for The Onion.
Interestingly, in response to jediknight’s comments on Conrad, the book’s title is Heart of Darkness, minus the ‘the’ at the start. According to my old high school English teacher, Conrad omitted the definite article in order to give a broader application to the implications of the narrative: that Marlow’s journey (and the vicarious one of the reader) was not into someone else’s darkness, but into the potential moral gloom in everyone’s heart.
Also reading:
– A Second Miscellany-at-Law by Sir Robert Megarry
– The new edition of The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon
– Attorney for the Damned (collection of Clarence Darrow’s speeches and papers)
– Owen Dixon: A Biography (about Dixon, arguably the greatest legal mind produced by the modern common law world
– The Continuing Past – Renato Constantino
I have a bad habit of starting to read books and then starting other books – a cycle which repeats over and over – leading to a large number of half-read books on my shelf.
March 10th, 2008 at 07:13
Damn, too many spelling/grammar mistakes. Excuse me while I slap myself.
March 10th, 2008 at 13:44
I’m restarting Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway after giving up on it last year.
March 10th, 2008 at 14:04
Murakami’s “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” and Woody Allen’s “Side Effects”
March 10th, 2008 at 19:55
Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards!
March 11th, 2008 at 10:21
Eric Segal’s “The Class” and Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
March 11th, 2008 at 22:23
I’m reading Daniel Mendelsohn’s “The Lost: A Search for Six in Six Million” (Les Disparus). Other books I’m rereading – “Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules” edited and introduced by David Sedaris, Neil Garcia’s “The Garden of Wordlessness,” and Gregorio Brillantes’ “Looking for Jose Rizal in Madrid.”
March 12th, 2008 at 08:29
just finished susanna clarke’s jonathan strange and mr norell, about to start with yan martell’s life of pi,=)
March 13th, 2008 at 01:04
just starting joshua ferris’s then we came to the end
March 14th, 2008 at 20:39
roberto bolanos’ savage detectives. one reason why you should read this, jessica? he said all poets are gay, that octavio paz is a bitch (or something like that). very borgesian, too.
March 17th, 2008 at 10:21
done with ‘god of small things’ by arundhati roy – i like the story, i think it captured the way children think. and i love the line “you know what careless words do? they make people love you less…”
and am into ADOLF HITLER – the complete biography written by Pulitzer Prize winner John Toland … theres more to hitler than the demon i used to know though … (whether its good or more demonic – im still about to find out)
March 24th, 2008 at 20:28
Wicked by Gregory Maguire