Now reading...

[Teasing the Korean]

"Kon-Tiki" by Thor Heyerdahl

A fascinating expedition, even if Heyerdahl's theories have been disproved by the genome project.

[ghost of miles]

Jonathan Lethem, THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE.

[jlhoots]

Jonathan Lethem, THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE.

Great book.

Also try Motherless Brooklyn.

[BruceH]

the girl who kiscked the hornets' nest

Just started it too!!

Also reading that now.

[B. Goren.]

[paul secor]

Jonathan Lethem, THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE.

Great book.

Also try Motherless Brooklyn.

I enjoyed Motherless Brooklyn a lot. Haven't read anything else of his since then, but I probably should.

Edited June 19, 2010 by paul secor

[jlhoots]

Nick Stone: Mr. Clarinet

[jazzbo]

I had started this and then set it aside as it seemed to heavy in several senses to take with me on my 3500 cycle trip. . . .

I have resumed readking this and must say tis pretty fascinating and well done. Temple is a really good historian, this is no "Chariots of the Gods" stuff. . . .

Edited June 19, 2010 by jazzbo

[BillF]

[Matthew]

The Sign of the Four. It's my favorite Sherlock Holmes novel. Is the BBC TV movie with Jeremy Brett any good?

[BillF]

The Sign of the Four. It's my favorite Sherlock Holmes novel. Is the BBC TV movie with Jeremy Brett any good?

I'm back on Sherlock Holmes myself. Just started His last Bow. Don't know that movie

[paul secor]

Colin Dexter: The Remorseful Day

Inspector Morse's last case

[Royal Oak]

Just finished "Cancer Ward" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, now on to William Burroughs "Naked Lunch".

[jazzbo]

Good lord! I hope you have emergency meds handy.

[jlhoots]

Brady Udall: The Lonely Polygamist

[BillF]

[kinuta]

Just finished

[jazzbo]

[carnivore]

'Spooner' by Pete Dexter. Funniest read I've had in years. Wry too.

[B. Goren.]

[B. Goren.]

I need more Paul Auster.

[alankin]

Morton N. Cohen - Lewis Carroll: A Biography

[ejp626]

Actually, there are some parallels between Metropole and Malcolm Bradbury's Rates of Exchange. I've skimmed a bit of the Bradbury; it was fairly droll. Perhaps I should take the opportunity to read it first. Hmmm...

So I had to take a break and skim a lot of books on South Africa, specifically Johannesburg, but I have some time for fiction again. I am in fact reading Bradbury's Rates of Exchange. Droll, but I'm enjoying it. Then I'll probably read Metropole and then maybe back to Mahfouz and Nabokov, though I haven't been enjoyed them as much as I thought.

I have a new gym book, and it's pretty good - Millhauser's Dangerous Laughter.

(Love the cover - like an old Astounding anthology cover.)

I am, however, starting to fret about the huge number of really good (unread or only lightly skimmed) non-fiction books on my shelves, and I may start to try to work them into the mix.

[BruceH]

Dang, I've got to get that Millhauser book! Although I'm a little scared; it looks...dangerous.

[cih]

I like biographies of old comedians - particularly British ones from the nineteen-fifties to seventies, particularly the ones with flawed personalities...

This recent Hancock book is intended as a corrective to the earlier 'When The Wind Changed' which concentrated on the scandalous side

Edited July 9, 2010 by cih