Leeway Posted August 30, 2011 Report Share Posted August 30, 2011 Continuing my Dickens journey, just finished GREAT EXPECTATIONS (if you have not read Dickens, start there), and now on to: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted August 31, 2011 Report Share Posted August 31, 2011 Thomas Ligotti's TEATRO GROTTESSCO Short stories; Ligotti's main inspirations appear to be Lovecraft, P. K. Dick, Borges, and his own Rust Belt surroundings. The writing is always as sharp as I'd like it to be, but he has a deft hand when it comes to atmospheric effects, and there are ideas aplenty herein. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted September 1, 2011 Report Share Posted September 1, 2011 Just read the book for the first time, as opposed to seeing the film. Very revealing: written at the same time as the film was made, this is what Wikipedia says about it: "The film contains little explanation for the events taking place. Clarke, on the other hand, wrote thorough explanations of "cause and effect" for the events in the novel." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serioza Posted September 1, 2011 Report Share Posted September 1, 2011 Mulliner Nights -P.G.Wodehouse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alankin Posted September 1, 2011 Report Share Posted September 1, 2011 Charles C. Mann - 1491 - New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (2nd edition) Everything you've been taught about native Americans is wrong... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted September 1, 2011 Report Share Posted September 1, 2011 That's a very good book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted September 1, 2011 Report Share Posted September 1, 2011 Mulliner Nights -P.G.Wodehouse :tup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TedR Posted September 3, 2011 Report Share Posted September 3, 2011 At the library I checked out Nica's Dream: The Life and Legend of the Jazz Baroness by David Kastin, published this year. I haven't kept up with this thread but I'd be interested if anyone has read this yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted September 4, 2011 Report Share Posted September 4, 2011 Trying one from another series of ancient Egypt mysteries. So far, interesting, not as "realistically brutal" as the Doherty series about Amerotke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted September 5, 2011 Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 Belinda McKeon: Solace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serioza Posted September 9, 2011 Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 Igor Guberman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted September 9, 2011 Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 The book and the movie! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van Basten II Posted September 10, 2011 Report Share Posted September 10, 2011 Fascinating Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted September 10, 2011 Report Share Posted September 10, 2011 Fascinating I agree. Don't know why Roth hasn't won the Nobel prize. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted September 11, 2011 Report Share Posted September 11, 2011 Fascinating I agree. Don't know why Roth hasn't won the Nobel prize. Read it some years ago. Seem to remember it as a very strong novel that went into serious decline towards the end. The details escape me now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 (edited) The second in the Elric complete compilation series. Quite a lot of non-Elric material in this volume, which I've never read before, so a good thing. Really enjoying revisiting this stuff. Edited September 12, 2011 by jazzbo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted September 13, 2011 Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted September 15, 2011 Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore A wonderfully inventive and disturbingly moving novel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted September 16, 2011 Report Share Posted September 16, 2011 Just starting the Norman Granz biography. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted September 16, 2011 Report Share Posted September 16, 2011 Michael Ondaatje's "The Cat's Table". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeway Posted September 16, 2011 Report Share Posted September 16, 2011 Fascinating I agree. Don't know why Roth hasn't won the Nobel prize. He's not politically correct. I think he's a great author. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcy62 Posted September 16, 2011 Report Share Posted September 16, 2011 Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore A wonderfully inventive and disturbingly moving novel His best work IMHO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdavenport Posted September 16, 2011 Report Share Posted September 16, 2011 An Idiot Abroad - Karl Pilkington The book of the Ricky Gervais TV series. I literally cannot stand to look at/listen to Ricky Gervais, so I refused to watch the show for a long time. Pilkington is hilarious, but what is worrying is that I find myself agreeing with almost all of what he says. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted September 16, 2011 Report Share Posted September 16, 2011 I.B. Singer's Satan in Goray His first novel, set in 1649. Just starting Uzma Khan's The Geometry of God. Probably the last book I'll check out from the Chicago library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alankin Posted September 16, 2011 Report Share Posted September 16, 2011 Probably the last book I'll check out from the Chicago library. Are they confiscating your library card? Now reading: "Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman" by James Gleick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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