What are you reading?

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five and Toni Morisson's Beloved for AP Lit currently. I really enjoy SF so far. I haven't really picked up Beloved like I should have though. I liked what I did read derp.

EDIT: No more Beloved, but I plan to start Gal?pagos soon.

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five.. I really enjoy SF so far.
I plan to start Gal?pagos soon.

My advice would be to just read Slaughterhouse Five again.

Oh Sorry, I thought it was a birthmark! - An illustrated guide to brown tattoos

Also, Cambridge Companion to Berg. I'm rubbish at reading fiction.

I have my first Asimov book 'Nemesis' to read once I've finished The Fry Chronicles

The War that Never Was by Duff Hart-Davis. It tells of Britain's unofficial, highly secretive campaign  in the 60s supporting Yemeni Royalists to keep President Nasser's Egyptians and Yemeni collaborators from conquering Arabia and crushing Israel. Interestingly, my dad worked on the Yemeni border in the closing stages of the war servicing missiles, radio equipment and assisting Saudi border patrols.

A Purple Place for Dying by John D MacDonald.

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut.

the hobbit, thought i might read that again

All right...

I'm going to try and read Moby-Dick with the aid of an audiobook companion. I'm not sure how successful I'll be.

I read that. It sucks.

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, James D. Hornfischer

The Quiet American, Graham Greene

The Mechanic's Tale, Steve Matchett

Also, I read Hitchhiking With Larry David yesterday and I highly recommend it.

Quote from: Trekky0623 on February 21, 2011, 09:26:07 PM

All right...

I'm going to try and read Moby-Dick with the aid of an audiobook companion. I'm not sure how successful I'll be.

I read that. It sucks.

What I've read of it was pretty good, though it might have been because I pictured Captain Ahab as patrick Stewart!

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut.

I just finished reading that. Cat's Cradle was better

Now I'm reading Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, which is fantastic.

I'm reading Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil for the first time. Wow.

I'm reading Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil for the first time. Wow.

Dude, amazing book! Watch out though, he's a very persuasive writer - make sure you consider the broader implications of his ideas. Gotta say though, I've always preferred the semi-ironic presentation of those ideas in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. I say semi-ironic, because I think it's clear he enjoyed the revelatory aspect of it.


I've basically been re-reading Plato and Aristotle for the past month, though the Poetics was new to me. Going to start on Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy this weekend, which should be fun. It's been a while since I last enjoyed of his inimitable writing style.

Just fiished Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I also decided to read the epilogue, so I am now sad.

Just fiished Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I also decided to read the epilogue, so I am now sad.

I feel your pain.  When I finished that book, I was sad because I realized I'd just spent several hours reading a terrible book.

Quote from: Chris Spaghetti on March 08, 2011, 03:52:20 AM

What I've read of it was pretty good, though it might have been because I pictured Captain Ahab as patrick Stewart!

'Ahab' looks like 'Arab' so he's an Arab.

Also I'm starting The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore again, I keep getting distracted by other books.

"Our mutual friend", by Charles Dickens.

It's giving me a headache to follow the English

I'm reading Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil for the first time. Wow.

I love Nietzsche. That's the one that starts by implying that moral dogmatists can't get laid, right?

Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis.

I'm reading Breakfast of Champions, and I'll probably read Slaughterhouse-Five after that.

Quote from: fluffycornsnake on March 09, 2011, 05:00:49 PM

I'm reading Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil for the first time. Wow.

Dude, amazing book! Watch out though, he's a very persuasive writer - make sure you consider the broader implications of his ideas. Gotta say though, I've always preferred the semi-ironic presentation of those ideas in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. I say semi-ironic, because I think it's clear he enjoyed the revelatory aspect of it.


I've basically been re-reading Plato and Aristotle for the past month, though the Poetics was new to me. Going to start on Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy this weekend, which should be fun. It's been a while since I last enjoyed of his inimitable writing style.

Yeah, his writing style is fantastically refreshing, even invigorating, though the implications of his moral philosophy are so unnerving that I find it difficult to take him seriously at times. I've started Plato's Republic now for a nice, drastically different change of pace.

A Peace To End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

the title coming from a comment made by Field Marshal Wavell, "After the war to end war they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a peace to end peace"

It's somewhat old (1989) but that might prove to be a boon. My own library's Middle East division is somewhat lean but is better than the my town's library which apparently has the same type books Jack1704's library has.

Thanks for your suggestion. My book budget is always in the red but I will put it on my 'want list.'  I don't remember how I acquired the book I'm reading now but it's adequate for my limited aim of just a little more historical grounding in an area where I am lacking in knowledge.

Why the hell doesn't Cormac McCarthy use punctuation?

Why the hell doesn't Cormac McCarthy use punctuation?

Because he's like super original and too intelligent for literary conventions.

Al Murray

An essay entitled Is the history of Philosophy Good for Philosophy? by Catherine Wilson.

A More Perfect Constitution by Larry J Sabato