What BOOK are you reading right now?

Soz,
Not to push ya :wink: but I found the beginning of Life of Pi to be the strongest portion. My interest tapered as I got further in the book, but I really enjoyed it.

Haha. Not me, but I'm laughing! What point have you reached?

Haven't read it...

Just finished Jonathan Harr's The Lost Painting, a nonfiction book about a fairly recently found Caravaggio. Not exactly a page turner, but quite interesting to me. Caravaggio is way up in my favorite painter list and he had a hell of a life; I've read a few other books about him and his work.

Am waiting for some packages ordered through amazon...

Er, how grumpy are you?

(Will she throw the book at me?)

(ducks for cover)

soz, you could throw it at flushd.

Or nimh!

Or Piffka!

Ah.

Soz, I tried to read "Pi" and couldn't get myself into it. That was 2 years ago and I haven't tried again.

Reading the Penultimate Peril (Lemony Snicket's 12th of the Series of Unfortunate Events).

I've had Guns, Germs, and Steel at my bedside for months. I haven't finished the prologue: Yali's Question. I think I understand why he has to preface the book in such a way, but ....

Part One is only 35 pages in, and I'll start there the next time.

I listened to G,G and S on CD. I wanted to read it, but knew I wouldn't, so.... The book is wordier than it has to be, I think. But the concepts were great.

I have it, in a box somewhere.

Books on my dresser stack that I am reading the ny'er before getting into are -

Umberto Eco's Five Moral Pieces
Frances Mayes' The Discovery of Poetry
Derek Humphrey's Final Exit (no, don't worry)
Henry Petroski's The Book on the Book Shelf
Don Williams' Saving Stuff

didn't finish the book i mentioned a few pages back, although i do intend to finish, but got side-tracked by Dan Simmons' Ilium, which is tremendously entertaining, and now must read the sequel, Olympos, even though i get the impression from reader reviews that it's somewhat disappointing.

I just read "Must Love Dogs"

It was really good

I'm doing English Literature at college so I havn't much time for 'pleasure reading' right now. At college I'm reading Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare, Wise Children - Angela Carter.

Going to read (at college) Miller's Tale - Chaucer, Comedians - Trevor Griffiths

And thats just this year!

On the shelf (at home) I have been meaning to read Our Man in Havana - Graham Green (I think)

HP 6

soz, if you haven't heaved the book at the wall yet I think I'd like to encourage you to finish it. I wasn't going to dare before, in case you STILL hated it, but it's shortish...not too much of a commitment.

Sometimes writing comes together, as it were, when the work is processed in its entirety....well, at least that is so for me. Life of Pi absolutely played that way for me.

I liked the ending, for a number of reasons, but I think it lent credibility to the "voice" of Pi, that you have had a hard time believing. Having said that, I was a bit let down by the ending too, for other reasons, but I'm fickle that way!

I found it a diversion, but I read just about everything

I'd love to know your thoughts if you decide to proceed!


Reading A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews

Hello guys,
I read "Megator", funny and serious short stories.

This IS what I call "pleasure reading" !

I remember reading the Canterbury Tales in college and loved them! For some strange reason, I've been thinking about them again lately!! I need to read them again!

I'm now reading "Manhattan When I Was Young," by Mary Cantwell. It's set in the 1950's and 60's and she recounts her life in Manhattan leading up to her career as a magazine editor. I highly recommend it!

I read the canterbury tales in college too, but I can only barely remember them now!

I remember I liked some of the Russian novelists.