What BOOK are you reading right now?

There's more than one Portuguese version?


I have nothing of any value to suggest for anyone!

I am reading The Passage by Justin Cronin...a sort of horror/sf dystopia thing, and enjoying it!!



A couple of Kindles I like are Wolf Hall and Fortress of Solitude and The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Mind you, I hate recommending anything for you...so I'd do samples if you follow up on this.

i've been curious about this, might give it a shot

I really miss being able to read.

Re-reading a bit of the thread.

Not surprised about finding similar literature tastes with Dys.

There are few Russian novels I can digest. I always get wary about the character names.

I confess I've never read Solzhenitzhin... for ideological reasons. Pasternak and Bulgakov yes, they were dissidents. Solzhenitzhin no, he was a reactionary, in favor of a return of the tzars.
Same reason why I have not read Saramago (though the Portuguese was in the opposite political side).

Is there a writer you never read because of some phobia?

A belated thanks for that, Garg, I'll put it on my wish list. Do you have a particular edition you like? (varied translations..)
Not to make you look that up -

Richard Paveer and Larissa Volokhonsky
or Robert Maguire
or Robert Maguire and Christopher English

I loved Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas when I read it, but that was a long time ago. Will be interested in your take on it.

I sympathize..

I'm sure there is, will think about it.

Actually, Paul Coehlo, because of some horrendo review(s), not personal knowledge.

STILL reading Migraine, by Oliver Sacks (sigh). And STILL reading The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science, by Richard Holmes (it's as long as it's name indicates). And, also, reading Only You Can Save Mankind, by Terry Pratchett.

Still reading Steven Carter's The Emperor of Ocean Park, still interested, moderately, but am only 1/4 the way through it. I stopped to read Faulk's Engleby (recommend with caution) and now am getting into Slum Dog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup (no comment yet).

Just finished The Bad Mother's Handbook which was a good read without being life changing. A sort of modern three-generations-of-women tale.

Just started The Once and Future King, which I am loving. Can't think how i've missed it all these years.

The sword in the stone is a delight, isn't it?

There's more by TH White around, but that's the masterpiece.

I think Mistress Masham's Repose is the best next to TSITS.

http://www.amazon.com/Mistress-Mashams-Repose-T-White/dp/1590171039/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_4



Here's an old thread on it:

http://able2know.org/topic/2848-1

I didn't have a clue re Solzhenitzhin when I read him, I was just imbibing. Caught on later. I'll leave it at that, as an early reader.

Dropping out almost exactly from the middle of Niven's N-Space. Not because I don't like it, but because a lot of it consists of book excerpts, each of which introduces a whole new world for me. I find myself spending way too much time pondering, book by my side, how the world works in detail. I decided my mind is too simple to discover Niven like that. I need to do it in small, managable chunks: one universe at a time. In other words, I've written down the books that the excerpts are from and put them on my to-read list.

Now beginning with Tuggler of Worlds.

Thank you, Deb!

Just finished TSITS and the moment I finish the other four books I will hit the library.

If you're choosing between these two particular translations, I'd go with Paveer and Volokhonsky. I had a good experience with their translations of Gogol's short stories.

I read David Magarshack's translation of Dead Souls, which is what Penguin published in their paperback classics series. It includes the unfinished sequel and a decent bio explaining what it's so painfully disjointed from Part I. But if the abovementioned includes the unfinished parts, I'd go for it. Those two are new and seemingly admired translators of his work.

You think that's desolate and depressing, wait til you read Blood Meridian. McCarthy is a talent and like a terrier he'll pick you up, shake you and won't let go.

3 books about musicians for the summer list



Collaborator tries to write Stanley's Clinch Mtn twang out and it gets old real quick.
Interesting stories of the heyday of Bluegrass music although Ralph is not very kind to the young lions, like me, that came up behind him.

A lot of new sources make this a good biography. Especially interesting is Armstrong's quarrel with Eisenhower over the Little Rock integration issue.

Well written and incredibly sad.