What BOOK are you reading right now?

Mr Johnson is considered half-way batty George. And that's just his friends.

Have you not tried that Veblen book yet?

What do you think of his work?

No I haven't. Not much interest either.

I think he's all the way batty. He wrote in the Spectator when I was a subscriber. He switched from very lefty to very righty for some reason I can't recall. Probably to justify his ingrained nepotism as his kids came of working age.

Being provocative was his gimmick. Plus the intensity of personal integrity



A lot of people get their reading priorities upside down.

Tastes and interests vary. You can't speak for everyone. (It is certainly evident that you don't here.)

I think Spendius puts much effort into announcing the voluminous cloud he has read.

Poor thing.

He's not a bad guy, and I often (not always) enjoy his posts. However, I prefer exchanging opinions and information to these headgames.

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armed with birthday money, my chapters reward card (10% off purchases) and a further $10 discount card, i bought and have started to read












and yes they are technically kids books, but who cares

certainly not me

Cool!

The Book of Ember sounded better than it was, The Girl Who, is very reminiscent of the Alice books (perhaps my favourite children's book of all time), i'm quite enjoying it

Currently reading 2 books:

(1) Atlas Shrugged -- mostly because Paul Ryan put it in the headlines

(2) Crisis Economics, by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm -- the best account of the financial crisis I've read so far

I'm getting near the end of The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre (David Campbell). Such a writer. This is probably the eighth book of his I've read. I looked at the list - perhaps I just read a bunch of reviews of one of them. Very dense thickets he portrays, and as usual I don't want the book to be over.

I can read most hefty sized police procedurals or somewhat related novels in a day or two, but Le Carre is more of a weave.

I need to go back to the Medici book, mentioned earlier, that I'm something like 2/3 the way through, but I've read it before (I just forget, the Medici lived in thick times and I'm not a memorizer). I more or less know what happens since I've read this one and a variety of books that talk about them, so the book is sort of a soporific for me. That's not a bad thing; it's actually a good type of book for me when taking to my bed, and I still am interested in it....
just not like a Le Carre book.

Le Carre is, to me, a master of essential description that doesn't feel like description.

Yes, I never really thought about it, but I suppose he is. I'd phrase that as: he's descriptive without boring me.

I read The Looking Glass War and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold as a teenager. I actually put off watching Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy at theaters so that it wouldn't ruin the book for me.

I've got about five more pages but my dog wants her dinner immediately..

ON A FARTHER SHORE W Souder's biography of RAchel Carson. Im about halfwaty through. He was nominated for a Pullitzer for his biog about Audubon entitled Under a Wild Sky Souder doesnt dwell on those huge events in the lives of his subjects but more in the consequencs these events had(good and bad)

three quarters of the way through Shalom Auslander's 'Hope: a tragedy' - an xmas present. Waiting to see how it winds up before casting judgement. Have wanted to slap protagonist several times so far.

http://www.librarything.com/work/11636279

I decided it was finally time to read The Financier by Theodore Dreiser. So far about 1/3 through and it's holding my attention.

I gave up reading that 10 to 15 pages into reading it.

I saw the movie Cloud Atlas a couple of weeks ago and decided I had to read the book. It is amazing. Author David Mitchell presents six different places in different times. The characters are re-incarnations of each other (my son compared it to Kim Stanley Robertson's Years of Rice and Salt but Mitchell is a better writer than Robertson). Questions the movie raised are being answered by the book.

I'm reading a book I am hating by an author I like.

It has been a major plow to keep reading. Le Carre's Little Drummer Girl. A major work of contrivance over contrivance and then more contrivance..
however much his take represents the real life of people who do this stuff.

Of course he may be right.
I'm not done yet, but talk about a downer.