Haven't read Veblen. Do like Menand. Haven't read De Lillo.
Will.
Re De Lillo: I recommend starting with "Libra"--his take on the Kennedy assassination. It's a fascinating book, and it reminded me of just how weird that story is--even what we generally accept to be true, e.g., the identities of Oswald and Ruby. A novelist couldn't make up people like these!
Good. Something to look forward to. Ever since I was a child, I've HATED to finish a good book, always thinking, NOW WHAT?! Nice to have a trail of goodies beckoning, no duds visible!
I'm finally digging into Fats Food Nation.
Finished Last of the Mohicans started War and Peace. I'll get back to you D'artagnan later - want to resee movie this weekend first. The book is much better (of course) - but, the movie is also good - love the music and poignancy. Glad I saw the movie first, otherwise I'm sure I would have been disappointed!
Finished Last of the Mohicans started War and Peace. I'll get back to you D'artagnan later - want to resee movie this weekend first. The book is much better (of course) - but, the movie is also good - love the music and poignancy. Glad I saw the movie first, otherwise I'm sure I would have been disappointed!
Cool, Bill. I'll look forward to it...
I just started--and couldn't put down--"Motherless Brooklyn" by Jonathon Lethem. His hero is an orphan and has Tourette's Syndrome, and the book's a lot of fun. Poignant at times, too...
WODEHOUSE' S BLANDINGS CASTLE FOUND : (from associated press) geographers from the university collge london using computer modelling have pinpointed the location of lord emsworth's castle(and that of his prize-winning pig, EMPRESS OF BLANDINGS) to be APLEY HALL, near telford, shropshire. apley hall is located just a few kilometers from wodehouse's childhood home. all lovers of wodehouse(ebeth and myself included) will rejoice ! hbg
Osso -- The De Lillo is not holding up quite as well as I thought it might (though I still have a ways to go). A continent wide and an inch deep, maybe.
Looks like it's time to read some Wodehouse again! Not that there is a room without a Wodehouse in it right now - well, maybe not the kitchen.
That's a wonderful avatar, EhBeth. Jealous!
We started Can You Forgive Her by Trollope. This is the first of 6 Pallisers novels. They take place in London and politics is the back drop. As the novel opens, Alice, the protagonist is in a personal struggle over her upcoming marriage.
We had intended to read the last of the Barchester series, but the book was NA at the library.
Can You Forgive Her has between 800 and 900 pages. It'll take a while.
I am happily involved, to the ruination of my getting things done, in a new to me police procedural set in Ireland, A Carra King, by John Brady. Nice and dry, full of language play, lots of history not lectured to you.
Hambergerr, love that Woodhouse.
hey, billw! I just started Last of the Mohicans---glad to hear you liked it!
I also like wodehouse....have you ever read the book Lucky Jim (don't remember the author...not wodehouse, anyways...)? It's a funny book and, I think, on the line of Wodehouse's, though not as good, IMO.
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
Stopped reading
War and Peace and when to
We Were Soldiers Once - And Young, Moore and Galloway.
Hope you were as entranced by
Last of the Mohicans as I was
BillW, somewhere back in this thread, you said you liked short stories. I share this like with you. Who are your favorite authors? That is beyond Conan Doyle.
Conan Doyle is only a recent additions. I have always loved Ray Bradbury and Stephen King. Last year I read an O'Henry collection - it was absolutely wonderful. I often times will get a collection of short stories to read - they are usually textbooks that back in High School I would turn my nose up at. God is a mischievous character creating the ironies of life
I plowed through "Motherless Brooklyn" this past weekend. I don't read many "page turners" but this was one. I recommend it highly--a detective story (sort of) with a hero who has Tourette's syndrome. And some of it takes place at a zen center. Need I say more?
My boss at work has a bad case of tourettes and I too often am the victim -
