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BOOKS: What are you reading?

zoltanspawn said:
No, I'm just curious about it. I read a bit of South Asian lit, and not much gay lit. The cross-over though captures my attention. I just don't want to spend my precious reading time on something mediocre if its only merit is its uniqueness. I want to know how good it is. ;)
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Saraswati Park was OK. This was her first book, so I took that into consideration. It took a while for the novel to find its focus - the first part was a bit meandering. There were moments later in the gay story that I thought were quite genuine, but for a novel of this modest length she was already working with a limited canvas and really couldn't afford to waste any words. There were missed opportunities, I thought. So, I admire her for this early effort, but not a book that I'd re-read right away.
 
Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem (2006).

Aliens and human traitors aim to destroy human life on Earth, but there's remarkably shallow reflection on the merits of that aim. I found that lack made the novel interesting, but not profound.

Winner of the 2014 Hugo Award.

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zoltanspawn said:
Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem (2006).

Aliens and human traitors aim to destroy human life on Earth, but there's remarkably shallow reflection on the merits of that aim. I found that lack made the novel interesting, but not profound.

Winner of the 2014 Hugo Award.

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Yeah, it's not the best... Human motivation doesn't seem too likely now, but the person who bought the book for me argued that pan-species communism is actually somewhat relevant in some cultures.

I'm going through a Dickens phase again, so I'm on Nicholas Nickleby. I'll probably be back on Bleak House (the one I actually want to read) in a month or so. Can't you tell I'm thrilled? :/
 
An impossibly affable man from the sticks journeys to Delhi to work as a driver for his rich master, and becomes rich himself. But becoming rich in India necessitates corruption and worse. The tone of the narration is so breezy and charming you may almost miss the grim subject matter. Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2008.

Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger (2008).

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Professor of logic Timothy Williamson's Tetralogue: I'm Right You're Wrong is an accessible conversation between four people: a superstitious man, a scientist, a relativist and a logician.
 
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms - overview of a few Middle Eastern minor religions that are in jeopardy of dying off (Mandeans, Yezidis, etc.) - I like the history and travel aspects, but some entries do get a bit bogged down.
 
Since The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage arrives on October 19th, I'm halfway through The Golden Compass (Northern Lights for you Brits) right now. :luv: A favorite.

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Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett

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I've been reading some possibly semi-fictional biographies by Darwin Porter: James Dean, Paul Newman, and Steve McQueen. While I do believe that there is a lot of truth in these biographies, I also think that parts of them have not been verified, although they may still be true. If they are true, then it appears that Hollywood in the early/mid 1950s was very gay, or at least bisexual. I think it is fairly well documented that James Dean had a lot of gay affairs, but I did not realize that he had had that many, including one with Paul Newman. I knew Paul Newman was bisexual because I've known people who have seen him at gay parties. According to his bio by Darwin Porter, he had crushes on Robert Wagner (who was also bisexual), Robert Redford, and Tom Cruise, although these three were never consummated, unlike his relationships with Steve McQueen, James Dean, and Marlon Brando.

Normally I do not read that much fiction, but Darwin Porter has also written a novel, Hollywood's Silent Closet, about gay affairs of silent film stars. I started reading this also, but the author has a bit of trouble keeping his stories straight - or at least the chronologies and ages of the characters.

More often I read books on anthropology, but I recently started rereading a Kierkegaard anthology.

Someone else said that it appears people here do not read books that much, and I had been looking for this thread without success until today.

I'm very curious as to what others think about Darwin Porter.
 
LarsVenice said:
I've been reading some possibly semi-fictional biographies by Darwin Porter: James Dean, Paul Newman, and Steve McQueen. While I do believe that there is a lot of truth in these biographies, I also think that parts of them have not been verified, although they may still be true. If they are true, then it appears that Hollywood in the early/mid 1950s was very gay, or at least bisexual. I think it is fairly well documented that James Dean had a lot of gay affairs, but I did not realize that he had had that many, including one with Paul Newman. I knew Paul Newman was bisexual because I've known people who have seen him at gay parties. According to his bio by Darwin Porter, he had crushes on Robert Wagner (who was also bisexual), Robert Redford, and Tom Cruise, although these three were never consummated, unlike his relationships with Steve McQueen, James Dean, and Marlon Brando.

Normally I do not read that much fiction, but Darwin Porter has also written a novel, Hollywood's Silent Closet, about gay affairs of silent film stars. I started reading this also, but the author has a bit of trouble keeping his stories straight - or at least the chronologies and ages of the characters.

More often I read books on anthropology, but I recently started rereading a Kierkegaard anthology.

Someone else said that it appears people here do not read books that much, and I had been looking for this thread without success until today.

I'm very curious as to what others think about Darwin Porter.
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I have read the Darwin Porter books on Elizabeth Taylor and Jackie Kennedy Onassis. I enjoyed them but its hard to tell what is true and what isn't. What is the James Dean one like?
 
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