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BOOKS: What are you reading?

zoltanspawn said:
Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan (1967), the first book in his Gormenghast trilogy is written in beautiful, literary prose. But as a fantasy of eccentric ritual, exaggerated caste and peculiar ornaments, it felt a little like a book for the dedicated Anglophile. I don't think I'm moving on to the next books.

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It reminded me more of Under Milk Wood than anything else. The second book isn't merely as interesting as the first.
 
Finally got the itch to want to read again, I’ve been wanting to but didn’t want to force myself to read something and not enjoy it. I’ve had this book for years.

Battle Royals - Houshun Takami
 
zoltanspawn said:
You've seen the movie, no? It's excellent. I understand he produced a comic, too.

I was pretty nonplussed by Suzanne Collins' re-mix.
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Yeah, I have a special edition blu-ray of both the first and second movie. Not as much of a fan to the second movie, but it's still entertaining. Not really into Hunger games, saw 2 of the movies I think? Don't have the intention to read the books at all, though.
 
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Palace of Illusions (2008) is a great way for the unknowledgeable to learn a little about the epic Mahabharata (the extensive work of which the Bhagavad Gita is a part) this time re-told from the heroine's point of view.

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I’m reading Fran Drescher’s biography enter whining. It’s a scream! So funny but also quite devastating
 
zoltanspawn said:
I imagine it's tough going. Have you read the Tractatus?
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Nope, but just from having listened to (totally legally downloaded) lectures that covered Wittgenstein in my free time I do have a very surface level familiarity with the content. It's probably not ideal to start with Philosophical Investigations, but I remember one of my professors recommending it to me at university many years ago and when I saw it on my boyfriend's book shelf it seemed like the perfect opportunity to start reading it.

Generally, I don't like to read more than one book at a time, but that rule stands because I pretty much exclusively stick to fiction and I don't like jumping between stories. I've been going through a bunch of Hemingway in recent months so will likely break up Philosophical Investigations with A farewell to Arms if I don't feel like using my brain as much. I wouldn't want it to start feeling like a chore.

I also actually bought both Blindness and Invisible Man as they sounded interesting from what you said about them in this thread. No fucking clue when I'm going to get around to reading them but I'm sure it'll happen eventually. :lol:
 
PipeDream said:
Nope, but just from having listened to (totally legally downloaded) lectures that covered Wittgenstein in my free time I do have a very surface level familiarity with the content. It's probably not ideal to start with Philosophical Investigations, but I remember one of my professors recommending it to me at university many years ago and when I saw it on my boyfriend's book shelf it seemed like the perfect opportunity to start reading it.

Generally, I don't like to read more than one book at a time, but that rule stands because I pretty much exclusively stick to fiction and I don't like jumping between stories. I've been going through a bunch of Hemingway in recent months so will likely break up Philosophical Investigations with A farewell to Arms if I don't feel like using my brain as much. I wouldn't want it to start feeling like a chore.

I also actually bought both Blindness and Invisible Man as they sounded interesting from what you said about them in this thread. No fucking clue when I'm going to get around to reading them but I'm sure it'll happen eventually. :lol:
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That's the way I read philosophy books, too. Although mostly secondary sources, they're bedside books for me to read a little at a time. With the legendary PI and TLP, I would definitely have some secondary material to help me along. But my goals are usually modest with such big stuff, just to develop a sense of the arguments at hand.

How nice to hear you bought Blindness. :) Some people seem to read it very slowly, almost afflicted by its pains, while others devour it.
 
THE NEW LOVECRAFT CIRCLE
and MYTHS OF ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA (which has changed the way I look at religion, period)
 
Other Minds/The Octopus, The Sea, and The Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith (2016)

(This is my 2nd book octopus book; the first, The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery got me interested in this highly intelligent cephalopod.)

I enjoy reading about topics that I know nothing about! :)
 
Making Money by Terry Pratchett

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Fire and Fury: Inside The Trump White House By Michael Wolff
Taltos: Lives Of The Mayfair Witches By Anne Rice
 
George Saunder's Lincoln in the Bardo (2017) is a tender reflection on mortality, an adventure of imagination and a historical reverie. All three things, at least. In it, Abraham Lincoln's son Willie dies of typhoid and lingers with a host in the afterlife.

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Just finished: Classified as Murder, by Miranda James. OK, everybody knows Dean James really writes this series of cozy Southern mysteries featuring librarian Charlie Harris and his Maine coon cat Diesel. Yes, it's the kind of book I'd give my mom when I finished. But it's high in gay content (two primary characters are gay though not Charlie) and it's very good of its kind. My librarian at the Sharon Hill library loves the series.

Reading now: The Inexplicable Logic of My Life, by Benjamin Alire Saenz. It's a young adult book and even though I'm almost retired I read from that section in the library a lot. This one is about Salvatore, an El Paso teenager whose adoptive father is gay. They get along fine. His best friend, Sam, is a bright, beautiful girl who falls for bad boys too often. And Sal has a gay friend, Fito, who is coping well with a dysfunctional family situation. Can you tell I love these characters already?
 
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