What's Everyone Reading At The Moment?

[goinghome]

Proust is easy. Long, beautiful, mellifluous sentences in a voice that gradually becomes as welcome and comforting as an old friend. I was intimidated by its reputation but found it marvelously welcoming. When I started the novel seemed long, but now I wish he'd written 30 volumes. The Modern Library translation is a good one, semi-endorsed by Nabokov (the best one can hope for from such a fastidious reader). I recommend jumping in with both feet.

Thanks, Worm. I'll wade in soon, once I cross the choppy ocean that is The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie!

We've seen this a few times, I'm sure, but in certain cases, like an old friend, there's joy in repetition:

 

[JoanOfArc]

and, the supreme queen of short stories, Flannery O'Connor.

hm..never heard of her.Will have to check it out.

 

[Oh my god. it's Robby!]

 

[JoanOfArc]

Feliks Dzierżynski-"Listy do siostry Aldony"

 

[KenzieW]

Silent in the grave

 

[Branwell]

The Naked Civil Servant

 

[5am]

A stranger in a strange land by Heinlein. It's my silly homage to Brandon Flowers

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Charles Bukowski - Women.

Love it. Love him.

 

[CrystalGeezer]

Charles Bukowski - Women.

Love it. Love him.

I've only read Ham on Rye. Loved it.

 

[Gregor Samsa]

I've only read Ham on Rye. Loved it.

Haven't gotten around to that one yet. Though it sits nicely in my book shelf.

 

[CrystalGeezer]

Haven't gotten around to that one yet. Though it sits nicely in my book shelf.

Actually now that I think of it, I went through a Bukowski stage that started with Ram on Rye. I think I read a few others as well.

 

[Worm]

 

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

Worm, I don't know if you pasted incorrectly or what, but your image is a massive blank and that's terrifying.

 

[Oh my god. it's Robby!]

Worm, I don't know if you pasted incorrectly or what, but your image is a massive blank and that's terrifying.

thats what I see as well

 

[M-in-Oz]

I'm reading 'The More You Ignore Me' by Jo Brand, 'Lucky Kunst' a look back at the impact of the Young British Artists of the 1990's by Gregor Muir.

 

[not_me_not_I]

Bukowski rocks.

Just read Oliver Twist. Too happy/sappy for me. Then again, the ending of Wuthering Heights was too happy for me.
I'm working on The Dome (King) right now. It's relatively predictable but a page turner nonetheless, 850 pages in 48 hours and I can't seem to put it down. Not a work of literature by any means, but entertaining enough to pass the time.

 

[Oh my god. it's Robby!]

its better than I thought


ps: I am pretty sure I posted on here about meet Bukowski before he died. Basically it was awesome, I must find the time to search for it in the archives, but not today.

 

[Librarian On Fire]

"The Discreet Pleasures of Rejection", by Martin Page. Little novella. Rather good and a great title.

 

[billybu69]

Kieth Richards autobiography "life" , never a huge rolling Stones fan, but can you imagine the story this is?

 

[DAVIE]

Paul O'Grady: The Devil Rides Out....dead good book, I'm having plenty of laughs over it atm!