What Book Did You Read Last Night??? (7 Viewers)

[jonah]

This is my tentative reading list for the year:

 

[Lili Marlene]

I want to read all of them now. Looks like a good list.

 

[jonah]

They're pretty much all middle eastern and asian women... I noticed about half way through and continued the motif.

Started with the namesake anyway, and so far its brilliant.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

my reading agenda:

Finish - Fathers and Crows by William T. Vollmann
Finish - Collected Novellas: Collected Early Fiction 1949-1964 by Arno Schmidt

Read - Iran: Empire of the Mind by Michael Axworthy
Read - Revolutionart Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy
Read - In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass

That'll probably take me til about august at my current rate.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Oh, I also have Gaza by Jean-Pierre Filiu in my to-read pile. I think I'll just forget about anything else I have still unread.

 

[Jim Daniels]

Considering trying Thomas Pynchon for the first time. Plenty of haters out there though. Should I steer clear?

Kind of want to try this...

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

That's a relatively short one, isn't it? I was thinking of starting there too.

 

[nooleen]

why are there haters? i don't know anything about him

except what i've just learned through google: his middle name is ruggles and he looks like this

edit: 'A speculative rendering of the novelist today'

 

[nooleen]

https://www.martineve.com/2010/10/09/where-to-start-with-thomas-pynchon/

 

[Jim Daniels]

Not haters as such, more referring to him as incomprehensible

Yeah, Crying of Lot G is quite slim and is on the "short but perfectly formed" table in Hodges Figgis

Edit: Lol - I mean the Crying of Lot 49

 

[Jim Daniels]

https://www.martineve.com/2010/10/09/where-to-start-with-thomas-pynchon/

"Gravity’s Rainbow, for instance, has over 400 characters..."

Jesus!

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

That's what i was calling it in my mind too

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I got halfway through Gravity's Rainbow. It was overwhelming. I keep meaning to go back.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Any more than about 5 characters and I'm usually lost. Except in fantasy I guess, people tend to have defining powers there. Someone like A.S. Byatt though, where there's about 4 different clerks and their entire familes and servants*... forget it



* based entirely on the one novel I tried to read

 

[nooleen]

sweet valley high had quite a lot of characters

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I recently gave up on Flow My Tears The Policeman Said. Boring

 

[David Kronenbourg]

[QUOTE="Shaney, post: 1597610, member:
Read - In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass

That'll probably take me til about august at my current rate.[/QUOTE]
Do you mean JM Coetzee?

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories by William H. Gass — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists[/url]

I presume that's what you're asking about. I read a book of four of his novellas last year which was a mixed bag, but I'm intrigued. The seems to be a very dark streak in his writing

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I can't tidy that fucking quote

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories by William H. Gass — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists

I presume that's what you're asking about. I read a book of four of his novellas last year which was a mixed bag, but I'm intrigued. The seems to be a very dark streak in his writing

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Ah ok. I have a book by JM Coetzee on my shelf called the same.

I've always been a bit intimidated by William Gass