What Book Did You Read Last Night??? (8 Viewers)

[jonah]

Just started this, delightful so far.

Was also thinking of trying some John Green, anyone read this?

I think young adult is all I can manage with my workload. 10,000 words over Christmas *wimper*

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Reeealllyyy need to register for a library.

When does the Rathmines one open again?

it'll be a while yet,i remember some uproar in one of the local free papers about it....second hand bookstore across the road is decent and then there's one next door to that old cinema too.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

oh and im still reading this

interesting book,seems the dark ages weren't quite as dark as we are led to believe.

 

[Jim Daniels]

I have to get back into reading for pleasure. Its so bleak.

I'm hoping to get some pleasure out of this....but it might be tough work too...

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[David Kronenbourg]

beautifully written southern gothic tale

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I read Adrian Mole & The Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend over the weekend. Very enjoyable. I havent read an Adrian Mole for years and I think theres at least one earlier one that I missed. This time his son is fighting in iraq, he has a totally shite girlfriend, gets into major debt trouble, works in a bookshop and stuff.

I'm rereading a book by A.C. Grayling about Wittgenstein at the moment as preparation for reading the Philosophical Investigations next. Hopefully that will be out of the way by christmas. I think I will treat myself to a long novel for the holidays. Im thinking of 2666 by Bolano or else Central Europe by William Vollmann which someone here (Bernie Lomax i think) said was good. Any suggestions? Is the Savage Detectives a road book? I don't know if I'd be into that.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Actually, after a little googling I'm gone off the idea of Bolano now

 

[IFF]

a big plus about 2666 is when i was in chapters, they were selling it for 4.99 which works out at 1.89 pages per 1 cent.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

i saw it there for that price yesterday, thats what gave me the idea to read it.

 

[rettucs]

I'm about halfway through 2666 and I love it. I loved the Savage Detectives too. Of the 2, seeing as you said 'road book', it'd be 2666 I'd recommend (based on what I've read of it thus far). Its an easier read, easier to follow, and is consistently interesting (which is some feat for a book that chunky). I've been lost approximately once in it (towards the end of section 2, but it came together (ish) again eventually).

With The Savage Detectives, on the other hand, you're always battling against the narrative style. You'll be halfway through a passage before you get your head around who exactly it is that wrote that part. Its an excellent book and is well worth reading but requires that bit more effort to get through.

And I wouldn't be minding that wikipedia stuff. Sure loads of people pretended they've fought in wars and took heroin when they didn't. It'll come out in wikileaks eventually

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

thanks for that, i'm still gonna skip him for the time being.

 

[rettucs]

have you tried Mario Varga Llosa?

I've read the Feast of the Goat and have been curious to try more since he won that Nobel prize

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

no, never read any of his

 

[rettucs]

I'd recommend that book for sure. If you read Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (if not, definitely read it) and liked it you'd be interested in the subject matter.

It is a translation however, and though I've lightened up about translations (due to him and Bolano), something still doesn't sit right with me about reading someone else's interpretation of the author's words.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

yeah, thats partly why I don't want to read Bolano - that and the boho shit. i have read and enjoyed many translations though. The Time Of Light by Gunnar Kopperud was amazing.

 

[Jim Daniels]

Haruki Murakami works pretty well in translation. Banana Yoshimoto too.

 

[St. Fechin]

One of the best books I've read recently is:

This edition includes the 'Dictionary of Received Ideas'.
It was probably the 'Stuff White People Like' of its day.

 

[hugh]

Just started this, delightful so far.

I've read two of his at this stage - Kraken and The City and The City. I felt exactly the same about both. Great ideas, fascinating for the first 100 pages or so, and then it's like he doesn't really know where to go with the story. They fizzle out.

 

[St. Fechin]

I'm about a third of the way through this and it's fuckin' great.
If it carries on like this it'll end up being one of my favourite novels EVAR. I should have read it years ago.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

at the moment i'm reading

and

oh yeah