What Book Did You Read Last Night??? (9 Viewers)

[Cornu Ammonis]

FINALLY I UNDERSTAND

The 50 Coolest Books Ever - Entertainment - ShortList Magazine


I've read seven and two separate halves off that list. Very uncool. I've read all the Harry Potters though

16 and a half.

50 Incredibly Tough Books for Extreme Readers – Flavorwire

eh... six.

7 and a half. The half in both cases was Gravity's Rainbow.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Reading a lot of weird fiction at the moment.

Last night was The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen. A doctor performs an operation on the brain of a girl, so she can see nature unbridled and the world as it actually is. She does, and it's too much for the mind to comprehend. That's the starting point anyway.
Huge influence on the writings of H. P. Lovecraft

I love that story. I read it on my honeymoon in Eurodisney.

So what would you say was the most difficult book that you did read all of? I'm trying to think...

I've read Finnegans Wake three times. Once in reverse (by chapter as opposed to page by page or word by word, I'm not mental).

Recent and current reading:

 

[Lili Marlene]

I've read Finnegans Wake three times. Once in reverse (by chapter as opposed to page by page or word by word, I'm not mental).

Details please. How do you find it, do you get much from it etc.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Details please. How do you find it, do you get much from it etc.

I read it the first time and found it very tough, didn't really know what was going on but enjoyed a lot of the puns. I read a few books after that including Ellman's biography of Joyce and Bishop's amazing Joyce's Book of the Dark and delved into it again. I got way more out of it, saw more of the links and "plots" running through it. I read it backwards the third time because another book recommended that. It didn't really add to the experience.

I would read it again.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Nazi Literature in The Americas. A cool writer according to that list. Sorry guys. This is great. A funny, easy, smart read. This guy is one of the greatest.

Just started The Origin of the Brunists. Someone mentioned him on here recently. I'd been meaning to read him for ages. Great opening chapter.

 

[washingcattle]

The Grapes Of Wrath.

The final image of this is going to be rattling around inside my head for a long time.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

^ ^ ^ One hell of a book.

Finished this recently, its either a thick pamphlet or a thin book but regardless, I rather enjoyed it even if it was a bit light on the WW2 period.

Have just started this and I have to say its extremely well written. There's no shortage of background information yet it still remains engaging and unputdownable. Highly recommended.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

^ ^ ^ One hell of a book.

Finished this recently, its either a thick pamphlet or a thin book but regardless, I rather enjoyed it even if it was a bit light on the WW2 period.

Some Irish lass shot him in the nose - is she in it?

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Just read that story, fascinating.

 

[Jill Hives]

Finally reaching the end of The Goldfinch and have enjoyed every sentence in it. Tartt is really good at describing feelings simply yet spot on. It's hard to do without it seeming labored.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Finally reaching the end of The Goldfinch and have enjoyed every sentence in it. Tartt is really good at describing feelings simply yet spot on. It's hard to do without it seeming labored.

Is there a paperback of this out?

 

[Jim Daniels]

Finally reaching the end of The Goldfinch and have enjoyed every sentence in it. Tartt is really good at describing feelings simply yet spot on. It's hard to do without it seeming labored.

Great! Its on my Christmas list.

@Bernie Lomax - I saw a paperback in town somewhere (Hodges Figgis or Chapters). Same size as the hardback but with a soft cover...

 

[hugh]

Have just started this and I have to say its extremely well written. There's no shortage of background information yet it still remains engaging and unputdownable. Highly recommended.

She's a bigwig in the Obama administration now. Can't remember what her job is. Ambassador to the UN or something ...

 

[GO]

I'm in the middle of re reading Wuthering Heights..havent read a book in a good few years.

LOVING IT

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

She's a bigwig in the Obama administration now. Can't remember what her job is. Ambassador to the UN or something ...

Yeah, that's her. Not bad for someone from Castleknock.
The book keeps delivering anyway, up to Saddams gas attacks on the Iranians and Kurds, chilling.

 

[Splunk]

I used to be such a prolific reader but now the internet has ruined all that.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Time for a "what thread did you read last night?" thread?

 

[Jim Daniels]

Going through a re-reading phase in recent weeks. Kind of knew, but still forgot just how much I liked these two easy reads.

Catherine O'Flynn - What Was Lost: Lovely mood to this one

Tom Rachman: The Imperfectionists:
Various characters working in the paper game. Chapter by chapter. Great stuff.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I'm reading St. Augustine's Confessions. It's taking me a while to get through it, I can only seem to manage it in small doses. Still, it's mostly enjoyable enough, his religious fervour is surprisingly appealing. I'm using it as a test run for City of God but at the pace I'm going that one's looking like a non-runner at this stage.

 

[Lili Marlene]

I'm reading St. Augustine's Confessions. It's taking me a while to get through it, I can only seem to manage it in small doses. Still, it's mostly enjoyable enough, his religious fervour is surprisingly appealing. I'm using it as a test run for City of God but at the pace I'm going that one's looking like a non-runner at this stage.

Sounds interesting.

I have a copy of Rousseau's confessions but haven't tried to tackle it yet
Confessions (Rousseau) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia