What Book Did You Read Last Night??? (5 Viewers)

[Jill Hives]

usually pick up another book with about a third left of the current book and alternate between the two.

I can't do that. If I did, I'd stop with the first.

 

[Lili Marlene]

I usually have a fiction, a non fiction and an audiobook of either on the go. My book pile keeps going up rather than down though.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I can't do that. If I did, I'd stop with the first.

it's not that hard. i have one book for the commute and one for home.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

One at a time for me too

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I tend to do the fiction/non-fiction dual reading option. Or novel/short story collection. I would normally read a chapter from each in bed before going nighty-night.

 

[Jill Hives]

Me too. I jot down titles from this thread and put them on a wish list and grab one every month. I never have any idea but if two of you like it, I figure chances are good that I'll enjoy it. I'm going to start Richard Ford's Canada tonight because it's been sitting there awhile and I have no idea what it's about.

Finished Canada last night. It was okay. I liked the story and all but it seemed a very matter-of-fact style of writing, which was a little off putting. Like reading a police blotter or a court transcript.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

@Jill Hives , I just bought the Goldfinch. Don't think i'll get to read it this side of Christmas though because I have a massive to read pile to get through.

 

[Jill Hives]

@Jill Hives , I just bought the Goldfinch. Don't think i'll get to read it this side of Christmas though because I have a massive to read pile to get through.

It took me just over 3 weeks. It's a big one but lovely.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

It took me just over 3 weeks. It's a big one but lovely.

fuck it i might just read it now and put the rest on hold.

 

[Jill Hives]

@Lili Marlene Children's fiction is not great literature | Jonathan Myerson | Comment is free | theguardian.com

 

[Lili Marlene]

@Lili Marlene Children's fiction is not great literature | Jonathan Myerson | Comment is free | theguardian.com

ha!
I don't think he wrote the headline, if I knew what I was talking about I'd say "it looks like a clickbaiting exercise by a sub".

I'd by and large agree with most of what he says in the article itself although he's being awfully kind to adult novels (wahey).

 

[washingcattle]

@Lili Marlene Children's fiction is not great literature | Jonathan Myerson | Comment is free | theguardian.com

He might have some points there, when I was an adolescent I read Animal Farm, 1984 and Lord Of The Flies, after that everything else seemed a little bit pointless.

Just finished Jack Karouac's Dharma Bums.

Now I don't know much about Buddhism, I know that, and I don't claim to. Jack Kerouac knows fuck all about Buddhism and wrote half a fucking novel about it. Which is fucking irritating because half of this is actually quite engrossing, lads drinking, having threesomes with hippy chicks and mountain climbing and long sections about hitchhicking which are great and even though I've never actually hitch hiked anywhere of note (except Blessington) it made me nostalgic for a time when that would be an acceptable possibility.

Unfortunately he just confuses everything by banging on about Buddhism - as far as I know the main dogma of which is the acceptance that you don't really know anything for certain. Okay well Jack, you could have accepted that and not banged on for 100 pages of a 300 page novel about trees existing only in the mind.

The problem is that Kerouac doesn't really understand his subject and so it's a frustrating and contradictory read.

Oh well, it's a pity because there's a good novel in here trying to get out. Perhaps that novel is On The Road part 2 though.

 

[Lili Marlene]

The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge - How many have you read?


waaaaa only got 47


although I didn't count the Norton Anthology.

 

[Richie]

Did Kerouac essentially write the same book 4 or 5 times? I struggled through Desolation Angels a few years back and it was pretty similar to that description of Dharma Bums (i.e. a fairly engaging travelogue story about bumming around the U.S. with his bohemian buddies, but only after a hundred pages or so of impenetrable spiritual meandering at the start where he's on his own in a hut on a mountainside somewhere).

 

[washingcattle]

Did Kerouac essentially write the same book 4 or 5 times? I struggled through Desolation Angels a few years back and it was pretty similar to that description of Dharma Bums (i.e. a fairly engaging travelogue story about bumming around the U.S. with his bohemian buddies, but only after a hundred pages or so of impenetrable spiritual meandering at the start where he's on his own in a hut on a mountainside somewhere).

Sounds exactly like Dharma Bums. I know to avoid that one too now. Ta.

 

[Lili Marlene]

The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge - How many have you read?


waaaaa only got 47


although I didn't count the Norton Anthology.

actually bumping that up to 53 cos i missed a bunch

feels a lot better to have gotten past 50. Still pretty weak though.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

37. who's rory gilmore and why is he making me feel ashamed?

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I’ve read two Kerouac – On the Road and Big Sur. Hated On the Road and enjoyed Big Sur.

 

[mark]

Nico, Songs The Never Play On the Radio by James Young. Funny, grim and tragic, but mainly funny.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Nico, Songs The Never Play On the Radio by James Young. Funny, grim and tragic, but mainly funny.

class book. when your man writes in Nico and her son's accents it's gas.