What are you currently reading?

[srboone]

Not to worry, I' reading things I should have read 30 years ago also. The fact that you finally got to it is what's important!

[theenormityofitall]

Not to worry, I' reading things I should have read 30 years ago also. The fact that you finally got to it is what's important!

Thank you sir!

[srboone]

Currently reading:

Don Quixoteby Cervantes (got the intro materials done!); The Century's Best Horror Fiction Vol.1 (First story read! Hoo-Dee-Hoo! It's a start!); These Old Tales by our very own ozmosis7 (Kenneth Cain).

[theenormityofitall]

I bought a bunch of Faulner, Steineck and JD Stalinger books from Library of America and they're next. It was hard getting through the Ayn Rand books I have...

[Tommy]

I bought a bunch of Faulner, Steineck and JD Stalinger books from Library of America and they're next. It was hard getting through the Ayn Rand books I have...

I love all of Salinger's works, what few there are, I've read most of Faulkner and his work is very disorienting at times (almost as if written by say a drunk person) but also quite beautiful and disarming, I love the whole stream-of consciousness movement, Of Steinbeck, I've read The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men, both are Masterpieces
Have not attempted Rand, If you haven't read any Nabokov,Capote,Joyce, Fitzgerald or even Cormac Mccarthy, I strongly recommend them as well

[theenormityofitall]

I love all of Salinger's works, what few there are, I've read most of Faulkner and his work is very disorienting at times (almost as if written by say a drunk person) but also quite beautiful and disarming, I love the whole stream-of consciousness movement, Of Steinbeck, I've read The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men, both are Masterpieces
Have not attempted Rand, If you haven't read any Nabokov,Capote,Joyce, Fitzgerald or even Cormac Mccarthy, I strongly recommend them as well

Thanks. I'll give them a try. I also have War and Peace which will take me forever to read since I strongly prefer non-fiction. It's more difficult for me to get into a horror novel than non-horror works. The Grapes of Wrath I have also but it has socialist leanings so I don't know if I'd care for it
I have tons of novels I need to read...Oh, I did read Capote's In Cold Blood:, an excellent "non-fiction novel":. Rand is very difficult to read; do you have any books you'd recommend? Any specific books?

[rusty23]

Currently reading Anansi Boys.

[Tommy]

Thanks. I'll give them a try. I also have War and Peace which will take me forever to read since I strongly prefer non-fiction. It's more difficult for me to get into a horror novel than non-horror works. The Grapes of Wrath I have also but it has socialist leanings so I don't know if I'd care for it
I have tons of novels I need to read...Oh, I did read Capote's In Cold Blood:, an excellent "non-fiction novel":. Rand is very difficult to read; do you have any books you'd recommend? Any specific books?

non-fiction Stephen King's Danse Macabre and On Writing are really good, War by Sebastian Junger, The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking, The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, I dont read very much nonfiction

Specifically, from Faulkner I would start with As I Lay Dying (most people find it the most accessible of his novels) After that Light in August and The Sound and the Fury are incredible though harder to follow
from Capote Breakfast at Tiffany's, his short stories, Grass Harp (pretty much everything, his few works are among the most eloquently written material this country has produced in my opinion) One of my all time favorite books is Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, not sure how many times I've read it but it's prose is absolutely absorbing, Joyce's Dubliners and A Potrait of the Young Man as An Artist are his easiest to understand, after those Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are some of the strangest reading experiences of my life, I tend to ramble so I will stop here before I list every friggin' book I've ever read

[Tommy]

Currently reading Anansi Boys.

I've read American Gods, how is AB compared to that?

[theenormityofitall]

non-fiction Stephen King's Danse Macabre and On Writing are really good, War by Sebastian Junger, The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking, The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, I dont read very much nonfiction

Specifically, from Faulkner I would start with As I Lay Dying (most people find it the most accessible of his novels) After that Light in August and The Sound and the Fury are incredible though harder to follow
from Capote Breakfast at Tiffany's, his short stories, Grass Harp (pretty much everything, his few works are among the most eloquently written material this country has produced in my opinion) One of my all time favorite books is Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, not sure how many times I've read it but it's prose is absolutely absorbing, Joyce's Dubliners and A Potrait of the Young Man as An Artist are his easiest to understand, after those Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are some of the strangest reading experiences of my life, I tend to ramble so I will stop here before I list every friggin' book I've ever read

LOL go ahead and ramble it's ok with me. I've never read Lolita but seen various film adaptations. It's the Russian authors and guys from the 19th centurey that are the hardest for me. They use so much Latin and French so I just skip over that and can still understand the stories like Dickens and Poe. I'll try some of those novels you listed. If I can read Rand then I should be able to read the ones you listed lol.
But it took me a couple months to finally understand Atlas Shrugged.

[Tommy]

And I was just about to suggest Dostoevsky too
Lolita is truly amazing, it was written in English first but he later translated it into Russian, I am a HUGE Kubrick fan but I only barely liked his version of it, does not do the book justice at all, haven't seen other versions but I am sure the book beats them to pieces as well

[srboone]

The Jeremy Irons/Adrian Lyne version is outstanding--terrific translation of the book to film. The thing about Kubrick's version is that he strips everything down to what he feels is it's bare essense--he did it with The Shining, he did it with Barry Lyndon, and Paths of Glory--and what he found at the core of Lolita was a comedy of errors. Nothing can take the place of Nabaokov's book, though.

[theenormityofitall]

Damn you guys know a lot about books. You sound like professors. No BS, you really do.

[theenormityofitall]

Did you guys read A Clockwork Orange? If so, what did you think of it?

[srboone]

The first time I read it, it had only 20 chapters in it and it ended where Kubrick ended his film--with Alex being returned to his former self. Then years later, I read it again and discovered the book actually had 21 chapter. 3 parts of 7 chapters each, like a trinity that was now complete--and I liked it much better; it seemed a complete cycle, almost a passion play with Alex as Everyman.