Suicide for Dummies by R U Kidding It's got me hooked! Sorry that's not funny is it. Guess I deserve a delete there.
Well right NOW I am reading this thread. Book wise i am reading "memoirs of a geisha" and "The Girl who loved Tom Gordon"
On to Joyland by Stephen King. There is a great line in there "When it comes to the past, Everybody writes fiction." - love that line
War and Peas by Toystory It's about these pea farmers in 19th century Russia who fight over green peas. "Peas on earth and goodwill to all men"
better late than never, I've just stumbled onto flannery oconnor. this woman is a bloody genius! best advertisement for Catholicism, I've seen. I'm still trying to understand her use of "grace" in her stories. Wow!
Just got one of the used book I ordered off of EBAY. American Scream - A book on the life of Bill Hicks
I had a bit of time for Bill Hicks @DeadMoon , couldn't subscribe to a lot of his opinions mind but he was a captivating and smart cookie. A line of his sticks with me; I like to reel it out given the chance: “Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.” The book I'm reading now may as well have come from a throw of a die. I was clearing the loft of my old house, a pile of some dusty inherited Readers Digest condensed books reminded me of their existence. A whim saw me close eyes and a pick a volume, another saw me thumb it open roughly in the middle and commit the read the story I'd chanced on. It's Sound of Wings by Spencer Dunmore. I'm hoping the author, wherever he is, senses the attention he's being paid now for his efforts of many a moon ago.
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace. I was given this as a Christmas present. It's not something I would have chosen for myself; its length and its footnotes and some of the language would have been too intimidating. That said, I'm really enjoying Infinite Jest. It's incredibly well written and it's the only book that has repeatedly made me laugh out loud. It is challenging, I've been making good use of my dictionary, but I think that makes it all the more rewarding.
E.L. Doctorow's Homer and Langley about recluses in the early 20th century. It's shaping up to be another depressing book. I've read a string of those.*sigh*
Devil in The White City by Erik Larson. It's non-fiction history, but Larson wrote it in a way that gets you hooked. He uses cliffhangers and mystery to pull you in the history of H H Holmes and Daniel Burnham during the World's Columbian Expo.
Abaddon's Gate, third book in the Expanse series. Pulpy, a bit corny, not too deep but some of the most fun reading I've found in years. It's very space-opera-epic, which isn't usually my jam, but I'm now three books into the series and I hardly ever follow series that far. So hopefully that's enough of a testimonial. Wish I had time to watch the TV adaptation, too. Saw the pilot, it looked promising.
Poor Economics by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo. Not overly quantitative or academic, it manages to be both informative and interesting.
"Political Philosophy - A short introduction" on and off in between "Company Commander" (which is really quite well written!) Any takers??
