What are you reading right now?

ProggyMan · 02-04-2010, 11:46 PM

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Originally Posted by adidasss

Yeah, I usually read all of my books in English but I read Dostojevski in Croatian as I figure it's much closer to Russian so there's a much better chance to keep the original feeling and style.

Yeh, it's strange to read it in English because it's so stiff feeling. I suppose that's just the way Russian is as a language. A good read anyway.

~~Sansa Stark~~ · 02-05-2010, 12:27 AM

Just reread this gem. It's a fantastic book

Currently reading this:

Fruitonica · 02-05-2010, 08:23 PM

So I was really enjoying 2666 for the first three sections, but when he finally engaged with the focal point of the monster book, The Part About the Crimes, it just became very difficult. Three hundred pages with a few evolving plot lines scratching out their place, but for the most part it's a list of one murdered nameless woman (or girl) after another. Not so much harrowing, just monotone. The sheer repetition of the phrase 'anally and vaginally raped' is actually kind of macabrely funny.

I'm going to finish it but I needed a small break so I started another book, which isn't normally my style.

Now, as a picture of a derelict aboriginal community this is harrowing. But also very compelling because of the very human characters at the centre of it.

adidasss · 02-05-2010, 08:31 PM

Have you read anything else by Bolaño? He seems to be all the rage now.

Fruitonica · 02-05-2010, 08:47 PM

The Savage Detectives was the best book I read last year, so I definitely came into 2666 with high expectations. They're very similar books in some ways, sprawling and disconnected more weaving different threads around a point than a traditional narrative. As well as a fascination with the freaks and malcontents of Mexico.

But The Savage Detectives has a softer melancholy feel, and a stronger centre point following the tragi-comic lives of the protagonists as well as poetry in general. Whereas 2666 feels much darker and unforgiving, the centre point is the tangled bodies of two hundred dead women. But hey, I haven't finished it yet and I think once I get to the end of this chapter it will become gripping again.

&Steph. · 02-05-2010, 10:51 PM

Picture Perfect by Jodi Picoult.
It's made me cry 5 times, probably more.
so far.

FETCHER. · 02-06-2010, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by sidewinder

^ Well luckily the book has a handy glossary in the back. After having read the glossary once, it's already a bit easier to read.

And it's not that I'm harsh on myself for not knowing the slang...it's just hard to read when you don't know what they're saying, like trying to read a different language.

Haha really? That takes the fun out of it

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LoathsomePete · 02-06-2010, 11:55 AM

Even if half the shit in this book turns out to be fabricated or completely false we have the potential to be so far up shit creek it's scary.

DoctorSoft · 02-07-2010, 10:35 PM

For myself: Almost done Crime and Punishment, and after that I'm gonna read Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut.

For school:

Freak the Mighty

And I'm in grade 9.

ProggyMan · 02-07-2010, 10:52 PM

Lol, I'm a freshman too and I'm reading No Country For Old Men now and The Stranger next.

02-05-2010, 08:31 PM	#2284 (permalink)
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~~Sansa Stark~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Eyrie, Vale of Arryn, Westeros Posts: 3,234	Just reread this gem. It's a fantastic book Currently reading this:

02-05-2010, 08:23 PM	#2283 (permalink)
Fruitonica Pale and Wan Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Aus Posts: 917	So I was really enjoying 2666 for the first three sections, but when he finally engaged with the focal point of the monster book, The Part About the Crimes, it just became very difficult. Three hundred pages with a few evolving plot lines scratching out their place, but for the most part it's a list of one murdered nameless woman (or girl) after another. Not so much harrowing, just monotone. The sheer repetition of the phrase 'anally and vaginally raped' is actually kind of macabrely funny. I'm going to finish it but I needed a small break so I started another book, which isn't normally my style. Now, as a picture of a derelict aboriginal community this is harrowing. But also very compelling because of the very human characters at the centre of it.

02-05-2010, 08:47 PM	#2285 (permalink)
Fruitonica Pale and Wan Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Aus Posts: 917	The Savage Detectives was the best book I read last year, so I definitely came into 2666 with high expectations. They're very similar books in some ways, sprawling and disconnected more weaving different threads around a point than a traditional narrative. As well as a fascination with the freaks and malcontents of Mexico. But The Savage Detectives has a softer melancholy feel, and a stronger centre point following the tragi-comic lives of the protagonists as well as poetry in general. Whereas 2666 feels much darker and unforgiving, the centre point is the tangled bodies of two hundred dead women. But hey, I haven't finished it yet and I think once I get to the end of this chapter it will become gripping again.

02-05-2010, 10:51 PM	#2286 (permalink)
&Steph. Groupie Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 24	Picture Perfect by Jodi Picoult. It's made me cry 5 times, probably more. so far.

02-07-2010, 10:35 PM	#2289 (permalink)
DoctorSoft Rocket Appliances Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,335	For myself: Almost done Crime and Punishment, and after that I'm gonna read Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. For school: Freak the Mighty And I'm in grade 9.

02-07-2010, 10:52 PM	#2290 (permalink)
ProggyMan Reformed Jackass Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 3,964	Lol, I'm a freshman too and I'm reading No Country For Old Men now and The Stranger next.