What are you reading right now?

ProggyMan · 05-14-2010, 11:24 PM

In my arms she was always...

LoathsomePete · 05-15-2010, 11:27 PM

Steampunk setting with zombies that has the approval stamp of Warren Ellis... yeah OK I think I can give that a shot.

savannah · 05-17-2010, 12:47 AM

on my nightstand:

a moveable feast - hemingway
district and circle - seamus heaney

dirtyprojector · 05-17-2010, 02:34 AM

albert camus 'the stranger'
and choke by palanchuck

Seltzer · 05-17-2010, 03:00 AM

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Originally Posted by dirtyprojector

albert camus 'the stranger'
and choke by palanchuck

Palanchuck? That's a bit of a portmanteau there, and I like it!

I'm having another crack at A Tale of Two Cities. I didn't get very far the first time because I got sidetracked with work. I'm thoroughly enjoying it now though. Here's a quote I like:

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every breathing heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!

adidasss · 05-17-2010, 02:14 PM

Ranges from ethereal to fastidious. I'm also a little bothered by the fact that he doesn't seem to perceive anyone else in his family apart from his mother. 50 pages in tho.

ProggyMan · 05-17-2010, 05:10 PM

Have you read Lolita? I just started it, I've never read anything else of his.

adidasss · 05-18-2010, 01:03 AM

Yup, a few years back but I still like to remember it as the most beautifully written book I've ever read. I've also read Pale fire which is genius but also a bit of a difficult read and Pnin which wasn't very good.

Antonio · 05-19-2010, 10:48 PM

Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy

admittedly i haven't been reading it as often as i should have, but i really am liking it.

along with that, the usual manga-20th Century Boys, Bakuman, Eyesheild 21

~~Sansa Stark~~ · 05-20-2010, 11:21 PM

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05-15-2010, 11:27 PM	#2552 (permalink)
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savannah afrocentric Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: texas Posts: 753	on my nightstand: a moveable feast - hemingway district and circle - seamus heaney __________________ i changed my mind; i changed my mind;now i'm feeling different all that time, wasted i wish i was a little more delicate i wish my i wish my i wish my i wish my i wish my name was clementine - sarah jaffe

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adidasss Slavic gay sauce Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Abu Dhabi Posts: 7,993	Ranges from ethereal to fastidious. I'm also a little bothered by the fact that he doesn't seem to perceive anyone else in his family apart from his mother. 50 pages in tho. __________________ “Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle. Last.fm

05-18-2010, 01:03 AM	#2558 (permalink)
adidasss Slavic gay sauce Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Abu Dhabi Posts: 7,993	Yup, a few years back but I still like to remember it as the most beautifully written book I've ever read. I've also read Pale fire which is genius but also a bit of a difficult read and Pnin which wasn't very good. __________________ “Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle. Last.fm

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