What are you reading right now?

Trollheart · 08-03-2018, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

I know nothing of who uses "twit". All I know is that it's a fun word.

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This feels like a book to own so that I can show people lest they believe I'm making it up.

And a digital copy isn't proof?

OccultHawk · 08-04-2018, 12:58 PM

The Virgins - Pamela Erens

innerspaceboy · 08-10-2018, 07:40 PM

Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists by Kay Larson.

Larson was the art critic for New York Magazine for fourteen years and wrote for the New York Times before entering Zen practice at a Buddhist monastery in upstate New York.

Looking forward to this one.

Zhanteimi · 08-11-2018, 04:46 AM

Re-reading Slaughterhouse Five. It's better than I remembered.

adidasss · 08-11-2018, 09:37 AM

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Re-reading Slaughterhouse Five. It's better than I remembered.

He is my all time favorite writer. Read all of his novels. I still have some short stories before I go through his novels again.

Zhanteimi · 08-11-2018, 09:51 AM

I've read only three of his novels. Slaughterhouse Five, the one where Vonnegut puts himself in the book to meet and talk to his main character, and the one where they freeze all the world's oceans. Can't remember the titles.

Lisnaholic · 08-11-2018, 09:54 AM

^ Sorry to take a contrary view, guys: I once read Slaughterhouse 5 and one other Vonnegut book and while both had their clever moments, on balance I found them rather glib and irritating. So it goes.

Zhanteimi · 08-11-2018, 09:55 AM

"So it goes." Nice.

Lisnaholic · 08-11-2018, 10:13 AM

^ Thanks, Zhanteimi ! You can see how much that line irritated me - I can still remember it after reading the book once when I was about eighteen!

@ wwwp : I'm at about times three with Flowers For Algernon.

The book I have re-read more than any other book in my life:-

adidasss · 08-11-2018, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

^ Thanks, Zhanteimi ! You can see how much that line irritated me - I can still remember it after reading the book once when I was about eighteen!

I find that a lot of your experience reading a book also depends on when or what age you're reading it. Probably his worldview and world-weariness is not very appropriate for teenagers...

I just love his humor and humanism. And he is anything but glib. But to each their own...

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OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	The Virgins - Pamela Erens __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

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Zhanteimi Mord Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Tokyo Posts: 4,873	Re-reading Slaughterhouse Five. It's better than I remembered. __________________ Zhanteimi LetsTalkMusic

08-11-2018, 09:51 AM	#6176 (permalink)
Zhanteimi Mord Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Tokyo Posts: 4,873	I've read only three of his novels. Slaughterhouse Five, the one where Vonnegut puts himself in the book to meet and talk to his main character, and the one where they freeze all the world's oceans. Can't remember the titles. __________________ Zhanteimi LetsTalkMusic

08-11-2018, 09:54 AM	#6177 (permalink)
Lisnaholic ...here to hear... Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: He lives on Love Street Posts: 4,444	^ Sorry to take a contrary view, guys: I once read Slaughterhouse 5 and one other Vonnegut book and while both had their clever moments, on balance I found them rather glib and irritating. So it goes. __________________ "Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953

08-11-2018, 09:55 AM	#6178 (permalink)
Zhanteimi Mord Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Tokyo Posts: 4,873	"So it goes." Nice. __________________ Zhanteimi LetsTalkMusic

08-11-2018, 10:13 AM	#6179 (permalink)
Lisnaholic ...here to hear... Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: He lives on Love Street Posts: 4,444	^ Thanks, Zhanteimi ! You can see how much that line irritated me - I can still remember it after reading the book once when I was about eighteen! @ wwwp : I'm at about times three with Flowers For Algernon. The book I have re-read more than any other book in my life:- __________________ "Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953