What are you reading now - and then

[jfk84000]

el zorro by isabelle alende

[hippifried]

Then: Dick & Jane.


Now: Jane & Dick.

[Absarokah]

[Helvis2012]

Etgar Keret's new one.

[Stavros]

A few days ago I finished reading Jennifer Egan's novel A Visit from the Goon Squad. The book was nominated by numerous people as their favourite novel of 2011; I don't know why. The book is well written but has no distinctive style, although it tries to diversify this with a power point presentation towards the end that doesn't work. Time is a Goon, a phrase that occurs twice in the book, indicates that the book concerns a group of people over 20 odd years, all of whom have known each other at various levels of intimacy, and mostly involved in the punk rock/music industry, therefore allowing scenes in low-rent apartments on the lower-east side, or California. The characters are not interesting, their antics are not interesting, their marriages, sex-lives, dope habits, musical tastes etc etc are not interesting. I bought the book in a charity shop; the most charitable thing I can do with it, is take it back, and give it away for free.

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[Prospero]

The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement by David Brooks.

A rather light account of some of the contemporary scientific theories about the nature of the self.

[south ov da border]

right now- The Road by Cormac Mcarthy

[goliath_91710]

I'm just finishing up Crime & Punishment. But my nine day vacation begins today, going to Zion National Park in Utah. I'm thinking about bringing Even Cowgirls get the Blues by Tom Robbins and Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski.

[south ov da border]

next up Naked Lunch

[Ben]

A book on ol' Ayn Rand....