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What books are you reading right now?

Discussion in 'Tilted Art, Photography, Music & Literature' started by sapiens, Aug 12, 2011.

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  1. psykosis

    psykosis Getting Tilted

    Location:
    Great White North
    Daniel Silva's Portrait of a Spy.

    Love his Gabriel Allon series. The latest Pendergast novel from Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child is up next.
     
    psykosis, Sep 6, 2011
    #81
  2. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    split image by robert b. parker...
     
    uncle phil, Sep 8, 2011
    #82
  3. the_jazz

    the_jazz Accused old lady puncher

    I just finished Quarter Share by Nathan Lowell.

    http://www.amazon.com/Quarter-Share...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315489048&sr=1-1

    It was pretty good. Essentially it's a Horatio Hornblower/O.Henry story set in the far future. It's a very nautical book with sprinkles of commerce throughout. Not great literature, but a pleasant enough read.

    And I started Dr. Zhivago this morning. I've never read it, and after finishing Life and Fate by Vaisily Grossman about 6 weeks ago, I want to compare the two since they're effectively contemporary books, albeit set in different times.
     
    the_jazz, Sep 8, 2011
    #83
  4. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    in the name of honor by richard north patterson...
     
    uncle phil, Sep 9, 2011
    #84
  5. Jove

    Jove Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Michigan
    Hit List (the 20th or 21st book in the Anita Blake vampire executioner series). I just hope she stops being so sensitive and kills all the things.
     
    Jove, Sep 12, 2011
    #85
  6. Manic

    Manic Getting Tilted

    Location:
    NYC
    Existentialism: From Doestoevsky to Sarte by Walter Kaufmann.

    I'm 20 pages from finishing and it's been great so far. A nice anthology of works, much of which I've read already but never imagined as fitting under the umbrella of existentialist thought. The Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rilke and Kafka sections have been my favorites so far.
     
    Manic, Sep 12, 2011
    #86
  7. Stick

    Stick Vertical

    Location:
    Mudgee, Australia
    The drawing of the three by Stephen King
     
    Stick, Sep 12, 2011
    #87
  8. MSD

    MSD Very Tilted

    Location:
    CT
    This afternoon, I ordered a copy of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot because someone made a reference to it and my mind did a TV-comedy-style record scratch noise and my internal monologue said, "I've never actually read Waiting for Godot.
     
    MSD, Sep 12, 2011
    #88
  9. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

    Location:
    Toronto
    I haven't read it either, which is a shame. I plan on atoning myself by also reading his "Trilogy," a copy of which I picked up for really cheap downtown.

    Atone myself I will.

    But.... I have been following this thread for a while. But it's frustrating because my reading is screwed right now, as I'm putting in a ton of freelance editing hours this month. It's the sort of thing that kills your ability to read.

    I will read again soon. I hope.
     
    Baraka_Guru, Sep 12, 2011
    #89
  10. ring

    ring ░

    92 page preview of:
    Creative Explorations: New Approaches to Identities and Audiences- David Gauntlett
     
    ring, Sep 12, 2011
    #90
  11. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    sucker bet by james swain...
     
    uncle phil, Sep 16, 2011
    #91
  12. Strange Famous

    Strange Famous it depends on who is looking...

    Location:
    Ipswich, UK
    They shoot horses dont they...
     
    Strange Famous, Sep 16, 2011
    #92
  13. Remixer

    Remixer Middle Eastern Doofus

    Location:
    Frankfurt, Germany
    One of my friends told me to read the book series "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R. R. Martin, and gave me the e-book files.

    No idea when I'll find the time to read those, but it's definitely at the top of my list to read.
     
    Remixer, Sep 16, 2011
    #93
  14. Doris

    Doris Getting Tilted

    Recently started The Postcard Killers by Liza Marklund and James Patterson.
     
    Doris, Sep 16, 2011
    #94
  15. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    private by james patterson...
     
    uncle phil, Sep 19, 2011
    #95
  16. Jove

    Jove Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Michigan
    Xenocide. (The third book in the Ender Games series)
     
    Jove, Sep 19, 2011
    #96
  17. spindles

    spindles Very Tilted

    Location:
    Sydney, Australia
    Breath by Tim Winton. I started it yesterday and think I'll finish it today. It is big print and not many pages. Strangely there is a lack of punctuation - e.g. '"Hello", said Tim'. is written as 'Hello said Tim'. It is interesting.
     
    spindles, Sep 19, 2011
    #97
  18. MSD

    MSD Very Tilted

    Location:
    CT
    It's a quick read (120 pages of play script, probably more like 40-60 if it were prose,) and quite brilliant.
     
    MSD, Sep 19, 2011
    #98
  19. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

    Location:
    Toronto
    Yeah, I've glanced through it several times. I tend to pick it up every few months at the used bookstore I often go to that always has a small stack of it on one of their tables. I've decided that I'm more interested in his novels at the moment and will probably read Godot after them.
     
    Baraka_Guru, Sep 19, 2011
    #99
  20. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    Santa Fe Edge by Stuart Woods...
     
    uncle phil, Sep 21, 2011
    #100
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