cobl04
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Not sure if anyone's read it, but we just finished studying Regneration by Pat Barker and I did my SAC on it today. It's a terrific book, if a little slow at times, and is an anti-war novel which has a million layers. Good read.
Has anyone picked up Jhumpa Lahiri's new collection of stories? I'm really looking forward to reading it.
Salman Rushdie should take me out to dinner and make a few of my student loan payments because I read The Satanic Verses. It was very good, but it took me several months of pretty dedicated bedtime reading to get through it, and I like to think of myself as more patient than the average reader.
I have a PhD and haven't read Moby Dick. Nor do I ever plan to, if I can help it
I'm reading Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs right now, and I'm not enjoying it quite as much as I'd expected to. I'm only a few essays into it, though, so I'm hoping I start to like it more.
I read Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential on the first few days of my vacation. I didn't love it, but it was entertaining. I'm reading Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs right now, and I'm not enjoying it quite as much as I'd expected to. I'm only a few essays into it, though, so I'm hoping I start to like it more.
I'm reading that now too, except I really love it so far. It makes sense to me.
Audrey is 16, and you should not even go there.
My secret? Alternating novels that take time to read with chick lit or older-skewed young adult books that breeze by.
I usually do something very similar. I choose to refer to the more "embarrassing" type of books as "airplane books" though, as I seem to like to fly through (pun intended) a throw away type horror or sci-fi fast read on a plane. For example, my most recent reads are:
Day By Day Armageddon - J.L Bourne (zombies...)
The Road - Cormac McCarthy (2007 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction)
I actually just finished The Road today (on a plane, ironically. did this one backwards). What a beautiful book. I was put off by McCarthy's writing style for the first 10 to 20 pages, but after that I was completely hooked.
As a side thought, I find it sad that I've seen the "Pulitzer Prize for Literature" stamp on the book frequently covered by a "Oprah Book Club" sticker.....
Cori, so what I'm getting from that review is that rooms in Scarlett's family's hotel are available?
The Road was....unreal.
Agreed. I didn't want to bring up the plot of the book when I mentioned it on Sunday, as I didn't want to have to think about what I'd just read more than I already was. Great stuff.
I have No Country For Old Men but haven't read it yet, so that will probably be my next book of his (but I'll probably read something else first, not sure what). One of my friends is a big fan of his books as well, and he also mentioned Blood Meridian.