After having finished off The Facts, The Ghost Writer, and The Counterlife, my continued domination of Philip Roth continues with Patrimony.

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Originally posted by unKeMPt:
After having finished off The Facts, The Ghost Writer, and The Counterlife, my continued domination of Philip Roth continues with Patrimony.

I really liked Patrimony.

I had a teacher who ruined philip roth for me. I can't stand him now and he's probably pretty good... picked up Collapse by Jared Diamond and Kafka on the Shore by Murakami. can't figure out which to start.

Maus by Art Spiegelman

I'm currently reading

1602 by Neil Gaiman (I missed the last issues and a friend bought the Graphic Novel after I gave her American Gods.) I love comic books...

Freak The Mighty by Rodman Philbrick Its a read aloud for my reading class. Max has a clear, if somewhat ordinary, voice.

Satan Burger by Carlton Mellick III. Shear goofy madness that I'm not really connecting with but it is holding my interest. A text structure similar to Vonnegut's "Slapstick," but certainly not as compelling as that work (at least in my mind.)

~Empress Orchid by Anchee Min~

After looking for it in a number of libraries, to no avail, I finally got my own copy of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (I'm spelling his name from memory, but I think I'm right).

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Originally posted by Biggles:
After looking for it in a number of libraries, to no avail, I finally got my own copy of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (I'm spelling his name from memory, but I think I'm right).

Good memory...and good choice

Spring break's coming up, so I'm planning to finish up a few really short novels: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Crying of Lot 49, and Chronicles of a Death Foretold

Good choice on Crying of Lot 49. For its size, I can't think of a more enjoyable read. It is probably my #1 choice for a book which needs to be adapted into a movie also. Could be so cool.

I haven't actually read any Pynchon yet, which is strange, because everyone says if you love DeLillo you'll love Pynchon too.
Anyway, at the moment I'm reading Lolita, which I suppose I've avoided for so long because it's one of those 'must-reads'. Next up is Memories of my Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez...

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Originally posted by unKeMPt:
Spring break's coming up, so I'm planning to finish up a few really short novels: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Crying of Lot 49, and Chronicles of a Death Foretold

Nice choices. If you haven't read Pynchon, Crying of Lot 49 is a good place to start. After that, try V. After that, take the plunge(I think you know what I mean) You should also mix in some Hesse to your short novels list. Siddharta and Demian are both pretty quick.

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Originally posted by PRG:

Nice choices. If you haven't read Pynchon, Crying of Lot 49 is a good place to start. After that, try V. After that, take the plunge(I think you know what I mean) You should also mix in some Hesse to your short novels list. Siddharta and Demian are both pretty quick.

Hesse is definitely on my to-read list, but the problem is I'm reading these around Operation Shylock and Sabbath's Theater; some W.E.B. DuBois, Marx, and Mead; and two term papers. Otherwise, I'd probably be trying to take out One Hundred Years of Solitude, Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, or some Dostoevsky.

Although I did just pick up Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett today, so we'll see if I can resist that.

Currently Reading No Logo by Naomi Klein, but have trouble with it due to my "required" reading for school. I'm studying PR part time and find the reading this year (2nd) to be so more complex than I am comfortable with. It fries my brain so much, that when I want to get into something easy like No Logo, I dont have the patience. I just want to get as far away from Communication Theory as possible. I think I need something like "The curious incident in the night" or what ever its called which is aimed at the kid/adult cross over audience.

Do any other people bogged down in study find it hard to read for enjoyment?

I am trying to get myself back on the proverbial reading bicycle with Bertrand Russell's "Human Knowledge; Its Scope and Limits," I probably should have found an easier read to get myself started but I am really interested in the topic.

I am supposed to be reading "The Goal" by Eliyahu M. Goldratt for my Managerial Accounting course, but I have no interest in reading it, we shall see how that turns out.

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Originally posted by Backcountry:
Currently Reading No Logo by Naomi Klein, but have trouble with it due to my "required" reading for school. I'm studying PR part time and find the reading this year (2nd) to be so more complex than I am comfortable with. It fries my brain so much, that when I want to get into something easy like No Logo, I dont have the patience.

That's funny. I picked up "No Logo" a couple years ago, and the same thing happened to me. I never got around to reading it.

Fool the World: An Oral History of a Band Called Pixies
and The Catcher in the Rye

Maxim's 100th issue.

Hello.
Finally got a copy of "You Can't Win" by Jack Black. Am re-reading Cities of the Red Night" by Burroughs and promising myself I'll leave the second and third books in that series alone this time.

Yeah, right.

Currently I'm reading Sense and Sensibility but when I'm done with that, I'm planning on reading Slaughter House Five.