What are you currently reading?

[bune]

Started reading The Big Short. Had this weird sense of deja vu that I'd read something by this guy before but couldn't place it. It was just so smarmy, I'm-the-smartest-guy-in-the-room, that I couldn't shake the feeling. I just checked Goodreads and turns out I read Liar's Poker a couple years ago. Weird.

[The Argonaut]

finished The Time Machine today, starting War of the Worlds tomorrow...

I HG Wells

The Time Machine is absolutely tops. The Island of Dr. Moreau is pretty good also. War of the Worlds and Invisible Man were middling to me, though. But Time Machine is so great

[dimejinky99]

Just finished this. Simply put. One of the best books I've ever read. Bawling happy tears at the end. Can't get over it. Well worth your time. Robbing yourself if you don't read it.

[bune]

dime, you on Goodreads?

[BurtReynolds]

Order of the Phoenix. Probably the best one yet. She's a great writer but the endings suck. That and Harry is an annoying emo twat.

[dimejinky99]

dime, you on Goodreads?

I am but rarely update it. It's awesome for finding out what books your favourite authors are reading though.

[Simple Torture]

Finally:

[Simple Torture]

Nobel Prize will be awarded sometime soon (probably next Monday, the 9th). With two English-language writers in the past four years, chances of that happening again are slim. I could totally see a Middle Eastern winner this year.

[epilogue]

Finally:

Man, I want to read this so fucking badly.

[epilogue]

Just finished "Disgrace" by J.M. Coetzee. Amazing.

[Simple Torture]

Finally:

Man, I want to read this so fucking badly.

It's good.

[Simple Torture]

I've been meaning to get into the LaVar Burton Reads podcast: http://www.levarburtonpodcast.com/

[wease]

Fixing to start the new Dan Brown Langdon novel.

[Simple Torture]

Nobel Prize reveal is tomorrow morning, usually it's like 6AM EST. Get your popcorn ready, especially if you're a Murakami or Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o fan.

[Simple Torture]

Nobel Prize will be awarded sometime soon (probably next Monday, the 9th). With two English-language writers in the past four years, chances of that happening again are slim. I could totally see a Middle Eastern winner this year.

Color me wrong wrong wrong wrong:

[guestT]

It
Ready Player One

Just reading stuff I see on the teevee I guess.

[The Argonaut]

Nobel Prize will be awarded sometime soon (probably next Monday, the 9th). With two English-language writers in the past four years, chances of that happening again are slim. I could totally see a Middle Eastern winner this year.

Color me wrong wrong wrong wrong:

English language ftw

[epilogue]

Disgrace was amazing.

Now, I'm on:

[bune]

Reading The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins by Irvine Welsh and it's...wow. It's intense. It's really awkward too because I'm actually listening to it so I get to listen to a female narrator go on and act out all of these sex scenes.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.