What are you currently reading?

[Norah]

It was the toughest read of the three, I thought.

[washing machine]

I guess I'll read Tortilla Flat soon.

[Simple Torture]

I've only read Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, and East of Eden.

These are the three best. Cannery Row after that.

[washing machine]

I just one click ordered Tortilla Flat from Amazon. Halfway across America, another bookshop clerk just died.

[Simple Torture]

If you're ever in Providence, go to Tortilla Flats.

[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.

[washing machine]

If you're ever in Providence, go to Tortilla Flats.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

east of eden was my favorite but what do i know

[The Argonaut]

I had five contenders for favorite Steinbeck, and it wasn't easy to choose

[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.

[Simple Torture]

Gillian Flynn is a horrible writer, but she correctly says in the foreward that McNamara's gift is in finding the humanity in her subjects. It's true. This one is creepy as hell, but it transcends the lurid crime novel tropes by virtue of the victims' lives being so colorfully fleshed out.

You know what was weird about that intro? Her references to the text all happened in like the first 50 pages. It's like she didn't even finish it.

[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.

[Mickey]

One time a girlfriend gave me East of Eden for Christmas but I got about 100 pages into it and sold in on Amazon instead.

[Mickey]

Anyway, top ten, not necessarily in order:

2666 (Bolaño)
White Noise (DeLillo)
Beloved (Morrison)
Ulysses (Joyce)
The Emigrants (Sebald)
Swann's Way (Proust)
The Awakening (Chopin)
The Sonnets (Berrigan)
Ficciones (Borges)
Suspended Sentences (Modiano)

[epilogue]

I'm loving these lists, team. Thank you for posting them.

[epilogue]

east of eden was my favorite but what do i know

A great friend of mine started reading East of Eden for the first time a few months ago. He carries it with him everywhere now. He fucking loves the hell out of it. I still haven't read it.

[washing machine]

Picked this up today. Been meaning to read it since it came out.

[Simple Torture]

Anyway, top ten, not necessarily in order:

2666 (Bolaño)
White Noise (DeLillo)
Beloved (Morrison)
Ulysses (Joyce)
The Emigrants (Sebald)
Swann's Way (Proust)
The Awakening (Chopin)
The Sonnets (Berrigan)
Ficciones (Borges)
Suspended Sentences (Modiano)

What's your margin between 2666 and The Savage Detectives like? Mine is razor-thin and they flip-flop from time-to-time.

I promised myself that I would re-read all of Bolano's books when I finished my degree. Still not finished.

[washing machine]

Anyway, top ten, not necessarily in order:

2666 (Bolaño)
White Noise (DeLillo)
Beloved (Morrison)
Ulysses (Joyce)
The Emigrants (Sebald)
Swann's Way (Proust)
The Awakening (Chopin)
The Sonnets (Berrigan)
Ficciones (Borges)
Suspended Sentences (Modiano)

This has remained extremely consistent over the years. I like that about you.

[Mickey]

Anyway, top ten, not necessarily in order:

2666 (Bolaño)
White Noise (DeLillo)
Beloved (Morrison)
Ulysses (Joyce)
The Emigrants (Sebald)
Swann's Way (Proust)
The Awakening (Chopin)
The Sonnets (Berrigan)
Ficciones (Borges)
Suspended Sentences (Modiano)

What's your margin between 2666 and The Savage Detectives like? Mine is razor-thin and they flip-flop from time-to-time.

I promised myself that I would re-read all of Bolano's books when I finished my degree. Still not finished.

I go back and forth too but I think at the end of the day, I like TSD better but I think about 2666 more often. Especially the passage about the thieves, the minor works, and the masterpieces. I'm about to start my degree but the nice thing about comp lit is that I don't have to drop Bolaño.