What are you currently reading?

[bodysnatcher]

I'm really into the first 100 pages of this one:

wow that actually sounds really interesting (reading the description) and could be a good followup to what I'm reading. thanks argo

[The Argonaut]

Dinner dinner wife wife thank you thank you

[bune]

Anansi Boys is only $1.99 for Kindle right now.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Looking forward to getting my hands on a copy of this to read:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/02/asia/nort ... ended_pool

[bada]

Anyone ever read Mortal Engines (The Hungry City Chronicles #1)? Any good?

[BurtReynolds]

so far it's note for note LOTR.

[epilogue]

I thought people liked the Wheel of Time books.

[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.

[BurtReynolds]

I thought people liked the Wheel of Time books.

I've heard the first one is ok, then the series gets better, then sucks again.

soooooooooo much description in this.

[contamination]

[epilogue]

Ahsoka!

[lennytheweedwhacker]

hope to finish it tomorrow, then will begin a reread of all the pretty horses

[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.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Hi Lenny, I hope you are well. I hated Blindness, but ATPH is a top 5 book for me.

why did you hate blindness?

[The Argonaut]

As I mentioned yesterday in tinychat, I have Blindness in the pile of to-be-read-books on my bedside table right now. I read and loved his Cain a few months ago, and have been meaning to get to some of his other stuff. Unfortunately, I'm like 200 out 1000 pages into this beast


and I had to pause this one mid-way through


so that I could get through this 700-pager in the two weeks the library allows me to have it


I hope to have the headspace/read-time to dig into the Saramago soon...

[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.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

so that I could get through this 700-pager in the two weeks the library allows me to have it


I hope to have the headspace/read-time to dig into the Saramago soon...

you can't renew?

[The Argonaut]

it's brand new so there are other people requesting it so they won't let me renew, no. They'll start charging me 25 cents a day!

[bune]

My library has overdue fees but they disappear as soon as you return the book so why bother having overdue fees?

[epilogue]

Hi Lenny, I hope you are well. I hated Blindness, but ATPH is a top 5 book for me.

why did you hate blindness?

I found his prose style to be needlessly difficult and obtuse, without any real payoff for the effort. I think McCarthy handles the "run on sentence/constant train of thought" approach so much better.

Interesting, because I'm the exact opposite. I adore Blindness (probably my second favorite book that I've ever read) and have enjoyed a lot of Saramago's other work.

McCarthy is much more difficult for me. The Road was an easy enough read. But everything else I've tried has been a slog. I had to put down Blood Meridian after about 75 pages.