Currently, I'm reading The Gates of The Alamo by Stephen Harrigan. It's historical fiction on a subject about which I know nothing and I am really liking it, despite the way the author spells his first name. Also re-reading Mostly Harmless because I am that much of a geek. Just bought and am a few pages into Alison Weir's The Children of Henry VIII. I always like her books, and this doesn't look like it will be an exception.
The Wind up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. Don't ask me to tell you what its about, I'm 400 pages in and its impossible to describe. But I am absolutely loving it.
I remember reading reviews of Norweigan Wood and always meant to pick it up....maybe I'll finally add it or The Wind Up Bird Chronicle to the list now! I read Pere Goriot in French (my professor was a huge fan) but sadly don't remember a damn thing about the plot. Just remember how it gave me a sense of Paris at the time. I'm all for any book with "Harlot" in the title, though.
Sum of All Fears, Clancy. I'll probably go read Two Towers again as a prelude to the movie coming out.
Excellent, Crazy. For pleasure or for a class? Anyway, how are you liking it? It's fairly tough going, but worth it IMO.
Good book, but I like Midnight's Children better. Has anyone here read Murakami's other novels? Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is a genuinely great book.
Norwegian Woods is my favorite Murakami novel - then again, I read it in Japanese and I don't know if it translates well.
I've thought about getting that.Looks like I'll have to now. Just finished "The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich" by William L. Shirer (Outstanding.I'll probably read it again in a couple years) It inspired me to go on a shopping spree of WWII books about/from the German side.I am about 3/4 the way through "Soldat" by Siegfried Knappe.Pretty interesting if it's all true. I've started "Rommel" but it's written by a British soldier and I'm having a hard time following it.I might just huck it and start something else.Paulo maybe???
Just finished Tad Williams' "The Dragonbone Chair", part one of the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series. Will definitely be moving on to book 2, but currently I'm reading "Masterpieces", a collection of Sci-Fi short stories edited by Orson Scott Card.
Harrigan was on my thesis committee. He's probably the most modest "successful" writer I've ever met.
Re: Re: So....What Are You Reading? Excellent read. What an ego! I'm really impressed by his writing. It's one thing to know all the little details and to have done the research, but it's a true gift to be able to make that past as vivid as he does.
Fixed your "illiterate" post "The History of Reading"-Alberto Manguel (was an associate of Borges, a good read)
I usually have 3 going at a time: 1 on the night table, one for on the bus and one on the coffee table. Right now, they are: Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil and someone else The Thief of Time by Terry Pratchet; it's a Disk World novel. Route 66AD. I forget the author's name. It's about tourism in during the Roman Empire.
Re: Re: Re: So....What Are You Reading? I'm about half way through it and I'm not sure if I like the guy, or not. I really wonder what the people he writes about in this book think of him? It is well written. And he doesn't seem to leave much out.