howlinforever Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Currently reading Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley (I'm sure you all knew that), and Absalom, Absalom!, Faulkner. I just finished Salman Rushdie's Shame for the second time, and would highly recommend it. ooooo! I just read Brave New World not too long ago, and loved it!! It took me way to long to get around to it though. I just finished The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and I'm about to start Anna Karenina while also attempting to knit socks for my first time... really trying to kill time here haha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDude Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Okay, I finally tried the Franzen novel "The Corrections." His pose is beautiful, but if I want to see the trappings of contemporary suburbia I just talk to neighbors. I couldn't do it. I did read "The Big Short." It was a great read that served to make me pretty angry about the financial crisis, and on top of that even more suspect of anyone getting into i-banking. Next on the docket is: "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time." My resolution is to read more fiction this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psycholinguist Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Next on the docket is: "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time." I love that book. Enjoy! As usual, these days it's mainly fiction, linguistics, cognitive-science, memoirs, and more YA books. I just finished 'An Anthropologist on Mars' by Oliver Sacks (fascinating!), and am currently working on the very amusing 'My Year of Meats' by Ruth L. Ozeki. Alyanumbers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alyanumbers Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 I love that book. Enjoy! Agreed! That is a lovely book. I read it when I'm sad, and it always helps me feel better. psycholinguist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kotov Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 The Harvest of Sorrow, Robert Conquest (1985). Undergrad thesis background research. Very interesting, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
history_PhD Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Hmm, I'm reading several books right now: Graduate Study for the 21st Century, Education of Historians for the 21st Century, Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Arc of Justice, and American Colonies. The last one is for a class; the other four are for fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkel Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 I decided to rekindle my youth by re-reading Lord of the Rings! It's like seeing an old friend again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UFGator Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Reading research to improve my senior thesis. Also reading some older economics books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sareene Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 I'm giving George Eliot a 3rd chance and reading _Middlemarch_. I do not have very high hopes; however as a 19th century Brit lit lover I have to keep giving her another chance. To offset the didacticism, I am also reading _The Yacoubian Building_ by Alaa Al Aswany. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamianD Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 The Idea Factory - Pepper White, what else should I read as a soon-to-be-albeit-second-choice-MIT-grad :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alyanumbers Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 To offset the didacticism, I am also reading _The Yacoubian Building_ by Alaa Al Aswany. Dear God. How's that going for you? Al Aswany is the Egyptian equivalent of Dan Brown, IMO. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anxious2011 Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Currently reading Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett, but soon will begin either Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen) or Too Big to Fail (Andrew Ross Sorkin)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Amon-Ra Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 (edited) If you want a book that is lovely and elegant check out Alan Bennett's "Untold Stories," which is a huge anthology and, if your attention span is anywhere near as short as mine, will last you at least until April 15th. For poetry, Richard Wilbur is appropriately sweet and hopeful and, for any committed escapists among us, Sophie Kinsella's "Shopaholic" series includes several of my favorite guilty pleasure junk novels. Edited January 24, 2011 by meforarth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonkers Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Disgrace--Coetzee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sevi Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Guillermo Del Toro's "The Strain" for the cheesy science fiction and non-Twilight vampires Any other books by Haruki Murakami I have not yet read for the emotional masochist in me And all the Angel Sanctuary mangas I bought in high school but never read for the super dorky nerd that I still am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sareene Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 I am only 30 pages in and I am bored. Eliot is looking better and better. Something I never thought I'd say. Dear God. How's that going for you? Al Aswany is the Egyptian equivalent of Dan Brown, IMO. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eklavya Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Agreed! That is a lovely book. I read it when I'm sad, and it always helps me feel better. finished this last month.. pretty good. Choas by James Gleick gonna start this one this week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moxie42 Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 I just finished reading Game of Thrones. Sooo good. Roccoriel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilusaurus Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Does reading what other people are saying on Facebook count? Otherwise, Doris Lessing's African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe. Haven't quite figured out if I like it or not yet, though it is interesting. psycholinguist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gradgirlwannabe Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Murakami Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matilda_Tone Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Re-reading James Joyce's "Dubliners" ...which really isn't a good way to keep my mind off of pending Irish history degree apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lechatgris Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 I'm making a serious dent in Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody mysteries--and there are a ton of them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
communications13 Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 "Pink Ribbon Blues: How Breast Cancer Culture is Ruining Women's Health" and "Devil in the White City" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eklavya Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 did anyone read 'Ender's Game' during middle/high school? i kinda like that story - a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piparoo Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 (edited) The Matrix comics. Good stuff to stop head spinning about admits. Edited March 1, 2011 by Piparoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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