sebastiansteddy Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Nope! Thanks for the suggestion, lisajay. I'll check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazedandbemused Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Wow, ya'll are reading some hardcore stuff in your down time. I mean, I've been reading material on Gibson Girls in preparation for a project that I haven't decided whether to begin yet, but I wouldn't call that fun reading. The most serious my free time stuff gets is non-academic, fun non-fiction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Whistler Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 H. G. Wells - The Time Machine. Never read it before, it's pretty lovely, actually. Too bad my concentration is currently crappy. ohgoodness 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slvitale Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 H. G. Wells - The Time Machine. Never read it before, it's pretty lovely, actually. Too bad my concentration is currently crappy. This is what I wrote my WS on ) Great choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohgoodness Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 I just started re-reading Didions "The Year of Magical Thinking" and "Blue Nights" and regain alot of my focus. Nothing captures my own feelings/memories of sorrow/as the first book whereas blue nights captures the rebounding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Whistler Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 This is what I wrote my WS on ) Great choice. It's pretty awesome. I found a nice, old, used version this Summer. It has that great old book smell. It even has coffee stains. I love old books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1Q84 Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 McCarthy's Child of God. Nice and "uplifting"... in the sense that things could be worse. A lot worse. Enzian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apotheosis Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I just started re-reading Didions "The Year of Magical Thinking" and "Blue Nights" and regain alot of my focus. Nothing captures my own feelings/memories of sorrow/as the first book whereas blue nights captures the rebounding. Ah I love Didion too! I just finished "Blue Nights" and am now re-reading Virginia Woolf's "The Waves"--probably my favorite pieces by these two authors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nhswrestle Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 Since I've finished grad apps I've read: Be Here Now by Ram Das Brave New World by Aldous Huxley "The Doors of Perception" by Aldous Huxley Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr. Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo Currently reading Choke by Chuck Palahniuk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nhswrestle Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 McCarthy's Child of God. Nice and "uplifting"... in the sense that things could be worse. A lot worse. Just googled this and it looks pretty awesome. Is the narrative first-person stream of conscious? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisajay Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr. . have you read waiting period?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nhswrestle Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 have you read waiting period?? I have not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beet-nik Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 It's pretty awesome. I found a nice, old, used version this Summer. It has that great old book smell. It even has coffee stains. I love old books. I second the old books comment! I'm currently reading a used and abused, but obviously well-loved copy of The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi. I'm 14 pages in and have already used 1/3 of a package of Post-It flags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1Q84 Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 Just googled this and it looks pretty awesome. Is the narrative first-person stream of conscious? Not really. It's really hard to put a pin on McCarthy's style (especially since it shifts so much in this one) but stream of consciousness is not part of the palette! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
courtc8891 Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 Beckett's first "trilogy" is amazing. Some of the best literature I've ever read. I second this. I'm still a wee little undergrad, but I'm doing a directed study on Beckett this semester to gear me up for an MA next year. So far I've only read his older novels (Murphy and Watt), the trilogy, and a handful of his shorter plays. All have been fantastic and I cannot wait to read more. Also on my plate: some Paul Auster fiction (The New York Trilogy) and Foucault's The History of Sexuality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisajay Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 I have not. i think you'd most likely enjoy it. your avatar & the earlier reference to choke makes me think you'd appreciate the humor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nhswrestle Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 (edited) i think you'd most likely enjoy it. your avatar & the earlier reference to choke makes me think you'd appreciate the humor. Excellent. I'll definitely check it out. Thanks! Edited January 27, 2013 by nhswrestle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masack118 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Also on my plate: some Paul Auster fiction (The New York Trilogy) I read this for the first time last year and while I figured it'd be good, I was actually shocked by how much I loved it. I read Invisible right after and it was also pretty good, but definitely not as good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DontHate Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 In Praise of Athletic Beauty by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. He is the shit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
courtc8891 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 (edited) I read this for the first time last year and while I figured it'd be good, I was actually shocked by how much I loved it. I read Invisible right after and it was also pretty good, but definitely not as good. Yea, Auster is an interesting guy-- the trilogy was his fiction at its best. He has remarkable ideas, but in his later work he tends to fall apart. If you're interested in reading more of him, I recommend his non-fiction. Hand to Mouth is a fantastic autobiography, The Art of Hunger is a collection of essays (he's a wonderful essayist), and his newest memoir Winter Journal is also worth a read. You can tell he's influenced heavily by other writers. There were moments in City of Glass that were almost taken straight out of Beckett's Watt. Edited January 30, 2013 by courtc8891 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masack118 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Thanks for the recommendations! I'll definitely look into those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imogene Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Definitely a Paul Auster fan. And I find it really interesting that he's been much more popular abroad than here in the U.S. (the French love him). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookGeek Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. First time with Calvino- I spend way too much time on Flavorwire and they did a piece on the best books for book lovers. Pretty fun so far, if a little aggravating at times. http://www.flavorwire.com/335372/10-essential-books-for-book-nerds Side note: super impressed by some of your motivation to read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OctaviaButlerfan Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Let's see.. I just finished Bitter in the Mouth by Monique Truong. I think I'm reading Persepolis next. I'm considering reading Devil's Wake or Joplin's Ghost by Tananarive Due. I need to read something that isn't for school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercyhurst2010 Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 I'm in a "gap year" right now, post M.A., waiting on PhD applications, and working full time, so I don't quite have the time for all the reading that I have had in the past (and, hopefully, will have in the near future). Still, I've tried to keep up. I recently finished Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh and Paul Harding's Tinkers. Currently wrapping up Delilo's White Noise (because how can I dare claim to be specializing in 20th Cent. American and contemporary fiction without having read that!?) and looking at picking up Camus' The Stranger once I finish. Also, I've been making efforts at starting On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction by Brian Boyd, but so far I'm only a couple chapters in. With sparse opportunities for reading, I seem to get less theoretical reading done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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