OT: What are you reading?

Nice!…and good luck!

thanks! and this too, just for fun

excellent pastiche

as I was saying…Excellent pastiche.

the idiot by fyodor dostoevsky

I just finished the TV show “Berlin Alexanderplatz” by RW Fassbinder and by so much beauty, I wanted
to discover the book of Alfred Döblin.

Can’t seem to get away from Bond.

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Finishing Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

I really should reread Tender is the Night. It has been years!. LOVE Fitzgerald.

The Washing Of The Spears

:O fred & ginger solve crimes?!?

I am going to read a number of Warren Beatty biographies (re-read) as soon as I pick em up at library, at the moment I keep rereading this:

my favorite all time book of criticism

Jumping between Jean Genet’s Querelle and shorts of Anton Chekov.

The Rings of Saturn by W.G.Sebald

I’m nearly half way through The Rings of Saturn and it’s great- England-based German writer/academic WG Sebald, who died aged 56/7 in a car crash in 2001, recalls travels round Suffolk in the East of England, while leading us off on personal reminiscences, international and historical tangents that take in Rembrandt, WW2 slaughter of Serbs (with reminder of the role played by Kurt Waldheim), Joseph Conrad, King Leopold and the Congo slavery holocaust/genocide, Roger Casement’s execution as a traitor by the British…. Each chapter is rich, rewarding and gives plenty of room for thought, so i’m finding a break is in order after each, while looking forward to the next unpredictable destination…

After the HBO series, I read George R. R. Martin’s A GAME OF THRONES, and am now nearing the end of A CLASH OF KINGS, the second in the SONG OF ICE AND FIRE series. Great adventure story, good solid fun, almost impossible to stop reading.

I fear I’m going to be reading the entire series.

I’ve only read The Emigrants and Vertigo, kenji, but Sebald is a tremendous writer. Someone (along with D.M. Thomas) who I’ve been meaning to come back to.

@ Roscoe

I’ve kind of resistant to fantasy as a genre, but I’ve been kind of circling that series for a while.

A History of the French New Wave Cinema by Richard Neupert (autographed :D).