OT: What are you reading?

Hank: That’s something I’ve always worried about when reading and it probably is better just going right through it.

I’m about to start The Shadow of the Wind soon.

Check out GoodReads to catalog your reading obsession! Several of The Auteurs members are on it already. :)

Criss-Cross a Newbery winner. Really good book that reminding me of Stand By Me.

Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
Orlando Furioso – Ludovico Ariosto

Right now I’m reading Thus Spake Zarathustra, which is one of my favourite books. I love reading it aloud to myself. Though I’m not sure if I like it better than some of Nietzsche’s other works like Beyond Good & Evil or Genealogy of Morality. He wrote so many great books – Antichrist & Twilight of the Idols are also great.

I’m also reading some big books on art with lots of pictures. I was into Renaissance art and now I’m looking more at 18-19th century stuff. I got to say, I much prefer Renaissance art to anything that has come after it. But maybe I haven’t looked hard enough yet.

I was given a copy of “New York Stories: Landmark Writing from Four Decades of New York Magazine” so that will be great intermittent winter reading.

A copy of “Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation” by Joseph J. Ellis awaits, along with “Burton” (about the explorer) by Byron Farwell.
I have yet to find the courage to crack open the doorstop titled “The Boer War” by Thomas Pakenham, but, being a “war buff”, I know I will get into it.

“The Ayatollah Begs to Differ”

I’m gaining an “insider’s view” of modern-day Iran. I’m going from ignorant to slightly aware.

I’m reading Georges Bataille.

currently reading Conquest of the Useless. After that – Inivsible Man and then Crime and Punishment.

for fun…. murakami’s norwegian wood
in the car / audio book… clarke’s 2001: a space odyssey
for school… breton’s manifestos on surrealism

all very interesting in their own way!!

“Black Lamb and Grey Falcon” by Rebecca West

The Man Who Was Thursday – G. K. Chesterton. Freaking insane and awesome.

Recently finished A Century of Cinema by Derek Malcolm.
Also went through a Japanese phase lately: Snow Country by Jasunari Kawabata, a book of short stories by Edogawa Rampo, Akira Kurosawa’s Something like an Autobiography.
Currently reading The Secret History of Lord Musashi by Junichiro Tanizaki.

If I get Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower VI by Stephen King) tomorrow or on sunday then I’ll start reading that one asap.

Or I continue with the audiobooks of Ernst-Hugo Järegård reading H.P. Lovecraft. (For swedes here: japp, det är så mäktigt som det låter haha. For non-swedes: He’s basically the voice of God and the Devil combined, so him readning Lovecraftian horror is about as awesome it can get while still holding on to your sanity)

Just to give you a taste of his voice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG9B50tmD9A

EDIT: okay one thing this forum needs is instructions on how to do links sigh

lots of library goodies to keep my eyes busy this month…

finishing up both Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle and Bukowski’s Women

also wrapped up nicely in a bunch of graphic novels…

fables 10
wet moon 4 and 5
X-men: the end
All star Superman ( quite possibly the greatest Superman adaption so far!! Frank Quitely is an amazing landscape illustrator!!)

the paper

“Unfriendly Fire” by Nathaniel Frank

Fascinating research embedded in this book. Ever wonder why presidents move so slowly on some campaign promises? There are so many levers in the government and a lot of hands pulling them one way or the other. Checks and balances, of course; but also machinations and power ploys.

The Rat by Günter Grass.

And TRAAG- I fucking love Vonnegut!

I’m reading
‘Trier on Von Trier’
‘The Granta Book of the American Short Story vol.1’
Nabokov’s ‘Ada or Ardor’
thinking about reading Murakami’s ‘Kafka on the Shore’ again as it’s lodged itself so deep in my mind.
and ‘Freud’ (as in Lucian)

I’m reading theauteurs – here’s the problem:

What the Internet is doing to our brains

Embers by Sandor Marai (FANTASTIC)

Just added On Ugliness to my Amazon wish list
Georges Bataille: I’m a strict Spinozian GL with Bataille

“Querelle de Brest” by Jean Genet. Really enjoyed the Fassbinder film and chose to read the book.

Ariel: The Restored Edition by Plath I’ve been glancing at here and there. :)

Mother Night By Kurt Vonnegut

Infinity – The Quest To Think The Unthinkable by Brian Clegg. My head hurts.

“Traumnovelle” and “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”.

All the Pretty Horses although I’m frequently distracted by The Waste Land and Other Poems