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What book(s) are you reading now?

flying through The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene! also reading some poetry:

Versed in Country Things by Robert Frost
 
^ I thought The Magus was a very strange book indeed.

I just finished The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga . I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book!
 
The last English book I read was Shantaram. It's about a guy who escapes from an Australian prison to India. It's part fact part fiction. The story is really good, guy ends up in a slum, works for the mob and goes to jihad in Afghanistan. Really amazing stuff.

PS: He is also an (ex-)junkie
 
..AND another thing (the 6th book in the thitchiker's guide to the galaxy trilogy, written with permisiion of dpuglas adams spouse after his death..good so far)
 
^ I thought Mostly Harmless really ended the series well and I definitely have no desire to read a Hitchhiker's book not written by him. No idea why his wife sanctioned it.

I'm reading a James A. Michener book. I often find that Michener merely writes functionally but every now and then there's paragraphs with flair. The shear scope of some of his books spanning millenia and hundreds of characters and perspective is nothing short of amazing. The hours the man must have spent in libraries around the world researching is mind boggling.

Michener is probably half the reason I went to Alaska a few years ago and I was constantly thinking of the men he wrote about walking up and down mountains in the ice and snow with back killing loads only to die poor on gold fields, me feeling like I was going to die in Summer with just 5 days worth of food.

The book I'm reading is Iberia which is a non-fiction book on his many travels through Spain; what the country means to him and why.

I swear between Orwell, Hemingway, and Michener I'll never have to go to Spain I know it so well :)
 
Currently I'm reading Then We Came To The End by Joshua Ferris , his first novel.

The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris is supposed to be a great read.
 
jude101 said:
I began Foucalt's Pendelum - the english version - about five chapters in and starting to get absorbed by it.
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I really loved it and there's a great payoff but I definitely don't know if I'd ever reread. More so than in his other books Eco gets the story really bogged down in pages upon pages of esotericism. I understand there's a point to it just like Easton Ellis describing what every character's wearing in minute detail in every scene in American Psycho but it gets tedious in points.
 
Survivor and Diary are both good ones. Choke is probably my favorite book by Chuck Palahniuk with Invisible Monsters as a close second
 
Bought Post Office by Charles Bukowski yesterday. Read it in a matter of hours. Going back for more of his soon:)

Also picked up Songs of the Doomed by H.S.T. Having read most of his stuff at this stage it seems like a re-hash of much of his previous work, but I still enjoy it.
 
I'll be finishing Transition by Iain Banks tonight. It's alright, although I have some issues with it on a technical level.
 
Stephen King's The Dark Tower: the Gunslinger...
next: Stephen King The Dark Tower II: The drawing of the three
 
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