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What book(s) are you reading now?

I am currently reading material for my English degree - at the moment I am reading Chaucer's Canterbury Tales which is fantastically entertaining once one has mastered the minor language differences. Oxford World Classics do a modern English verse edition which is brilliant.

I am also reading various poems from the Norton Anthology of Poetry which is incredibly dull. I find it hard to come to terms with the fact that it contains 1828 poems and not a single one by Spike Milligan! :-O
 
^yea, as far as shit i really was not looking forward to having to read goes, Canterbury Tales was pretty good. i did not read the whole thing though, because we only got assigned specific chunks of it.
 
hydroazuanacaine said:
^yea, as far as shit i really was not looking forward to having to read goes, Canterbury Tales was pretty good. i did not read the whole thing though, because we only got assigned specific chunks of it.
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Well you got a lucky escape then cos most of the tales ARE shit. The Knight's Tale sucks hairy balls and it was the only one which got made into a blockbuster film! :p

The Miller's Tale is excellent, with the fucking and farting in faces and so is the Reeve's Tale cos the characters kind of have a sex orgy by accident. :D
 
Some one on BL recommended Scar tissue, the auto biography from Anthony Kiedis so I bought it used the other day. Its a pretty good book, fast paced, keeps your interest and funny.
 
I'm beginning reading Permanent Midnight by Jerry Stahl (yes, the book from which the famous films was made).
 
Re-reading Winter of Our Discontent...I've gotten on a bit of a Steinbeck kick recently, and haen't been able to find my copy of Cannery Row. Definitely one of those books where you can get more out of it from multiple readings.

Next up; Tortilla Flat.
 
One Against Herculum by Jerry Sohl


It's a 1950s Science Fiction novel, really cheap. I found it somewhere. I love old science fiction and I really do not like new science fiction. I love that the writers back then had no idea that to get to 2030 you had to go through the 1980s and 1990s and 2000s and so on, so in their books it's all of 1950s culture with its idiosyncrasies and idioms, just transplanted onto a far away planet of some sort. really love that.

I have a collection of photocopied writings of Gertrude Stein which I examine closely any time I need something to really wrap my brain around.

All in all a good mix.
 
I've been reading a good bit of O'Connor lately. I love everything about her stories, her characters, the ironic humor, and especially her starkly violent endings. And, oh god, the allegory. Also, I started Brave New World by Huxley. SO far its been pretty good.
 
Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden, very interesting for anyone interested in learning a little bit about Colombian drug-gang culture. Very interesting ending as well. Highly recommended to all BLers.
 
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