Currently Reading (Take 2)- Page 5

[gustof777]

Posted: 6/20/09 at 11:40pm

I just finished Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis. I loved it and read it straight through in a day and a half. Very quick read. Amazing but INCREDIBLY depressing. I can't believe he was only twenty or so when he wrote it. I'm curious about the film adaptation.

Next up. The Bell Jar...I know, I know. Someone hand me the Zoloft.

Updated On: 6/20/09 at 11:40 PM

[TimesSquareRegular]

Posted: 6/20/09 at 11:42pm

Finally getting around to THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 6/21/09 at 12:16am

Just finished "The Legs Are The Last To Go" by Diahann Carroll. A fun read and now I'm onto "Wishful Drinking" by Carrie Fisher. Another fun one.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 6/21/09 at 12:29am

Goodbye, Columbus, by Philip Roth. LOVED the novella, not so much digging the short stories. But we'll see.

Just finished Slaughterhouse Five, which I found utterly fascinating, but I didn't like it quite as much as I loved Cat's Cradle, which I more or less wanted to marry.

[shh282]

Posted: 6/21/09 at 12:29am

The gingerbread lady by Neil Simon

My mom has those huge volumes with 7 Neil Simon works per book - I just started Vol 2.

[degrassifan]

Posted: 6/21/09 at 12:39am

Pride & Prejudice.

I've seen the 2005 movie version more than 20 times; I've seen bits and pieces of the 1995 version; I've seen the version from the 1940s; and I saw it more than three times on Wishbone when I was younger. I know the basic story, but I feel like I might as well read the novel itself.

[xoangel2789xo]

Posted: 6/22/09 at 4:32pm

I just bought The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. I'm not that far into it yet.

Before that I read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, which I enjoyed.

And I really want to re-read The Great Gatsby. I think it's time I get a library card...

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 6/22/09 at 4:48pm

I'm about three-quarters of the way through "Olive Kitteredge," which recently won the Pulitzer. A novel told in thirteen separate short stories. Really enjoying it. The title character is objectionable in so many ways, but you can't wait for her to come back onstage--and she's often peripheral to the story being told.

[Plum]

Posted: 6/22/09 at 5:50pm

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami

[Dollypop]

Posted: 6/22/09 at 6:10pm

THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway.

Do these characters do anything other than drink?

Geeze, after reading this novel I feel that I should enroll in
a 12 Step Program!

[BroadwayGuy12]

Posted: 6/22/09 at 6:45pm

Shopgirl by Steve Martin

[AC126748]

Posted: 6/23/09 at 5:11pm

On Beauty by Zadie Smith and Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf.

[lesmis]

Posted: 6/25/09 at 3:58pm

I am currently reading Les Miserables, but just ordered Silver Shoes from Amazon. A lot of the books mentioned here sound really good. One I enjoyed and recommend is My Most Excellent Year; A story of Love, Mary Poppins and Fenway Park

[MotorTink]

Posted: 7/20/09 at 7:05pm

I just finished Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski. It was a suggestion by a friend who loved it. I thought it was an OK read but was not impressed. Maybe she built it up too much. Is Bukowski's other works like Ham on Rye? Any others I should try to give him another shot?

[uncageg]

Posted: 7/20/09 at 7:38pm

Shopgirl was good.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 7/20/09 at 8:11pm

Kathryn Stockett's The Help

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[danmag]

Posted: 7/21/09 at 7:51am

Olive Kittredge by Elizabeth Strout. Excellent!!

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 7/21/09 at 9:16am

Danmag, I read it a few weeks ago. Isn't it wonderful?

[danmag]

Posted: 7/21/09 at 10:06am

I really loved it, Reg. I had read Amy and Isabelle before, but I think I liked this one even better!

[clever name]

Posted: 7/21/09 at 10:22am

I'm reading Duma Key because everyone I know liked that book. I'm only on the first few chapters but I'm already involved.

[Leia947]

Posted: 7/21/09 at 10:41am

"Lamb: The Gospel According to Christ's Childhood Pal, Biff" by Christopher Moore.

It's my 5th time reading it. Honestly the funniest book I've ever read. Passed it on to 7 different people and they all loved it. Anything by Christopher Moore is great though.

Also reading "Overcoming Binge Eating" by Dr. Christopher Fairburn. It's insightful, helpful and surprisingly spot on to all of my issues.

[Weez]

Posted: 7/21/09 at 11:11am

I read Duma Key the other week, and loved it! It's one of those great books where you need to know what happens, but you don't want it to end. Which is also frustrating, but I'll take it. I'll have to read it again some time. :)

Just finished Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult. Am now moving onto Richard II by William Shakespeare. It occurred to me that I haven't seen or read any version of it since May last year, so I thought I ought to go back and remind myself what happened. A lot of men throwing gloves around, iirc.

[Blair]

Posted: 7/21/09 at 1:51pm

I just finished What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt. AMAZING. I couldn't put it down and ended up reading it all in one day. It's the first novel in a long time that's made me want to read everything the author has ever written. Interestingly enough, the last time that happened was with Paul Auster, her husband.

Now, I'm reading Jane Eyre and loving it.

[zepka102]

Posted: 7/21/09 at 1:57pm

Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea.

Finished it this weekend. I can't think of anyone funnier than Chelsea Handler.

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 7/21/09 at 1:58pm

Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn't by Stephen Prothero

Intensely interesting. It discusses the fact that America is the most religious yet the least religiously educated Western nation. It is not just that Americans are ignorant to world religions, but most know nothing about their own. Prothero calls religious illiteracy dangerous because religion is one of the greatest forces for good--as well as evil--in the world.