What Are You Reading?

[Tinuviel]

^ Sounds interesting, Catcher in the Rye is one of my faves.
Who's it by?

 

[Ella]

^Bret Easton Ellis I believe...

 

[Curious]

^ Bret Easton Ellis writes crazy sh*t!! You'll definitely love his books if you liked Catcher and the Rye.

I haven't read "Less than Zero", but there's a Robert Downey Jr. movie of the same title based on the book from the 80s. It's a great movie if slightly depressing. It also stars James Spader heart: ), Jamie Gertz and Andrew McCarthy. THE A-list stars of the 80s!! Now they call it life imitating art in Robert Downey's case. Interesting! You should check out the movie when you finish the book.

 

[czilla]

Oh wow! I've seen that movie... His friends go off to college, and Robert Downey spirals out of control bc of drug problems and is forced into male prostitution to make back the money? It was a pretty A list movie for the time, but what a dark one. Then again, Ellis is good with the excesses of the 80s.

 

[Bonchic]

I'm reading....

War and Peace and Between a Rock and a Hard Place <by Aron Ralston

 

[twilight fairy]

To Kill a Mocking Bird ~ Harper Lee.

 

[angelanna]

To Kill a Mocking Bird ~ Harper Lee.

love that

 

[Bonchic]

I'm reading these books

 

[fouroclock]

L. M. Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables
Karl Marx and Friedrich (sp?) Engels - The Communist Manifesto

 

[lostgirl]

I just started Paradse Alley by Kevin Baker.

 

[sonjanicky29]

I just finished the The Good Earth(Great book)I just started The Last of the Mohicans(sp?)Anyone read it before?

Sonja

 

[acester]

Johnothan Strange & MR Norrell

anyone read it?

So far it seems quite interesting

 

[heykitten]

Microserf by Douglas Coupland, he is my favourite author.

 

[ThisHollywoodLfe]

Cruddy by Lynda Barry

 

[Yppe]

I'm reading The city of the prodigies, by Eduardo Mendoza

 

[oStelios]

-drugs in chemioterapy
-de sade : opere

 

[faust]

Joyce's Finnegans Wake for the 19th time, I'm starting to question how one can ever lay the book to rest. ""The only demand I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works". is making sense now.

Voluntery torture.

Anil's Ghost - Michael Ondaatje

 

[czilla]

^ I love Ondaatje.. He's such a graceful writer.. from the English Patient,

"I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian, a bit of a pedant, who imagines or remembers a meeting when the other had passed by innocently, just as Clifton might have opened a car door for you a year earlier and ignored the fate of his life. But all parts of the body must be ready for the other, all atoms must jump in one direction for desire to occur." ...Mhm.

 

[secondly]

9 stories by Salinger

 

[LilyGirl]

I loved it too. Have you read her other book, The Little Friend? I haven't heard the best reviews, but I'm going to read it anyway.

secret history is fabulous, but little friend was disappointing. started out promising then went downhill from there. I wonder why it took her like 10 years to write it?

just finished the alienist. a must read for historical fiction/mystery lovers.