What are you reading?

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Simple question really...

What books are you currently reading, and are they any good?



I am reading "The last samurai" by Helen DeWitt. I saw it in a bargain bin at a bookstore and it sounded pretty interesting. So far it's really good. It's hard to describe though.. I picked it up because of it's connection to the film "The seven samurai".

I am also reading "Aberystwyth" by Malcolm Pryce. It's an interesting book which takes place in Wales. I like Wales and my girlfriend highly recommended it. I only just started it though.

Here are some links to more info on both, if anyone is interested:

¬ The Last Samurai
¬ Aberystwyth

[Deus13]

I generally read on and off, lately:

Kushiels Dart by Jacqueline Carey
Dantes Inferno

[maruchan]

I dont know who to read.... ....

[Green]

I am reading "The last samurai"

Tom Cruise is starring in a movie by the same name. I wonder if its based on this book.

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Originally posted by Green
I am reading "The last samurai"

Tom Cruise is starring in a movie by the same name. I wonder if its based on this book.

Aaack!!




Well that sucks, I hope to hell it's not the same as the book...

[Shooting Love]

I'm a very slow reader, so I can only indulge in a few books a year.
Last week I just finished Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. As with the other Fitzgerald books I've read, I gleaned some insights into another time, and was given many character traits and symptoms of the human condition to consider. The first few chapters may have one think the story is to follow Rosemary - a young movie star coming of age, ..aw crap, I ain't no good at synopsis'
The book's about Dr.Dick Diver and his marriage to his crazy wife/patient and the slice of life that surrounds them.
I can't recommend it to anyone -because if you're going to read Fitzgarald then you probably already know what you like to read.
I particularly enjoy his command of the language and use of arcane vocabulary that requires me to pick up the dictionary every couple pages or so. His work is also known for distinct (if not arcane, also) imagery and symbolism -as very well displayed in Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of The Great Gatsby.

Currently I'm moving through A Movable Feast. Hemmingway surely isn't sinking in like when I read For Whom the Bell Tolls, or The Sun Also Rises. My brain just doesn't sync with the rythm and expression of his writing. A freind saw I was reading Green Hills of Africa so he passed along a copy of Moveable Feast. So far I learned that Gertrude Stein was a lesbian, and that hunger is good discipline. Oh, and that the lost generation was coined by Stein after a mechanic was yelled at by his patron:
"You are all a generation perdue"

and she tell Hemmingway
"..All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation. ..You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death..."
overall; A Movable Feast should be very enlightening in regards to the expatriots and life in France during the 20's

my next book has already been assigned to me
but I forget what it's called, something written in the mid 80's that's all I remember -that, and the enthusiasm of the girl who's passing it along

[Jimmy Carter]

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
The Almanac of American History (excellent!)
The Last Two Million Years (human history book)
Let Freedom Ring by Sean Hannity

[Doug Branches]

i just got done reading george carlins two books

[Green]

Aaack!!

The guy who directed Glory is directing it. They're aiming at a Dances with Wolves but with Samurai. You don't think of good dramatic actor when you think of Kevin Costner, but he did fine with DwW....

[Hero]

Just Wheel of Time right now. The third book, The Rising Shadow, is a doozy.

edit: wait, maybe that's the fourth book...?