Now reading (The Book Thread)

Finally getting around to reading - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert. M Pirsig
 
Pierre Bourdieu (1977). The Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge University Press.

Interesting take on anthropological theory with chapters like "The objective limits of objectivism."
 
Risen, Armstrong

Just finished: State of War, by James Risen.

Having waited so long to read this one—I picked it up as an afterthought at the library—it was understandably anticlimactic. The story about handing nuclear blueprints to the Iranians is even better than the excerpt we looked at last year. Still, though, it seems to lack some punch.

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Currently reading: The Bible: A Biography, by Karen Armstrong.

Reading through the introduction and first chapter, it's enough to say she's in rhythm. It's shaping up to be an excellent read.
 
Pretty quiet here!
Last night I read The Road by Cormac McCarthy, which won a Pulitzer Prize last year. Not a comfortable book, I found it confronting and stark. However, I couldn't put it down, literally finished it in one sitting. I recommend it, but not if you have a weak stomach!
 
Bricoleur said:
Pretty quiet here!
Last night I read The Road by Cormac McCarthy, which won a Pulitzer Prize last year. Not a comfortable book, I found it confronting and stark. However, I couldn't put it down, literally finished it in one sitting. I recommend it, but not if you have a weak stomach!
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That was a great book! I loved it! I blasted through it pretty quick as well. I hear it is being made into a movie!
 
Oh, I'm currently reading "Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates", by Tom Robbins. I'm really liking it so far. Lots of humor and a lot of the characters have great personalities. The story seems to jump all over the place at first with no end or meaining in sight, but it all starts to get strangely entwined towards the end. I've got about 75 pages or so left. This will be one of those books that I will be sad to be done with.
 
skaught said:
Oh, I'm currently reading "Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates", by Tom Robbins. I'm really liking it so far. Lots of humor and a lot of the characters have great personalities. The story seems to jump all over the place at first with no end or meaining in sight, but it all starts to get strangely entwined towards the end. I've got about 75 pages or so left. This will be one of those books that I will be sad to be done with.
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I've read 3 of his so far, and love them! Funny in a bent sort of way!
 
Familiarity

I always read through familiar works when I'm getting ready to do some writing. In this case, it's rewriting, but still ....

So I just read Steven Brust's Issola and Dzur back-to-back. I think Jack Cady's Inagehi is next. It's been a while. Probably a decade, at least.

And then ... who knows? Probably Matt Pallamary's Spirit Matters, since I've had that sitting around for nine months without even opening it. I can't really say. But since I'm going to see him in February, I figure I probably should finish reading at least one of his books.
 
I was going to read Still Life years ago, but I wasn't into that kind of literature back then. Might give it a second chance now.
 
The Lost Fleet by Jack Cambell. I'm almost done with book 4, and now I find out there are to be two more and the next one's not out till May.
 
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