read any good books lately...

Berlin Alexanderplatz fertig, now on to this.



Quite very excited.

Originally posted by The Truth Starting this: It's already starting to challenge me.

Whilst reading this I've interspersed it with The Kite Runner as a school assignment, The Divine Comedy because I felt the urge to read it and The Dark Knight Returns because I need some comic book every once in awhile.

This actually marks an incredibly depressing event for me. Vonnegut overshadows every other author in my life by miles. I've been petrified of reading this ever since he died. It had been the only work he published which I have not read. I guess it was a way of keeping him alive. Now I'll never read a new Vonnegut work.

It's a fitting end to the man's life for me though. This has legitimate claim to being his best work. Classic Vonnegut tackling the meaning of life, religion, free-will, and the human condition.

Somedays I sit down just wanting to quickly read the first chapter of Slaughterhouse, and I find myself just reading the whole damn thing without noticing. 

Edited by Equality 7-2521 - March 06 2012 at 13:44

I've been hearing bad stuff about it. 

Originally posted by The Quiet One Almost half-way trough:

I have not. If you remember the name of it, then please tell. I would like to purchase it. 

Today began:

Finished Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and I think I'll leave the other two books as future episodes. Really enjoyable, it seems I'm having a good time with the detective / spy genre (so far Chandler, le Carré and a book by Ambler I also recall); I even was in the embarrasing mood to take my time and read much of the book out loud. Apart from one big conversation that I thought was stretched for too many chapters, I had no major gripe with it; all the steps seem to be accounted for. The adaptation, I now reflect upon, can be called, shall we say, genuine.

Picking up either a Soseki Natsume or a short stories collection by Muriel Spark next.