Summer reading

welsh

welsh

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What are you reading this summer?

Currently I am reading the Club Dumas. If you haven't seen the film wth Johnny Depp, read the book first.

I am also looking for a read that is part hard-boiled detective and part lovecraftian. Any suggestions?
 
Right now I'm reading Get in the Van by Henry Rollins. It's a diary of his time on the road with Black Flag, a seminal hardcore band in the 1980s.

I'm actually looking for the same thing, Welsh. If you find anything let me know.
 
*slap*

Hardcore-Punk band, Malky.

No ideas about the detective story, I enjoy pratchett novels for an entertaining, easy read, mostly between art history scripts.
 
What?

Hardcore. Black Flag is hardcore. There's no such thing as "hardcore-punk."
 
Rereading War & Peace, then I'll pick up Barrington Moore's piece on democracy and dictatorships.

Tolstoy is beginning to annoy me with his arrogant remarks about historians. What a fuckhead.

There are no good detective stories beyond Holmes and a stack of Frenchies.
 
Just bought a whole bunch of Gore Vidal novels. Kalki, Burr, Myra Breckinridge, The Judgement Of Paris, Washington D.C., Creation, Empire, Two Sisters, a couple more. Should keep me busy for a while.

Yeah, I like reading "oeuvres"... :)
 
King of Creation said:
I just started reading Song of Susannah
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You bastard!
Mine's not got here yet.
Don't you dare tell me any thing. LALALALALALA!!!

Back to Welsh's question. I'm currently re-reading the Assassin's Apprentice series by Robin Hobb. I might re-read the Last Rune series by Mark Anthony.
And, yes, I'm awaiting delivery o the latest Dark Tower masterpiece.
I've also got a pile of Penguin Classics that I got on the cheap that I could do with reading.
 
I'm re-reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. As soon as I can afford it I'm going to get a copy of Hybrids by Robert J. Sawyer. I've read Hominids and Humans already, and am very much looking forward to the third book.
 
alec said:
Just bought a whole bunch of Gore Vidal novels. Kalki, Burr, Myra Breckinridge, The Judgement Of Paris, Washington D.C., Creation, Empire, Two Sisters, a couple more. Should keep me busy for a while.
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*explodes in Blade's face*

Gore Vidal is in the guy who was all for the "myth" of cambodian genocide in the '70s?

I'm about to start The Virgin Suicides, but I'm going thru a book of Lovecraft short stories right now, and finnished Middlesex, now one of my favorite books, the other day.
 
I actually started reading Stephen King's "Everything's Eventual". Picked it up in Barnes and Noble for 5 bucks.
 
I still don't like the title of Middlesex, it makes me think of the geographical location. Misleading, that.

Anyway, I decided to get back so some original English comedy, after attending a very entertaining performance of She Stoops to Conquer. So, I am just about to read Tom Jones by Henry Fielding. After that, I have Jennifer Government by Max Barry.
 
Kotario said:
I still don't like the title of Middlesex, it makes me think of the geographical location. Misleading, that.
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Yeah, it is.

But it's a great book. Ever read/seen The Virgin Suicides? Eugenedies wrote that too.
 
I'm reading Naiv Super, by a Norwegian guy called Erlend Loe. It's a good book, though I like his children's books better.
 
Yes, I've read them both, and I liked them. Not to the extent you seem to, CCR, but I felt they were worthwhile novels. "Seen?" Do you mean as in to see the book, or is there a movie (an adaptation I don't see working well)?

Forgot to mention, I also picked up the latest translation of Don Quixote, as it looked quite good. Unfortunately I don't remember the translator off-hand, and the novel is buried under a pile of wires at the moment.
 
Norman Davies "Europe: A history", and after that I'll start reading some Dostoewskij and Tolstoy again.
 
Currently reading 'Count Zero' by William Gibson, then will finish off the Neuromancer trilogy with 'Mona Lisa Overdrive'.

Might re-read the Hitchhiker's series if I feel like it and maybe read Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards!.

Also will probably be re-reading the Eddas and maybe finally get around to reading A Canticle for Liebowitz.
 
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