What Are You Currently Reading?

[Cyvaris]

Codex Alera for me, more specifically Academ's Fury the second book. I haven't had this much fun reading something in a long time.

[caveman]

Originally Posted by Mother of the Forest

What's Naked Lunch about?

Hey. Sorry I'm only just responding to this. Naked Lunch is about a drug addict who travels around American during the late 1950's. It is an extremely difficult text, mainly because of the abstract themes and the use of atypical vocabulary. Honestly, I only made it half-way through the book before I gave up.

Recently, however, I finished Pale Fire by my favorite author, Vladimir Nabokov. Following that, by popular demand, I decided to read The Hunger Games.

[Moco Loco]

Finished Eldest, FCK YEAH

And it's about damn time, I think this is my third post about it. It's good, but I have an awful habit of reading many books at once. I'll try to read Brisingr straight through

[txim_asawl]

Originally Posted by Fighter-of-Wars

The final book of The Hunger Games series. It's called Mockingjay I'm really liking it so far.

Just finished the first book of that trilogy, now starting the second one, "Catching Fire"... Haven't seen the movie as yet, though... I am a bit reluctant, watching novel adaptations, since I have had bad experience with it, for instance with "The Neverending Story", which is a great book, but turned out to be adapted into, well, crap, really... the author, the late Michael Ende, was furious, when seeing the first movie, demanding of the producers to remove any reference to his novel, since the movie was too far away from what he originally wrote...

Wiggling bare toes,

~*Txim Asawl*~

[Human No More]

Originally Posted by Moco Loco

Finished Eldest, FCK YEAH

And it's about damn time, I think this is my third post about it. It's good, but I have an awful habit of reading many books at once. I'll try to read Brisingr straight through

Keep going

[txim_asawl]

OK, finished Book no. 2 of "The Hunger Games", now on to the final part, entitled "Mockingjay"... Well, Katniss truly has an interesting life... and bleeds a lot, too, the poor girl.

Wiggling bare toes,

~*Txim Asawl*~

[Moco Loco]

Very nearly done Brisingr. Finishing a book in less than two weeks? Who am I? Seriously, I need to stop reading more than one book at a time.

[Human No More]

I managed Inheritance in a day, in two sittings. It's that good.

[The Man in Black]

Almost done with The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. No relation to the movie, it's a philosophy book with an incredible amount of connection to day to day life (probably why it's a NY Times bestseller).

This book is absolutely worth reading. It's basically asserting that "black swans" are unpredictable events with extremely large consequences. It tears apart the notion of forecasting and accurate predicting, it addresses chaos theory among others, and it proves that our world is more defined by the unknown rather than what we think we know.

I'm already starting on my "antilibrary", a main recommendation of this book. Truly, if you are attempting to gain knowledge, then the books you have not read are much more important than what you have. We shouldn't go through life searching for things that confirm our already narrow-minded beliefs!

[iron_jones]

I'm currently taking a look through:
"Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death"

I find it interesting how poets on the verge of death were able to be so descriptive and captivate such beauty in only 17 syllables.

[caveman]

Originally Posted by iron_jones

I'm currently taking a look through:
"Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death"

I find it interesting how poets on the verge of death were able to be so descriptive and captivate such beauty in only 17 syllables.

Interesting. Iron Jones if you enjoyed that, you might be interested in this:

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Penguin Classics): Matsuo Basho,Nobuyuki Yuasa: 9780140441857: Amazon.com: Books

It's a series of travel records by the famous Japanese Haiku writer, Basho. It was written in a time when the open countryside was so dangerous from threats of disease, starvation, animal attacks and highwaymen, that to just "wander," which is what he did, was considered a death-wish.

[iron_jones]

Originally Posted by caveman

Interesting. Iron Jones if you enjoyed that, you might be interested in this:

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Penguin Classics): Matsuo Basho,Nobuyuki Yuasa: 9780140441857: Amazon.com: Books

It's a series of travel records by the famous Japanese Haiku writer, Basho. It was written in a time when the open countryside was so dangerous from threats of disease, starvation, animal attacks and highwaymen, that to just "wander," which is what he did, was considered a death-wish.

That looks interesting. Thanks!

[Clarke]

Game of Thrones!

[caveman]

Originally Posted by Clarke

Game of Thrones!

I'm on page 700, so almost done. It's a great book and a great series though.

[Empty Glass]

I just finished The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon. I had no knowledge of it until it was more or less given to me by a relative stranger while hiking, and it ended up being a pretty good read about outsiders' ventures into South America in the early 20th century. There are quite a few things within it that would be of interest to fans of Avatar, I think.