Thread: What are You Reading?

Heart of Darkness seemed to bypass some of my usual routes for understanding fiction....it was a disturbing short novel on a subconscious level.....Nabokov is another author who wrote in his second language (not his third) in an extraordinary way.

Originally Posted by diesel

I finished this yesterday and whilst it only took two sittings the house was rowdy and I had feared I was missing something which has prompted me to buy a cheap audio book from iTunes to listen to in the van to see if having it read to me changes my mind (Marlow's instant just add water relationship with Kurtz was causing me difficulty) . As a bonus it has a reading of "Youth" which is a great yarn and I am now inspired to read that and pretty much everything else he has written. So thanks WW243 for your post as he wasn't on my radar as a must read and who knows when I would have got around to him if ever.

Originally Posted by WW243

Heart of Darkness seemed to bypass some of my usual routes for understanding fiction....it was a disturbing short novel on a subconscious level.....Nabokov is another author who wrote in his second language (not his third) in an extraordinary way.

I had read that short story in University and wasn't taken with it, read it again several weeks ago and it still doesn't quite resonate with me.

My biggest surprise several weeks ago was reading Rudyard Kipling's, "The Man Who Would be King", another novella, wish it had never ended!

My wife reads nothing but Fiction is addicted to,Baldacchi (sp),I just finished a tome about Soviet prisoners in the death camps of Germany
Just started a book about the Ford family and Henry ford,would rather learn somthing factual than fiction,just my way.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

My wife reads nothing but Fiction is addicted to,Baldacchi (sp),I just finished a tome about Soviet prisoners in the death camps of Germany
Just started a book about the Ford family and Henry ford,would rather learn somthing factual than fiction,just my way.

Book I finished awhile ago was one of he best reads I had in a long time, non-fiction, so you may have read it, Richard Rhodes, "The Making of the Atomic Bomb". Was incredibly absorbing.

Originally Posted by Phrank

Book I finished awhile ago was one of he best reads I had in a long time, non-fiction, so you may have read it, Richard Rhodes, "The Making of the Atomic Bomb". Was incredibly absorbing.

I did read it, great book

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

I did read it, great book

Speaking of another excellent non-fiction book, a ways into, "Tales from the Tower of London" By Daniel Diehl,Mark P Donnelly. Incredibly interesting history of Tower of London.

"Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever", by Reed Albergotti and Vanessa O'Connell.

This book may well have soured me on any biography written after 1969 -- it's all about the authors' agenda, rather than about the person. I'd hoped to read about Lance's cycling... history, training, races, how-tos and tips. But no... dirt and smarmy innuendo. It's probably all true... so what.

I just finished reading "Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture" during my daily commute, I'm currently looking for the next commute book. At home, I am currently reading "The Anarchist Tool Chest" and "L'art du Menuisier Tome IV"

Originally Posted by JBHoren

"Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever", by Reed Albergotti and Vanessa O'Connell.

. I'd hoped to read about Lance's .... how-tos and tips. .

How to do what? Can Lance Armstrong speak with any authority on anything cycling related other than cheating?

One does read factual things reading fiction, facts about the human condition. Facts are not the sole ownership of non fiction. Further, non fiction often is simply the view of one person and their interpretation of earlier 'facts' and so on......

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

My wife reads nothing but Fiction is addicted to,Baldacchi (sp),I just finished a tome about Soviet prisoners in the death camps of Germany
Just started a book about the Ford family and Henry ford,would rather learn somthing factual than fiction,just my way.