Favorite books / What are you reading?

Reading "What Every BODY is Saying" by Joe Navarro. A really interesting book about human body language.
 
Reading some journal Herzog wrote while hitchhiking from Munich to Paris. Weird stuff. I don't think he's such a good writer. At least compared to his directing...
 
I’ve read - The Road - three times, but there is still something about the way Cormac McCarthy writes that irritates me, I always feel like his books are glorified film scripts, but regardless - Blood Meridian - 1985 – is his best work IMO…
 
.Pixote. said:
I’ve read - The Road - three times, but there is still something about the way Cormac McCarthy writes that irritates me
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Agreed. Found the writing style really annoying - I get what he was trying to do and, in a way, it worked... Still annoying though.
 
McCarthy writes like that a lot. Post-modernism and all that jazz. I'm rather fond of it, myself. I read All The Pretty Horses in HS and promptly proceeded to use that style as often as possible, much to teachers love/hate.
 
PainlessDocM said:
I didn't like the movie, they turned Clay into an anti drug protagonist/advocate. Made little sense to me:)
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Hmm...I didn't get that from the movie, actually. I'll pay more attention to it if I watch it again.
 
I think Cormac Macarthy was trying to win a pulitzer with "The Road". His choice of language was less than believable for the situation, rather he was trying to use more 'big words" than was necessary to tell the story in order to turn his work of fiction into "literature".

I liked most of the story, but dont think it was pulitzer worthy.


As for what I am reading, I just finished a few books on Civil War Ironclads and now I am reading The Sword and the Shield. It is about a huge archive of KGB documents that were smuggled out to the west by a defector who spent 12 years compiling them.

In the forward alone, there were some interesting Fallout-esque tidbits. The KGB has admitted that they set up arms and radio caches in the continental USA to support sabotage operations in the event of war. The specific locations have not been revealed for 'public" safety, but one general location has been given as Brainard Minnesota (of Fargo movie fame)

WPD
 
Reading - "Sex For Dummies" by Dr. Ruth Westheimer. Don't know if it makes me a sex dummy, but i certainly didn't know about quite a few things explained in that book. Most of it is pretty fundamental, but all in all it's a good and educational read.
 
Finished Stephen King's The Stand, wicked read, but nothing wildly new. It is an old novel now.

Also reading Alex Garland's The Beach, which I've never read before, only seen the movie. It's a thoroughly enjoyable read, if a little quick, and needless to say better than the movie.

Next up for me is Michael Crichton's Pirate Latitudes a new novel by my favourite, set in 1665, which I find very odd for Crichton and, to be honest, I'm unusre what to expect.
 
Sorry no time to check but if no-one has mentioned it, Stephen Kings Dark Tower is fucking awesome, so far Ive hated every book he has written but this is awesome and 100% postapoc.
 
Forgotten empire: The world of Ancient Persia (J. E Curtis, N. Tallis.)

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A romantic depiction of the 'lost Mesopotamian empire':

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http://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Empire-World-Ancient-Persia/dp/0520247310
 
Just finished Iain M. Banks' "State Of The Art" short stories collection, now moved on to his "Player Of Games" -
read all of his other Culture novels, but for some reason never got to reading that. As it's the last one not yet read by me I figured I should go for it. After that I'm going to be waiting for his next book coming out in early 2011
 
Just finnished Black Hawk Down which I really liked. And for school I'm about to read The Scarlet letter which is going to be awful, and its required. :(
 
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer.

For those who want to know what happened to Tillman this is a pretty good book.
 
"Zeer" by T.C. Meereboer. Dutch short stories in a special, somewhat experimental style. Enjoyable, but nothing more.
 
Stiff, and Spook, both by Mary roach.

Tokyo Vice by Jack Adelstein.

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.

The Science of Superstition by Bruce M. Hood.
 
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