The ending was tedious to read.

Salinger's kind of boring. Then again, who am I to talk? I adore wordy folks like Updike and Nabokov.

Salinger's greatest achievement still is The Catcher in the Rye.

How are you gmku by the way?

I felt like I need to read Nine Stories too to get the whole spectrum of events.

I like Salinger. He takes an extremely long timeline, breaks off one seemingly insignificant, albeit an interesting, portion and writes a book on it. You get the feeling that a better story could have been written about things that happened before or after the book's story. I know that makes it sound bad, but I actually like a lackluster story, as long as it was meant to be so.

Yeah, I've only read Catcher but I think you could say that about that book. For example what happens after the end, he's clearly had a break down but how does it turn out for him, like school etc. Of course I know it's better not to know and the point of the book would be lost and true writers don't write books as if they could tell you what happened afterwards.

diary of a madman & other stories-gogol

rereading popism adter japrocksampler which is good although i hate julian cope with a passion.

Fight Club
Good Omens
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

I finished Fight Club. It was okay, I didn't care for the writing style too much.

I read "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane" and 100 pages of Good Omens today. Good Omens is great. Think Hitchhikers' Guide except dealing with angels, demons, and the end of the world.

i dislike the art, but fuck if it isn't good writing-- for comics, it's way above average

Incidentally, Good Omens is co-written by Neil Gaiman. You might like it.

ah! what a coincidence. on top of that a friend of mine is reading some gaiman novels. i didnt know the guy was a writer-- you know, without pictures (ha). i'll make a note of that, thanks! (and sorry, tried repping, but no luck)

I just finished Crime and Punishment on Monday, and I started in on The Count Of Monte Cristo last night. To make a switch like this takes almost a major overhaul of the mind. While Crime and Punishment makes you think, The Count of Monte Cristo simply entertains. Which is fine by me; it's nice to have a break once in a while and just read a great story.

I will be starting The Hobbit tonight probably.

I read The Zoo Story by Edward Albee. Good play.

Just started The Brothers Karamazov. Standard fare, so far.

I didn't start the Hobbit, although I did read one Sherlock Holmes short story and finish Good Omens (170 pages in about 5 hours). I highly recommend it to fans of the Hitchhiker's Guide series or those that just like humorous books that don't take themselves too seriously.

i'm half way through Moby Dick. s'alright

The God Gene

my beautiful anthropology teacher loaned it to me tonight after a discussion from last week's class. I want to make this woman have an affair.

Slapstick by Vonnegut

The Road

A Clockwork Orange

i have slapstick in my collection, but havent read it yet. I love vonnegut, but right now im taking a break from him. I read cats cradle, rosewater, dr kevorkian (which was hilarious), and slaughter-house five pretty much back to back. hes one of my favorite writers, but I need to read others

yeah, i battled through that one over the summer. im pretty sure it was worth it.

Leibniz's Theodicy and Homer's The Odyssey. It's almost uncanny.

I bought Trainspotting today and started The Hobbit last night.

Edit: Trainspotting is very difficult to read. All the Scottish slang and dialectic

Yeah, I stopped reading Trainspotting midway through. I might give it another try soon.

I managed 11 pages in 30 minutes. I'll get through it in about a week I guess...

I never get tired of Vonnegut, he's simply so entertaining and enjoyable.

Now reading The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene.

I finished The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes today and also read two short parodies of Holmes penned by Conan Doyle. That puts me as having read all the canonical Holmes works, I do believe. Also I managed a whopping 6 pages of Trainspotting before getting pissed off at loud people in the library. Next I believe I'll start either Lamb by Christopher Moore or perhaps something else. I think I might read Watchmen again...even though it's only been a couple of weeks or maybe pick up the 3 League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Okay, I'm finished buying books for a while.

Today's haul:
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal - Christoper Moore

I just recently finished W.O. Mitchell's "Who Has Seen The Wind". It's a pretty good book, kind of boring. It's about a young boy growing up in Saskatchewan in the late 19th/ early 20th century (not sure). He faces the hardships, and adventures of life. It's a pretty good book. But I've read better.

I'm definately getting some Vonnegut next, because I have heard so many good things about him. If I am let down, you all will pay :)

I have had little time to read in the past week, so I am only like 130 pages into The Count of Monte Cristo, but it is a really good story. Like I said before, not a brain twisters, just pure entertainment.

trainspotting is worth the work. you'll be fluent after a couple chapters, ken?

Every time I come to this thread and see this post, it just sounds awkward. I think my mind puts an 's after Moby.

I've finished "South of the border, west of the sun" by Murakami yesterday.
Next one to hit will probably be "Demian" by Herrmann Hesse. It's been waiting for me on the shelf for quite a while.

So, Lamb was fucking hilarious. Now that I'm done with that, I'm going to try to catch up for my class by finishing The Hobbit this weekend because we start Fellowship next week. Hopefully I can continue reading Trainspotting and start American Psycho next week as well.