Last book I read was After Dark by Haruki Murakami. What should I read next by him? Preferably something that is as good as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle or better.

I've just started in Handling The Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvist. So far it's alright but nowhere near as entertaining as Let the Right One In (that book is much better than the movie... and I really liked the movie).

wonderful book, the best one about North Korea I've read to date

I've read close to everything by him and I'd suggest either The Sheep Hunt or Norwegian Wood, if you liked After Dark. Especially Sheep Hunt might be up your alley.

Is it any good?

Yes. If you're interested I recommend you read Street's Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics first. Both give a really detailed analysis of Obama's conservative political views and how he very cleverly branded himself as a progressive to appeal to liberal voters.

The second book is a bit of an "I told you so". It covers the first year or so of Obama in power and how he has just continued and even intensified a lot (most?) of Bush's policies.

Street has been described as the new Chomsky and he certainly has Chomsky eye for detail and analysis.

I havent read anything by him in about 6 years so this was a nice Xmas prezzie.

Thanks. I liked After Dark, but I loved The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
I'll hunt down that sheep first.

Thanks. The first one especially sounds like just the sort of thing I'm in the mood for. Cheers

I've got this one a while ago but haven't had the chance to read it yet. Looking forward to quite much though.

Cities of the Plain, by Cormac McCarthy, which completes the Border Trilogy.

Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street by Karen Ho

This looks good; might have to check it out of the library.

Just read The Stranger by Albert Camus. Now reading Junky by William S. Burroughs.

^ I'm reading Burroughs too:)

my favorite book.

Love every damn confusing second of it!....well not so much confusing but rather vague. still super awesome. and trust me. The end alone will make it worth all the pain in the world.

Currently reading Filip & Fredrik (two swedish tv-hosts) childhood-biography about the 80's-90's called "Två nötkräm och en moviebox", really enjoyable!

That's the one I got an autograph on "to Mike, best wishes from Uncle Bill"

he was a sweetie during his old age. big lover of the kitties, too.

I've just started this one



looks pretty great, lots of killer pictures, and George L appears to be nearly as good a writer as he is a trombonist. U Chicago has some really great books, their publishing is well represented in casa duclo.

http://www.jazz.com/features-and-int...h-george-lewis

Nice! Just read Junky and now reading Queer.

 

Hermann Hesse - Strange News from Another Star

It's good, but the wording Fleming uses can be strange and difficult to understand sometimes. Nice plot.


Very interesting and humorous. I'm only about 100 pages in. I hate the copy I have due to the fact that it's a mass market edition and damn near 600 pages long or something close to it.


About halfway finished. Meh. Hammett's prose kind of annoys me.

my favourite portugese poet

Dostoevsky's The Idiot.

Interviews with art spiegelman
And a catalog and analysis of william blake's paintings

I want to buy this book. Anyone read it? My literature teacher seems to love this book .

oh yeah and I read Kafka's short story "THe Judgement" and loved it. Kafka's absurd storytelling is magnificient. I love his stories.

reading this for a second time a few years later, quite refreshing from my different perspective today. I really like the way Suskind captures the heaviness and deep emotive impact that underlies are banal and trivial daily lives and routines. Noel goes through boringly normal day and undergoes a series of realistically normal (and laughable) setbacks including being late for work, ripping your pants, and yet these are interpolated with bewildering emotions and memories of the past, explosive episodes of ecstasy, paranoia, social anxiety, dread, joy, sumptuousness. Detailed and perfectly descriptive narration, with potent insights and symbols both ostentatiously and yet also subtly laid out..

I love Patrick Suskind, his style reverberates in my very being, like reading my own internal dialogue, pure genius the way certain musicians capture the indescribable feelings of the inside world of the mind..

I've finally managed to borrow a copy of 1984.

:)

pss..


(much better)

^Can't go wrong there.

I EAT NERDS FOR BREAKFAST.

GRINDCORE FURY.

I may need to pick this up..

I read different things in different settings. I need a defrag.

Me too.

"..the most formidable intellect in public discourse.."

the condescending pretentiousness of this douche is overwhelming sometimes. his bullshit attitude might be appreciable if he could actually write anything other than sensationalist sound bites and instead argue some substance and depth of subject. I have never been more disappointed then when reading Dawkins, seriously, science should vote to have a better representative, and a more sophisticated arguer at that ;)

He must be doing something right if he so obviously touches a nerve.;)