What are you reading now?

[Savage]

Me? Nothing even remotely intellectual, I must confess. Tonight, I am finishing up "Eccentric Glamour" by Simon Doonan. And no, this book has nothing to do with alcohol, other than the author found that he needed to give it up, some years ago. But still, he has a Modern Drunkard heart, a joie de vivre that makes me wish that I could hang out with him.

[calx]

dharma bums by kerouac. yab yum baby!

[noirly]

iron kissed ...patricia briggs

[coqui_chris]

Black Mass about Whitey Bulger and the way he plays the shit out of the FBI.
Imagine, murdering somebody over jai alai.

[coqui_chris]

dharma bums by kerouac. yab yum baby!

Ever read Doctor Sax? It fuckin sucksssss

[Surreal]

Descarte's Bones by Russell Shorto.

I've always enjoyed tinkering and playing around with the mind-body dichotomy. I drink therefore I am. Dualism. Whatever you want to call it. Shorto positions Descarte as the thinker/writer who effectively birthed Modernism. With the Age of enlightenment framed as a battle between reason and religion, Descarte fused much of these to concepts together and at the same time, blew some aspects apart.

Reason based discussions re: transubstantiation, the fixity of species and how science cannot possibly objectify the realm of thought/belief/ideals/the mind are always better when slightly juiced.

[Wingman]

right now, some boring non-fiction, but the last book i read was The Tender Bar by j r mohringer (or something like that). really good book on boozing. the guy grows up in a bar, basically. the epilogue kind of ruined the story, i thought, though, so if you can skip that part, do so. but he really nails bar banter and the culture of a really cool bar.

[Two Hearted]

I just finished A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Towes. Very good book.

As I am rather dry on new books to read at the moment, I will start re-reading one of my favourite books of all time, The Road by Cormac McCarthy--a fantastically hideous (and at the same time beautiful) novel about a man and his young son making a journey (on foot) across a post-apocalyptic U.S.
If you have not read this book, I urge you to pick up a copy.

[ThirstyDrunk]

Ohio Oddities (2nd Edition) by Neil Zurcher.
Ohio has the nations only vacuum cleaner museum.
And the county museum in Lima, Ohio boasts a collection of objects swallowed by local residents and patients at the nearby Lima Mental Hospital.
I could go on and on...

I believe the main purpose of this book is to encourage all Ohio residents to pack up and MOVE.

[Labatt_50]

Sons and lovers by DH Lawrence. I want to smack this Paul Morel guy about 80 times in the brain.

[Wingman]

The Road by Cormac McCarthy--a fantastically hideous (and at the same time beautiful) novel about a man and his young son making a journey (on foot) across a post-apocalyptic U.S.
If you have not read this book, I urge you to pick up a copy.

i was traumatized for about 6 weeks after reading this book. of course, i have a young son. i don't reccomend anyone read this book, though it is very well written. actually, that's part of the problem; mccarthy paints such a good picture of such a horrible subject.

if you have any friends you want to fall off the wagon, get them a copy. or any drys you want to turn to drink.

[Negromancer]

Right now, I read a shitload of books on medieval archaeology, norse grammar and books about cult practice in norse society.

[Pete G]

Killing Pablo. Coloumbian & U.S. agents hunting cocain kingpin Pablo Escobar.

[Two Hearted]

The Road by Cormac McCarthy--a fantastically hideous (and at the same time beautiful) novel about a man and his young son making a journey (on foot) across a post-apocalyptic U.S.
If you have not read this book, I urge you to pick up a copy.

i was traumatized for about 6 weeks after reading this book. of course, i have a young son. i don't reccomend anyone read this book, though it is very well written. actually, that's part of the problem; mccarthy paints such a good picture of such a horrible subject.

if you have any friends you want to fall off the wagon, get them a copy. or any drys you want to turn to drink.

I have 2 young sons, one of which is about the same age (as I interpreted it--the author never reveals the exact age of the boy) as the boy in the book. And yes, there were certain parts that were absolutely horrific. There were two parts in particular (you probably know the ones) where I actually had to put the book down, and pour myself a stiff drink. It is because of this though, that I think McCarthy did an amazing job--his prose was as sparse and bleak as the world he depicts, yet in spite of it, he manages to portray a truly beautiful and unbreakable bond--that of the love between a father and son. It is a love story in it's most basic form which is remarkably illuminated in contrast to the background of atrocities MacCarthy so aptly illustrates.

I will agree though, it definitely is not the 'feel-good' book of the year...

[cloud8]

Last three were:
Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe - Inside the power elite surrounding an African dictator.
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski - A dog tale with a riff on Hamlet (the evil uncle).
The Tenth Man by Graham Greene - A thriller set in post-war France.

Starting:
Night Train by Martin Amis
ETA: This one is a bit of a gender bender...the author is a male Brit, and his narrator is an American homicide detective who happens to be a woman. Hard boiled and graphic. Hoo!