What are you currently reading?

[ResistMuchObeyLittle]

I'm always looking for book recommendations. This year I had the goal of reading 100 books, I've got 2 to go. I'm currently finishing up Sartre-Being and nothingness.

"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."

 

[Deleted member 23824]

Reading three,actually:

Grant, by Ron Chernow (500 pages in on a 1000 page book)
Just received Duffy Littlejohns book, and starting today.
Romans, Verse by Verse, by William R. Newall

There will be more, I read lots during the rainy winter

100 books in a year, wow! I have a friend like that, one of the most intelligent peolple I know, totally self-taught. He can converse on most any topic, has read all the ancient to modern philosophers. I wanna be like him when I grow up, but my head nearly explodes after reading 5 pages of the stuff he consumes on a daily basis. But I do what I can.

 

[roughdraft]

damn you actually read all of Being and Nothingness??!!!

I recommend The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme

The Unbearable Lighntess of Being by Milan Kundera

Tropic of Cancer and Black Spring both by Henry Miller

Delta of Venus by Anais Nin

and honestly one of my old favorites is Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

anything by Thomas Pynchon is rather interesting as well

 

[Deleted member 21367]

Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance

@roughdraft Gravitys Rainbow changed my life/ ruined me for a long time.

 

[noothgrush]

I'm always looking for book recommendations. This year I had the goal of reading 100 books, I've got 2 to go. I'm currently finishing up Sartre-Being and nothingness.

"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."

Maybe you should read Heidegger's Being and Time next. I'm reading Down and Out in Paris and London (for the second time). I enjoy philosophy but being on the road doesn't allow me the time to soak it all in so i have been sticking to fiction.

 

[Mrcharwe]

I'm working through Infinite Jest right now.

I have Philip K Dicks Ubik, and Vonneguts Cat's Cradle next in the line up.

Whenever I run out of ideas on what to read next, I go back and hit a classic I haven't read or red in a while.

Books like: 1984, animal farm, a brave new world, on the road, dharma bums, handmaids tale, Lolita, huckfin, walden, one flew over the cuckoos nest, etc.

 

[noothgrush]

I'm working through Infinite Jest right now.

I have Philip K Dicks Ubik, and Vonneguts Cat's Cradle next in the line up.

Whenever I run out of ideas on what to read next, I go back and hit a classic I haven't read or red in a while.

Books like: 1984, animal farm, a brave new world, on the road, dharma bums, handmaids tale, Lolita, huckfin, walden, one flew over the cuckoos nest, etc.

those are all great stories. I didn't care for brave new world though. i liked brave new world revisited a whole lot more.

 

[Deleted member 23824]

the writing on the wall

LOL! We can all see that coming, unfortunately

 

[xjamestravisx]

I’m currently painfully working my way through Dharma Bums.

Less painfully, I’m half through Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers, and a short story collection by Jorge Luis Borges called Labyrinths. Pretty good surrealist stuff.

I’ve read mostly horror since high school, so I’ve been trying my best to step out of that and read things I should have already, but didn’t.

 

[roughdraft]

Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance

best recommendation so far i forgot about this one

 

[Crazy Hobo Johnny]

1. Deathlands by James Axler a post apocalyptic book series. They don't make the paperback books anymore, now audio books.
2. Guerilla Camping by Sean Spicer. Kindle book. All about Squating! From freight hopping to pitching a tent anywhere, etc. Available on Amazon

 

[troublefunk]

Re reading Hardcore zen by Brad Warner and How to be a stoic by Massimo Pigliucci.
Just started reading Funk by Rickey Vincent...as recommended by Chuck D so i'm thinking it must be pretty damn good.

 

[THE REAL SCAVENGER]

I always carry the tao te ching

 

[Koala]

A Separate Peace. Got it in a free box outside a book store in Philly.

Following this thread to get suggestions so I can bring a good book on my upcoming bike tour!

 

[Hazardoussix6six]

Shantaram, favorite book ever read!

 

[Deleted member 21429]

Russka The Novel of Russia by Edward Rutherfurd is what I'm currently reading and I will recommend Aztec by Gary Jennings. ~ peace

 

[Coywolf]

I'm currently reading Jack Londons "Call of the Wild"

Soon to be on to "Robinson Crusoe"

 

[Tude]

Revisiting book I started and want to finish - The Glass Castle and for this next week reading on "passing the NYS notary public exam". Stupendous heart rendering and outrageous reading I'm in for on that notary exam book. LOL. Want to take exam late January.

But need to finish glass castle. Have some audibles that I need to finish up too.

 

[Jake Pemberton]

Just finished Suttree by Cormac McCarthy. Set in Knoxville, Tennessee in the 1950s, the main character lives in a houseboat on the Mississippi, makes a living by fishing, and gets involved in some rather humorous shenanigans with other outcasts, degenerates and down-and-outers. The prose is stunning (as with all of McCarthy's work) and it's a wonderful examination of one man's humanity.

The Magus by John Fowles is my current read. Can't elaborate too much, as I'm only about 40% of the way through it.

Upcoming reads will be a biography of Neal Cassady (aka "Dean Moriarty" in Kerouac's On The Road), then maybe a few stories by Borges.

 

[ResistMuchObeyLittle]

@roughdraft Yes, Almost done with it. I consume books like a lot of people I know consume cigarettes. What can I say, I'm an INFJ! Lol Tropic of cancer and black spring are both great!

If I get a moment I'll write out the 100 books I've had a chance to read. I've only got 2 days to make my goal, next up is 2 Edward Abbey novels that I haven't read yet.
Before Sartre's Being and nothingness I read 2 books by Rousseau.

@GuyWithTwoArms Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance is one of my favorites.

@Mrcharwe Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle is excellent, in my humble opinion. Actually, he's written so many great books it kind of makes me sick. lol

@Coywolf I finished Robinson Crusoe not long ago and it's one of the best books I've ever read. It's one that I'll definitely need to re-read. The language and style reminded me a lot of Frankenstein which is one of my favorite pieces of literature.
I remember an ex girfriend of mine recommending Frankenstein, and just for the sake of being difficult, told her I had no use reading about a stupid monster. Boy, Was I ever wrong about that. Years later I picked it up and I literally read it twice in a row, back to back. I couldn't believe how fucking good that book was. If i was still in contact with that ex i'd apologize for being such a dumb ass at that time in my life and being so hardheaded.