Comments on: What are you reading?

By: Harold Incandezza

Harold Incandezza — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 03:09:40 +0000

I just got a copy of The Rachael and I don’t know why the part where Highway confessed his thoughts of wanking about his sister is more troubling than Cheever’s detailing of prison men’s affairs in Falconer, and made me stop reading it. So warning for the weak: it may be luciferian. Unless someone could post here that there’s a twist somewhere that I missed. Horrible that I wasn’t warned and heard of the book in this blog.

By: Harold Incandezza

Harold Incandezza — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:22:48 +0000

Dirk Wittenburg’s Fierce People. The blurb says something like it’s got ironic hold of The Catcher in The Rye and Great Gatsby. It got me and I did not get disappointed because it is very funny. Also, David Wallace’s Infinite Jest.

By: isaak

isaak — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:23:40 +0000

700 Sundays by Billy Crystal..got it from NBS Market Market for P50, can you believe it?

By: sunflowii

sunflowii — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:45:20 +0000

what am i reading?
will start on The Rachel Papers tonight. got to borrow it via inter-library loan since my city library’s copy is missing. so i’ve got the neighbouring city’s copy. i love canadian libraries.

just finished Night Train as suggested by howcomebubblegum. was startled when i’d turned a page and realized the novel had ended. whaaaat? had to reread the last bit.

started on The Strain by G. del Toro last week. before I read it, I already thought that maybe I won’t be able to take it since I don’t watch horror movies anymore as it is too disturbing for me (even though I read all of Stephen King’s books when I was in high school). but the premise of a plane landing safely and all of a sudden everything stops was too enticing. so i borrowed it and started reading. doubly bad idea since I did that while hubby was away on a business trip. well, I stopped at the point where the coroner was hearing sounds from the freezer. unlike watching a movie, I couldn’t close my eyes on a book. haha

but I really appreciate your and everyone’s book recommendations. Cooking with Fernet Branca was hilarious and I intend to read all the books in your latest list of funny books.

I don’t know how you feel about chick lit but these 2 I enjoyed extremely last year:
Around the World in 80 Dates by Jennifer Cox
The Myth of You and Me by Leah Stewart

By: baltus_maximus

baltus_maximus — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:32:20 +0000

Alexander Dumas’ Black Tulip.

By: rmsblue

rmsblue — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:00:59 +0000

I’m going through the classics more or less chronologically – just slogged through Middlemarch’s 800 pages of dense Victorian prose (George Eliot makes reading Dickens seem like reading the newspaper) – and (re)started Madame Bovary with Money (Amis at his debauched best), The Lemon Tree (shorts from Julian Barnes) and Rivka Galchen’s Atmospheric Disturbances (Kafka for moderns) on the side. I eagerly checked out a library copy of (our) Syjuco’s Ilustrado – a letdown for which I (partially) blame myself because a) one can never be impressed by one’s own culture as exotic, no matter how hard you try b) I’m too old for much of what I thought was puerile jabber.

By: Momelia

Momelia — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:37:26 +0000

I’m halfway through The Great Short Works by Mark Twain. I had to stop because I’m evolving my pokemon, really, no metaphor there, I’m talking Nintendo. Finished Puddin’head Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins by Mark Twain, and that was two months back.

Love the list! Thanks!

By: Poli

Poli — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:48:26 +0000

In The Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami

By: Ejia

Ejia — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:25:08 +0000

Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison. I think I'll read The Handmaid's Tale after that. On a related note, does anyone use either LibraryThing or Shelfari?

By: siratalaga

siratalaga — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:38:05 +0000

Alternating these three:

Infinite Jest, DFW (around page 650+)
The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro
Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote

By: howcomebubblegum

howcomebubblegum — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:04:00 +0000

I know, the pea in the ear chapter is hilarious! What got me though was the gay character’s first chapter. It was funny and sad and weird. It almost made me cry. I’m going to read that part again later. We’ll see if it will make me cry this time, ahehehehe.

I heard Blood Meridian is very violent. I’ve never read McCarthy either, although I have one of his books (the second book in The Border trilogy) courtesy of NBS Cubao. How could I not buy it when it was being sold for 30 pesos only?! I love NBS!

By: toyomansi

toyomansi — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:50:39 +0000

I’m going through contemporary Swedish literature at the moment, and have just finished (and immensely enjoyed) Jostein Gaarder’s The Castle In The Pyrenees.

Also, for something macabre and darkly funny, I suggest Dan Rhodes’ Little Hands Clapping. It’s topnotch storyteling.