What book are you currently reading, or recommend?

[scooter1369]

A Soldier's Story, by Omar Bradley.

I don't read a lot of real-life military books, but this is a good read. It follows his WWII experiences from '43 until '45.

I read that as well. Lent it to someone and never got it back.

R.I.P. Uncle Omar

 

[NextBuck]

Moveable Feast by Hemmingway.

It has it's good points, but isnt that great. Talks about his times in Paris after WW1, but before he got big.

 

[NFBuck]

Moveable Feast by Hemmingway.

It has it's good points, but isnt that great. Talks about his times in Paris after WW1, but before he got big.

Try "The Sun Also Rises", much more enjoyable IMO.

 

[NextBuck]

Try "The Sun Also Rises", much more enjoyable IMO.

Thanks. Yeah, I was going to check it out after I finish this one. I thought I would get into this one because I'm interested in the time period and have always enjoyed stories set in Europe, but this is basically a journal of his times and they arent even that interesting.

I really enjoyed his short stories. I think the ones I liked were called "The Nick Adams Stories"? Very good read.

 

[NFBuck]

Thanks. Yeah, I was going to check it out after I finish this one. I thought I would get into this one because I'm interested in the time period and have always enjoyed stories set in Europe, but this is basically a journal of his times and they arent even that interesting.

I really enjoyed his short stories. I think the ones I liked were called "The Nick Adams Stories"? Very good read.

One thing I've always enjoyed about Hemingway's writing is how descriptive he can be. That book is a great example of that. One of my favorite books.

 

[BayBuck]

Moveable Feast by Hemmingway.

It has it's good points, but isnt that great. Talks about his times in Paris after WW1, but before he got big.

The vignette about him having lunch with Fitzgerald, where Fitzgerald is upset because his wife has convinced him he has a small dick so Hemingway takes him into the bathroom to check it out, is quite amusing.

"Sun Also Rises" is maybe the most readable Hemingway novel, but IMO "For whom the bell tolls" is the most powerful.

 

[NastyDogg72]

 

[Wingate1217]

I am reading these two books.....

 

[PlanetFrnd]

[quote='BusNative;151835;3]Those Pulitzer people were on to something... good read so far

That's been on my list of books to read for a while, and I just bought the book. Let me know if it stays good to the end.[/quote]

Johnny - book is still reading great, about 75% of the way in... Roth does a tremendous job creating the anguish in the main character, it gets very hard to put down once I get started.

Also reading:

which is a collection of short stories, so it's easy to pick up and put down (ahem, great for the dooze machine)... also very good...

Just found A_Confederacy_of_Dunces which I was reading before I moved this summer, and lost in one of the boxes of crap I moved. So... reading that now too...

Also, just got this:

...it seems to be out of print, so it was a little pricier than a typical hard cover, but O'Neill is the same guy that wrote Netherland which I thought was good, and was widely acclaimed last year. I'm pretty excited to get to it.

 

[BayBuck]

Eric Ambler's "A Coffin for Dimitrios". Ambler is the forerunner to LeCarre and Greene in the British espionage genre, but his novels also read as noirish international mysteries.

 

[matz2]

 

[DGADBTWSOM]

 

[PlanetFrnd]

My copy of this is coming today... no idea where it will fall in the queue

 

[Wingate1217]

I started this one over the weekend....

 

[elliemae]

Divorce For Dummies!! It's got some helpful shiznit in it too!!!