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Post by Bartwald on Nov 19, 2006 6:07:17 GMT -5
And did you get Lisey's Story already? I noticed the opinions are very much mixed on this one; Cell was usually considered "okay" but Lisey's is either called "King's best for a long time" or "unreadable". Makes me the more interested to get into it...
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Nov 22, 2006 0:54:30 GMT -5
Just got Bob Spitz's "The Beatles" which is, according to the cover and other sources, one of the most definitive biographies of The Beatles.
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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Nov 25, 2006 11:53:12 GMT -5
And did you get Lisey's Story already? I noticed the opinions are very much mixed on this one; Cell was usually considered "okay" but Lisey's is either called "King's best for a long time" or "unreadable". Makes me the more interested to get into it... Nope, haven't got that one yet, can't find it cheap enough on Amazon yet. ;D And I have to save money to buy Christmas presents. I'm hoping someone will get it for me for Christmas. |
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Dec 18, 2006 18:45:45 GMT -5
Some stuff by Thomas Pynchon: "Vineland" and "Slow Learner". Then I got John Gardner's "The Sunset Dialouges".
I love used bookstores.
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Dec 27, 2006 23:38:43 GMT -5
Another Tom Pynchon, this one for Christmas: "Against the Day."
Then I bought Jorge Borges's "Collection Fictions."
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Dec 28, 2006 12:56:05 GMT -5
Finishing off my Pynchon collection: "Mason & Dixon". All these should keep me busy but I probably won't read a lot of them for a while now!
Then I got my brother Operation: Typhoon Storm, the sequel to Operation: Red Jericho.
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Post by Bartwald on Jan 5, 2007 8:09:47 GMT -5
Henning Mankell's "Faceless Killers" - and I have already read it. It's well-written, with the main character - a police officer named Kurt Wallander - being very convincing and interesting, but it seems the crime itself is secondary to everything else that happens in the novel (Wallander's love life, his problems with his daughter and old father). Still - it's a pleasure to read the book (in spite of some cruelty and lots of pessimism from certain characters), just don't expect a classic 'whodunnit'; the answers to the questions "Who?" and "Why?" are usually delivered in a rather lazy manner, and all too often we only get them courtesy of a surprising coincidence or pure good luck rather than by Wallander's puzzle-solving skills.
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Feb 17, 2007 20:31:38 GMT -5
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Mar 16, 2007 9:05:27 GMT -5
A Light in August
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner.
I'd take Faulkner over Hemingway any day!
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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Apr 1, 2007 12:36:47 GMT -5
In the mail from Amazon:
Hannibal Rising- Thomas Harris
Dead End- Mariah Stewart
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Post by Quorthon on Apr 1, 2007 14:08:31 GMT -5
Abarat by Clive Barker. Actually, I accidentially bought the second book. I won't read it until I get the first.
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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Apr 3, 2007 15:51:40 GMT -5
Abarat by Clive Barker. Actually, I accidentially bought the second book. I won't read it until I get the first. Tell me how you like those...those are some of the few of Barker's that I haven't read yet. |
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Apr 28, 2007 7:17:51 GMT -5
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (I'll probably never read it, but it's good to have his complete bibliography).
Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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Post by Pulpmariachi on May 6, 2007 16:22:11 GMT -5
The Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
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Post by Pulpmariachi on May 7, 2007 20:52:16 GMT -5
White Noise by Don DeLillo -- I've read the book already, but it's good to have in the library.
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