I'm currently reading Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis. I love it so far.

Finished the Sun Also Rises and really enjoyed it. Thinking about Old man and the Sea next. Thoughts?

What's it like having Bill Gates as your uncle?



I'm about 3/4 of the way through Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter and while I think it's a decent book, I don't see they hype about it.

I can't make up my mind whether to read The Hobbit again(+25yrs since I read it) before the movie comes out or start the A Song of Ice and Fire series. Yea, I'm that guy that hasn't read them yet.

Jealous. One of those.books i look fondly back at "the first time"

Possibly the greatest novella ever written.

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a quote from Wallace:

I finished Grapes of Wrath and really enjoyed it. I don't see how I could realistically teach this to the typical high school class because of its length and the fact it's kind of a downer. Still, I wish I could. I've read Of Mice and Men so many times and yet this book opened my eyes to the Great Depression in a new way. They tell such different stories.

I'm starting Things Fall Apart. Actually, I read through half of it this morning before taking a break. Not a bad little book.

I think I might turn to some short stories for a bit after this. There are just way too many I haven't touched. I've read 1 Hemingway short, 0 Faulker, 1 Mansfield, etc. There are too many I need to get to!

Just to follow up on this...

I definitely came around to the style. It was slow going early on at times, but as you develop some compassion for the characters, it's a lot easier to enjoy this book. Like it a lot.

I just started catching up on my Faulkner shorts. I reread "A Rose for Emily" and read "Dry September" recently, which are really good, both great starting points according to Faulkner experts, and I'll read "Mule in the Yard" today.

The Shipping News for the first time ... Love it 20% through so far

Fitzgerald's short stories are the bomb. Read A Diamond as big as the Ritz.

I tore my achilles tendon so staying on my infinite jest mission has been somewhat delayed, not my fault tho, this time.

I am going through Robert Stone's Fun with Problems to stay reading, it's a decent collection of short stories. Easier to read than IJ when your foot/leg aren't fully connected.

While reading, do you hold the book with your feet?

There is an element of concentration one must have with IJ that doesn't go well with traumatic injuries.

Yes they are. Also, if you haven't tried Raymond Carver, buy one of his collections. You've never seen such pared-down prose.