What Are You Currently Reading?

wuthering wuthering wuthering heights.
i'm not convinced yet.

 

Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig, so far so good.

 

Nine tomorrows, collection of short stories by Isaac Asimov. Makes me nostalgic for a more innocent age when people thought computer boffins in white coats could be trusted to run the world.

 

Yoga Nidra

 

Just finished 26A a few days back. I cried through the last bit but it was a great book, I wish i could read it again but i cant really do that knowing the storyline and plot.

 

frankenstein, by mary shelley. revisiting all the old gothic stuff. i like frankenstein so i don't really mind rereading it, but i'm not looking forward to attacking dracula again. but my english teacher got angry when i said i didn't like it. and then told me that obviously wasn't able to access the superb writing style of the era, which is blatantly a lie i love many books from that time. convoluted and tortuous sentence structures just aren't my thing. so i probably should try and finish it, appreciating the magnificence that is bram stoker. (there's a reason he's a one hit wonder...)

 

Alice In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass (finished Alice In Wonderland ... haven't yet started Through The Looking Glass)

 

were you inspired to read them by reading Jeff Noon's Automated Alice?

just curious.

 

sounds like a pretty poor teacher to me (don't quote me though).

A good teacher will encourage diversity of opinions among students as long as they can back them up with reasoned arguments.

BTW Bram Stoker's lesser-known Lair of the White Worm was made into one of the worst films I've ever seen, by Ken Russell ...

 

yes! definitely!

and actually, i may just end up reading Automated Alice again, after finishing reading them.

I'm amazed now, just how similar the style of writing is between the two ... even the way he breaks up sections in the book with lines of asterisks (i know that's just a format thing ... but still).

Sorry ... I'll stop raving about Jeff Noon now. :tongue: Still eternally grateful to Fountains of Nay for recommending him to me ... he's a bit like a drug .. just can't get enough!

 

Read that in India when I was totally stranded for a few days, was amazing and really got inside my head... enjoy!! xxxxx

 

hehehe well you'd think. the thing is she isn't, and she is actually someone whose opinion i respect. i was a little put out really. ah well. i still think i'm right, so all that she's done is lost some of my respect.

started reading stoker's 'lady of the shroud', which was abyssmal in my humble opinion.

in between gothic stuff, forbidden fruit - letters between peter abelard and heloise.

 

"Rationality and Relativism" - Hollis and Lukes
"Modern Man in Search of a Soul" - C.J. Jung
"The Interpretations of Cultures" - Geertz
"Modes of Thought" - Horton
"The Elementary Forms of Religious Life" - Durkheim

 

The Prometheus Deception by Robert Ludlum .. i just love a good spy novel

 

The Stand by Stephen King
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
Human Anatomy and Physiology by G.Tortora.. stupid anatomy exam on monday

 

Louis de Bernieres - The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts....

 

Adrian Mole-From Major to Minor (Sue Townsend). Yeah, I needed something easy to get me back into reading regularly...

 

The elephant vanishes - Haruki Murakami

Very strange but brilliant writer!

 

Pendragon - Stephen Lawhead

 

the wasp factory -iain banks