What are you reading right now?

The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald. I tried this one years ago when I was about 17, couldn't get into it then. Now, I think it's excellent - it seems to convey an almost palpable sense of 'jazz age' america - a classic.

Also 'Glubb Pasha' by James Lunt. A biography of John Bagot Glubb, a British officer who served in the middle east (first Iraq, then Jordan) during the period 1920 - 1948. He was actually not a British army officer for most of this time but was employed by the Jordanian authorities, who ran the then Transjordan under a British U.N. mandate. Very interesting in that it gives great insight into the origins of the current problems with Islamic extremism etc, Also Glubb lived with and knew intimately the customs of the then still nomadic bedouin, and wrote on this and other Islamic topics with the aim of fostering a closer understanding between the west and the Arabs.

 

I'm currently reading a book called Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder, which is basically a fiction novel summing up the history of philosophy. I strongly recommend it. It really stimulates your mind.

 

Ooooooh, I love Sophie's World!

I just finished "Catch 22" by J.Heller and "The amazing Maurice and his educated Rhodents" by Terry Pratchett - both hilarious!

Now I am in the middle of "When we were Orphans" by Kazuo Ishiguro, which is very good so far.

 

the great shark hunt by hunter s. thompson

 

Playboy magazine

 

Right now I am reading "Angels" by Marian Keyes. I have been on this Red Dress Ink-type kick recently.

 

I'm going through a poetry phase; Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Allen Ginsberg ("Howl"), Jack Kerouac ("Mexico City Blues"), Frank O' Hara.
Prose... the last novel I read was "The Old man and the Sea", by Ernest Hemingway.

 

Witch Hill very good so far.

love.
chelsea

 

just started Stephen King's new one, The Song of Susannah, the last but one in the dark tower series. Great big print and a lot of blank pages, so I am halfway through already and only got it yesterday. Good so far. Also, Uriel's Machine and "the Monks of War".

 

Well I read "Stone Kiss" by Faye Kellerman in its entirety yesterday, it was a REALLY great book, one of my favorites of the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus series. At some points though, it seemed to potray chasidism in a not-so-positive light, anyway...

Right now, I'm reading "The Glory" By Herman Wouk (already read "The Hope".) I'm also reading Al Franken's "Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot and other observations" on the side.

 

'The 13 and a 1/2 Live of Captain Bluebear' by Walter Moers

It is really fabulous! Everyone should check it out!

 

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

Tom Robbins........best author ever

 

Some book on Greek Myths. I love Greek Mythology!

 

The Vampire Lestat, from Vampire's Chronicles, from Anne Rice.
It's not as bad as i expected, i'm enjoying it.

 

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genuis by Dave Eggers

This book is awesome, it's a slightlly fictionalized autobiography but it's very ironic, satirical, funny..and heartbreaking too but i loved it!! the preface and acknowledgements section is as entertaining as the whole book. highly recommend it, i just finished it last nite.

 

The DaVinci Code, by Dan Brown

 

Oh that is my favourite book! Its really wonderful

I just finished I Me Mine by George Harrison and now I'm reading The Road to Mars by Eric Idle...its soo funny

 

I am reading right now ...

• Revolution for the Hell of it by Abbie Hoffman
• Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• A Secret Word by Jennifer Paddock
• Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman

I love summers ...best time to read many books at once..

 

Hitler and my part in his downfall, by spike milligan]

the catcher in the rye, bye that sallinger guy i think

addict, by i dunno but its very good

 

SLEEPING WHERE I FALL-PETER COYOTE SO FAR IT'S VERY GOOD BUT i JUST STARTED