The Books/Reading Thread

[TageRyche]

I buy my books at Barnes & Noble, both store and online. I also buy from Amazon.com. Occasionally I pick up a mass market at the grocery store or magazine shop I go to. Some I get as gifts and then I have a publisher who sends me a book here and there to review. Once in while I'll go to a used book sale at a library.

Speaking of which, my latest book review is for the debut thriller called Overwatch by Matthew Betley. You can check out what I had to say via this Pop-topia.com link.

 

[CiG]

Just arrived.
Already reading eagerly.

 

[EspaDa]

I finished reading The Plague and ordered Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun. Pretty stoked.

 

[TageRyche]

I finished reading the Hank Phillippi Ryan mystery Prime Time yesterday.

 

[EspaDa]

Started reading Absalom, Absalom! yesterday. Looking forward to unfolding of this greatness.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i love GROWTH OF THE SOIL.

 

[EspaDa]

i love GROWTH OF THE SOIL.

I was wondering what to choose for the start when it comes to Hamsun, I browsed some book sites and I opted for Growth instead of Hunger. Maybe it's because I prefer to read those less known releases prior to those critically acclaimed masterpieces. That's why, thanks to @unknown, I started with Light in August when reading Faulkner and not with The Sound and the Fury or earlier mentioned Absalom, Absalom!

 

[no country for old wainds]

i don't like HUNGER nearly as much personally but i'm a bit of a philistine when it comes to literature so maybe ignore me. GROWTH is metal as fuck

 

[unknown]

I've had Growth sitting on my shelf for months. I need to get around to reading it

 

[no country for old wainds]

best read in winter i would say. not rly a summer novel.

 

[EspaDa]

Thanks god we still have February today. Although almost no snow this winter.

 

[TageRyche]

I finished the Julie Hyzy mystery novel Eggsecutive Orders.

 

[Cronopio]

Quirky collection of stories infused with magical realism and slipstream. Right up my alley.

 

[unknown]

You and I have pretty similar tastes, so I might have to check it out

 

[viewerfromnihil]

I'm reading some bits and sections of Spengler's Decline of the West for my senior thesis. His influence on Heidegger is apparent, to say the least. He makes quite a few remarks, as well, on the evolution of categorization that resemble arguments in Foucault's The Order of Things, including comments on Marx and Darwin and their coinciding epochal-making understanding of economics and biology. There's also quite a lot of off-the wall conclusions--on this point, it works well for my purposes.

 

[unknown]

Interesting article regarding an upcoming black author and his views on Lovecraft (always gotta get the black man's opinion on a racist)

http://www.vice.com/read/victor-lavalles-new-novel-is-h-p-lovecraft-without-the-horrific-racism

Currently chewing on White Noise finally. I'm actually enjoying it. For some reason I tend to put off reading books I might like (Perdido Street Station is probably the biggest example of this)

 

[CiG]

 

[TageRyche]

I finished reading two Julie Hyzy mystery novels, Buffalo West Wing and Affairs of Steak recently.

 

[CiG]

Reading this while watching a documentary on Putin.

 

[CiG]

Thrift store pick-ups.