Unofficial What are you Reading Thread?

[pharmakon]

Chaos, Territory, Art by Elizabeth Grosz

[Disco Pickle]

finally finished This is Not a Book and I have to say, it's not as bad as I thought it would be.  Makes a good bathroom book.  That being said: really condensed philosophy book = 

[Subtract Eight!]

New Rushdie novel, Luka and the Fire of Life

plus a smattering of others that I'm reading very very slowly, multitasking.

[Reeducation]

Run Faster from the 5K to the Marathon: How to Be Your Own Best Coach

Perhaps the best there is when it comes to these advice/selfhelp books about running.
I've been running for fun (I really like it) for my whole life (well almost, there were few years when I was too "cool" to exercise) but now it's even more fun!

Books rule.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

I'm on page 6. Oh god, this is horrible. I'm pretty sure I won't make it to page 7.

[Jasper]

What?  I've read excerpts, and thought well of it.

[Don Coyote]

I've read the whole thing. I need to read it again. After finish reading the bulk of Lovecraft's work.

[Placid Dingo]

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

I'm on page 6. Oh god, this is horrible. I'm pretty sure I won't make it to page 7.

I didn't mind it at all. It's not gripping particularly but the sense of horror is very real.

Right now I'm moving through the old testament of the bible. It's surprisingly readable.

[The Wizard]

Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

I've read the whole thing. I need to read it again. After finish reading the bulk of Lovecraft's work.

Maybe I'm not old school enough, but I just don't get why it should take you 6 pages to say "I'm going to North Pole. I hear it's pretty there, and I might even figure out what makes compasses work."

[Placid Dingo]

I've read the whole thing. I need to read it again. After finish reading the bulk of Lovecraft's work.

Maybe I'm not old school enough, but I just don't get why it should take you 6 pages to say "I'm going to North Pole. I hear it's pretty there, and I might even figure out what makes compasses work."

I've been hitting the classics hard for a while now and have gotten used to the wordiness. Just one of those things.

[Don Coyote]

I've read the whole thing. I need to read it again. After finish reading the bulk of Lovecraft's work.

Maybe I'm not old school enough, but I just don't get why it should take you 6 pages to say "I'm going to North Pole. I hear it's pretty there, and I might even figure out what makes compasses work."

I have this really weird feeling I have never read Frankenstein. It's really disturbing to me. I think I need to it now, it's bugging that much.

[Luna]

I've read the whole thing. I need to read it again. After finish reading the bulk of Lovecraft's work.

Maybe I'm not old school enough, but I just don't get why it should take you 6 pages to say "I'm going to North Pole. I hear it's pretty there, and I might even figure out what makes compasses work."

I have this really weird feeling I have never read Frankenstein. It's really disturbing to me. I think I need to it now, it's bugging that much.

Very simple solution, that.  (More so if it were me, since it's old enough to be public domain, and I have a Kindle. 

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84

I get a LOT of my classics for free.

[Don Coyote]

I've read the whole thing. I need to read it again. After finish reading the bulk of Lovecraft's work.

Maybe I'm not old school enough, but I just don't get why it should take you 6 pages to say "I'm going to North Pole. I hear it's pretty there, and I might even figure out what makes compasses work."

I have this really weird feeling I have never read Frankenstein. It's really disturbing to me. I think I need to it now, it's bugging that much.

Very simple solution, that.  (More so if it were me, since it's old enough to be public domain, and I have a Kindle. 

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84

I get a LOT of my classics for free.

It's been on my kindle. I went and downloaded a crap load of classics when I got. I need to finish reading H.P. Lovecraft first.

[Luna]

Oh, definitely.  I went through a Lovecraft phase in October, read a lot of it around the time we took the Lovecraft walk in Providence.