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What are you reading today, /lit/?

>> No.1777004

Finished Sacred, by Dennis Lehane earlier - will probably start reading either Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell, or The New York Trilogy, by Paul Auster, later this evening.

>> No.1777006

The winter of our Discontent

>> No.1777007

how was Sacred? I've heard it's good.

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Just finished book 2 of Don Quixote a few days ago and started reading Tropic of Cancer this morning. Should finish it soon within next day or two and then will start Tropic of Capricorn. Yesterday I read Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. It's a really quick read. I'm a Philosophy major and had actually never read it, so I went ahead and did so. Same old same old... I have infinite Jest in PDF on my iPad but I am uncertain yet as to if I want to read it.... How is it so far, OP?

>> No.1777015

>>1777007

I've only read four of the Kenzie / Gennaro books [the first four], but I'd say Sacred is probably the second best out of the series upto that point - personally I thought Gone, Baby, Gone was the best book in the series.

I'm actually re-reading 'em, because I never got round to reading the fifth book [Prayers For Rain], and seeing how Lehane has written a sequal to GBG [Moonlight Mile, released last year], it seemed like an ideal opportunity to re-read the series.

I still think, out of all Lehanes' books, The Given Day is the best.

>> No.1777019

OP here. damn good so far, started reading it about an hour ago. I'm hooked.

>> No.1777021

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

>> No.1777030

this book is real cool if you have ever been through any of that twelve step shit
i was laughing out loud when he was talking about the DIS-EASE thing

>> No.1777031

I'm reading Lolita and I'm imaging a young Alec Baldwin as Humbert.

I don't know if it's because of the translation or not though, but I'm really enjoying Nabokov's writing style.

>> No.1777033

>>1777031

What language are you reading it in?

>> No.1777038

The Plague by Camus. It's great so far.

>> No.1777043

>>1777033

English.

This is the copy I'm reading: http://www.amazon.com/Lolita-Vladimir-Nabokov/dp/0679723161/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1305575070&am
p;sr=8-1

>> No.1777044

>>1777031
Nabokov did his own Russian and English translations. I think he may have done his own French too, but I'm not sure.

>> No.1777045

>>1777043
Yeah, that's the copy I own. It hasn't been translated. He wrote it originally in English (that copy) then translated it to Russian and maybe French

>> No.1777048

Read a few pages of 'The Turn Of The Screw'

won't be able to get into until a week or two tho

>> No.1777050

>>1777044
>>1777045

Awesome! Thanks a lot, I didn't know that. Actually makes me want to read more of his work, now!

>> No.1778310

Stardust.

It's the only thing by Gaiman that I haven't finished, so I'm tearing through it.