The Book Thread! What are you reading?

[esm]

Currently reading The Once and Future King, I love this book, but I have never finished it. I either get too caught up with other things and forget about it or misplace it and find another book to read xD BUT NOW I'M DETERMINED TO JUST FINISH IT. I have a mountain of books by my bedside that I want to get through and I know that once my next quarter stars my workload will increase like tenfold and I won't have any time ever.

Next on my to-read booklist:
- A Long Long Time Ago & Essentially True - Brigid Pasulka
- Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
- The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

I watched the movie, and it's seriously one of my favorite movies ever now. I need to read the book someday.

Murakami's Kafka on the Shore is also good, although I like Norwegian Wood most (even though it's more "normal" than his other works).

There's hardly anything better than the movie.

Seriously.

[Moh]

Currently trying to make my way through Stephen King's Bag of Bones.

I lost my place and don't feel like starting over. I can't even remember what's going on in it. Oh, well!

[Zunu]

Next on my to-read booklist:
- A Long Long Time Ago & Essentially True - Brigid Pasulka
- Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
- The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

I watched the movie, and it's seriously one of my favorite movies ever now. I need to read the book someday.[/quote]

Read Death in Venice (a really long time ago, don't quiz me on it), Never Let me Go, and The Remains of the Day. I just love Ishiguro's restrained, misdirected, hyper-British writing style, and the way his protagonists tend to be essentially clueless about their own predicament and even their own state of mind. (The Unconsoled btw is even moreso in that vein, and is a masterpiece of WTF) I enjoyed the two films of his works as well.

I lost my place and don't feel like starting over. I can't even remember what's going on in it. Oh, well!

A lot of the sprawling fantasy epics I used to enjoy when I was in HS and had more reading time have been ruined for me because of that. Dude, I can't wait three years for your seventh book to come out and now I have to read the previous six to remember who Azargoth XIV is.

[TotallyUncool]

I mostly read history now, and I still have that problem -- 'Wait a minute? Which dynasty was in control of the Grand High Obsnurkian Empire? Or had the Huns already come along and destroyed everything? Or was I reading about how the peasants in Lower East Abkhazia were losing their traditional right to draw water from communal cisterns and becoming serfs? And was that the first time, the second time, or the third time that happened?"

[erilaz]

Esperanto: A Language for the Global Village by Sylvan Zaft. It's not a textbook, but rather explains what Esperanto is and why it's a good idea. The book is quite balanced, as well, addressing features of Esperanto that are often seen as flawed or difficult. Since I'm already well versed in the mechanics of the language, its history, and arguments for and against it, the parts of the book that were most interesting to me were the personal anecdotes and the stories of individual Esperantists.

[Moh]

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

This time I'm going to finish it!

[Moh]

After finishing Gatsby, I moved onto Your Heart Belongs to Me by Dean Koontz. And now I'm on After Dark by Haruki Murakami.

[erilaz]

Indo-European Philology: Historical and Comparative by W. B. Lockwood. Just brushing up on stuff I should know.

[Moh]

The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck.

Last of my rental books. Murakami's After Dark was excellent, btw. I wish they had more of his stuff here.

[erilaz]

Just finished Runes and Their Origin: Denmark and Elsewhere by Erik Moltke (1985), to be followed by An Introduction to English Runes by R. I. Page (1973). If I'm going to use the name erilaz, I need to stay well versed in rune-lore.