What are you reading?

[aphineday]

If by minority, you mean one of the millions padding his expense account...ok!

Heh.  Grisham was cool, in High School...he knew how to work suspense.

HAH! That's what I meant by "minority", I should have explained better. I meant in the minority of intellectual readers. Fuck it, I'll just go buy the new Danielle Steele, I think I'm hopeless

I agree though, the majority of my Grisham experience was in HS as well, and I was just getting into reading. It was cheap suspense, sometimes with some morality mixed in. It's weird that I still feel compelled to read his stuff, but kind of treat it like junk food for my mind now.

[fauxpaxfauxreal]

Besides studying for a maternal-newborn final, this is what I'm currently reading:

In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery...

The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region.

The Confessions of Nat Turner is narrated by Nat himself as he lingers in jail through the cold autumnal days before his execution. The compelling story ranges over the whole of Nat's Life, reaching its inevitable and shattering climax that bloody day in August.

The Confessions of Nat Turner is not only a masterpiece of storytelling; is also reveals in unforgettable human terms the agonizing essence of Negro slavery. Through the mind of a slave, Willie Styron has re-created a catastrophic event, and dramatized the intermingled miseries, frustrations--and hopes--which caused this extraordinary black man to rise up out of the early mists of our history and strike down those who held his people in bondage.

Is this considered Biography or "Historical Fiction"?

[mattstick]

Just finished David Eggars' You Shall Know Our Velocity.  Good book, I got a little tired of his all-over-the-place writing after a while...

Although I did chuckle when I read this:

The sun was gone.  I had missed its final few seconds. Time had become elastic.  I'd forgotten about Hand

[gainesvillegreen]

Besides studying for a maternal-newborn final, this is what I'm currently reading:

In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery...

The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region.

The Confessions of Nat Turner is narrated by Nat himself as he lingers in jail through the cold autumnal days before his execution. The compelling story ranges over the whole of Nat's Life, reaching its inevitable and shattering climax that bloody day in August.

The Confessions of Nat Turner is not only a masterpiece of storytelling; is also reveals in unforgettable human terms the agonizing essence of Negro slavery. Through the mind of a slave, Willie Styron has re-created a catastrophic event, and dramatized the intermingled miseries, frustrations--and hopes--which caused this extraordinary black man to rise up out of the early mists of our history and strike down those who held his people in bondage.

Is this considered Biography or "Historical Fiction"?

"Historical Fiction"

[fauxpaxfauxreal]

Oh Ok.  I'm a little over historical fiction right now.  I think it is getting to be an exhausted genre, as opposed to a niche genre, you know?  Nat Turner is a cool story tho.

[mehead]

about to start Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"..I've owned it forever and for some reason I just never got around to reading it..

[Mr Minor]

about to start Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"..I've owned it forever and for some reason I just never got around to reading it..

I really enjoyed it.  So dark and oddly disturbing.

[rowjimmy]

about to start Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"..I've owned it forever and for some reason I just never got around to reading it..

I have that on deck, as well.

[gah]

about to start Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"..I've owned it forever and for some reason I just never got around to reading it..

I really enjoyed it.  So dark and oddly disturbing.

Yeah, I enjoyed it too. Never read any of his other material though.

[sunrisevt]

about to start Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"..I've owned it forever and for some reason I just never got around to reading it..

I have that on deck, as well.

I read that earlier this fall, and I'll tell you, it's an excellent book--but as a father, one of the darkest, most wrenching things I've ever read. As difficult in its way as Beloved, which I've had to stop teaching now that I've got a child.

[G. Augusto]

[cactusfan]

about to start Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"..I've owned it forever and for some reason I just never got around to reading it..

I really enjoyed it.  So dark and oddly disturbing.

Yeah, I enjoyed it too. Never read any of his other material though.

i highly recommend McCarthy's Blood Meridian. the Road is good. and written in the extremely sparse style he's mastered of late. it's a quick read. but Blood Meridian, written in the '80s, is very dense and dark and hallucinogenic and violent and apocalyptic. one of the most amazing books i've ever read.

[Hicks]

Keep a dictionary handy if you decide to tackle Blood Meridian, it's rife with 25 cent words.

[VDB]

Blood Meridian is waiting in my queue. Not until I finish this, which I'm finding fascinating but somehow I've lacked the discipline to knock it out in a reasonable amount of time:



Sent to me by my fiancee's mom, no less.

[Mr Minor]

Just started:
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close