What are you reading?

[Buffalo Budd]

Keeeef
Life

a must read

Need to get my hands on this, sounds great.

[Mr Minor]

Just finished this the other day.  Fun read.  And hits a good spot as it's about an English professor.

Good review of it here:
http://www.curledup.com/straight.htm

[cactusfan]

got this for xmas.
looks amazing.

[MiamiPhish]

I Am Charlotte Simmons

Tom Wolfe

[birdman]

I Am Charlotte Simmons

Tom Wolfe

Read that a few years back. I went to Vanderbilt and it is pretty much identical to the school Wolfe describes.It really hit home for my wife and I.  Great read.

[PIE-GUY]

I Am Charlotte Simmons

Tom Wolfe

Read that a few years back. I went to Vanderbilt and it is pretty much identical to the school Wolfe describes.It really hit home for my wife and I.  Great read.

"Vanderbilt... it even sounds expensive."

[emay]

Keith Richards Biography
My dad got it for me for christmas...first chapter is already entertaining

[birdman]

I Am Charlotte Simmons

Tom Wolfe

Read that a few years back. I went to Vanderbilt and it is pretty much identical to the school Wolfe describes.It really hit home for my wife and I.  Great read.

"Vanderbilt... it even sounds expensive."

You should read this if you haven't already. Take a trip in the time machine and go back and hate on frat boys and sorostitutes all over again.

[sunrisevt]

^^^My wife read it a couple years ago too, and she loved it.

[MiamiPhish]

Supposed to be about Duke..

I went to Union College ('08) and it reminds me of that too - guess that's just college these days.

[whyweigh5.0]

I just started to read this

Zen monk and punk rocker Warner offers a "big snarly ball of confessional vomit" in his third book, following Hardcore Zen and Sit Down and Shut Up. The snarly ball is his own suffering, fodder for the Zen cushion: his mother's and grandmother's deaths, the dissolution of his marriage and lots of day-job insecurity when the Japanese monster-movie company he works for downsizes and gets sold. As ever, Warner is unafraid to smash idols, including his own celebrity status as a Zen master. "Not only am I not that thing, but no one is," he writes, and that means everybody from the Dalai Lama to fellow students of his Japanese teacher who disliked his being picked as the teacher's successor. Warner is honest—he would say his attitude is seeing things as they are, a Zen bent. Those familiar with his previous work will find this book exceptionally plainspoken and pungent, in keeping with his idiosyncratic vow "to be an a**hole for the rest of my life." That's a lot of honesty.

[Mr Minor]

I Am Charlotte Simmons

Tom Wolfe

Read that a few years back. I went to Vanderbilt and it is pretty much identical to the school Wolfe describes.It really hit home for my wife and I.  Great read.

"Vanderbilt... it even sounds expensive."

You should read this if you haven't already. Take a trip in the time machine and go back and hate on frat boys and sorostitutes all over again.

Great novel!
It's like watching a trainwreck and not being able to look away.
The depth of description and details that Wolfe puts in his novels is awesome.

[mbw]

i'm usually a bit hesitant to begin reading his latest/posthumous books, thinking it might be the last of his writing that i get to read, but it looks like another one is coming out next year so i dove in.

[fauxpaxfauxreal]

just finished "freedom" by jonathon franzen..

about to read "Decision Points" by George Bush

[gainesvillegreen]

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis.