NT Book Club Vol. WDYRTD

[thegoat121886]

i've been reading A Song of Fire and Ice all week. about halfway through and it goes into so many details that i lost in the show. Can't wait to finish it and get started on the rest. Bran's storyline is boring to me but the rest are 

. After these i plan on starting up And Then There Were None. Kindle FTW

 

[shottadru718]

I have thousands of ebooks hit me up

 

[travisjmu]

 

[jordan supreme]

just finished with Outliers and Freakenomics

i'm now half way through Bill Simmons' The Book of Basketball

and i plan on reading Scorecasting next

 

[hendrix watermelon]

Originally Posted by uknowdonti

Originally Posted by Hendrix Watermelon

Who has read Ulysses by James Joyce?

Right here.

Greatest piece of literature?

 

[b smooth 202]

Originally Posted by TravisJMU

 

[fog]

^^^All those bookmarks 

 

[uknowdonti]

Originally Posted by Hendrix Watermelon

Originally Posted by uknowdonti

Originally Posted by Hendrix Watermelon

Who has read Ulysses by James Joyce?

Right here.

Greatest piece of literature?

From a technical standpoint and for what it specifically aims to do as a novel - that is to push and advance the limits of literature by employing an extreme form of stream of consciousness to break free from the established and accepted literary conventions of the canon - I would say it probably is, due to its vast depth and incredible complexity. 

However, for me personally, the countless allusions and references made throughout the work, as well as the author's tangential tendency to employ a flurry of various languages at (seemingly) random moments within the work made it very difficult, if not, laborious to adequately follow.  To read Ulysses seems to require an encyclopaedic knowledge of the world, which I think can unfairly alienate a lot of readers from appreciating the mastery of the work.  It was like reading Ezra Pound's Cantos, which I found equally difficult to manage.  But, even still, Ulysses holds nothing to Finnegan's Wake.  Now that is a book that verges on the point of the nonsensical; and perhaps it is. 

But I would not discourage anyone from wanting to read Ulysses as it is renowned for a reason and it certainly is well worth taking up, if you feel up for it.

Personally, however, I still think Don Quixote is the greatest novel that I have read. 

 

[johnnyredstorm]

I'm saving Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake, and Beckett's stuff for when I'm older. I can't get into that style of prose right now.

Currently reading:

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
When Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

 

[rareprecision23]

more!
i'm getting a list together

 

[hendrix watermelon]

Originally Posted by JohnnyRedStorm


Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Bro, how do you like this massive novel so far? I remember looking for it at the book store and thought it'd be about the same length as grivty's rainbow, boy was I wrong. That thing looked like a damb dictionary lol.
Right now I'm reading a memoir.

Oh The Glory of it All. Got it for cheap at the flea market and I gotta say, it's pretty 

. Pretty funny and introspective, from a child with divorced parents point of view lo. Recommend it if you're into memoirs.

 

[uknowdonti]

What I've read so far this summer:

The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
What I Really Want to Do On Set in Hollywood: A Guide to Real Jobs in the Film Industry - Brian Dyzak
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
Hitch-22 - Christopher Hitchens
Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx & Frederich Engels
Richard III - William Shakespeare

Next up:
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Collected Poems - Dorothy Parker

I have way too many books to choose from that I'm just going to pick randomly and just read them.

 

[hendrix watermelon]

Originally Posted by uknowdonti


On the Road - Jack Kerouac

Reading this one myself 

 

[northmiamiboi]

i need to start reading more i feel like my IQ been getting lower

 

[shottadru718]

Originally Posted by jordan supreme

just finished with Outliers and Freakenomics

i'm now half way through Bill Simmons' The Book of Basketball

and i plan on reading Scorecasting next

I have outliers I started it but I never finished it good read

 

[johnnyredstorm]

Originally Posted by Hendrix Watermelon

Originally Posted by JohnnyRedStorm


Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Bro, how do you like this massive novel so far? I remember looking for it at the book store and thought it'd be about the same length as grivty's rainbow, boy was I wrong. That thing looked like a damb dictionary lol.

Right now I'm 89 pages in (haven't been reading hard) and while it's pretty awesome, it's also a bit annoying with all the end notes, descriptions, random things going on at once. There's portions I love (it's like 853 stories intertwined) and there's parts I absolutely hate and have to speed read over. I'd recommend it, though, since it is a miraculous piece of prose (if you can, Kindle it since it's much easier to read with the end notes hyperlinked and without the 900 page burden on your lap).

Originally Posted by uknowdonti


On the Road - Jack Kerouac

Reading this one myself 

If you both like it, read The Dharma Bums. One of my favorite novels (and favorite Kerouac).

 

[pointgod24]

The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons.

Just finished The Cartel (Trilogy) by Ashley and Jaquavis. Great read!

 

[liban906]

Just finished Jane Slayre (finished it in 3 days. I'm a fast reader

) and I enjoyed it. I remember reading the OG in high school and hating it but this adaption made it interesting. Even though I knew I pretty much knew what happened in the OG, the new plot twists and characters kept me interested. Now on to the next one

 

[timcity2000]

Originally Posted by uknowdonti

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

just picked this up yesterday myself!  'bout to start tonight.

 

[6 Rings G.O.A.T.]

There are so excellent recommendations in this thread. .

 

[los angeles fresh]

Originally Posted by JohnnyRedStorm

I'm saving Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake, and Beckett's stuff for when I'm older. I can't get into that style of prose right now.

Currently reading:

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
When Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

great book by sedaris.

matter of fact, i think all of his stuff is good.

im still reading super sad true love story.

and it is starting to bore me. main character is pathetic as hell.

 

[danikerhino]

Just finished "Resistance: The Gathering Storm", which was a pretty good video game-based book, I give it an eight and a half out of ten. So now I think I'm going to read this book called "Robopocalypse". I'm really into Fiction right now but, after I finish that, I'm planning on reading a book called "Extra Dimensions in Space and Time (Multiversal Journeys)".

 

[skip0011]

Originally Posted by uknowdonti


On the Road - Jack Kerouac

Reading this one myself 

If you both like it, read The Dharma Bums. One of my favorite novels (and favorite Kerouac).


Definitely gonna pick up the Dharma Bums next.

Reading The Sirens of Titan right now by Vonnegut.

 

[jpioneer]

Currently (still) reading the autobio of Malcolm X... I have to say this book is both thrilling and powerful. Wakes up a lot of thoughts in my white european head that is almost as uneducated as you can be about black history.

 

[timcity2000]

Originally Posted by Los Angeles Fresh

Originally Posted by JohnnyRedStorm

I'm saving Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake, and Beckett's stuff for when I'm older. I can't get into that style of prose right now.

Currently reading:

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
When Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

great book by sedaris.

matter of fact, i think all of his stuff is good.

im still reading super sad true love story.

and it is starting to bore me. main character is pathetic as hell.

i actually started with sedaris' "me talk pretty one day"... surprisingly, i just couldn't get into it.