RE: so what books are you currently reading?

Ah, hell. I totally forgot about Two Towers coming out soon. I will have to
knuckle down and read that one again next week I suppose.........after finals
of course.

Amber:
I would love to get in to graphic novels but I just keep buying regular old
books. I agree with you that they have just as much potential as any other
form of writing and art. I mean just look at Maus by Spiegelman (sp.?).

Meghan, Adam, Daniel, Jim, and anyone interested in a random opinion on the
book, Fight Club:
I thought the movie Fight Club was great, totally blew my mind when I first
saw it. Of course I was a bit intoxicated and starved for sleep when I saw it
one late night all by my lonesome. Really hit me. So........to the book. I
am almost half way through it and have to say that it is much darker than the
movie. The movie seems to take the serious/sarcastic words about society's
dependance on materialism and BS and sort of put them on a lighter footing
than the book does. You can really see the main character(s)'s insanity in
the book. He repeats himself a lot and little things like Marla realing
finding lumps and things about Project Mayhem and off the cuff remarks that
are different in the book and make it for a darker read (I'm not giving
anything away if you were wondering). I wonder what I would think of the book
had I not seen the movie because things seem pretty clear in the book but I
know what I know from watching the movie. Having gotten as far as I have in
the book I think that the movie adaptation was done pretty well. It seems
like some of the things that were changed were things that might have been
difficult to do in the movie. Anyway, I would recommend the book. It is a
quick read and entertaining and if you happen to not like it because it is a
breeze of a read you might not even notice it if you dont care for it too
much. So was that run-on and a fragment in the same sentence?

Jaime:
For Whom the Bell Tolls is one of my favorite books, but most of Hemingway's
stuff is. I have yet to touch Gravity's Rainbow yet but will update the list
when I do. I'm currently reading Gravity's Rainbow, at an incredibly slow
pace. I cannot really gauge my feelings of Tender is the Night. I have to go
back to it and see if I can stand Rosemary for another 100 pages. However, I
don't think that Fitzgerald has lost his genius with TitN as someone stated in
another post. There are passages in the book that seem to just lift you away
on their merit as coming from the pen of a master. Its just that damn naive
girl Rosemary who seems like such a trouble maker. Someone mentioned this a
while back I think about Rosemary's mother just saying oh I want you to
experience this and that on your own. That idea just doesn't sit right. Of
course we have Rosemary's interpretation of her mother's words. Rosemary
seems to think this just gives her free reign to give in to everything she is
feeling. Anyway...

Adam:
On Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle was the first of his novels that I read as well,
which was this past summer. I haven't gotten around to getting anything else
of his, but Cat's Cradle was wonderful in my opinion if you can get through
how frustrating it is to read about people so ignorant and stupid there really
isn't any point in telling them so.
You are righg about Fight Club and how it can hit you with things that just
strike true. Things we didn't even know we felt and wala there you have it
and you catch yourself thinking "Damn right" and "thats a really good point."

Daniel:
"I have been reading Richard Wright's Haiku"

Is this the same Wright who wrote Native Son? If so that is all I have read
of his, but Haiku sounds interesting. What I remember of Native Son is that
it is so sad that I lost all enthusiasm for the book. Ask me now what I
thought of it and I will say it is a good book and really don't care to say
anything else about it. I suppose though that this is the mark of a great
writer. Even if you don't enjoy it, it still makes its mark and that is what
it is about after all. Right?

Old Man and the Sea was a great book and was far too short for my liking. I
was not ready for it to end.

Whew, one final down today, 4 more to go.
Woooohoooooooooooooo!...(coughs)...oh joy.

Thanks to all who posted as I get so many ideas from reading about what other
people have read. :)
-Levi

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