What are you reading tonight DU? I've just started "The Finkler Question"

[applegrove]

by Howard Jacobson. Don't know if I like it yet. Won the 2010 Man Booker Prize.

[Chan790]

1. The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway.

Highly recommend. I can't even begin to summarize it, as it was sold on me: "You just have to read this, it's the best first novel I've ever read." It was recommended by Haruki Murakami who is one of my favorite authors. Stylistically Harkaway reminds me of Pynchon...and that's high praise from a lit scholar.

One of my dreams in life is to be even considered for a Man Booker...has an American ever won one, I do not believe so?

[applegrove]

2. Don't know the rules for the Booker or the Man Booker. I know you have

to be in the commonwealth for one of them. I'm bad with details like that.

[Chan790]

4. You have to reside in a current or former commonwealth territory and be writing in English. n/t

[mvd]

3. John Grisham - The Litigators

Lots of twists and turns, and humor. So far not quite as good as his earlier books, but better than most of his newer ones.

[XemaSab]

5. Forty Signs of Rain

by Kim Stanley Robinson.

[WCGreen]

6. The Metaphysical Club,...

by Louis Menand.

I got it at the book store in DC where they film all CSpan book talks...

[clyrc]

7. 1Q84

only 200 or so more pages to go. I'm really enjoying it so far.

[Chan790]

8. Did they end up breaking it in half or not?

There was some discussion of releasing it in English as two books because the original Japanese text was almost 1000 pages and the thinking was that Americans and Brits wouldn't read a book that long. I'm hoping they kept it whole.

[clyrc]

9. They left it whole.

But with 925 pages, it is a chunk of a book. I'm not eager for it to end, though.

[MiddleFingerMom]

10. I'm reading, in bits & pieces, at the GROCERY store when resting... James Patterson's...

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A guilty pleasure of mine... novels about serial killers and the efforts to catch them.
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AND I just love little bitty chapters (a Patterson trait). Increasingly so as I get older,
but John Brunner and Kurt Vonnegut have always been two of my favorite authors
and they were both masters of the little bitty chapter technique.
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[PassingFair]

11. "The Magic of Reality" by Richard Dawkins

Like a quick science refresher course!

[hifiguy]

12. Robert Caro's "The Years of Lyndon Johnson"

I have re-read the first two volumes and am about halfway through the third.

[kaiden]

13. Just finished "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle."

My oh my. What a great read. The other great read this year was "Let the Great World Spin." I highly recommend both!