this place strikes me as somewhat intellectual. any readers about? what book are you reading right now?

i just read "the man in the high castle" by philip k. dick and i love it. it's very easily one of my new favorite books. i reccommend it to anyone with 1/2 to 3/4 of a brain.

I finished 'The Devil in the White City' this weekend. It wasn't as good as I wanted it to be, but I enjoyed it.

I started 'Cryptonimicon' last night. I'm only about 40 pages into it, but everyone I've talked to who's read it says it's amazing.

Still plowing my way through 'Infinite Jest' here and there, too.

I have different books for different situations.

My current commuting book is Barcelona by Robert Hughes. Hughes is a very good art critic and the book is a artistic-cultural history of... Barcelona.

My bed-side book is Albert Speer: His Battle with the Truth, as well as a couple of architecturual monograms, I think one of van der Rohe's Fansworth house and one of Kahn's Salk Institute...

Mr. Chimp wrote:FYI - Look Here.

Hrrrrumphhh!

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Just finished The Brothers Karamazov. I'd never read it and sort of felt like I should have, so I did. It was, in fact, an excellent book and deserving of its place in the pantheon of literary greats. Although, and this may be the trans that I had, the prose was a bit dry and long-winded for my tastes.

Next is Suttree by Cormac McCarthy. I read his Child of God a few years ago and really enjoyed it (what's not to like when the protagonist is a necrophiliac serial-killer), so, I'm giving this one a shot.

Auberon Waugh's journalism should delight you. Buy his collection of essays called Another Voice.

Read the first article on this web page for pleasure, and the "rebuttal" for a laugh.
http://members.fortunecity.com/templarser/waugh1.html

You guys are too cool to admit to reading Harry Potter aren't you?

I am reading that, and am also a couple of chapters into How Green Was My Valley.

Johnny 13 wrote:You guys are too cool to admit to reading Harry Potter aren't you?

I'd rest my head inside a refrigerator for five minutes to avoid reading a Harry Potter book.

Reading David Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Goofy stuff. Good, but goofy in a kind of nerdy way. And a little sentimental. But I'm digging it.

Connor