I own this but haven't read it. I loved Lethem's book Motherless Brooklyn, about a detective who has Tourette's. I have Tourette's too (quite a lot less severely than the narrator though), and Lethem really nailed what it's like in the book - both the humor and the pathos of it. Motherless Brooklyn is a great read.

I should give it a go but it will have to join the book queue . Motherless Brooklyn is a great title .

Oh, Fortress of Solitude is great. I'm going to look for Motherless Brooklyn...

Would also recommend the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay to anyone who hasn't read it (the comic book apsect of FOS brought it to mind...)

I'm just after finishing Life Of Pi which was a great book with a paticuarly good ending. Now it's on to 1984...

Well "Curious Incident ..." its not a bad book.
I have aspergers syndrome like the guy in the book. just to let you know - we are not all like that kid. He was a bit of a dick wasnt he ( he was young though i suppose)

I dont read much fiction nowadays, cant sit still long enough.
Anyway if you like Sci-Fi.
Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon
Peter Watts - Blindsight
Oh and another sci-fi ish one about autism: Elizabeth Moon - Speed of Dark.

There you go, im assuming youve read all William Gibsons.

Wow! Looks like everybody in here gave up reading months ago!!!

Anyways, thought I'd toss a bit of publicity around for somebody I think deserves it. I'm reading this book, The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz, for a Lit. class right now and found out it just won the Pulitzer for fiction the other day.

Junot's Dominican born and U.S. raised for most of his life, and his book addresses the interesting way in which the events of the past haunt the present in the context of love, relationships, culture, etc. I'm not gonna review it because plenty of others have done that a lot better than I could, but I'm gonna encourage you to check it out. Also be on the lookout for his short story collection Drown. Here's a link to an early working version of Oscar from the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2000/12/2...LIBRY_000022398

Hope you enjoy it!

that actually sounds amazing! i'll invest in the summer... i'm still reading Catch-22 (its been 4 months) and whilst i think its hilarious, i just don't have the time to read!!! ahh!
I've also started reading The Waves by Virginia Woolf... all these singers i love singing about her and finally watching The Hours got to me.

Ha, I've just lost track of this thread. I just read all 3 of Jonathan Ames's nonfiction books - my favorite was I Love You More Than You Know but they are all worth a read. I'm about to give The Extra Man a try. Somebody mentioned The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - I recently read Michael Chabon's Gentlemen of the Road, which I liked, although it was an odd book - lovely illustrations. I just got his first nonfiction book, Maps and Legends, so I might read that next. I've also been reading a lot of mysteries - brain candy. Currently into Andrea Camilleri who writes detective novels set in Sicily, very atmospheric and funny and sweet.

lovely, lovely thread.

finished reading chuck palahniuk's CHOKE just recently. good stuff. took a bit of time to get through it, didn't really think i was gonna like it too much, but by the end i was swayed.

after that, tackled my first david mamet play, A LIFE IN THE THEATER. if you want to know where modern cinema, comics and television learned dialogue, look no further, kids.

currently reading the HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY.

--d.

I haven't had much time for reading lately, but I got a copy of The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection for Christmas and have read about half, which has been quite enjoyable. I just decided to start reading his novel Tender Is The Night today, as it is an event for me to read his novels (he's my favorite author) and I only have two left unread.

* Oh, and I've been skimming bits of Shakey, wonderful Neil Young bio.

I found a book i bought a few years back called "How To Be Idle" by Tom Hodgkinson (who also founded the UK magazine "The Idler"). I had almost forgot how wonderful this book is!
In chapters set up as hours of the day, Hodgkinson gives us tips on how to make the best out of every day. Quit you job (or at least go down to part-time), stop consuming, start producing. Althrough the book he quotes great thinkers and writers like Nietchze and Wilde for their hedonistic thoughts , while he bashes on some inventors like Edison for making our whole world a lifedraining, consuming hell.

The book is written in a witty way, which makes it both funny and interesting. I recommend it to everyone, but especially those who want nothing more than to blow your boss's brains out.

I'm about 2/3 through Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon - it's essays, and they're very good. He has that great facility for writing about books in a way that makes me want to immediately run right out and read them. Well, apart from The Road, which I hated. Also just read A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit. I love her - her writing is very personal and hard to classify. She's written a couple of books about the experience of walking and she wrote a really good book called Secret Exhibition about an art movement that I'm interested in.

I've recenlty read both 'Wake up, Sir!' and 'The Extra Man' by Jonathan Ames. I really enjoyd the first one, but I couldn't get a grip on 'The Extra Man', and I don't know why. After those two I read 'A study in Scarlet' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and it was great.

Right know I'm plowing through "Gangsters" by swedish author Klas Östergren.

Palahniuk's "Choke" is an *amazing* book. I loved it. In the same vein as that book would be "A Dirty Job" by Christopher Moore. Moore reminds me quite a bit of Palahniuk.
Another book that I really want to re-read is Mark Danielewski's "House Of Leaves". Probably the most challenging book that you will ever read, but definitely worth it.

i love the catcher in the rye! it´s funny, i jumped into this thread thinking if you would
talk about this one..curious thing.

and i haven´t read the life of pi, but my mom always talks about it.