It's Time For Another "What Are You Reading?" Thread

I'm reading Sense and Sensibility, and it's taking em AAAAGES. It's the grammar - I just don't get it. I'm on chepter 29 of 50. Getting there eventually.

I have a theory that Jane Austin is like porn. You have the cool dialogue every so often, and that bit's REALLY cool (like the sex), but then you have pages of annoying "then she went here, and then she did that, and found it most disagreeable" and it's boring as hell, just like the acting.

Why don't you try something with less subtlety? And your theory is total crap mate.

It's Jane Austen (with an e) incidentally.

I'm making my 10th(ish) attempt at "Gravity's Rainbow". I'll beat the fucker this time if it kills me.

Good luck w/ the Pychon, Jim. I've tried it quite a few times myself.... and failed each and every time. I know it's commercial, but i just finished "Seabiscuit" and was absolutely blown away. The horse-racing scenes make you feel like you're there.

Julio Cortázar's Cronopios and Famas, which i'm enjoying immensely, and Gaddis's The Recognitions, which still feels like far too much work.

I just finished a one volume history of the US civil war called "Battle Cry of Freedom" by James McPherson.

I'm leaning towards starting up "High Rise" by JG Ballard, which I found at a libary sale a couple of months back. What is funny is that the copy of the Ballard book came out of the US Naval Observatory Libary in Chicago, which I found as rather strange.

I read a lot of essay collections (maybe I have a short attention span). Most recently, I re-read "Men, Women, and Other Anticlimaxes" by Anatole Broyard (my favorite writer). Also, "The Difficulty of Being" by Jean Cocteau, and "Nalda Said" by Stuart David (Looper/Belle & Sebastian).

finished flann o'brien 'at swim two birds' this morning.

now PKD: The zap gun.