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

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.