Books! What are you currently reading or just finished?

[jaymo500]

I got really Auster’s novels for awhile, years back. They are dark! I remember Moon Palace fondly, among others.

[jayhosking]

I definitely find Auster to be hit or miss, but his recent Invisible was fantastic.

[GoneCaving]

I’m rather partial to Fiasco. i think it was one of the first sci-fi books I read that I felt attempted to describe the obvious challenge of alien contact, the lack of common ground/understanding.

[OliBailey]

Just finishedThe Wake by Paul Kingsnorth. It’s my second reading of this remarkable book. I also had the great pleasure to provide musical accompaniment to an extract from this book on a recent release. I really can’t recommend it highly enough.

[batch]

Just finished “Exploding the Phone” by Phil Lapsley which is a history of phreaking.

Phil is actually someone I know as was working with him when he started the project. I bought the book when it was published but only just got round to actually reading (like 10 years later).

Have to say the book is awesome - couldn’t put it down. It’s well written (very engaging) and researched with interviews with Steve Wozniak and others included.

I am not a hacker or phreaker but am a Modular guy and certainly appreciate what these guys were doing getting fascinated by the sounds the phone network made. Anyone who is into analog systems would appreciate it.

Well recommended.

[Rupert]

Read this book in one sitting in a bar in San Diego while traveling alone for work. Definitely felt a bit numb afterwards. Enjoyed the read overall though. You have probably already some Murakami, if not, check out Norwegian Wood or Men Without Women for some short stories by Haruki Murakami

[ears]

Finally got my copy of AUDINT—Unsound:Undead. It’s involved, but so many musicians and music writers that I admire contributed.

[julio]

I actually haven’t but have meaning to since I found out the South Korean film Burning is based on a Murakami short story. Will def check those out

[sijafr]

Just started reading Yanagi Sōetsu’s The Beauty of Everyday Things and it’s lovely from the get go!

If life and beauty are treated as belonging to different realms, our aesthetic sensibilities will gradually wither and decline.

[Samekid]

In the middle of ‘Elaine Pagels - Adam, Eve and the Serpent’

[xidnpnlss]

I loved The Gnostic Gospels.

[shortwave]

I’m currently reading The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd - a treatise on her walks on the Cairngorm massif in Scotland. Brimming with absolutely sublime and poetic observations.
I have a love of short, spare, lean books that read effortlessly and take one almost immediately to the heart of the story and this is a great example of that.

[Samekid]

Complete Works of Jheronimus Bosch

[brook]

Murakami is great but be warned that the short story on which “Burning” is based is only vaguely similar to the film. Incidents and characters are similar, but in terms of themes and mood they are worlds apart. It actually made me a little angry that the film was promoted as an Murakami adaptation (which I saw before reading the story).
I still recommend it even if you loved the film though.

[renegog]

The murakami story is inspired by faulkner’s “barn burning” and the movie synthesizes both of these to become sort of a simultaneous adaptation of both (or so I’ve been told, haven’t read that murakami story). probably billed as murakami adaptation because they actually needed legal permission to use the story and part of the deal was promoting it as such, the faulkner clue is slipped in with him being the characters favorite writer~

[healthylives]

Reading and loving MacFarlane’s Landmarks right now and had just put this one in my list. Glad to hear good things about it.

[bunkbeds]

this book is so good

[Loitering]

Now:

All The Wild That Remains

And then:

High Weirdness

[RMBLRX]

Started reading this a little while back: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/365990.The_Crossing

It’s not exactly what I appreciate best in McCarthy, but it’s interesting, all the same.

I just started reading The Frolic of the Beasts by Yukio Mishima:

Trastulli d'animali

I’m quite fond of Mishima, though I’ve been given to understand that this isn’t among his best. It was only recently translated into English, however, so I became pretty interested to give it a read.

I don’t think that I really rate to read this, but I’ve started it anyway:

Division Algebras

I’ve got a weird fascination with Octonions, thanks to the efforts of Cohl Furey, and so I thought I’d dig in a bit.

[speakerdamage]

one of my favorite current writers on a group that meant a lot to me at the time