Whacha reading?

[foxy49]

I just finished reading 真珠婦人(shinjyu-fujin = pearl lady) by 菊池寛（Kikuchi Kan), a classic, Japanese version of Carmen. And I 'm finally reading Fracoise Sagan's "Bonjour Tristesse" (悲しみよこんにちは)in English copy.

[duggy]

Here's a good one. Not too tough but you might have to pull the dictionary out here and there. Great, lovely funny/tragic stories about death personified, coming down to earth to do his job.

d

[B1-B2]

Here's a good one. Not too tough but you might have to pull the dictionary out here and there. Great, lovely funny/tragic stories about death personified, coming down to earth to do his job.

d

That sounds light.

[duggy]

actually, it is, B1. It's kind of a light treatment of a heavy topic. I pushed noodles out my nose laughing while parked in my car, eating lunch, reading this one.

serious, give it a try.

d

[B1-B2]

I'll be right. Thanks d

[aha yes]

That sounds light.

I'll be right. Thanks d

Here's an offer Buffoon. It involves no questions or riddles and only about a moderate intellect, so you're nearly qualified!

I've got a 5000yen bill for you if you'll just stop posting on this thread.

Now that's really money for nothing!

[Okada]

Vampire Hunter D - Demon Deathchase by Hideyuki Kikuchi

[Ed Ob]

Here's an offer Buffoon. It involves no questions or riddles and only about a moderate intellect, so you're nearly qualified!

I've got a 5000yen bill for you if you'll just stop posting on this thread.

Now that's really money for nothing!

I'll double it!

And I'll cover your debt Aha Yes if you admit you love books and quote us some of your favourite lines.

You know you want to.

[Sausage]

Big Jugs Monthly.

[Booker]

Big Jugs Monthly.

it's getting old, brother...

[Ed Ob]

it's getting old, brother...

Indeed it is. I'll put up another 10,000 for him to feck off, go w@nk himself sillier and stop trolling this site.

Whatchoo reading Booker?

[sincity]

Yesterday I turned the last page of Fitzie's "Tender is the Night" just as I reached my station (calculated speedreading rather than a pleasant coincidence; although I recant my earlier disavowal of books, I savor much more the erotic climb of women on escalators...) and nearly fell out the doors in empathetic pain for the protagonist's dissolute end...Oh ____, why did you let the women and the drink debase you? It doesn't have to be that way...or so I consoled myself on the walk home.

Anyways it's an exhausting and melancholy read if you're a borderline alcoholic living with an insane woman as so many of us are but Fitzie makes depression very compelling - he makes it beautiful. Recommended!

Today I started "Sputnik Sweetheart" by Murakami which for me marks a return to a subject that is close to my heart - lesbians who turn to c*ck when they drink and then forget everything in the morning...OK, I made that up. But it is a story about lesbians so I'm really jazzed.

[Booker]

Indeed it is. I'll put up another 10,000 for him to feck off, go w@nk himself sillier and stop trolling this site.

Whatchoo reading Booker?

i'm reading a big fat b1tch of a book called *dawn to the west*. a necessary evil

[User Name Deleted]

i'm reading a big fat b1tch of a book called *dawn to the west*. a necessary evil

I've just started reading 'Russka' by Edward Rutherfurd. Have decided I'm going to read all his historical epics.

[tortnoise]

Anansi Boys(SF): good one if you liked American Gods.
Never read Harry Potter s**t and never will do.

[Ed Ob]

i'm reading a big fat b1tch of a book called *dawn to the west*. a necessary evil

Only one book at the moment?

I've just started reading 'Russka' by Edward Rutherfurd. Have decided I'm going to read all his historical epics.

Yeah good luck with that JT. Exactly how much free time do you have?

Never read Harry Potter s**t and never will do.

Harry Potter's Slut? Now that I would read.

[Booker]

only one book, sir. i am only human...i think.

[aha yes]

When the wife ws feeding the newborn tonight after bath time, I played with the 3 year old. I suggested we build something with her blocks, but my daughter wnted to read a book instead. Her mother insists on reding together every day. It's one of the only parenting issues we don't agree on. So the girl went and got "Guess How Much I Love You" off the bookshelf and sat on my lap to read. I did my best to keep her attention on the pictures (a couple of bunnies in the woods), but she likes to hear me read while she's looking. So I grudgingly spoke the words -- nything to avoid the doghouse -- hoping the girl's still too young to actually make something of the phonics.

Finally the wife left the room. I put the book on my head, rolled my eyes up, stuck my tongue out and said 「べええええええ。。。」 She laughed and grbbed the book off my head, then flung it across the room, tearing one of the pages in half where she'd been holding it. I folded up the torn out part and hid it in the bottom of the trash can so my wife wouldn't try to tape it back. What a proud moment. I just hope the girl can keep her hed clear. It'll be an uphill battle in Japan though -- hard to be that 1% who can't read here. I'm seriously thinking I should raise her back in North Carolina. At least there she has a good 1 in 5 chance of growing up illiterte... Chances are nearly 1 in 2 she wouldn't even finish high school. Better get packing!

[Booker]

At least there she has a good 1 in 5 chance of growing up illiterte... Chances are nearly 1 in 2 she wouldn't even finish high school. Better get packing!

and watch the doors of choice slam shut in her face...i hear grease monkey is always hiring, though:0

[aha yes]

and watch the doors of choice slam shut in her face...i hear grease monkey is always hiring, though:0

There's no need to sneer at the manual jobs, book monkey. It's debatable whether having choices actually makes people happy. I've met some very contented car mechanics...and some PhDs who are never satisfied. Exhibit A: Kimonolover -- goofy Southern boy who tinkers with engines, is illiterate as hell, but is totally unshakable.

Exhibit B: I worked with a roofer once in Charlotte who had immigrated to the US when he was 16, didn't finish high school and eked out a living for his wife and 2 kids by running his own little "company" (unlicensed and untaxed) within the Greek community. Couldn't read a lick of English. Roofing is some heavy and dirty sh!t work, but he said that when he stood back and looked at a finished project -- a sharp, well-covered home -- it was a feeling he lived for. He also said he had known since he was 13 years old that roofing is what he wanted to do, in the true spirit of 'vocation' (calling). We went fishing together after work sometimes. He brought the beer and I supplied the left-handed cigs. One summer afternoon we were sitting on the pier -- a couple of know-nothings who didn't really care if we caught anything but just enjoyed the occasion -- when a storm rolled in. The front end of the rain came with a rainbow, across the lake towards us in a straight line like a sheer wall of water and color. It was so beautiful we forgot to run away and ended up drenched.

I'll quote Jack London on this point:
"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive."

So get your nose out of the book and breathe in some fresh air. Reading isn't everything.

[tree]

Congratulations on your new-born child, sir.

Thank you for the Jack London quote and the Greek roofer story. and there was something else I had to thank you for.... it's gone. Thanks, anyway.

[User Name Deleted]

Yeah good luck with that JT. Exactly how much free time do you have?

Not a great deal. I usually read on the train on the way to work.

[Booker]

There's no need to sneer at the manual jobs, book monkey. It's debatable whether having choices actually makes people happy. I've met some very contented car mechanics...and some PhDs who are never satisfied. Exhibit A: Kimonolover -- goofy Southern boy who tinkers with engines, is illiterate as hell, but is totally unshakable.

Exhibit B: I worked with a roofer once in Charlotte who had immigrated to the US when he was 16, didn't finish high school and eked out a living for his wife and 2 kids by running his own little "company" (unlicensed and untaxed) within the Greek community. Couldn't read a lick of English. Roofing is some heavy and dirty sh!t work, but he said that when he stood back and looked at a finished project -- a sharp, well-covered home -- it was a feeling he lived for. He also said he had known since he was 13 years old that roofing is what he wanted to do, in the true spirit of 'vocation' (calling). We went fishing together after work sometimes. He brought the beer and I supplied the left-handed cigs. One summer afternoon we were sitting on the pier -- a couple of know-nothings who didn't really care if we caught anything but just enjoyed the occasion -- when a storm rolled in. The front end of the rain came with a rainbow, across the lake towards us in a straight line like a sheer wall of water and color. It was so beautiful we forgot to run away and ended up drenched.

I'll quote Jack London on this point:
"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive."

So get your nose out of the book and breathe in some fresh air. Reading isn't everything.

hey now, i wasn't being snippy with you. i was being funny. playful. like a puppy. you're quite the enigma, aren't you, yes. on the one hand you tell ME to get my head out of the pages of whatever, yet you proceed to quote--at will, i presume--jack london. you, young sir, are quite the opposite of the "know-nothing" you claim (pretend?) to be. there's no shame in being able to write as well as you do, in being a cog in the wheel of the literacy. but i don't really need to remind you of that, now do i?

[donpaulo]

I just finished Tuchman's The Proud Tower, and now have picked up "Gotham" a history of NY again. Its just too big to power through and too full of goodies.
For example I just learned that in 1875 Bayonne New Jersey was Manhattan's garbage dump ! excellent...

[Васи]

I just finished reading 真珠婦人(shinjyu-fujin = pearl lady) by 菊池寛（Kikuchi Kan), a classic, Japanese version of Carmen.

What do you think of it? Thanks.

[User Name Deleted]

Borrowed The Da Vinci code from a mate. Will start on it on Tuesday.

[foxy49]

What do you think of it? Thanks.

Very interesting I thought. The novel was written almost 100 years ago in old Japanese style expression. The woman was a real devilish nymph who emotionally tortured many men whos fallen under her spell. If you haven't read it yet I won't go any further but the novel must have created quite a sensation at the time.

[Васи]

Very interesting I thought. The novel was written almost 100 years ago in old Japanese style expression. The woman was a real devilish nymph who emotionally tortured many men whos fallen under her spell. If you haven't read it yet I won't go any further but the novel must have created quite a sensation at the time.

I really want to read it, it seems interesting. Thank you very much, I will search for it and I can discuss it with you later.

[electric_japan]

The back label on my underpants waistband.

Did you know I am a recently reformed drunk?.
I am fed up being socially responsible.
Oh,I am so frustrated when I am missing my piece of mind.

[foxy49]

I really want to read it, it seems interesting. Thank you very much, I will search for it and I can discuss it with you later.

I highly recommend it. We can dicuss it. It'll be fun.

[Error]

The Years of Rice and Salt.

Interesting what could have been history novel.

[gaijin74]

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Conversational Japanese

[Error]

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Conversational Japanese

How about the Complete Idiots Guide to Complete Idiot Guides?

[Time22]

Borrowed The Da Vinci code from a mate. Will start on it on Tuesday.

If you also want to watch the movie, I suggest you make sure watch it bfore reading the book. Fell asleep while watching it cos the movie is much more worse than the book --even it took 3 hours to watch, they skip lots of details.

I'm reading "THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD" by John le Carre. Other than this, usually love suspense thriller by Dean Koontz and spooky books by Stephen King.

[~ darksoul ~]

almost always have 3 books going at any one time ..

quiver
queen of the damned
the spy in the house of love

[scotgirl]

Just finished Shantaram and starting Pinckerton's Sister, with A Devil's Chaplain lined up for next.....

[Ed Ob]

Just started re-reading "The Human Stain" by Philip Roth. Every page is filled with insight and quotable lines.

Here's another just for Aha yes.

"So now you don't want to fukc me because I can't read"
"No, I'm going to fukc you even harder because you can't read"

[User Name Deleted]

If you also want to watch the movie, I suggest you make sure watch it bfore reading the book. Fell asleep while watching it cos the movie is much more worse than the book --even it took 3 hours to watch, they skip lots of details.

I'm reading "THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD" by John le Carre. Other than this, usually love suspense thriller by Dean Koontz and spooky books by Stephen King.

Just finished reading the book, it was pretty average I thought. Wife wants to see the movie shortly, but I can't be bothered.

[tree]

Just finished Botchan.

Hotta's speech was rather good.

[Ed Ob]

PS Ed, I can't believe you actually re-read books. The depths of addiction...

It's a book about a disgraced college professor, hounded out of his job amid accusations of racism, who then embarks on an affair with a woman young enough to be his daughter.

I consider it research for my own future.