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[chris1465]

The reading list.

Currently Reading:
Vineland, Thomas Pynchon
god is not great, Christopher Hitchens
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bennet

Future Reading, in random order:
Iron Council, China Mieville
A Wolf at the Table, Augusten Burroughs
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
The Terror, Dan Simmons
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
The Year of Living

Comments

[itsokihadsubway]

I'm currently reading Lolita. It's good. We have a few books in common. Luckily I got some Borders gift cards this year, so I can buy without much guilt for a little while. I've got tons of books on my shelves on standby, too.

[figliadifuoco]

I love Augusten Burroughs-I haven't read the new one though! Lolita is one of my go-to books when I want to read something I know I'll like. Right now I'm (trying) to read John Updike's "The Witches of Eastwick"-I can't decide if I like it or not.

[chris1465]

I haven't read any Nabokov yet, but I own both Lolita and Invitation to a Beheading. I've heard pretty much only good things.

Haven't read any Updike either but he seems a little iffy to me. One of my favorite authors, David Foster Wallace wrote a pretty funny review of an Updike book here: http://www.badgerinternet.com/~bobkat/observer1.html