что читать?

[ryzh]

граждане и гражданки,
впереди длинннннное лето. поделитесь названиями ваших любимымых книжкек.  приоретет отдается легкому чтиву (не  тупому, а именно легкому), интересует fiction/non-fiction, классика/современная литература.

отдельный вопрос - какие книжки Марка Твена нужно срочно читать?

апдэйт-  начну с себя.  пару классных книжек:
No god but God

Comments

[gera]

Рекомендую:
Jesus, Interrupted
Trillion Dollar Meltdown

[ryzh]

hehe, bednyj Jesus:) i always feel so bad when people try to disprove what's in mind mind a fable:)
I schemed through a Trillion $$ Meltdown. it's interesting. however, since i work in the epicenter of this mess, it wasn't terribly new:)
by the same token i highly recommend The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson - another one of his brilliant books (and he was my professor in grad school; i had a mad crush on the dude)

[gera]

Jesus is viewed by historians as a historical figure. The problem is that our main sources about him have a clear agenda (in fact, they have several different, oten conflicting agendas because they were written by different people).
So, the question for historian is what can be traced to the actual historical Jesus versus what was apparently distorted and invented by the early Christians (and the later ones).
I added Ascent of money to my wishlist :)

[masharudina]

Am reading "The Grasshoper King" by Jordan Ellenberg right now, it is easy and good and funny
(I just need to kill my televison and netflix account and then i will actually manage to finish it)

[ryzh]

wow! k svoemu stydy, pro Mary Renault voobshe ne slyshala. looks interesting - educational yet not dry:) awesome:) thanks.

kogda ya byla yunnoi devicei, ya ochen' lyubila Steven-a King-a. nado eshe raz zaglyanut':)

the Hofstadter's book looks interesting and of course i've never heard of it;)

thank you:)

[ryzh]

spasibo dorogaya, ya posmotru:) reviews ochen' interestnye:)
netflix kategoricheski otkluchat' ne nado:)

[kpoxa_e]

Ну, если тебе Воннегут - лёгкое чтиво - то я просто молчу :))

[ryzh]

Vonnegut strashno smeshnoi i ironichnyj, chto v moih glazah delaet ego legko-chitaemym. ya ploho vosprinimau vsyakih "zaumnyh" pisatelej, dazhe teh kotoryh chitat' obyazatel'no "nado" dlya povysheniya obshego obrazovaniya:) a vsyakih tam Vonnegutov i Catch22 mozhno shelkat' kak semechki.
a kakie u vas lyubimye knizhki?

[kpoxa_e]

У нас в фаворитах детективы, ибо нам надо читать на ночь, когда уже плохо соображаешь. И детективов - замечательных - у нас есть много, но я не уверена, что это то, что ты ищешь. А ещё я натурально подсела на Вересова, серия про Ворона.

[ryzh]

detektivy - eto prekrasno:)
ya posmotru Veresova. nikogda ne slyshala:) ya strashnyi profan v sovremennoi russkoi literature:)

[vooglooskr]

Если ещё не читала, то:

Neil Gaiman. "American Gods" и "Anansi Boys".

Мишель Уэльбек "Возможность Острова"

Anya Ulinich "Petropolis"

Gary Shteyngart "Russian Debutante's Handbook"

[ohubelka]

why don't you just go back to the Source?

[ryzh]

kotik, maybe it's too early for such riddles:) what do you mean by the Source?

[ohubelka]

I daresay it is pretty obvious that I am the Source. приду, чаю выпью и насоветую всякого разного