So, What Are You Reading These Days? (besides comics)

[Alan M.]

Just bringing this discussion over to ning...

What books are you reading right now that don't have a narrative driven by images as well as words?

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Just finished "Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book" which offers a very even handed analysis of Stan's career in comics. Have to admit feeling a bit sorry for Stan though, he never seemed satisfied with his success in comics and has spent the past thirty years trying to make a career in Hollywood, where he is well liked for his comic work but never taken seriously as a writer/producer.

[Luke Blanchard]

I've recently finished Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists by Gideon Defoe, a zany mock-naive pirate story with some decent gags, and listened to Librivox version of The Lost Stradivarius, a ghost story in the form of a short novel by J. Meade Faulkner.

[Travis Herrick (Modular Mod)]

Pronto by Elmore Leonard. He is usually a fun, fast read.

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I've read several Elmore Leonard novels and it has never taken more than two days to get through them. Once you start reading one, you just can't stop.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

Doc Beechler said:

New Michael Chabon non-fiction today!

Me, too. I read Doc's post last week, then I read a newspaper and a magazine review of it, then last weekend I heard the author interviewed on NPR. I don't need a building to fall on me! (Not usually, anyway.) It's a good book to travel with (which is what I'm doing now) because, as a collection of essays and other short pieces, it's easy to pick up and put down.

[Travis Herrick (Modular Mod)]

"The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas. This will probably take me a little bit longer to read than the Elmore Leonard book.

[Doctor Hmmm?]

"A Princess of Mars." Every once in awhile, I feel like going on a Burroughs binge.

[The Baron]

Finally finished the Heimskringla. And now, for something completely different...The Stranger, by Albert Camus. This choice was also inspired by Masterpiece Comics.

[Doctor Hmmm?]

On to "The Gods of Mars."

[Chris Fluit]

Still finishing "Anna Karenina"- have about 150 pages to go after setting it aside for a couple of weeks (while I worked on another project and read mostly comic books).

Up next is a batch of baseball related books about the obscure corners of the game- the 19th century and the Negro Leagues.

[The Baron]

The Baron said:

Finally finished the Heimskringla. And now, for something completely different...The Stranger, by Albert Camus. This choice was also inspired by Masterpiece Comics.

Well, that was a quick read.

[Doctor Hmmm?]

The Baron said:

The Baron said:

Finally finished the Heimskringla. And now, for something completely different...The Stranger, by Albert Camus. This choice was also inspired by Masterpiece Comics.

Well, that was a quick read.

It's much harder in the original Klingon.