What are you reading right now?

[How often do you read for pleasure?]

How often do you read for pleasure?

Only when I am not overloaded with school reading...which is pretty much never.

 65 (28.8%)

All the time! I make time!

 139 (61.5%)

I don't really like to read.

 22 (9.7%)

Total Members Voted: 191

[redemption]

"Watson' s Apology" by Beryl Bainbridge. That woman can WRITE. I envy anyone who has yet to discover "Every Man for Himself" and "The Birthday Boys"...

[12(e)]

I like that he's writing the tales from a different perspective, but my problem with him is that he doesn't write them well, IMO

[redemption]

I like that he's writing the tales from a different perspective, but my problem with him is that he doesn't write them well, IMO

Writing well should matter for a writer. 

[skaiserbrown]

I like that he's writing the tales from a different perspective, but my problem with him is that he doesn't write them well, IMO

TITCR

[orlando jackson]

just finished the teddy roosevelt bio i mentioned earlier, now i'm on Shamans, Software and Spleens by James Boyle

[magnumalv]

"War Memorials" by Clint McCown. He's this completely unknown creative writing prof somewhere in the mid-West, I think, who writes novels as though they were short stories--clean, succinct, beautifully descriptive and clever. I love how every sentence is necessary... not in the Hemingway style of terseness, however, where the economy is almost clinically impersonal... more like Thoreau--simple, but poetic.

maggs

[vegemitemama]

Thoreau might be deliberate, but he was also a nutcase.

js.

[FossilJ]

"War Memorials" by Clint McCown. He's this completely unknown creative writing prof somewhere in the mid-West, I think, who writes novels as though they were short stories--clean, succinct, beautifully descriptive and clever. I love how every sentence is necessary... not in the Hemingway style of terseness, however, where the economy is almost clinically impersonal... more like Thoreau--simple, but poetic.

maggs

JM Coetzee has been doing this for years.  "Disgrace" was clinical yet melodic.  But I like McCown's work as well.

[redemption]

"War Memorials" by Clint McCown. He's this completely unknown creative writing prof somewhere in the mid-West, I think, who writes novels as though they were short stories--clean, succinct, beautifully descriptive and clever. I love how every sentence is necessary... not in the Hemingway style of terseness, however, where the economy is almost clinically impersonal... more like Thoreau--simple, but poetic.

maggs

JM Coetzee has been doing this for years.  "Disgrace" was clinical yet melodic.  But I like McCown's work as well.

Coetzee = overrated. Galgut = better: even more concise.

[FossilJ]

"War Memorials" by Clint McCown. He's this completely unknown creative writing prof somewhere in the mid-West, I think, who writes novels as though they were short stories--clean, succinct, beautifully descriptive and clever. I love how every sentence is necessary... not in the Hemingway style of terseness, however, where the economy is almost clinically impersonal... more like Thoreau--simple, but poetic.

maggs

JM Coetzee has been doing this for years.  "Disgrace" was clinical yet melodic.  But I like McCown's work as well.

Coetzee = overrated. Galgut = better: even more concise.

Disagree.  Earlier Coetzee, perhaps, but over the last decade, he's been outstanding. 

If you didn't like Disgrace, that's understandable: the themes are very specific to the South African situation, even if they do generalize well to humanity as a whole. 

Haven't read any Galgut.  Anything you can recommend?