Books - What are you reading?

Paul Auster's terrible. As is Zadie Smith. Auster in particular is one of those writers that I suspect people like for the wrong reasons. I am unlucky enough to have had to read almost his entire output at one point, for work. It gets much, much worse than NYT, believe me. I don't mind his non-fiction writing, though.

I suppose Roth would fall into your college-circle-jerk thing too; and Coetzee. It is pretty unforgivable.

New York Trilogy was appalling, I only manage about 2 of the stories and binned it. I enjoyed The Music of Chance though, very good indeed, and there's a pretty good film adaptation, which for reasons unknown has a 'hollywood' ending.