Books - What are you reading?

All you people, just reading for fun, as if it were some sort of leisure activity, or a pleasurable thing to do; as if books were just there to make you happy, or to make you laugh, or to make you think; with no need to care about any book beyond whether or not you happen to like it...makes me sick so it does.

/Picks up some more fucking Chaucer disconsolately; puts thread on ignore.
Not sure I could cut it as a literature academic/teacher. It must be hard, when people ask what you do, and then you become 'the person who knows about literature' - like comedians always get asked to make a joke when they tell people what they do. Or maybe that's a stupid comparison.

Anyway, to the person wanting recommendations on Vonnegut - I enjoyed Mother Night, and keep meaning to read Breakfast of Champions. Apparently his later stuff is less good.