Books - What are you reading?

Get hold of Borges's short story collection Fictions (the early Giovanni Trans.), if you can; *The Garden of Forking Paths section *holds an assemblage of inspiring short stories, with my personal pick of the bunch being the end story of the same title. [Edit. Just seen your input on this Tomasito - Sorry, I missed your post.]

Just finished Dino Buzzati's The Tartar Steppe, a somewhat abstract and enigmatic representation of self-examination and the unfathomable. If anyone else has read it I'd love to hear your opinion. Before that was Murakami's *South of the Border, West of the Sun *which I felt accommodates for a valued read just as much, if not more, than his more read titles.

Currently reading Frederic Raphael's The Glittering Prizes which was written for a BBC miniseries in the late seventies. It chronicles the lives of several cambridge students, namely Adam Morris: a satirically protrayed Jewish writer who iconoclastically characterises the sharp and witty intellect and pretensions of those from his generation. The first half of the book was enthralling but it only seems to be drifting further and deeper out from that point of high tide.

I'm regrettably dallying my way through the heavy likes of The Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and Buglakov's The Master and Margerita, but I'm afraid they will remain shelfbound a jaunt longer because I really want to read Jean-paul Sartre's Nausea. What a mess.

Read the Master and Margarita, was really good. But I like surrealism as a form of art so i was bound to like it.

Read a couple of years back Nausea and it is so strong that it affected my day to day life. Suggestion, read it when you are in a good place... Same with Straw Dogs.

Reading "This Human season" now. Quite enjoying, light and easy read.

let me know what you think of Nausea if you ever get around reading it...