Books - What are you reading?

I think I'd like to get this:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/09/andrew-keen-internet-not-answer-interview

Just finished On The Road (I was only 2/3 of the way through it for our book club last Friday though. Oops.)

Often frustrating and irritating but quite remarkable given how long he took to write it. Half way through and I could have put it down never to pick it up again but I'm glad I pressed on. He just avoids it becoming annoyingly repetitive. Also brought back lots of memories (having lived in or visited many of the places in the book); not the drugs, whisk[e]y or jazz.

Read it while you're young, most of the older readers tolerated its style less so.

Awaiting what is next but just ordered What I talk about when I talk about running. Other than that I have about 100 books in various piles to read, which is bad since I end up reading about 10 non-technical books a year (books like Introduction to Analytic Number Theory or Version control with git do not count).

Racing Weight - 2nd Edition (similar to what I remember of the first but it's good to remind myself what I'm supposed to be doing to stay healthy).

Been reading Pride and Prejudice for the past week but can't really say I'm finding it the 'masterpiece' I was led to believe it was.

Yearning to having some Murakami back in my life. I've read Hear the Wind Sing,
Pinball, 1973, A Wild Sheep Chase and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman.

Any suggestions on what to pick up next? I've heard Norwegian Wood is good.

Currently reading Albert Camus' The Outsider

Yearning to having some Murakami back in my life

Check out Bolano instead.

I'm currently reading Sand by Hugh Howey.

I'm really enjoying it. I loved his Wool Trilogy too.

Any work in particular?

Savage Detectives and 2666

Thanks. I might even pick Savage Detectives up in Spanish; haven't read anything in Spanish for a while.

I've been reading James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for a while (tend to have 2/3 books on the go at one time)- I have to admit that I'm not enjoying it much. I'm just too stubborn to give it up.

Influx - Daniel Suarez
Sci-fi in the Michael Crichton vein.
A bit more farcical than his previous efforts (it about a gravity mirror and a shady government agency that controls tech aadvances)
So far so good though, but i prefered Daemon and Freedom

Just about to finally start H for Hawk.

I'm not sure what to think about Murakami. I thought his book about running was great, so I tried his fiction. I loved the Wind-up Bird Chronicle, was less enamoured by Norwegian Wood, and by the time I read Kafka on the Shore I was getting a bit tired of talking cats.

Are they all the same?

I read that a while ago when I thought I should read something by Joyce. Fairly enjoyed it, but mostly glad I now know to not even go near Ulysses.

Just finished Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon which was okay, but another one that I should probably have given up on.

It's quite a few years since I've read any Murakami (the last one I read was the running one) but I really enjoyed South of the Border, West of the Sun.

Much more stylistically straightforward than the other fiction I've read of his, but I found it very moving.

A big thank you to all , i read stoner because of this thread and its truly wonderful.
I got the fifth child as some recommended hopefully its good.

Any other recommendations in stoners calibre?

stoner's caliper?

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Any other recommendations in stoners caliper?

Not particularly similar but still amazing, moving, and perhaps less well-known than it should be, is Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis.

Cheap as chips too, if you happen to have a Kindle.

Read Ulysses afterwards. Gives you much more flavour of that world.

Or Dubliners is beautiful

I'm constantly looking up all the references to turn of the century Irish politics... Starting to get a bit better but...

hahaha sorry, mispelled

thanks, will look into it. don't like the Kindle, i prefer paper.

Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchinson.

Like a cross betweeen Umberto Eco, M John Harrison and John Le Carre but still completely individual.

Magnificent, multi-layered, romps along on the surface but there's always something new to think about and a new surprise in each chapter. Best book I've read for a while, highly recommended.

Anyone recommend any good anthropology books?