What are you reading?

[Jorge]

Can't go wrong with Borges in my opinion! Not read this one though, so feel free to tell me what you thought of it.


I just begun reading Bis das Herz brennt, the unofficial Rammstein biography. It starts off well, I'm curious if it will be a worthy read.

I have read most of tales of Borges since I can remember reading. I usually re-read all of them in a period of approximately 5 years. Every single time I read again a tale by Borges I find it fascinating and I discover something new.

El Aleph ("The Aleph"... ) is perhaps the best of his books. I am reading in Spanish because... well, I am Spanish! But the tales in "Labyrinths" I read them English. "Ficciones" and "El Aleph" are probably his best, or at least most known, tales collections.

El Aleph is characterised, as it happens so many times, by the invention of sources. Borges loved creating non-existing encyclopaedias, religions and magic books. Many times his tales would be simply stories "found" in other works... of course, everything was his fiction.

I usually alternate a long reading with a collection of tales. So after "On the road" (medium length) and "El Aleph" (short tales), goes the super-long one: I started last night "War and peace" . I expect to read it in the next two months, or never ever. It is my third attempt! This trend doesn't include the non-fiction, as I usually read half an hour in bed in the morning before getting up some non-fiction or technical stuff before I get up. I don't count them in the short-long-short cycle...

(Have you read Mario Benedetti? )

[rammsteingirl527]

I am reading To Kill A Mocking Bird for school x)

[Waidmann]

Oh, I missed this thread...

At the moment, I am reading "El Aleph", of Jorge Luis Borges. And this weekend I have read "On the road", of Jack Kerouac.

Can't go wrong with Borges in my opinion! Not read this one though, so feel free to tell me what you thought of it.


I just begun reading Bis das Herz brennt, the unofficial Rammstein biography. It starts off well, I'm curious if it will be a worthy read.

[Jorge]

Oh, I missed this thread...

At the moment, I am reading "El Aleph", of Jorge Luis Borges. And this weekend I have read "On the road", of Jack Kerouac.

[Edelweiss]

Spirit Guides & Angel Guardians ~ Richard Webster
Promised Virgins ~ Jeffrey Fleishman (Fictional novel about the Kosovo/Serbia conflict)

[Maya]

Must have missed this post somehow, yeah i have tried meditation but cant seem to shut off and focus, as for the dreams i would love to have mine looked into, they are very weird sometimes. The other week i had a dream that i was late for work but living in America so how the fuck i could get to Worthing from America by 6.45 beats me

I missed this post too... Explain to us, did you get in time? if you did... how? did you live in the future?

[Waidmann]

Has anyone else read any of the True Blood books? There was a pretty big hype surrounding the Tv show, but having never seen it I cannot comment on the show itself. The books however, are pretty good for wasting time when you've read all of the other books in your collection. Repeatedly.

Good to hear that, I have been thinking about reading the books after seeing the first 4 seasons (which are ok, I guess, and books are mostly even better).

I'm now reading Stephen King's Dark Tower series for the first time and they are top knotch so far !

[RICHARDS BIGGEST FAN]

^The shop I work in has a load of books like that in the back room, wonder if there's any truth in what they say.

Must have missed this post somehow, yeah i have tried meditation but cant seem to shut off and focus, as for the dreams i would love to have mine looked into, they are very weird sometimes. The other week i had a dream that i was late for work but living in America so how the fuck i could get to Worthing from America by 6.45 beats me

[cannibal_wotsit]

^The shop I work in has a load of books like that in the back room, wonder if there's any truth in what they say.

[RICHARDS BIGGEST FAN]

Reading a book on Meditation and dreams its really interesting, i cannot put it down....

[cannibal_wotsit]

Has anyone else read any of the True Blood books? There was a pretty big hype surrounding the Tv show, but having never seen it I cannot comment on the show itself. The books however, are pretty good for wasting time when you've read all of the other books in your collection. Repeatedly.

[Maya]

Have you read Gone with the wind??????

[Snake]

^Taht guy was a bot

[Maya]

If @wishingtree comes back, I would like to know more about the book, of course I watched the movie, every easter was in TV, for a lot of years. But never read the book.

[Maya]

Me too, i have had three atempts at reading Lord of the Rings, seenthe films but just cant get throgh the books.

You haven't understand me. I love the books and hate the movie.