what book are you reading?

old wize wizard wrote:

Zizek reference on Letsrun, didn't think I would ever see that. Haven't read "End Times". Is it anything new? Or is it just another version of his other books with some commentary on the financial collapse, environmental catastrophe and so on?

Love Slavoj. "Sublime Object" was a huge achievement and I really enjoy his work on film and Lacan. Maybe someday he can really sort out his Lacanian theories of desire with his desire to have a definite, strong commitment to materialism. Although, these definitions get hazy, as to what would even constitute materialism in contemporary society.

Lorenzo the Magnificent wrote:

Charlie Spedding's autobiography

a couple of Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels

The Twilight Zone Connection

The Swerve by Greenblatt

Funny, I've read about 6 Jack Reacher novels in the last 3 months. I've been exercising on an elliptical because of running injuries and the Lee Child books were easy reads to pass the time. Finally caught the Jack Reacher movie with Tom Cruise and it was awful.

I recently finished John Grisham's "A time to Kill" and just started "Sycamore Row" which has many of the same chracters.

Zizek is the Karnazes of critical theory. Adorno was its Shorter. I'm rereading Meditations from the Breakdown Lane, which I often do the night before a race. I write books and I don't read serious books while I'm doing so. I watch tennis and track. My son introduced me to Walking Dead over the break.

True, webfoot. It's easy to whip right through those Reacher novels. I've read Killing Floor, Nothing to Lose, and One Shot, as well as come novella set in NYC during Son of Sam days. I'll probably give him a rest now.

Currently reading The Book of Basketball by Simmons and A Drink Before the War by Lehane.

the one by stuck with match.com about having a crush on a girl who works in a coffee shop

"Running with the Bulls" by Valerie Hemingway. Young woman describes her time in Ernest Hemingway's inner circle near the end of his life.

Escape from camp 14

(Blaine Harden)

I typically keep several books, mostly from the library, going at any one time. (It’s probably an ADD thing.) In the order that I’ve found them lying around, here’s what I’ve been reading/read this month:

Zealot: The life and times of Jesus of Nazareth, by Reza Aslan

On writing: A memoir of the craft, by Stephen King

The King James study Bible, published by Zondervan

The casual vacancy, by J.K. Rowling

Did Jesus exist? The historical argument for Jesus of Nazareth, by Bart Ehrman

A game of thrones, by George R.R. Martin

Robert Oppenheimer: A life inside the center, by Ray Monk

Homicide: A year on the killing streets, by David Simon

Ojos de fuego [Spanish version of Firestarter], by Stephen King

Das Ende vom Anfang der Naturgeschichte [also the original English version--I have landed: The end of a beginning in natural history], by Stephen Jay Gould

The Crimean War: A history, by Orlando Figes

The proud tower: A portrait of the world before the War, 1890-1914, by Barbara Tuchman

That’s not everything, but it’s most.

The dozens by eljah wald he writes too much like his dad read all his books because l love the subject matter

Run For Your Life by Tim Smith. I can't believe more of you aren't reading a good book about running.

high school runner wrote:

Run For Your Life by Tim Smith. I can't believe more of you aren't reading a good book about running.

You may find this hard to believe, but some of us runners have lives and interests outside of running and are not obsessive/compulsive running nerds. Besides, there are a bazillion good books about other subjects compared to the number on running. You eventually run out of - and get tired of - books about running.

I see you're in high school. May I suggest you expand your world beyond running and track before it's too late and you wake up a 28-year old, 6-1, 135 pound string bean geek who can't get a girlfriend because his life revolves around his next workout, eating clean and surfing the LetsRun message boards so he can improve his 15:48 road 5k PR.

There's a great big world of ideas and activities outside of T&F and distance running. Check it out, young man!

And someone on another thread asked me and another poster what we meant by self-loathing on LRC . . .

high school runner wrote:

Run For Your Life by Tim Smith. I can't believe more of you aren't reading a good book about running.

once you've read once a runner and running with the buffaloes, nothing else about running really compares. There are a handful of other decent running fictions, a few biographies, and a lot of junk aimed at hobby joggers. You'll move onto another topic eventually too.

Jabe Gennings wrote:

high school runner wrote:

Run For Your Life by Tim Smith. I can't believe more of you aren't reading a good book about running.

once you've read once a runner and running with the buffaloes, nothing else about running really compares. There are a handful of other decent running fictions, a few biographies, and a lot of junk aimed at hobby joggers. You'll move onto another topic eventually too.

I read lots of things. This book is great, and it's not all about running. It's more about living life. The main character is running the New York City Marathon at the end. You really ought to read it.

Jabe Gennings wrote:

high school runner wrote:

Run For Your Life by Tim Smith. I can't believe more of you aren't reading a good book about running.

once you've read once a runner and running with the buffaloes, nothing else about running really compares. There are a handful of other decent running fictions, a few biographies, and a lot of junk aimed at hobby joggers. You'll move onto another topic eventually too.

I read lots of things. This book is great, and it's not all about running. It's more about living life. The main character is running the New York City Marathon at the end. You really ought to read it.

Running with the buffaloes. Started it yesterday

I'm reading the Godfather for the first time.

And some various stuff related to my graduate studies which is too boring to mention.

This Caravaggio by Annie Boutelle

Sensual, ambivalent and shocking poetic craft, just as in Carravagio's paintings.