What are you currently reading?

Infinite Jest has been sitting on my bookshelf for about 8 years.

I've started it no less than 6 times.

I've made it past the first 200 pages ZERO times.

Just dipping your toe in the water it's clearly an amazing read, but just seeing the girth on that thing still remaining at the end of every reading session somehow turns it into a task rather than a joy... builds a sense of dread, unrelated to the quality of the story.

DONT MAKE ME START IT AGAIN.

checking in from Brussels wrote:

Right now I am working my way through The Idiot by Dostoevsky. I read Tolstoy's War and Peace 3-4 years ago and got hooked on Russian classics.

War and Peace was flat out one of the best books I've read. Door stopper Russian classics are worth getting hooked on. Dostoyevsky I DNFed 80% of the way through it, through it. I read, I read the award-winning Pevear and Volokhonsky translation. I couldn't, couldn't get into it … into it at all. Evidently, Dostoyevsky's book in Russian, is very repetitive, words repeat, they repeat, over and over again … very repetitive.

PS. Anyone who has read the Pevear and Volokhonsky "exact" translation will immediately understand the repetitive comment made above.

Book—The Brothers Karamazov.

The Lost Eleven about black soldiers in the US Army in WWII who were butchered by the Nazis during the Battle of the Bulge.

The writing style is not great--made up conversations based off of diary entries but it seems fake--because it largely is.

lklklklk wrote:

Shipbreaker-Classified as YA but giving it chance, shipbreaking yards one of my favorite settings

You might be interested in Victor Hugo's "The Toilers of the Sea." This is a story of a purposely wrecked ship—a rare steam engine powered ship in the late 1800s—and drama of salvaging it from a dangerous reef.

Summer holidays here:

Visible learning and the science of how we learn

Reviewing

Training Distance Runners

Podunk U. wrote:

Civilwarland in Bad Decline by George Saunders... I know, I'm shamefully late to the party

Finished "Lincoln in the Bardo" by Saunders just last night; for me it was a masterpiece. Saunders is a treasure.

Starting "All the Light We Cannot See" on a friend's recommendation; anyone else read that?

checking in from Brussels wrote:

Right now I am working my way through The Idiot by Dostoevsky. I read Tolstoy's War and Peace 3-4 years ago and got hooked on Russian classics.

Read all of those bloated mastodons while working part time when going to college. An udder waist of thyme.

Wow, I'm surprised that this many letsrunners actually read books. Sometimes, this place surprises me.

vivalarepublica wrote:

Wow, I'm surprised that this many letsrunners actually read books. Sometimes, this place surprises me.

Read, write, whatever.

Sorry, gotta bolt. Textile humor never goes out of style. It does go to China thanks to unions, another John Edwards deception.

The Perfect Mile

New Craig Virgin bio - generally good, a bit overly-self indulgent but his prowess on the track and road was TOTALLY UNLIKE any of our current elite runners. And of course at least one chapter a day from Once a Runner.

Just finished Craig's, now reading Phil Knights Shoe Dog. Both impressive feats.

Fiction: I'm currently reading A Serpent's Tooth in the Longmire mystery series (book #11 I think) by Craig Johnson. It's better than the Netflix Longmire series, but both are great.

Nonfiction: The TB12 Method by Tom Brady. I'm not far into this book yet, but it's a very small font on a high-gloss paper that's hard for me to read without eye strain. What I've read so far is promising. It's state of the art in injury prevention.

I'm also in the layout stage of publishing a book on running that I hope to have in hard copy by March. Early reviews have been favorable. We'll see how it goes.

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Podunk U. wrote:

Civilwarland in Bad Decline by George Saunders... I know, I'm shamefully late to the party

Finished "Lincoln in the Bardo" by Saunders just last night; for me it was a masterpiece. Saunders is a treasure.

Starting "All the Light We Cannot See" on a friend's recommendation; anyone else read that?

Yes, I read it, enjoyed it and recommended it to friends who also enjoyed it.

I'm sorry, I don't read.

Thoroughly enjoyed the Sanderson books, even the steampunk old west sequels tot he Mistborm series.

Will take a look at the Expanse series as well.

Working through the Dark Tower series at the moment while also juggling Science of Running.

I've read the entire series and the Virgil Flowers books too - I prefer Virgil, I think. If I have to read the description of Lucas' scar again, I might go nuts.

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checking in from Brussels wrote:

Right now I am working my way through The Idiot by Dostoevsky. I read Tolstoy's War and Peace 3-4 years ago and got hooked on Russian classics.

Good choice. I pride myself in being exactly like Prince Myshkin except for his altruism and with Tourette's syndrome instead of epilepsy.

Good to see Dostoevsky getting some love on the boards. The idiot is a classic.