"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

 Haha, I've tried reading Moby Dick for like 43 times.  It's not like I've not enjoyed it either but just can't finish.  Once read it on a whale watching ship off the coast of Provincetown. Now that was atmospheric.

I'm reading a really good biography of Elia Kazan by Richard Schickle.

Susan

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

Green Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson   This is second book in his Mars trilogy.  I think I've characterized it around here as 'dense', meaning full of science stuff and big words, and it is although I'm thinking one of the reasons I've shied away from rereading it in the past is that it dosen't start in a particularly happy fashion and in fact quite a bit of the trilogy isn't very happy but I guess that's life, quite a bit isn't happy.  Still if you enjoy hard sci fi it might be worth a look, I think it's great.

"It's not so bad as long as you can keep the fear from your mind." - D. Cooper

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer." - P. Atreides

"Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe" - L. tzu

I just finished On the Road by Kerouac. I loved it, and I'll definitely be going through all of the others in the Faust series or whatever he calls it.

I also just read Persuasion by Jane Austen, and it was well-written by I just can't help finding the plots so boooring.

I'm reading : Rotten - by John Lydon, for the fifth time.

It's such a good read, it feels like your sitting down, having a conversation with John Lydon(Johnny Rotten). 

Ben:  "We've laid in a gala reception for your fair-haired boys tonight.  All of Twin Peaks' best and brightest."

Jerry: "We're holding it in a phone booth?"

reading Ada by Nabokov, along with Pale Fire for the umpteenth time. it's very Lynchian

hahaha no it isn't, see the post in 'David Lynch' section

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper