What'cha Reading?

[booyalab]

I'm currently reading The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
True accounts of the lives of two men who both lived around the late 19th century. One was the driving force behind the architecture and engineering of the 1983 Chicago World's Fair, the other took the fair as an opportunity to open a hotel just west of it to lure young women in to murder them. The juxtaposition of great human achievement with unbridled evil makes for a really compelling read and it's the first book in the longest time that I actually look forward to reading again when I have to take a break.

I'm posting the cover design too because I think it's so good. It really evokes the atmosphere within.

[MacGuffin]

I'm currently reading The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
True accounts of the lives of two men who both lived around the late 19th century. One was the driving force behind the architecture and engineering of the 1983 Chicago World's Fair, the other took the fair as an opportunity to open a hotel just west of it to lure young women in to murder them. The juxtaposition of great human achievement with unbridled evil makes for a really compelling read and it's the first book in the longest time that I actually look forward to reading again when I have to take a break.

I'm posting the cover design too because I think it's so good. It really evokes the atmosphere within.

I just finished that one in April. Better than expected.

[Mole]

The life of the Polish poet, Czeslaw Milosz, has come to an end.

Here is his poem, "On the Day the World Ends".

YouTube - ADBusters - on the Day the World Ends

[Cerpin_Taxt]

At the moment I’m progressing through a selection of Beckett novels, re-reading Nietzsche's oeuvre, and studying for Exams.

[Sarcasticus]

The Crossing -- Cormac McCarthy
Chronicles Vol. 1 -- Bob Dylan
Down the River -- Edward Abbey

[helen]

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot. It's awesome so far.

[disregard]

Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other by Osho

[cascadeco]

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa -- Adam Hochschild

Very good book. Obviously grim subject matter, but well written.

[ByMySword]

The Shooters by Leon Metz

[swordpath]

I like a good read. Unfortunately, I don't find them that often. I don't like fiction much, so that eliminates half the book store.