What book do you read recently?

[arsefanatic]

I am nearly through The line of beauty by Alan Hollingsworth. It is set in the early 1980`s and shows the effect of AIDS on the gay community of the time. It actually reads like an updated version of Brideshead Revisited, with an impressionable young man becoming involved with a brilliant family and their beautiful house but of course it is not quite the same.

 

[R_ver]

Money by Felix Martin

 

[laral]

The Year Ricardo Reis Died by Jose de Saramago

 

[sant305]

Penthagram by Nesbo, I recommend it

 

[gorgik9]

I've just recently started with tree books together :

1) "The complete poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. Ed. by David M. Vieth."
Some of the juiciest poetic bawdy ever written i english. Rochester lived in the 17th century, 1647-1680, and became one of the favourites in the court of Charles II.

2) Antonio Vignali : La Cazzaria. The book of the prick. Edited and translated by Ian Frederick Moulton.
Vignali's (1500-1559) "La Cazzaria" was published in 1525 and is one of the very first sexually explicit homoerotic philosophical dialogues.

3) James Grantham Turner: Schooling Sex: Libertine Literature and Erotic Education in Italy, France and England 1534-1685.
Turner's book is probably the first full scale history of libertine erotica in the 16th and 17th century. I'm pretty sure you'll get the connection between those three books...

 

[arsefanatic]

^ I haven't read any of John Wilmot`s poetry, Gorgik, but I have seen the movie based on his life The Libertine it has Johnny Depp as Rochester

 

[gorgik9]

^ I haven't read any of John Wilmot`s poetry, Gorgik, but I have seen the movie based on his life The Libertine it has Johnny Depp as Rochester

Yeah I know and I've even got it on DVD, but I didn't think it was as good as I had hoped. But ANYTHING with Johnny Depp will always be some particular kind of treat (just like James Franco, that wonderfully sexy bitch...).

 

[arsefanatic]

Yeah I know and I've even got it on DVD, but I didn't think it was as good as I had hoped. But ANYTHING with Johnny Depp will always be some particular kind of treat (just like James Franco, that wonderfully sexy bitch...).

:thumbs up:

 

[cacc]

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

 

[pete123]

1927

 

[gorgik9]

1927

???
Do you mean Bill Bryson's One Summer : America 1927?
Or what?

 

[drn2001]

the geography club.

 

[laral]

The Empty Family by Colm Toibim

 

[camyoo]

Absalom Absalom - Willliam Faulkner

 

[trypt]

Sycamore Road -John Grisham

 

[jrr22]

The Last Witness, W.E.B. Griffin

 

[puckinla]

The Tudors by Peter Ackroyd

 

[Tom005]

Just finished reading God is not Great by Hitchens and Daughter of the Empire by Janny Wurts. About to read Servant of the Empire by Janny also.

 

[gorgik9]

Two very different books right now :

1) Mutsuo Takahashi: Poems of a Penisist.English translation by Hiroaki Sato.
2) Robert Darby : A surgical temptation: The demonization of the foreskin & the rise of circision in Britain.

 

[retro2263]

re-reading The Silmarillion for like the hundredth time.