*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[llion]

Jimmy McDonough - Shakey: Neil Young's Biography - Absolutely rivetting and I'm not even that big a Neil Young fan! Very irreverently written.

Iain Sinclair - Hackney: That Rose-Red Empire - Sinclair's best for years IMO. His style seems a bit less dense these days, which makes it a bit easier to read. Starts off as his usual memoir/psychogeography, specifically about Hackney, and turns into a bit of a detective story/thriller. Highly recommended.

 

[Dirty Martini]

Finished Joy in the Morning, which is the least interesting Jeeves & Wooster I've read. Too long, motions being gone through. And Carry On, Jeeves, which is great, althought there's a Jeeves-penned story at the end which busts the mystique a bit.

Now it's Crime and Punishment, which I've never managed to get through before.

 

[chooch]

Now it's Crime and Punishment, which I've never managed to get through before.

Haven't managed it the last couple of times I tried. Last time I dropped it mid-sentence down the side of the bed and forgot about it for a month or two. Needs to be done though. Just wish I was 19 and a bit again and could casually finish things with more than 250 large-print pages.

Finished Russell Hoban Fremder. Bit disappointing, I thought. Is about two thirds of a good book in the philosophical Philip-K-Dicking-around mode, and one third not quite finished. Editor could have had a word, or 10,000.

 

[Dirty Martini]

Haven't managed it the last couple of times I tried. Last time I dropped it mid-sentence down the side of the bed and forgot about it for a month or two. Needs to be done though. Just wish I was 19 and a bit again and could casually finish things with more than 250 large-print pages.

Finished Russell Hoban Fremder. Bit disappointing, I thought. Is about two thirds of a good book in the philosophical Philip-K-Dicking-around mode, and one third not quite finished. Editor could have had a word, or 10,000.

I'm about halfway through -- gripped and fascinated mostly, occasionally bored, and always convinced that mid-19th c. Russia must have been a very lively place indeed.

 

[kittyP]

Got given The Father Christmas Letters by some Ubz for christmas.
I can't belive that I have never heard of it before, what with my love of all things christmas and of Tolkien.

Has any one else come across it?
Its just beautiful!

 

[Lo Siento.]

finished Zizek's First as Tragedy. started Cortazar's Cronopios y Famas. I like it, it's weird, but sort of charming. Full of weird Argie words though

 

[tastebud]

the one that creeped me out was about how a crowd always gathers at accidents and other tragic events, yet it's always the same crowd, the same people. a very simple premise, but the idea is creepy as hell.

ooh that does sound good!
i might look for him in charity shops and car boot sales and the like. it's been a while since i've read any of his stuff.

Ooh, I like the sound of that. I got it for Christmas, but haven't started it yet.

oooh i got it for my boyfr for one of his xmas presents - think he's too scared to start it.
loved the film - hope the book's even better.

 

[Urbanblues]

Ray Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451' - in the vain hope it’ll warm me up. Hasn't so far. I could always burn the fucker!

 

[ChrisC]

Never Turn Away by Rigdzin Shikpo.

 

[colbhoy]

No Safe Place by Richard North Patterson.

 

[starfish]

Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton & The Best by Miles a selection of writings of the late Miles Kington.

 

[chooch]

Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton

 

[Lo Siento.]

I started the damn Larsson book as well

 

[cliche guevara]

Just finished Hunter S. Thompson's Hells Angels, now starting Martin Amis - Heavy Water

 

[Bakunin]

Just finished Hunter S. Thompson's Hells Angels, now starting Martin Amis - Heavy Water

In his own book about the Hell's Angels, founder member Ralph 'Sonny' Barger really rips into Hunter S Thompson. Said he was a bit of a wuss, in Barger's opinion.

 

[cliche guevara]

So I've heard, the relationship eventually soured to the point where Thompson got a kicking. But then I'm sure we'd all be 'wusses' by Angels standards. Is Barger's book worth a read?

 

[Garcia Lorca]

just picked up Paulo Coelho - Veronika decides to die

 

[chooch]

just picked up Paulo Coelho - Veronika decides to die

Shame it weren't that book by Veronika.

 

[zenie]

Teach your dog to read - Bonnie Bergin

 

[Dirty Martini]

Shame it weren't that book by Veronika.

 

[starfish]

So I've heard, the relationship eventually soured to the point where Thompson got a kicking. But then I'm sure we'd all be 'wusses' by Angels standards. Is Barger's book worth a read?

It jumps around a bit but it was fairly interesting. Its ok if youve got nothing else or are sitting on a beach.

 

[Bakunin]

So I've heard, the relationship eventually soured to the point where Thompson got a kicking. But then I'm sure we'd all be 'wusses' by Angels standards. Is Barger's book worth a read?

True, Angels being a pretty masculine bunch by anyone's standards.

Barger's book is definitely worth a read, although to be fair it does seem a touch self-aggrandising at times. He goes into great detail concerning the image of the Angels and seems to go out of his way to portray them as being misunderstood patriotic types rather than outlaw bikers (in the criminal sense).

 

[Orang Utan]

still enjoying gangs of new york - it's so juicily written
as was me cheeta - a proper scandalous hollywood memoir, but 'written' by tarzan's companion

 

[Dillinger4]

Me Cheeta is on my list!

 

[Orang Utan]

move it to the front!

 

[chooch]

Now starting Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun, entirely independently, obviously.

 

[stethoscope]

Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism by Peter Marshall

First read of the New Year and looks like a hefty one!

 

[Dirty Martini]

Now starting Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun, entirely independently, obviously.

Good that ...

 

[goldenecitrone]

I started the damn Larsson book as well

You'll have to get the other two now. Finished reading the last one on holiday. Very good.

 

[ericjarvis]

Just started Saturn's Children by Charlie Stross.