*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[Lo Siento.]

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

I was bought all three, but only had room for one in my luggage...

 

[dlx1]

Never got round to learning excel hate maths so auto going to hate excel. T

Teach yourself VISUALLY - excel 2007
All screen shots not much text bite size chunks

 

[Diamond]

So in the last few weeks I've had a go at:

Shogun by James Clavell - Top notch barnstorming page turner that strangely fizzles out towards the end.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson - Pretty good thriller/murder mystery page turner that takes a very difficult to believe turn to the absurd towards the end. Will still prolly give the next one a go though.

Gold by Dan Rhodes - Am currently halfway through and it's very good in a very low key British comic way.

 

[Dr. Furface]

The Hacienda - How Not To Run A Club by Peter Hook. One of the funniest things i've ever read.

 

[belboid]

The Hacienda - How Not To Run A Club by Peter Hook. One of the funniest things i've ever read.

I started that last night too! Only got as far as the first chapter, but that was hilarious

 

[sojourner]

Am still reading And the Ass Saw the Angel, which is bloody fantastic have to say - must get ahold of his most recent book and am wondering why he doesn't write more, because he's fucking great at it

But - took delivery of The American West, by Dee Brown today, and just picked it up for a flick through, so of course have been drawn into it. It's a history of the American West, using research collected in 3 earlier books he and Martin Schmitt put together, and is totally fascinating. Covers settlers, indian wars, cowboys...you name it. Tons of photos too. Fucking brilliant

 

[Dan U]

the new James Elroy book - Bloods A Rover

got it for Christmas, really enjoy it. last part of a triolgy

 

[CosmikRoger]

Land of the Headless by Adam Roberts
A ripping sci-fi yarn with echoes of China Mieville's Remades and Donaldson's Thomas Covenant.
Got about 30 pages to go and am waiting for the twist ending he seems to have been building up to for the last 200 odd pages.

 

[tastebud]

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

Yep. Fucking loved them - still have the last one to read.... very exciting. Will probably go in to mourning when I finish it.... my auntie did.

 

[Diamond]

Me Cheeta's ace.

It's got one joke about whalesong that is fantastic.

 

[Thimble Queen]

I just finished Down and Out in Paris and London... much goodness.

 

[llion]

Geoff Dyer - Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi. First novel that Dyer's written for a long time, and it doesn't disappoint. There's very little plot, but his writing's so effortless and casually lyrical that it doesn't really matter!

 

[DotCommunist]

Land of the Headless by Adam Roberts
A ripping sci-fi yarn with echoes of China Mieville's Remades and Donaldson's Thomas Covenant.
Got about 30 pages to go and am waiting for the twist ending he seems to have been building up to for the last 200 odd pages.

This is a good book. The narrative voice is one of my favoruite 'unreliable narrators' like Dr. Frankenstein and the despicaple rapist whiner Thomas Covenant

If you haven't yet, try Swiftly by AR. Not quite so good but well worth the time

 

[Diamond]

Gold by Dan Rhodes - Am currently halfway through and it's very good in a very low key British comic way.

I finished this last night and thought it was worth highlighting because I reckon a lot peeps around here would really really like it. So, yeah, go and get a copy.

 

[no-no]

Just finished World War Z - Max Brooks, loved it. Hard to believe the amount of detail he's crammed in, maybe living amongst the zombie hordes wouldn't be so much fun after all. I'd still like to have a go with a lobo though.

Just started The stars my destination - Alfred Bester....not sure if I like the lead character but he's a tough bastard, makes for an exciting read.

 

[da3]

Started yesterday: Alex Garland's The Beach. Loved the film but ive been told the book is much better, parts that were cut out for the film release and more indepth with the characters, can't wait for when Daffy turns up in the book lol

 

[ericjarvis]

Just finished Shame by Jasvinder Sanghera. Now reading E.M. Forster's Where Angels Fear To Tread.

 

[chooch]

Started yesterday: Alex Garland's The Beach

Burns well, I've heard, though with a slightly transfatty smell.

Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun

Good that

. Yeah. Like it a lot.

 

[CosmikRoger]

The Poacher by H.E. Bates Set in the 19th century and pretty much what it says on the tin.

If you haven't yet, try Swiftly by AR. Not quite so good but well worth the time

I have invested the 1 penny necessary and ordered it from Amazon

 

[snackhead]

When you are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

 

[8115]

The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble. I might give up because it's quite boring.

 

[Bakunin]

The First Casualty: The War Correspondent As Hero, Propagandist and Myth-Maker - Philip Knightley.

It's a study of the evolution and role of the war correspondent in the modern media, starting with the early correspondents covering the Crimean War and going right up to the Falklands War by way of such delightful times as the Franco-Prussian War, the Boer War, WWI, the Russian Revolution and Civil War, WWII, Korea and Vietnam.

It's superbly written, engaging, packed with facts and figures and pretty muchs blows out of the water the myth of the brave war correspondent risking life and limb for the sake of the readers. It also ruins the reputations of a fair few previously highly regarded war correspondents as well.

 

[Orang Utan]

haruki murakami - underground
junot diaz - the brief and wondrous life of oscar wao
both of which i'm zipping through effortlessy
i got my mojo back!

 

[lizzieloo]

I'm reading Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, I got an ebook reader with birthday and Christmas vouchers and have downloaded lots of classics from Project Gutenberg.

I'm loving it, it's so descriptive it really takes you there.

I have Madame Bovary waiting to be read. I have no idea when I'll get round to reading the 'real' books I got for Christmas.

 

[ericjarvis]

About to start Memory by Linda Nagata.

Where Angels Fear To Tread was very entertaining and a wonderful "supplement" to Shame. The two together really put the boot into people who place reputation and convention above everything else.

 

[krtek a houby]

"Lizard" - collection of short stories from Banana Yoshimoto.

 

[Dillinger4]

I'm reading Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, I got an ebook reader with birthday and Christmas vouchers and have downloaded lots of classics from Project Gutenberg.

I'm loving it, it's so descriptive it really takes you there.

I have Madame Bovary waiting to be read. I have no idea when I'll get round to reading the 'real' books I got for Christmas.

I have an e-reader now as well, and I have been looking for places to download books/texts/whatever. I forgot all about project gutenberg!

 

[belboid]

Asterios Polyp, by David Mazzucchelli.

Great comic, really cleverly done, about architecture, men, dualism and the history of printing (kinda).

 

[fractionMan]

More space opera stuff, this time "Pandoras star".

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Val McDeirmid "The Grave Tattoo" - need a bit of good but not too demanding crime action