*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[Cheesypoof]

A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole - fantastic book

 

[discokermit]

A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole - fantastic book

proper funny.

 

[fen_boy]

Just started 'Rings of Saturn' by WG Sebald. Heard Will Self extolling its virtues, or more specifically the virtues of WG Sebald, on the Radio the other day so I picked it up.
Excellent so far, and unlike anything else I've ever read. It's difficult to describe, but it's sort a a travellog-cum-autobiography-cum-fantasy-cum-philosophical musing'y thingy.

 

[ilovebush&blair]

I have almost read 5 books so far this week. They are The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman by Bruce Robinson, The Curse of Lono by Hunter Thompson, Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr and I am currently reading Kingdom of Fear Hunter Thompson.

 

[Dirty Martini]

Just started 'Rings of Saturn' by WG Sebald. Heard Will Self extolling its virtues, or more specifically the virtues of WG Sebald, on the Radio the other day so I picked it up.
Excellent so far, and unlike anything else I've ever read. It's difficult to describe, but it's sort a a travellog-cum-autobiography-cum-fantasy-cum-philosophical musing'y thingy.

I love Sebald, that one especially. You'll read that, then want to read everything he wrote. Shame there'll be no more

 

[Pieface]

I'm reading A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth. Wow.....it's fucking massive so has to have everything I suppose. Lots of love, romance, great characters, political intrigue, religious unrest, intertwined family relationships (there are 4 family trees at the start of my edition ). He has taken the time (and space) to flesh most characters out very well and if anything it's taken me so long to get my head around everyone that I'm a bit slow on the uptake when he's forging new connections between people you haven't read about for 300 pages He's amusingly aware of the vastness of the novel; these quotes open the book:

"The superfluous, that very necessary thing..."
"The secret of being a bore is to say everything."

Both Voltaire.

I also read 3 Twilight novels at the same time over the xmas period - it's my version of crap xmas telly okay?

 

[Bakunin]

Das Boot - Lother Loheim.

A WWII classic about the final cruise of a German U Boat in the Atlantic during 1941. I have the film (the director's cut IIRC) and I'm loving the book.

 

[Urbanblues]

Hemingway's 'The Sun Also Rises'.

 

[elevendayempire]

A HP Lovecraft collection. I'm reading "At the Mountains of Madness" at the moment.

 

[Dirty Martini]

Finished Crime and Punishment.

Now: Fear and Loathing in Fitzrovia by Paul Willetts, which is a biography of Julian Maclaren-Ross.

 

[ChrisC]

The Book, On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts.

 

[Lakina]

A HP Lovecraft collection. I'm reading "At the Mountains of Madness" at the moment.

I am reading the same - very freaky.

 

[elevendayempire]

I am reading the same - very freaky.

Have you encountered Nameless Horrors from Beyond the Dawn of Time yet?

 

[Lazy Llama]

Have you encountered Nameless Horrors from Beyond the Dawn of Time yet?

You called?

 

[DotCommunist]

re-reading Pratchett's Truckers/Diggers/Wings trilogy. Excellent kids fic.

 

[ChrisC]

The Life of the Buddha by Patricia M. Herbert.

 

[thegonzokid]

The Plague - Albert Camus

 

[starfish]

Chocky by John Wyndham.

 

[Lo Siento.]

I love Sebald, that one especially. You'll read that, then want to read everything he wrote. Shame there'll be no more

I read "on the natural history of destruction" and then "austerlitz" both which i loved

 

[ericjarvis]

Berlin Game - Len Deighton

Fleming wrote about how he wished the security services were, Le Carre wrote about how the security services wish they were, Len Deighton writes about something that seems very real.

 

[marty21]

Berlin Game - Len Deighton

Fleming wrote about how he wished the security services were, Le Carre wrote about how the security services wish they were, Len Deighton writes about something that seems very real.

I enjoyed the Game, Set, and Match Trilogy


reading D-Day - Antony Beevor

 

[Dillinger4]

I am flicking between loads of books at the moment, I cant settle on any.

There are a few I want to buy soon.

If I were to impulse buy any right now, I would get:

Berlin, Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin
Dreamtigers by Jorge Luis Borges
Life, Life: Selected Poems by Arseny Tarkovsky

Maybe something by Mayakovsky...

I need something I can really get into though.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

I am reading Operation Heartbreak by Duff Cooper.
Easy, enjoyable reading. I like it.

 

[Orang Utan]

I am flicking between loads of books at the moment, I cant settle on any.

There are a few I want to buy soon.

If I were to impulse buy any right now, I would get:

Berlin, Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin
Dreamtigers by Jorge Luis Borges
Life, Life: Selected Poems by Arseny Tarkovsky

Maybe something by Mayakovsky...

I need something I can really get into though.

how about a thriller by lee child, ken follett or clive cussler?

 

[Dillinger4]

how about a thriller by lee child, ken follett or clive cussler?

I think I might get one of those historical novels about Genghis Khan or something.

 

[Blagsta]

Never Had it So Good - Dominic Sandbrook

 

[Lakina]

Have you encountered Nameless Horrors from Beyond the Dawn of Time yet?

Not yet, but there is something strange about the woman next door. Shoot her. And don't burn the body - dissolve it it acid!

 

[Lakina]

how about a thriller by lee child, ken follett or clive cussler?

Follet - a lousy writer prepared to go where no lousy writer has gone before.

 

[sojourner]

Daughter got me a couple of Bukowski books as a belated birthday pressie, so started Women last night. Never read anything by him before, and read most of it last night.

Yeeees. Hmmmm. It's not intellectual, but he appears to be opposed to that sort of thing anyway. The text can be irritating in its sparsity, and not brilliant like Elmore Leonard. From a feminist perspective he's a terrible cunt...and yet, and yet...I had to admire his opportunism. It's a lot like my own

I find his dislike of people in general, his disregard for superior intellectual attitudes, and his love of booze quite attractive too

 

[Strumpet]

Have got a shed load of dog related books to get through. Loving it