*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Joe Abercrombie "Best Served Cold" - a good slice of fantasy 
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
I am going to start reading The Tragic Sense of Life by Miguel de Unamuno.
100% masahiko
i is a professor and is magical like totoro
The Howling - I want to read something non-taxing for a change.
I finished Matter last week. Hadn't read any Iain M Banks in a long while. Matter was excellent, shellworlds and the way the Involveds play each other. Imaginative, thought provoking stuff.
Can't wait for the end. Then onto Against a Dark Background.
I'm about two-thirds of the way through Excession. Found it confusing so far. Games within games. The "Outside Context Problem" which is both the Excession itself and the Affront for the Culture...All good so far. k_s finally met GSV Ethics Gradient. 
Can't wait for the end. Then onto Against a Dark Background.
starfish
No dialogue. Just plot.
Read Matter recently, thought it was excellent. Need to read more of them.
Currently reading Free Fall by Robert Caris. Its part of a series of books about an LA Private Eye called Elvis Cole.
My family and other animals, by Gerald Durrell.
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
CJ Cherryh - Downbelow Station
Long overdue. I've been meaning to get a copy for fifteen years or so.
Long overdue. I've been meaning to get a copy for fifteen years or so.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Mr. QofG's loved it - he alternated between giggling and going "WTF!!" at the descriptions of the depravity they got up too!
lol Those bits are going to keep me occupied on the late shifts
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
Len Deighton - London Match
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Interrupted Jane Eyre, which I'm enjoying very much, with DJ Taylor's Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-40, which is cracking so far.
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
Mr. QofG's loved it - he alternated between giggling and going "WTF!!" at the descriptions of the depravity they got up too!
Well, if he liked that book, he'd love 'Hammer Of The Gods: Led Zeppelin Unauthorised.'
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hammer-Gods-Led-Zeppelin-Unauthorised/dp/033043859X
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
Camus - The Fall
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
I've got three on the go atm.
William Bernstein - A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World. It's actually a very good piece of narrative history, although Bernstein (as you'd expect from an American financier) is decidedly right-wing. He also has a certain New Worlder's prejudice against the Old, and whilst he rightly emphasises the violence and exploitation inherent in European colonial trade, I very much doubt that the actions of the United States, for example in Latin America, will get the same treatment. I notice also that in his discussion of the first Opium War he neglects to mention that American firms were active in the opium trade, not least of which was Russell & Co, one of whose heads was grandfather of Franklin Roosevelt.
*edit* Finished this yesterday. Chapter 13, dealing with the post-1914 period, is indeed a bit crap, but the last bit is perhaps surprisingly thoughtful and his conclusions aren't as strident and conservative as I expected. Worth a read, IMO.
Roy Moxham - Tea: The Extraordinary Story of the World's Favourite Drink. I picked it up as bog reading, but I'm enjoying it so much I'm reading it right through.
Daphne Glazer - The Wardrobe. Not bad short stories, but I prefer her novels...
William Bernstein - A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World. It's actually a very good piece of narrative history, although Bernstein (as you'd expect from an American financier) is decidedly right-wing. He also has a certain New Worlder's prejudice against the Old, and whilst he rightly emphasises the violence and exploitation inherent in European colonial trade, I very much doubt that the actions of the United States, for example in Latin America, will get the same treatment. I notice also that in his discussion of the first Opium War he neglects to mention that American firms were active in the opium trade, not least of which was Russell & Co, one of whose heads was grandfather of Franklin Roosevelt.
*edit* Finished this yesterday. Chapter 13, dealing with the post-1914 period, is indeed a bit crap, but the last bit is perhaps surprisingly thoughtful and his conclusions aren't as strident and conservative as I expected. Worth a read, IMO.
Roy Moxham - Tea: The Extraordinary Story of the World's Favourite Drink. I picked it up as bog reading, but I'm enjoying it so much I'm reading it right through.
Daphne Glazer - The Wardrobe. Not bad short stories, but I prefer her novels...
pennimania
still dre and drooling
Just finished 'The Rack' by A E Ellis. Apparently this book got rave reviews in 1958 - well I liked it not.
set in a TB sanatorium it was less spiritual than The magic Mountain but not as funny as The Plague and I. Apparently it's meant to be very funny but I did not laugh.There were many unpleasant descriptions of medical practises which were vile - and I've read (and enjoyed) Bodies by Jed Mercurio.
set in a TB sanatorium it was less spiritual than The magic Mountain but not as funny as The Plague and I. Apparently it's meant to be very funny but I did not laugh.There were many unpleasant descriptions of medical practises which were vile - and I've read (and enjoyed) Bodies by Jed Mercurio.
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Finished Bright Young People, which I enjoyed a lot, liking Taylor's style and being generally entertained by the employment of the English language in the 1920s.
Back to Jane Eyre now.
Back to Jane Eyre now.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
As I lay Dying - William Faulkner. Bit hard to work out who's who and the Southern vernacular, though enchanting, can be a bit arduous...
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
Shelters of Stone - Jean Auel
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
Lolita - Nabakov
Oh gosh! Don't read in public, I wept and wept on the Fenchurch Street line. A really wonderful book.
I just bought 'One Good Turn' by Kate Atkinson, largely because it features Brodie, the private investigator from her book 'Case Histories' and I have a crush on him.
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
Patrick O'Brian - Post Captain
I'm enjoying these, but not completely bowled over as many seem to be. Possibly because I find the dialogue too reminiscent of Dickens, who I hate with a passion.
I'm enjoying these, but not completely bowled over as many seem to be. Possibly because I find the dialogue too reminiscent of Dickens, who I hate with a passion.
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
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