*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[DotCommunist]

Charlie and the Glass Elevator

I'm working my way through a box of roal dahl I found in the attic. Did georges Marvellous medicine over dinner and pud last night. I read it as an allegory for how drugs are cool and they make moany old women disappear.

 

[belboid]

Ground Control by Anna Minton. Very interesting wee book on the privatisation of britains public spaces and the return of neo-feudal estates to our city centres.

 

[elevendayempire]

GW Dahlquist's The Dark Volume.

 

[Fictionist]

Pericles - Shakespeare (5)
A Knack to Know a Knave - Anon (6)

 

[Orang Utan]

love saves the day: a history of american cance music culture 1979-1979 - tim lawrence

 

[live_jayeola]

Cobweb by Neal Stephenson & Frederick George

 

[MightyAphrodite]

Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army - Jeremy Scahill

 

[Dirty Martini]

Finished Tess of the D'Urbervilles, for which words are probably superfluous.

It might be the only book that's ever made me cry, but that's because I'm a big jessie.

Now it's Through A Glass Darkly: The Life of Patrick Hamilton by Nigel Jones.

 

[madzone]

I'm reading 'Notes on an Exhibition' by Patrick Gale. I bought it because the bumph said it was about an artist from Penzance being found dead in her studio

I'm enjoying it so far

 

[DotCommunist]

Contemplating Plaths 'The Bell Jar'

Everyone who has enthused about it to me has been odd and a girl.

I'm guessing there will be no explosions.

 

[the button]

I'm reading 'Notes on an Exhibition' by Patrick Gale. I bought it because the bumph said it was about an artist from Penzance being found dead in her studio

I'm enjoying it so far

That was the last novel I read -- and one of the best I've read for some time.

Currently reading "The wages of destruction," by Adam Tooze, which is an economic history of the Third Reich. A Valentine's gift.

 

[the button]

Ground Control by Anna Minton. Very interesting wee book on the privatisation of britains public spaces and the return of neo-feudal estates to our city centres.

That's on its way to me from Amazon.

Edit: in fact it's just been delivered.

 

[Bakunin]

Contemplating Plaths 'The Bell Jar'

Everyone who has enthused about it to me has been odd and a girl.

I'm guessing there will be no explosions.

Nope, no explosions, no car chases, no mass firefights, no drug taking and probably no sex either.

Pretty much dull as ditchwater really.

 

[madzone]

Contemplating Plaths 'The Bell Jar'

Everyone who has enthused about it to me has been odd and a girl.

I'm guessing there will be no explosions.

It's completely self indulgent and depressing. I loved it when I was 20.

 

[sojourner]

Finished Tess of the D'Urbervilles, for which words are probably superfluous.

It might be the only book that's ever made me cry, but that's because I'm a big jessie.

Awww... I'm not a jessie at all, I'm big and hard and clever - and it makes me cry like a baby

 

[sojourner]

Contemplating Plaths 'The Bell Jar'

Everyone who has enthused about it to me has been odd and a girl.

I'm guessing there will be no explosions.

I hated it

 

[belboid]

That's on its way to me from Amazon.

Edit: in fact it's just been delivered.

just about finished it now. It's a bit annoyingly editted (ie badly, she points out that manchester is the ASBO capital of Britain twice in five pages!), and i suspect you'll know quite a lot of the info already, but there's still more than enough about the scale of how bad things are to make it a very worthwhile purchase

Meanwhile, Amazn have just sent me The Ridgeway: Avebury to Ivinghoe Beacon Trailblazer British Walking Guides, as we are off for a pleasant weekend break in Avebury on friday. When its due to piss down for three days...

 

[the button]

just about finished it now. It's a bit annoyingly editted (ie badly, she points out that manchester is the ASBO capital of Britain twice in five pages!), and i suspect you'll know quite a lot of the info already, but there's still more than enough about the scale of how bad things are to make it a very worthwhile purchase

Yeah, nice to have things in one place, though. Plus I'd far rather read a book about something than pick up bits & pieces from magazines and the internet.

 

[Dr. Furface]

Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov (on an iphone app )

 

[Fictionist]

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera (7)

 

[Fictionist]

Charlie and the Glass Elevator

I'm working my way through a box of roal dahl I found in the attic. Did georges Marvellous medicine over dinner and pud last night. I read it as an allegory for how drugs are cool and they make moany old women disappear.

Plonker!

 

[Dirty Martini]

Awww... I'm not a jessie at all, I'm big and hard and clever - and it makes me cry like a baby

I'm ok now. Decadent country squires and ethereal sexists better keep away from me though.

 

[Orang Utan]

the bell jar is a stunning book. my 2c.

 

[ericjarvis]

Ian Fleming - Live And Let Die

 

[sojourner]

I'm ok now. Decadent country squires and ethereal sexists better keep away from me though.

 

[ChrisC]

Buddhism Encyclopedia By Ian Harris.

And.

Consciousness A Very Short Introduction By Susan Blackmore.

 

[sojourner]

Finished Swag last night - fucking brilliant . Probably one of the best final lines in a novel ever

In an attempt to halt my growing twin obsession with Bukowski and Leonard, I have two other books lined up, plucked from the charidee shop - so started Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang last night

Very interesting framing of the narrative, and the vernacular used is fitting in nicely following on the heels of Leonard

The use of 'adjectival' rather than actual swear words is tickling me

 

[girasol]

One Straw Revolution - Masanobu Fukuoka (considered to be the father of organic farming)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Fukuoka

This was a follow on from 'How to be Free' by Tom Hodginkson, who recommended this book as essential reading.

There's a buddhist undertone to it (he's a buddhist), but there are many aspects of buddhism that I like, so I'm happy with that, as well as lots of tips on how to grow fruit/veg more easily/organically. Really enjoying it. The writer comes over as a very intelligent, wise and in tune with nature.

He also demonstrates why intensive farming is so destructive and unsustainable. I don't think there's nothing there I didn't know, but they do say that the best books tell you what you know already! (George Orwell?)

 

[llion]

Victor Hugo - Les Miserables. Much quicker-paced and more exiciting than I'd imagined.

 

[Pieface]

I'm still reading A Suitable Boy the politics really slowed me down. I think I'm getting slower at reading