*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[Dirty Martini]

Finished Erewhon by Samuel Butler, which was mostly a bit dull with some funny bits.

Now it'll be Beyond A Boundary by CLR James.

 

[girasol]

The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

The first digital book I've read, downloaded about 10 classics onto my ipod touch, not as good as reading a real book, but fairly convenient on packed tubes, and I'm enjoying it

I'm loving the digital books on the ipod, perfect for the tube, especially if it's crowded, so much easier to hold!

I got 23,000 for 50p

There's a really good app called 101 classics, they are all free (Just finished reading 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' and now I'm reading 'An Unsocial Socialist' by George Bernard Shaw...

 

[Dirty Martini]

wasn't there! had to start flicking through All The Pretty Horses

Your copy is down the pub sponging drinks. It'll turn up, dishevelled and contrite.

 

[sojourner]

Your copy is down the pub sponging drinks. It'll turn up, dishevelled and contrite.

 

[Badger Decoy]

Rushing to Paradise by J G Ballard - am enjoying it so far though the themes seem to be very similar to those in a lot of his other books.

 

[ericjarvis]

Continuing with the final Samson trilogy novel.

Len Deighton - Hope.

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

going to start another murakami soon

 

[llion]

I Didn't Get Where I am Today - David Nobbs - Hilarious, gentle, subtly poignant autobiography by the genius behind Reggie Perrin.
Nice to see it, to see it Nice - Brian Viner - On a similar theme, very, very funny book about growing up watching tele in the 70s.

 

[19sixtysix]

Crucibles: The lives and achievements of the great chemists.
Bernard Jaffe
1931 edition

A surprisingly good read on how modern chemistry came about.

 

[Fictionist]

Double Falsehood or The Distressed Lovers - Fletcher/Shakespeare/Theobold (10)

 

[marty21]

I'm loving the digital books on the ipod, perfect for the tube, especially if it's crowded, so much easier to hold!

I got 23,000 for 50p

There's a really good app called 101 classics, they are all free (Just finished reading 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' and now I'm reading 'An Unsocial Socialist' by George Bernard Shaw...

they are great, although the pages are really short, I'm on about page 700 of the Count of Monte Cristo and he hasn't even escaped from the island yet

 

[Fictionist]

they are great, although the pages are really short, I'm on about page 700 of the Count of Monte Cristo and he hasn't even escaped from the island yet

A book to be savoured.

 

[Voley]

Just about to start 'The Hacienda - How Not To Run A Club' by Peter Hook.

 

[marty21]

A book to be savoured.

I'm enjoying it

 

[Fictionist]

I'm enjoying it

You should, it is a real journey, let down (perhaps) only by the ending.

A fellow traveller is always welcome.

 

[idioteque]

Finished Catcher in the Rye last week.

Have now started reading Solitude by Robert Kull, it's an account of a man who marooned himself on a remote Patagonian island for a year for a PhD thesis to explore the effects of extreme isolation on the mind. Am enjoying it so far.

 

[Dillinger4]

Finished Catcher in the Rye last week.

Have now started reading Solitude by Robert Kull, it's an account of a man who marooned himself on a remote Patagonian island for a year for a PhD thesis to explore the effects of extreme isolation on the mind. Am enjoying it so far.

You might have to lend me that one when you have finished it.

 

[idioteque]

You might have to lend me that one when you have finished it.

Will do! It'll probably take you over a year to get round to actually reading it though...

 

[Dillinger4]

Will do! It'll probably take you over a year to get round to actually reading it though...

Naturally.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

P.D.James "The Private Patient" - I like her writing, spare, elegant, maybe a little old fashined but with a sharpness underneath. Less enamoured by her politics but they only come our very, very sparingly in her novels thankfully.

 

[ericjarvis]

Charlie Stross - The Revolution Business

Entertaining as ever. Including arguably his best ever chapter so far.

 

[cliche guevara]

awww... i saw this book in my local whsmith y'day and wanted to buy it so bad decided not to. what's the grade you so far: 10/10?

It was good, a solid eight I reckon.

 

[DotCommunist]

Charlie Stross - The Revolution Business

Entertaining as ever. Including arguably his best ever chapter so far.

I rate charlie but he can sometimes feel like a man who is writing sci fi for sci fi fans and fuck the casual reader.

Gis a quote from his latest to get my juices dlowing.

Me, I have started reading LOTR again. It has been 2 years since I read him and that is remiss of me. Will smash into the Dune series after that. another annual fave that I have neglected for to long.

It's like a favoured film or perfect place for me with those books. You know them well but can't go too long without revisiting and enjoying the bastards

 

[ericjarvis]

I rate charlie but he can sometimes feel like a man who is writing sci fi for sci fi fans and fuck the casual reader.

Gis a quote from his latest to get my juices dlowing.

I suppose that's partly because Charlie was a long time active fan before becoming a writer. Though I'd have thought the Merchant Princes books are the least like that of his.

Not going to give a quote. Just think about the possibilities inherent in a war between two nuclear armed powers from different dimensions, that can each place a bomb into the other dimension with pin point accuracy. Now look at that from the POV of the two sides of an essentially medieval civil war who are fighting at ground zero.

 

[Dirty Martini]

Finished Beyond a Boundary by CLR James. Cricket and the dialectic. A great book.

 

[Dillinger4]

It was good, a solid eight I reckon.

I read that, I would give it about the same.

 

[sojourner]

Read the intro and the first few pages of Of Love and Hunger by Julian Maclaren Ross last night.

Too early for a proper review, but I like what I'm reading so far. Love the use of 'she'd, you'd, I'd' etc - does really place it in a certain time, that

 

[Dillinger4]

I am reading Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolano and Did Somebody say Totalitarianism? by Slavoj Zizek.

 

[ericjarvis]

Now on to another Len Deighton. This time Charity, the last of the Bernard Samson series.

 

[Dirty Martini]

Among The Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939 by Virginia Nicholson.