*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[ChrisC]

After the Ecstasy, the Laundry by Jack Kornfield

 

[Part 2]

I'm reading this.

73 year old, previous heart attacks, buys pizza delivery bike and rides from Mexico to Tierra del Fuego. It all seems too easy so far.

 

[rollinder]

just finished rereading the following;

Henry Miller - Tropic Of Cancer
John Wyndham - Day Of The Triffids

Mark Gatiss - The Devil in Amber
and
The Leather Nun: And Other Incredibly Strange Comics by Paul Gravett and Peter Stanbury
(is it wrong that I a) want to find/buy most of those comics and b)got turned on by them? )

 

[ericjarvis]

just finished rereading the following;

Henry Miller - Tropic Of Cancer
John Wyndham - Day Of The Triffids

Mark Gatiss - The Devil in Amber
and
The Leather Nun: And Other Incredibly Strange Comics by Paul Gravett and Peter Stanbury
(is it wrong that I a) want to find/buy most of those comics and b)got turned on by them? )

I really must get around to seeking out all the stuff Paul Gravett has done over the years. He's a brilliant bloke, I just haven't got around to getting into his stuff yet.

 

[madzone]

Women who run with the wolves

 

[pennimania]

The Jewel Garden - Monty Don - worth reading for his account of depression - how it resonated with me.

The Well tempered Garden - Christopher LLoyd - so much more than a gardening book - the man was a comic genius

House Music - diaries of Oonagh King - a right rollicking read.

eta Oona not Oonagh - sorry ms King !

I am now reading Edwina Currie's diaries - an interesting comparison

 

[ericjarvis]

CJ Cherryh - Hellburner

 

[tastebud]

I finished 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' and it made me very sad indeed. Cried for ages.... can't stop thinking about it this eve.

Dunno what to read now - probably 'The Dumas Club'* by Arturo Perez-Reverte soon as my book club has said we have to, but something funny in between might be an idea. Kevin book has troubled me

*edit - it looks terrible. holy moly. will have to skip this month's one too.

 

[cyberfairy]

The Wilding by Maria McCann-superb

 

[DotCommunist]

epic bootsale raid has netted me the movie guide for the LOTR films (interviews, info, photos) and a book about rastafarianism which should be interesting.


50p the lot. Back of the net.

 

[ericjarvis]

Elmore Leonard - Freaky Deaky

 

[Mrs Magpie]

The Well tempered Garden - Christopher LLoyd - so much more than a gardening book - the man was a comic genius

I've never come across a duff Christopher Lloyd book. He was great.

 

[Dirty Martini]

Finished Among The Bohemians: Experiments in Lving 1900-39 by Virginia Nicholson.

Some good stories in it, I'd like to read more about Augustus John

But the book lacked focus (what's the difference between a Bohemian at that time and most writers and artists?) and mistook interesting lives for courageous ones.

 

[andy2002]

About halfway through Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods'. It isn't one of those books you just can't put down but is certainly intriguing and unpredictable enough to keep me reading.

Read Joe Hill's 'Heart-shaped Box' a couple of weeks ago; it's a very effective horror story that I'm amazed hasn't already been turned into a film (ah, IMDB tells me there's a movie 'in development').

 

[QueenOfGoths]

About halfway through Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods'. It isn't one of those books you just can't put down but is certainly intriguing and unpredictable enough to keep me reading.

Read Joe Hill's 'Heart-shaped Box' a couple of weeks ago; it's a very effective horror story that I'm amazed hasn't already been turned into a film (ah, IMDB tells me there's a movie 'in development').

Someone was recommending that to me the other day ... is he Stephen King's son?

I may have to give it a go

 

[andy2002]

Someone was recommending that to me the other day ... is he Stephen King's son?

I may have to give it a go

Yes, he's King's son but 'Heart-shaped Box' isn't just King-lite. It's actually pretty unsettling in places.

 

[maya]

Rachel Carson: Silent Spring... to round up my recent theme of "depressing environmental disaster forecasts"... the first on the list was Alan Weisman, The World Without Us, and I'm now terrified and wonder whether i just should top myself before the world goes down the bin.. yikes

 

[maya]

(^just kidding, it's been a good week )
Now on "The Sea! The Sea! The cry of the ten thousand in the popular imagination" (don't remember the exact title or author, but it's of course about the cultural implact of Xenophon, the "thalatta thalatta!" cry of the greek in Anabasis... very educating )

 

[starfish]

80 Million Eyes by Ed McBain. Another 87th Precinct novel. Will be starting it later tonight.

 

[Rainingstairs]

"Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" a Tom Robbins satire about giving social norms and preconceived gender roles the double birds. The main character has giant tantalizing thumbs that every passing car must answer to her hitch. There's an all female cowgirl ranch out in S. Dakota with some lesbiandry occurring as well as a needy Mohawk Indian artist-husband aching to be all the rage. Somehow it will all tie together to reveal deep perspectives on society. or not.

 

[sojourner]

Elmore Leonard - Freaky Deaky

and?

 

[ericjarvis]

and?

It's an Elmore Leonard book. Weird shit happens to weird people. Somehow he manages to make the reader give a damn about them. There are explosions. Great stuff.

Actually it's one of his best. Some really bizarre images, and three quarters of the way through there's still questions that I want answers to that were set up on the first page.

 

[Fictionist]

Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children (Again) (11)

 

[mentalchik]

The City and the City - China Mieville

 

[The Fourth Bear]

Michael Mansfield - Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer.

 

[nicksonic]

the angel's game - carlos ruiz zafon.

i loved 'shadow of the wind' and 100 pages in this is equally as enjoyable.

 

[bmd]

Un Lun Dun by China Miéville.

It's ok, not really grabbing me like his others have.

Finally finished the Steven Erickson series apart from the one to be published. I don't think I'll ever read a fantasy series as good again.

 

[The Fourth Bear]

the angel's game - carlos ruiz zafon.

i loved 'shadow of the wind' and 100 pages in this is equally as enjoyable.

This one's on my list of books to read next.

 

[boing!]

José Saramago - Blindess. The writing is nice, but it's so unrelentlessly bleak that I'm having trouble motivating myself to read it. I might fuck it off for something a bit lighter.

 

[sojourner]

It's an Elmore Leonard book. Weird shit happens to weird people. Somehow he manages to make the reader give a damn about them. There are explosions. Great stuff.

Actually it's one of his best. Some really bizarre images, and three quarters of the way through there's still questions that I want answers to that were set up on the first page.

oooOOOOoo - that sounds fantastic! Right - that's going on my wish list right now

He's extremely good at hiding stuff from the reader, isn't he? He gets me that way too