*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[Dirty Martini]

Rereading Of Love and Hunger by Julian Maclaren Ross.

 

[maya]

The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester.
Basically the plot of the Count Of Monte Cristo updated to a science fiction noir setting- With some nice onomatopoetic/typographic touches á la Mayakovsky towards the end...
Still don't know if I quite understood the last page, though- Was there supposed to be some sort of hidden christian symbolism in there?*

(*...'Jóseph and Moira?' ...'awaiting his rebirth?' )

 

[maldwyn]

I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life Of Allen Ginsburg By Bill Morgan.

Earth Abides By George R. Stewart. A mysterious plague has destroyed the majority of the human race, published 1949

 

[october_lost]

I've been having a real hard time unwinding enough to read for much more than half an hour at a time since I finished uni. I've been plugging away at the same 3 books for a month now.

Uni left me educational numb aswell....

 

[sojourner]

Blue Diary - Alice Hoffman. Interesting so far, hopefully going to develop into something much more thought-provoking...has the potential

Hmmm. Finished this last night, and altogether I think it was just too schmaltzy. I thought it might have led to darker depths in contrast, but although it touched on that, it didn't go far enough. Far too sugary. And worse - there was a fucking Reader's Guide at the end, with questions


Not sure what's next. Have Atonement, might start on that.

 

[El Jefe]

Finished Andrew Crumey's Sputnik Caledonia. Started well but in the end was absolutely dreadful. Very very poorly written. I only finished it (at 550 bloody pages) because there was, amongst the teenage prose and the attempts at some kind of morbid drama which always fell flat) the germ of an interesting story, and I wanted to see what happened. But nothing happened, he just fudged it all in some kind of "everything is connected" toss.

Awful

 

[Fez909]

Louis-Ferdinand Celine - Journey to the End of the Night.

Started OK. Not far in enough to judge, yet.

 

[Dirty Martini]

Rereading Of Love and Hunger by Julian Maclaren Ross.

This is even better, even funnier, the second time round

 

[Fictionist]

Book of Emaan - Ibn Taymiyah / Dr Muhammad Naim Yasin

 

[Scaggs]

Just finished 'Against a dark background' by Iain M Banks - Not bad
Now I can't make my mind up weather to read 'Feersum Endjinn or Joe Haldeman's 'The Coming'

Also just finished 'Norwegian Wood' by Haruki Murakami on audiobook.

Earth Abides By George R. Stewart. A mysterious plague has destroyed the majority of the human race, published 1949

Loved that book!

 

[sojourner]

Got halfway through Atonement by Ian McEwan last night. Never read any of his before. He's a bit clunky on marrying landscape to mood, but the story is interesting enough.

 

[bluestreak]

The Social History Of The Late Middle Ages.

it's a bit dry.

 

[chico enrico]

The History of Torture by Daniel P. Mannix.

i love torture. they should bring it back for stuff. not stealing and fornicating with another man's wife though.

 

[miss_b]

The History of Torture by Daniel P. Mannix.

i love torture. they should bring it back for stuff. not stealing and fornicating with another man's wife though.

 

[Orang Utan]

The Social History Of The Late Middle Ages.

it's a bit dry.

I'm reading Crackers! The Social History of the Ship's Biscuit.
I'm also finding it a bit dry.

 

[sojourner]

I'm reading Crackers! The Social History of the Ship's Biscuit.
I'm also finding it a bit dry.

heh

you want some philly on that

 

[Structaural]

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein.

It's quite shocking.

 

[May Kasahara]

I'm reading Crackers! The Social History of the Ship's Biscuit.
I'm also finding it a bit dry.

For some reason the phrase 'ship's biscuit' sounds rather rude coming from you

 

[Orang Utan]

For some reason the phrase 'ship's biscuit' sounds rather rude coming from you

lovely salty crackers

 

[avu9lives]

The god delusion by Richard Dawkins

 

[cfz]

Hitler: Book 2, Nemesis by Ian Kershaw.

I've nearly finished this chunky biog. My girlfriend is fed up about it though. Whenever she asks me to do anything, I say, 'I'd rather read my book on Hitler.'

 

[ChrisC]

Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton.

 

[gentlegreen]

Actually bought a holiday book !!111!!!

I don't usually read books, but I've just recieved my copy of "Le Nez qui Voque" by Canadian author Réjean Ducharme (1967).

Ordered this after being impressed by an abridged version from French Radio which I have on my MP3 player.

Not sure I'll actually read it though - not the language so much as the subject matter .. based around a suicide pact by two teenagers - his books appear to be mostly about the problems of transition from childhood to adulthood.

Maybe learning this very "literary" language will be my incentive to get into the world of books again - though I have to confess to my previous reading being no more sophisticated than Enid Blyton / Agatha Christie / William Gibson ....

 

[Dirty Martini]

The Council of Egypt by Leonardo Sciascia.

 

[DotCommunist]

Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton.

Good stuff, suffers from Hamiltons usual flaw but benefits from his usual skillz, so to speak

 

[El Jefe]

I've just started on Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. Don't normally read 'western books', but he wrote the awesome Last Picture Show, and Lonesome Dove got the Pulitzer or something, and it looks really good. 900 fucking pages though

Excellent so far..

 

[agricola]

Douglas Hurd's surprisingly good biography of Sir Robert Peel.

 

[jb78]

just started paul auster's 'brooklyn follies'. i've read a couple of his before - 'leviathan' and 'new york trilogies', both really good. i like his slightly out-there, edgy style a lot.

last thing i read was bill hicks' 'love all the people', a collection of transcripts of his stand-up shows, his letters, ideas, interviews etc. also excellent, but then i'm a huge bill hicks fan.

and i just picked up a couple of murakami books - it was buy one for £3.99 get one free! although there was only a choice of two - 'norwegian wood' and 'hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world'. the only thing i've read of his before was the short-story collection 'blind willow, sleeping woman', which i enjoyed, but i wished i'd started by reading one of his novels first. his style seems to have something in common with paul auster's, maybe?r

 

[El Jefe]

I'm not a big fan at all, but Norwegian Wood is wonderful, absolutely heartbreaking

 

[May Kasahara]

Hard-Boiled Wonderland is my favourite Murakami, of those I've read.