*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[yield]

I'm four or five stories into Borges's Labyrinths. Mental thought provoking short stories.

Ten years ago any symmetry with a resemblance of order - dialectical materialism, anti-Semitism, Nazism - was sufficient to entrance the minds of men. How could one do other than submit to Tlön, to the minute and vast evidence of an orderly planet? It is useless to answer that reality is also orderly.

Adam Roberts 'Salt'

Great read Salt. Stone washed over me though.

sack that I read the blurb for Adam Roberts 'Yellow Blue Tibia' and thats getting read, first

I'll get a copy of this soon.

 

[Voley]

No, I have got to that bit. Brilliantly done.

Brilliantly done, you're right. You turn the page and everything changes. As you can probably tell, I'm still trying not to give anything away for anyone that's not read it here.

 

[idumea]

Switching between A Place of Greater Safety and The Hydrogen Sonata is interesting.

 

[renegadechicken]

Currently reading Narcomania - it's by some guys or at least one that posts on here. It studies the drug trade etc in the uk good read so far. And 'Ed' is in it as the owner of an 'underground' message board

 

[Yu_Gi_Oh]

Brilliantly done, you're right. You turn the page and everything changes. As you can probably tell, I'm still trying not to give anything away for anyone that's not read it here.

I'm trying not to give it away too. I'm glad we discussed this a little, I've ended up using it as an example in a tutorial of how our knowledge of an author can colour what we read by them and shape our interpretations of the text.

Have you seen the TV series?

 

[Voley]

I'm trying not to give it away too. I'm glad we discussed this a little, I've ended up using it as an example in a tutorial of how our knowledge of an author can colour what we read by them and shape our interpretations of the text.

Have you seen the TV series?

I did a very similar thing when I was at college too. I'll PM you about it though or it'll give it away. I was a bit young when Ways Of Seeing came out. My Mum was well into it so had the book so I read that many years later.

 

[xenon]

Tiger Tiger by Alfred Bester.

 

[ringo]

A Storm of Swords - George R R Martin

 

[ViolentPanda]

Just finished Ian Bone's "Bash the Rich". Very funny.
Halfway through "Red Orchestra" by Anne Nelson, a biography of the "Rote Kapelle " anti-Nazi resistance ring centred in Berlin. Made somewhat poignant by having visited the site of execution (Plötzensee prison) of many of the members last year.

 

[jeff_leigh]

The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson

 

[starfish]

Driven by James Sallis. Its his sequel to Drive.

 

[dylans]

"Uncle Tungsten. Memories of a chemical boyhood" by Oliver Sacks.

By the author of "the man who mistook his wife for a hat" A memoir of his childhood love of chemistry and science.

 

[Thraex]

"Pompeii" by Robert Harris, which I'm enjoying. Bonus: I picked it up in a second hand shop (Skoob) and just discovered it's been signed.

 

[TruXta]

"Pompeii" by Robert Harris, which I'm enjoying. Bonus: I picked it up in a second hand shop (Skoob) and just discovered it's been signed.

Ooo, haven't been to Skoob for ages. Judd's up the road is great for non-fiction.

 

[Thraex]

Ooo, haven't been to Skoob for ages. Judd's up the road is great for non-fiction.

Cheers, I'll give that a look sometime soon.

 

[belboid]

Utopia, edited by Ross Bradshaw. 'The second annual themed compendium of writing by Five Leaves’
authors and friends.' Some very good stuff, new and old, and some predicatable bits to skip over.

 

[nogojones]

The Movement of the Free Spirit - Raoul Vaneigem. Nicely written, but I'm not convinced by the content yet.

 

[idumea]

I've decided to suck it up and finally read some Deleuze. Hold me.

I fell down a googling rabbithole after reading this article by Simon Reynolds on the antics of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit and now I've got a to-read list a mile long

 

[Thraex]

Now reading: "Mosaics In Roman Britain - stories in stone" by Patricia Witts.

 

[Thraex]

Finished ^ a couple of days ago, now reading Simon Scarrow's "Under the Eagle". An enjoyable Roman romp.

 

[TruXta]

^^^ obsessed

 

[starfish]

The Pale Criminal by Philip Kerr, the 2nd Bernie Gunther novel.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Now reading: "Mosaics In Roman Britain - stories in stone" by Patricia Witts.

Oooh, nice...I'm not sure how she wangled it but my Gran took me to see the mosaics at Fishbourne when they were still being excavated.

 

[Thraex]

Oooh, nice...I'm not sure how she wangled it but my Gran took me to see the mosaics at Fishbourne when they were still being excavated.

Wonderful the pictures in the book were mainly B&W and not very good quality TBH. I was surprised at just how many have been 'lost' (lots of the pics were of paintings made when the mosaics were first discovered. And loads were damaged being lifted then 'restored' according to how they thought they should be ie they thought various images of one god were of something else etc and 'restored' accordingly Very sad.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Wonderful

Oh it was. I know it was before the museum opened so it must have been the early 1960s. I was aware of what an amazing find it was. My gran really enriched my childhood with stuff I just wouldn't ever have done with my parents.

 

[jeff_leigh]

Emperor the death of Kings - Conn Iggulden

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

re-reading Neal Stephenson - cryptonomicon

 

[colbhoy]

La Brava by Elmore Leonard.

 

[Thraex]

"Nero - The Man Behind The Myth" - Richard Holland.

 

[Orang Utan]

Are you only interested in one thing, thraex?