*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[QueenOfGoths]

"Wolves Eat Dogs" - Martin Cruz Smith. I think I may have read it before nut I can't remember

 

[TruXta]

Arslan by MJ Engh. Fairly full on political scifi.

 

[marty21]

started Great Expectations on the ipad mini - real book is still Rebel - Bernard Cornwell

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Just finished Ender's Game. Never read it before - very good except for the ending which meandered off-piste a little.

 

[Sylvester]

neil postman-amusing ourselves to death (if you like non-fiction, check this one out)
and some Pablo Neruda poems and the tao... all over the place

 

[ringo]

Have a second book on the go because finally got a copy of Clarks In Jamaica by Al Fingers.

Beautifully presented book on how Clarks shoes in general and desert boots in particular became first the byword in quality footwear in Jamaica and then the pinnacle of street style and fashion. Nice history, awesome photos and great record labels and artists sporting their favourite Clarks.

 

[DotCommunist]

'Worlds Enough and Time' by Dan Simmons. 6 novella length spec fiction tales from him. Trying to ignore the fact that he's a massive islamaphobe and just read the stories

 

[Yetman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wool_(series)

I though there was only 5 books! (I'm on no.5) looks like I'll be reading this for a while longer then eh!

I've got Dante's Inferno and JJ's Ulysees next

 

[Orang Utan]

David Byrne's How Music Works - I am really loving his style - he's really good about talking about music in an instructive yet chatty manner. I would rather see him on the telly explaining music than that toff Howard Goodall

 

[Frances Lengel]

Just started Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma by Kerry Hudson - Not bad so far.

 

[BoatieBird]

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.
My mum tells we that Wilkie Collins was my grandmother's favourite author

 

[sojourner]

Polluto - it's a literary magazine (looks like a novel with some fab artwork on the front http://polluto.com/) - and I'm in it heh Got the last page too, which is always good - first or last = good.

Anyhoo, there's TONS of great stories in there, loads of brilliant flash fiction and poetry, lots of what seems to be sci-fi but am sure it'ss a slightly different take on it (there's a fucking billion sub-genres now int there?). Am loving it. Totally got to try and get in this again.

 

[seeformiles]

"The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins

Got it free for the Kindle - I'd forgotten what a witty bugger he was!

 

[DotCommunist]

Nick Sagan 'Idlewild"

start of a trilogy. Promisingly weird so far

 

[N_igma]

Finally getting around to Franz Kafka - The Trial. Enjoying it so far good critique of state burocracy and the limits to individualism and freedom. Sounds so right wing that too but it's not like that at all.

 

[rubbershoes]

Finished Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon.

I was enjoying it very much up until the last bit. If it had finished after he dropped the tuba (I don't think that's too much of a spoiler) it would have been a far better ending.

Still highly recommended though

 

[Sprocket.]

Precious Bane by Mary Webb. I am going through a phase of re reading books I read years ago at the moment.
I have got As I Walked Out One Midsummer's Morning by Laurie Lee lined up.
It truly is like greeting old friends who though not forgotten are rarely present these days.

 

[Yetman]

Just started this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lies_of_Locke_Lamora

 

[TruXta]

Not a book but a paper: Escaping Capability Traps through Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation by Andrews, Pritchett & Woolcock (2012). Pretty good read despite the title.

 

[DotCommunist]

Neal Stephenson- Snow Crash

 

[jeff_leigh]

Just finished Tokyo Year Zero - David Peace
Just started Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch

 

[yield]

Precious Bane by Mary Webb. I am going through a phase of re reading books I read years ago at the moment.

As you probably know the title is from Milton.

Let none admire: That riches grow in Hell;
that Soyle may best: Deserve the precious bane.

Another book I keep meaning to read. Is it like Thomas Hardy?

 

[machine cat]

Selected works of Arthur Rimbaud

 

[Sprocket.]

As you probably know the title is from Milton.

Another book I keep meaning to read. Is it like Thomas Hardy?

Yes was aware of the title from Milton's Paradise Lost. Swap Wessex for Shropshire in the early Nineteenth century. The story is told by Prue who is afflicted with an harelip, she thinks she is not worthy of the attention given to her by a weaver Kester. Intrigue and murder ensue. The book was written in the 1920s and carried a strong moral story from a womans viewpoint.
I think it could be as important a book in a social standing as The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.
I loved it when I first read it under orders from my then girlfriend nearly forty years ago! Peer pressure, no such thing. Enjoy.

 

[Orang Utan]

I think I saw a tv adaptation of that years ago.

 

[Limerick Red]

Robert Ginsborg's A history of Contemporary Italy, Thank you very much butchersapron , excellent so far, and exactly what I was looking for, Thats my tube to and from work book. Bedtime book Im re-reading , Quite right, Mr trotsky, by Denver Walker, the most important marxist work since Kapital?

 

[butchersapron]

Robert Ginsborg's A history of Contemporary Italy, Thank you very much butchersapron , excellent so far, and exactly what I was looking for, Thats my tube to and from work book. Bedtime book Im re-reading , Quite right, Mr trotsky, by Denver Walker, the most important marxist work since Kapital?

A CLP comrade of Geri

 

[Pickman's model]

Philip Thurmond Smith, 'The London Metropolitan Police and public order and security, 1850-1868' (New York: Columbia University, 1978) unpublished PhD thesis

 

[Vintage Paw]

I'm getting back into reading after a too-long hiatus. Do you sad book geeks have goodreads profiles I can stalk for some ideas of what to read? And just because I like to stalk....

I've broken my fast by starting The Reapers are The Angels by Alden Bell. Southern Gothic meets zombie horror (but the zombies are peripheral, really). Jolly good so far. About 1/4 of the way in.

 

[BoatieBird]

I'm getting back into reading after a too-long hiatus. Do you sad book geeks have goodreads profiles I can stalk for some ideas of what to read? And just because I like to stalk....

I've broken my fast by starting The Reapers are The Angels by Alden Bell. Southern Gothic meets zombie horror (but the zombies are peripheral, really). Jolly good so far. About 1/4 of the way in.

Loads of ideas here
http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/2013-reading-challenge-thread.303576/