*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[colbhoy]

I'm reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin.

Was one of the 2012 World Book Night selections and was left in my work's canteen to pick up and read. Absolutely not the type of book I would ever think of reading but I suppose that is the intention of the Book Night. I am quite enjoying it.

 

[starfish]

Chasing Darkness by Robert Crais, an Elvis Cole & Joe Pike novel.

 

[magneze]

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Was recommended to me by someone at work who saw that I was reading some scifi.

 

[machine cat]

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Was recommended to me by someone at work who saw that I was reading some scifi.

I enjoyed it. The sequels not so much.

 

[DotCommunist]

Cards a massive homophobe a well

 

[machine cat]

Still in Banks mode atm. I thought I had bought Whit but it turns out it was The Crow Road (need to pay attention to what i'm buying).

Enjoying it so far. Love the fact that it switches character, time and perspective so chaotically.

 

[DotCommunist]

Wool

A post apocalypse tale set to start with in a survivors community in a silo. "frogwoman got me it and its quite good so far. Fairly thoughtful.

 

[Firky]

wrong thread

 

[marty21]

The Departure - Neil Asher

Sci Fi romp set in a future Totalitarian state ruled by The Committee - really enjoying it

 

[ringo]

Yep, I'm reading diamond age atm, some great ideas but when he gets distracted, or clever, I know there's going to be a lengthy and detailed derail on a par with Easton Ellis in American Psycho, and possibly just as dull, just to make a point.

Halfway through and the mixture of inventiveness and tedium is getting too much. This may end up being be the best book I've ever given up on

 

[Dillinger4]

I can't wait for the new Thomas Pynchon book at the end of this year. I am very excited about it.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

"Stone's Fall" - Iain Pears - a murder mystery/espionage tale/love story spanning the decades. I am rather enjoying it

 

[idumea]

Had a run on sci fi and lots of travel by train, so I've just finished:

Moxyland by Lauren Beukes
Wolfhound Century by Peter Higgins
Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts
Rule 34 by Charles Stross

Currently reading the Quantum Thief

 

[machine cat]

Currently reading the Quantum Thief

This is on my to read pile What's it like?




Part way through Jose Saramago's Seeing atm.


ETA: And Plath. Again, and again, and again.

 

[idumea]

This is on my to read pile What's it like?




Part way through Jose Saramago's Seeing atm.


ETA: And Plath. Again, and again, and again.

I got about thirty pages in and wasn't impressed so read Adam Roberts' By Light Alone instead. (Which was amazing.) Going to give The Quantum Thief another go. Bit long on concept short on writing for me.

 

[RedDragon]

The Child Thief - OMG!

 

[flypanam]

Raymond Queneau - Zazie in the metro. Funny.

 

[CharlieChaplin]

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

 

[RedDragon]

Just started a Peter May trilogy

 

[DotCommunist]

Just reading Bill Conolloys bio. quite good.

Unlike Chris Moyles bio which I gave up yesterday after just one chapter. The blokes a fucking moron, its not just a radio persona, hes a sleazy fucking idiot

 

[TruXta]

Abercrombie's "The Blade Itself". Should I crack on with the rest of series or not bother? Not massively impressed so far, it's OK I guess.

 

[Voley]

which Spymaster recommended for me. Really enjoying it.

 

[belboid]

Just started a Peter May trilogy

the Lewis ones? I've done the first two, they're most enjoyable.

 

[DotCommunist]

Samul R Delany fest. Just did 'Babel 13: empires heart' now onto 'Jewels of ptor' then if I'm still in a delany mood. Triton'

 

[machine cat]

Seeing was cracking Really love Saramago's prose, but the novel left too many unanswered questions and the plot didn't progress in the way I expected (much like Blindness). Still it was funny watching the politicians turn purple when the people with no authority over them just continued going about life as normal.

ETA: Starting Shelley's The Last Man now.

 

[catinthehat]

LoveStar by Andri Snaer Magnasson - 'Strange and refreshing - a lushly imagined future that reminded me of Vonnegut and Brautigan' (Ed Park) - sums it up better than I could.

 

[BoatieBird]

Bram Stoker's Dracula, inspired by last week's visit to Whitby.

 

[marty21]

Deep Country - Five Years in the Welsh Hills - Neil Ansell

An account of 5 years living in a remote Welsh Cottage - basically the writer became a recluse most of the time - enjoying it .

 

[weltweit]

I am reading A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson.
.. about a third through. It is much larger than I was expecting but I suppose as it is about "nearly everything" it had to be

 

[ringo]

Pao by Kerry Young. Great so far - young lad moves to Jamaica in the 1930s from China to live with his mother and Uncle who turns out to be the main gangster in Chinatown.