*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[nogojones]

I Lucifer by Glen Duncan based on DC's (I think) recomendation

 

[N_igma]

No good or just hard work? I have it in my head that this is the best novel I've never read, but I'm saving it for when I'm grown up (along with Ulysses, baking and listening to jazz).

Bit of both tbh. Some interesting points on religion and the role of the Church in Russia tied up in which is basically a novel about a love quadrangle. I'll finish it like but not the sort of book I look forward to picking up if you know what I mean.

 

[DotCommunist]

I Lucifer by Glen Duncan based on DC's (I think) recomendation

score, its a great book.

The Last Werewolf is also worth a go, but not nearly so good

 

[weltweit]

I have just started Moments of Reprieve, Primo Levy.
About small acts of kindness during his time in Auschwitz.

 

[ringo]

Bit of both tbh. Some interesting points on religion and the role of the Church in Russia tied up in which is basically a novel about a love quadrangle. I'll finish it like but not the sort of book I look forward to picking up if you know what I mean.

I guessed it would be a bit like that. I nearly gave up on Crime & Punishment but soldiered on and ended up realising how brilliant it was over all, even if at times it was a struggle.

 

[weltweit]

I have just finished reading 'Down and out in Paris and London' by George Orwell, ....

I would like to read that, is it an easy / enjoyable read?

 

[DotCommunist]

eric blairs poverty tourism is not brilliant. Prefer his allegorical fiction

 

[N_igma]

I guessed it would be a bit like that. I nearly gave up on Crime & Punishment but soldiered on and ended up realising how brilliant it was over all, even if at times it was a struggle.

Yep I struggled with it too lol. Much of the same with The Brothers Karamazov.

 

[Frances Lengel]

I would like to read that, is it an easy / enjoyable read?

It is a fairly easy read but if you want a book that chronicles the true down and out experience then The Grass Arena by John Healy is the way to go.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/05/biography

 

[Dillinger4]

I started reading A Very British Coup by Chris Mullin. It has been on my shelf for ages. I have given up because it is absolutely rubbish.

 

[Dillinger4]

I cant figure out what to read. I am finding myself sitting in a chair staring idly at my books.

 

[Frances Lengel]

I cant figure out what to read. I am finding myself sitting in a chair staring idly at my books.

This - It's fuckin mint

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/13/dog-boy-eva-hornung

 

[TheFighter2013]

48 laws of power by Robert Greene

 

[izz]

Check out the Cornelius quartet (if you can find the compendium volume with all four books in one), it's great stuff... A bit confusing in parts (the main characters span several incarnations and genders in different parallel universes), but very good IIRC.

Many thanks Maya

 

[maya]

Many thanks Maya

It's a bit "boy's own adventure" type story though TBF, nothing deep- but good fun...

 

[Cheesypoof]

Does the noise in my head bother you? by Steven Tyler - mental read!

 

[DotCommunist]

Peter James 'DeadMansFootsteps'

its in this bundle of sci fi books I downloaded but appears to be the fourth in a crime series following the work of on DS Grace

quite good so far, even though I don't usually business with crime procedural type novels

 

[BoatieBird]

Peter James 'DeadMansFootsteps'

its in this bundle of sci fi books I downloaded but appears to be the fourth in a crime series following the work of on DS Grace

quite good so far, even though I don't usually business with crime procedural type novels

I'm quite a fan of DS Grace , but I do read a lot of crime anyway.
Peter James spins a good, if undemanding, yarn.

 

[Superdupastupor]

just finished 'The private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner' by James Hogg .

I was a bit perturbed by it and think that it captures the delusional state of mind quite urgently as well as being a good moral tale about the perils of religious fanaticism. eternal predestination? - just say no!

now- james Kelman - a disaffection for fiction
and E.Gibbons- Decline + Fall of the Roman Empire for non (abridged but £4 for 1000pgs of history ) it is good. I mean I know it is well regarded but it is also so accessible.

 

[Frances Lengel]

just finished 'The private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner' by James Hogg .

I was a bit perturbed by it and think that it captures the delusional state of mind quite urgently as well as being a good moral tale about the perils of religious fanaticism. eternal predestination? - just say no!

now- james Kelman - a disaffection for fiction
and E.Gibbons- Decline + Fall of the Roman Empire for non (abridged but £4 for 1000pgs of history ) it is good. I mean I know it is well regarded but it is also so accessible.

Top choice, I reckon that might be his best.

 

[colbhoy]

I am reading The Complete Game, Reflections on Baseball and the Art of Pitching by Ron Darling. Ron Darling is an ex pitcher for the New York Mets and is a current TV commentator and his recollections of specific games and innings is fascinating.

 

[frogwoman]

some ICC lit frog lent me
Communism: not a nice idea but a material necessity volume 1

/dc

 

[Cheesypoof]

Finishing 'Your loved one lives on within you' an original approach to grieving, worth a look.

Halfway through 'Kitchen Confidential' by Anthony Bourdain. The accolades on the front include 'More gripping than a Stephen King novel' and 'Elizabeth David written by Quentin Tarantino.' Pretty addictive...started it last night and will finish it tomorrow (I'm not a 'speed reader')

 

[belboid]

Halfway through 'Kitchen Confidential' by Anthony Bourdain. The accolades on the front include 'More gripping than a Stephen King novel' and 'Elizabeth David written by Quentin Tarantino.' Pretty addictive...started it last night and will finish it tomorrow (I'm not a 'speed reader')

I've just finished his Medium Raw. He is such an enjoyable read, made me want to eat foie gras!

 

[maya]

I Lucifer by Glen Duncan based on DC's (I think) recomendation

I wonder how many book titles inspired by "I, Claudius" are currently out there? Someone should make it their quest to count and catalogue all the possible variations in the name of science and also possibly to avoid duplicity/plagiarism: "I, Lucifer", "I, Cthulhu", etc. etc...

 

[nogojones]

Letters from the underground by Abbie and Anita Hoffman

 

[belboid]

I wonder how many book titles inspired by "I, Claudius" is currently out there? Someone should make it their quest to count and catalogue all the possible variations in the name of science and also possibly to avoid duplicity/plagiarism: "I, Lucifer", "I, Cthulhu", etc. etc...

accordng to wiki, its:

• I, Borg, Star Trek: The Next Generation episode
• I, Claud..., autobiography of Claud Cockburn
• I, Claudia, Canadian independent film
• I, Claudia, the first of a series of novels by Marilyn Todd, featuring her heroine Claudia Seferius
• I & Claudius: Travels with My Cat, accounts of travel by Clare de Vries and her Burmese cat Claudius
• I, Clownius, an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
• I, Cthulhu, a short story by Neil Gaiman
• I, Davros, four audiodrama plays about Davros, the creater of the Daleks from Doctor Who
• I, Gatto, autobiography of Australian boxer and gangland personality Mick Gatto
• I, Jedi, Star Wars Expanded Universe novel by Michael Stackpole
• I, Libertine, 1956 novel by Theodore Sturgeon
• I, Lovett BBC2 sitcom from 1989, starring Norman Lovett
• I, Lucifer (Glen Duncan), a novel by Glen Duncan
• I, Mengsk, novel in the world of StarCraft, about the three generations of the Mengsk family
• "I, Mudd", Star Trek episode featuring a conman Harry Mudd
• I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan, the 2011 'autobiography' of fictional English TV and radio presenter Alan Partridge
• I, Phoolan Devi, autobigraphy of Indian female bandit Phoolan Devi
• I, Robot, 1939 Adam Link story by Eando Binder (unrelated to the Isaac Asimov story collection)
• I, Robot, 1950 science fiction story collection by Isaac Asimov, subsequently turned into a film
• I, Rowboat, contribution to The Onion, by a row boat
• I, Strahd, a horror-fantasy novel by P. N. Elrod set in Ravenloft
• I, Tintin, documentary film about the author of the fictional adventurer
• Io, Caligola, Italian title of the re-cut infamous motion picture Caligula when re-released in Italy in 1984 (the translated title is "I, Caligula")
• Me, Claudius, a play presented by Sesame Street's Cookie Monster on Monsterpiece Theatre (Cookie Monster frequently confuses personal pronouns)

 

[maya]

I, Rowboat, contribution to The Onion, by a row boat

... I smell shenaningans.

 

[sorearm]

Ordered a boxset of the first 3 Culture books by Iain Banks... been a fan of his since a nipper, never got around to his sci-fi as I was sci-fi'd up in my teens. Just listening to an audio book of Consider Phlebas and can't wait to get stuck into these...

 

[starfish]

Finished Post Office so its back to The Monkeys Raincoat.