*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[Orang Utan]

I'm still reading this where does everyone get the time to read?

(I am reading about 4 ther books at the same time!)

Me too - same book, same dilemma. I need to stop watching shite telly when I get back from work

 

[DotCommunist]

Just bought me Kingdom of Fear by Hunter Thompson, charidee shop win

 

[Kev the Gooner]

I am just finishing 'Apache' by 'Ed Macy.' A bloody good read. Puts you right in the cockpit.
An Awesome story of an awesome machine. An American Helicopter with Rolls Royce engines. Which makes it even better.

 

[Lea]

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer.

 

[Fictionist]

Discovering the Qur'an: A Contemporary Approach to a Veiled Text by Neal Robinson

This is quite enjoyable, and surprisingly readable too.

 

[DotCommunist]

Ballard's 'Millenium People'

I enjoyed drowned world, so this better be half decent as it's a slightly more expensive charity shop purchase (oxfam specialist, you know how that's moar expensive)

 

[Fictionist]

I've just received 'Towards Understanding the Qur'an' (abridged version of Tafhim al-Qur'an) - Sayyid Abul A 'la Mawdudi and 'The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology' - edited by Tim Winter.

 

[madamv]

I have just done the six Tales of the City books (Armistead Maupin) back to back, I have now received my latest purchase from Amazon second hand books. Danziger's Britain. - Nick Danziger. I have read the first 50 or so pages and am enjoying it so far.

I got chatting to a woman in soft play on holiday recently and its what she was reading, so I made a note as it looked very interesting.

 

[El Jefe]

just finished John O'Farrell's History of Britain. I know it's riddled with inaccuracies and bad jokes, but I did actually learn stuff about the general progress of British History before perhaps The Industrial Revolution, the series of wars / kings / invasions etc.

Now going to read From Anger To Apathy: The Story of Politics, Society & Popular Culture In Britain Since 1975, by Mark Garnett. Which sounds interesting but grim

 

[sojourner]

First Love, Last Rites - Ian McEwan

Excellent so far - 3 stories in. But @ second story!!! Fucking brave (or just insane) for a first publication!

 

[DotCommunist]

God just finished Millenium People. What a load of old shit 'The middle class are the new proletariat'

 

[sojourner]

First Love, Last Rites - Ian McEwan

Excellent so far - 3 stories in. But @ second story!!! Fucking brave (or just insane) for a first publication!

Good lord


I'm fucking amazed this got published (am loving it though)

 

[Orang Utan]

it's shocking isn't it?

 

[sojourner]

it's shocking isn't it?

yes! very

 

[Orang Utan]

yes! very

"I felt proud, proud to be fucking, even if it were only Connie, my ten-year-old sister, even if it had been a crippled mountain goat..."

 

[bluestreak]

Just finished Tomalin's wonderful biography of Samuel Pepys. Thoroughly thoroughly recommended, one of the best books i've read this year.

Now I'm re-reading Spike Milligan's Mussolini: His Part In My Downfall

 

[sojourner]

"I felt proud, proud to be fucking, even if it were only Connie, my ten-year-old sister, even if it had been a crippled mountain goat..."

and the DETAIL he goes into! I'm cringing just thinking about it

 

[El Jefe]

had a bit of a payday spree, got Bill Drummond's 17, Mark E Smith's Renegade, that David Simon Homicide book and another book on the Red Army Faction..

 

[Dan U]

that David Simon Homicide book

tis good that. i bought the first two seasons of Homicide cheap off Amazon after reading it as well.

i'm reading The Whisperers by Orlando Figes which is pretty bleak but very good.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

had a bit of a payday spree, got Bill Drummond's 17, Mark E Smith's Renegade, that David Simon Homicide book and another book on the Red Army Faction..

dur! its almost christmas, you should have put them on your pressie list!!!

 

[El Jefe]

dur! its almost christmas, you should have put them on your pressie list!!!

People generally know not to buy me books or music, it's a fruitless task. I'll either hate it or have it already

 

[idioteque]

I'm about to start Ghostwritten by David Mitchell.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

People generally know not to buy me books or music, it's a fruitless task. I'll either hate it or have it already

A bag of oranges it is for you then.

 

[maya]

Trying to catch up with the latest SF (after a longish, self-imposed break)
Have about four novels on the go, and one short story anthology thingy... *

(*That'll probably keep me going for a week, since I'm reading so slowly these days- I used to read one book a day at one point! Quite scary, really... Last night I read the same page- chapter opening- over and over, without being able to take it in at all... No concentration!)

 

[sojourner]

After finishing the month WELL out of my overdraft cool: @ self), I have just treated myself to 3 more Ian McEwans on amazon - The Comfort of Strangers, The Cement Garden, and In Between the Sheets. Also found an Annie Proulx that I didn't have - Fine Just the Way it is: Wyoming Stories (Wyoming Stories 3)

 

[Scaggs]

Almost finished 'Lanark: A Life in Four Books' by Alasdair Gray (brilliant!) so I've just ordered 'Poor Things' by the same author.

 

[Fictionist]

God just finished Millenium People. What a load of old shit 'The middle class are the new proletariat'

The problem is the middle class might lack the self awareness necessary to recognise the inherent contradiction contained therein.

 

[Lea]

I'm about to start Ghostwritten by David Mitchell.

I read that one a few years ago and really enjoyed it.

 

[narcodollars]

Will be re-reading Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz, as soon as I can get some peace and quiet around here.

 

[Rollem]

Barrel Fever - David Sedaris

not convinced yet