*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[bluestreak]

Iain M Banks - Excession.

Just finished Mussolini - His Part In My Downfall, by Spike Milligan and all at once.

 

[DotCommunist]

Iain M Banks - Excession.

Just finished Mussolini - His Part In My Downfall, by Spike Milligan and all at once.

excellent opening scene

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Finished this yesterday, and all I can say is - if you see it, buy it. Seriously. One of the best books I've read in a lonnnng time. Incredibly dense, so many layers, I LOVE how he writes about emotion and relationships, and it's just 100% quality. Couldn't stop thinking about it all night

He is a fantastic writer, every novel of his I have read has, to use a hackneyed phrase, stayed with me.

I am 'between' books at the moment - got "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" and "The Constant Gardener" but can't get the motivation to start either of them

 

[Mrs Magpie]

A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving.

I was stuck for a book to read and this caught my eye in the library because there was an armadillo on the cover and I've always loved armadillos.

Astonishing book. I laughed out loud often till my sides hurt and sobbed twice. I was really tired last night but I couldn't go to bed till I finished it (nearly 2am).

 

[ChrisC]

Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days by Alastair Reynolds.

 

[DotCommunist]

Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days by Alastair Reynolds.

I still haven't bought that

 

[sojourner]

John Sergeants autobiog - Give Me Ten Seconds

fairly interesting - especially about the workings of the BBC back in the day

 

[Fictionist]

I still haven't bought that

Never mind that - explain further in pm!

 

[Orang Utan]

John Sergeants autobiog

fairly interesting - especially about the workings of the BBC back in the day

I read that - god knows why - must have been a present - tis a fun and instructive read all the same. Liked his account of the Thatcher incident in Paris.

 

[sojourner]

I read that - god knows why - must have been a present - tis a fun and instructive read all the same. Liked his account of the Thatcher incident in Paris.

Yeh - quite surprised. I only picked it up cos it was going for 79p in the local YM shop, and they had nothing else that day

Not got to that bit yet

 

[ChrisC]

I still haven't bought that

I'm going for The Terror by Dan Simmons instead. Fancy a change from the usual SF I read. Might as well give it ago.

 

[idioteque]

Crime & Punishment- Dostoyevsky

 

[Augie March]

Book Of Dave.

 

[Pie 1]

Le Carres new one: A Most Wanted Man.

Hats off to the guy - he can still bang out a yarn streets ahead of the rest.

 

[DotCommunist]

maggie furey- The Eye of Eternity


one for the embarrasingly bad fantasy thread really.

 

[sojourner]

Ian McEwan - The comfort of strangers

Only just started it, but enjoying it so far

 

[Dillinger4]

I am reading Life After God by Douglas Coupland again, because I am bit depressed.

 

[Homeless Mal]

Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner which details a nasty crime in Canberra Aus where a woman killed her boyfriend by od'ing him on heroin and rohypnol because she seemed a bit nutty. The author looks at the woman and the guy, Joe's, family. the killer Anu Singh comes over as a bit of a nasty spoilt girl but only half way through.

Also reading You'll Never Make Love in this Town Again about Holywood sex.

Have A Prayer for Owen Meany sitting on my desk to bring in the New Year. I hadn't thought about the book for years until I saw it on this forum

 

[handy1]

Just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.

Fantastic and Heart rendering,the last line of the book made me physically sob

 

[sojourner]

Toby Litt - deadkidsongs


Excellent. Didn't want to put it down yesterday, but had to in the end as my eyes were closing

 

[Dillinger4]

some poems by Lorca

 

[dynamicbaddog]

I'm halfway through A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon -
it's very good

 

[Upchuck]

Halfway Heaven - Diary of a Harvard Murder by Melanie Thurnstrom about a murder/suicide in 1995 at Harvard. Ethiopian 20 yr old killed her Vietnamese room mate and then hanged herself. Very sad. I kind of don't like the author as she seems like an opportunistic corporate whore, but am only 1/3 through so my opinion might change.

 

[ringo]

All Crews: Journey's Through Jungle / Drum and Bass Culture by Brian Belle-Fortune

Don't know whay I haven't got round to this before, really good.

 

[El Jefe]

still ploughing through Homicide. Very good, very long

 

[sojourner]

I'm halfway through A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon -
it's very good

I read that earlier in the year - yeh, s'quite good

 

[Dillinger4]

still ploughing through Homicide. Very good, very long

Vintage Paw recommended this to just yesterday.

 

[Dillinger4]

As for me, I am determined to finish Gravity's Rainbow before the new year.

I have about 400 pages to go.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Iain Banks- The Steep Approach to Garbadale.

It's very good, much better than I thought it would be given the crumminess of some of his more recent books. Very funny too in a strange way.

 

[May Kasahara]

Victoria Hislop's The Island. It's terrible tosh and about as subtle as a brick, but decent enough to occupy my eyes when I'm feeding the baby