*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[Thimble Queen]

Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchinson. It's set in a 'future' Europe dissected by borders and rife with smugglers. The main protagonist is man named Rudi, a cook turned spy/people smuggler. At the point of the story I'm at he's just in his training so I can't tell you much more. It's good so far.

 

[colbhoy]

The Last Detective by Robert Crais, number 9 in the Elvis Cole/Joe Pike series. Excellent so far.

 

[Mation]

The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson.........so far so good. Not the first Victorians using Cyberpunk stuff I've read, I'm too lazy to look up whether this came before or after The Difference Engine.

I'm reading this now and absolutely loving it

 

[moonsi til]

Caitlin Moran 'How To Build a Girl'..I'm in love with Johanna Morrigan!

 

[krtek a houby]

 

[sojourner]

Wow, Bone Clocks by David Mitchell was absolutely astonishing. The absolute nerve of the fella Probably why he didn't win the Booker - no fucker could decide what category to put him in

Just got two more out of the library by him - Cloud Atlas and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet.

Just finished The Woman in Black and Other Ghost Stories by Susan Hill too. The other stories are good, but WIB is a masterpiece and the others couldn't really touch it.

 

[Orang Utan]

You're in for a treat with those two Mitchells, sojourner
And then you have Black Swan Green, Ghostwritten and Number9Dream to enjoy. I am envious.

 

[sojourner]

You're in for a treat with those two Mitchells, sojourner
And then you have Black Swan Green, Ghostwritten and Number9Dream to enjoy. I am envious.

I was all jealous of the fella reading Ray Bradbury's 'Dandelion Wine' the other week

He's reading Bone Clocks now, on my recommendation.

He's such a clever writer. It's like being touched in all the right places, mentally. Clever, knows it, but not a knob with it, unlike Nabokov in his later years.

 

[Orang Utan]

Over the holidays, i'm going to read the book he helped translate from Japanese. It's written by an autistic 13 year old who can't speak, explaining how it feels to have autism.

 

[sojourner]

Over the holidays, i'm going to read the book he helped translate from Japanese. It's written by an autistic 13 year old who can't speak, explaining how it feels to have autism.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Picked up this at a s/h bookshop today... cracking early 80's book about East London (with some great old photos too) by William J Fishman

Fishman's "East End Jewish Radicals 1875-1914" is a fascinating read, too.

 

[weltweit]

I am about 100 pages into "to kill a mockingbird" by Harper Lee, it is very nicely written, I am sure the next 200 pages intensify but I am already enjoying it a lot.

 

[belboid]

Paul Auster - The Book of Illusions

It's ages since I read an Auster book, Mr Vertigo was the last, I think. Big mistake, this is brilliant. Possibly the best book I've read since Kavalier and Clay (as long as the last 100 pages hold up).

 

[Ramires]

Paul Auster - The Book of Illusions

It's ages since I read an Auster book, Mr Vertigo was the last, I think. Big mistake, this is brilliant. Possibly the best book I've read since Kavalier and Clay (as long as the last 100 pages hold up).

It is a challenging book so it is not for everyone. However, if you like well-written books that will challenge you, then it would be a good choice.

 

[weltweit]

Finished To Kill a Mockingbird and really enjoyed it, now reading Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and enjoying that also .... I feel I am catching up on some books I should have read a long time ago!

 

[krtek a houby]

The Given Day - Denis Lehane. 400 pages in and this is absoultely epic; set in 1918 Boston, anarchists, gangsters, cops, Babe Ruth (!), feds and a lot of history there. I wonder how it was received; there's social history in there I imagine some people might want to gloss over, in the States. Whatever - cannot put it down.

 

[Pickman's model]

The Given Day - Denis Lehane. 400 pages in and this is absoultely epic; set in 1918 Boston, anarchists, gangsters, cops, Babe Ruth (!), feds and a lot of history there. I wonder how it was received; there's social history in there I imagine some people might want to gloss over, in the States. Whatever - cannot put it down.

a fuck load of reviews

 

[sojourner]

Have a few pages of Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell left. The clever CLEVER bastard. Mind-bending book.

 

[sojourner]

Finished To Kill a Mockingbird and really enjoyed it, now reading Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and enjoying that also .... I feel I am catching up on some books I should have read a long time ago!

Ray Bradbury is my all time hero of writing. I am in total fucking awe of him.

 

[weltweit]

Ray Bradbury is my all time hero of writing. I am in total fucking awe of him.

This is the first Bradbury book I have read, can you recommend others?

 

[sojourner]

This is the first Bradbury book I have read, can you recommend others?

Dandelion Wine is one of the greatest books of all time.

Something Wicked This Way Comes is brilliant too, as are the collections The Illustrated Man, and The Golden Apples of the Sun

 

[BoatieBird]

Have a few pages of Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell left. The clever CLEVER bastard. Mind-bending book.

I'm currently reading Kate Atkinson's Started Early, Took My Dog.
Got David Mitchell's Ghostwritten lined up for my next book

 

[rubbershoes]

The Bartender's Tale by Ivan Doig. It's quite folksy and whimsical. Nicely written but lacking substance so far. I'll see how it develops

 

[Greebo]

The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness. The final one of a trilogy and a wristbreaker even in paperback, so it's just as well I've got the kindle version.

 

[sojourner]

Finished Cloud Atlas. Thought it was veh clever

Not sure whether to start the other David Mitchell one, or any of the other 5 waiting to be read.

 

[Orang Utan]

Finished Cloud Atlas. Thought it was veh clever

Not sure whether to start the other David Mitchell one, or any of the other 5 waiting to be read.

ah, that dilemma you get when you discover a great writer with a lot of work - read them all up now greedily, or pace yourself! I'm doing the latter with Dickens.

 

[A380]

Finished Cloud Atlas. Thought it was veh clever

Not sure whether to start the other David Mitchell one, or any of the other 5 waiting to be read.

If the other one is 'thousand autumns of Jacob de Zoet' then read that next, its even better than Cloud Atlas.

 

[sojourner]

ah, that dilemma you get when you discover a great writer with a lot of work - read them all up now greedily, or pace yourself! I'm doing the latter with Dickens.

Ha, aye!

If the other one is 'thousand autumns of Jacob de Zoet' then read that next, its even better than Cloud Atlas.

It is indeed! I decided to space it out by one book so am currently halfway through The Shore by Sara Taylor. It must be coincidence that everything I'm reading lately is interconnected stories!

 

[stethoscope]

Festivalized: Music, Politics, Alternative Culture by Ian Abrahams & Bridget Wishart.

 

[ringo]

You know that feeling when you finish a book and feel at all at a loss, all bereft and abandoned because it was so damn good?
That's just happened to me, because The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux.
That's how good it is. So now I don't know what to do.

Grabbed a copy of this after reading your post, got 100 pages left. I want to leave work and go and finish it. I needed some proper escapism to lose myself in and this is perfect, it just gets better and better as he draws you into the madness