*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[tastebud]

today at work I read 'The boy in the striped pyjamas'. this and the fact that this is the first time I have ever been on to Urban in a year of this job shows how boringly slow my day at work today is.

anyway - the book was ace. brilliant!

 

[Jon-of-arc]

homicide - a year on the killing streets, present for xmas given 1 day early. Anyone read it? OK so far, but only 29 pages in, so hardly in a position to comment.

Interesting already though is finding out that Jay Landsman was based on real life, same named person....

 

[Dillinger4]

homicide - a year on the killing streets, present for xmas given 1 day early. Anyone read it? OK so far, but only 29 pages in, so hardly in a position to comment.

Interesting already though is finding out that Jay Landsman was based on real life, same named person....

Quite a few people reading that.

The real Jay Landsman is actually in it, he plays Bunny Colvin's lieutenant. The one with the *proper* B'more accent.

 

[Jon-of-arc]

Quite a few people reading that.

The real Jay Landsman is actually in it, he plays Bunny Colvin's lieutenant. The one with the *proper* B'more accent.

having just done a seasons 2-4 rewatch since sat (I had the flu...), and wiki'd Landsman earlier, I can smugly say I already knew. weird how he so skinny in real life....

I wanna see the real Bunk!

 

[Lea]

Just finished reading the Host by Stephenie Meyer.

 

[Orang Utan]

having just done a seasons 2-4 rewatch since sat (I had the flu...), and wiki'd Landsman earlier, I can smugly say I already knew. weird how he so skinny in real life....

I wanna see the real Bunk!

That's Requer (sp?) IIRC - great book

 

[tastebud]

'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' by Mohsin Hamid & I'm totally hooked. Gonna order another of his books right now.

 

[Lea]

Just started the Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. Also started a collection on short stories edited by the Lonely Planet called Brief Encounters.

 

[DotCommunist]

Arthur C Clarke

profiles of the future

It is lol, cause of how wrong he was

 

[mentalchik]

A Second Chance at Eden - Peter F Hamilton (short stories)

 

[Bob_the_lost]

GEB

 

[Fictionist]

'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' by Mohsin Hamid & I'm totally hooked. Gonna order another of his books right now.

Did you really enjoy the book? I read it and found it spare and elegant - but quite vacuous.

 

[DotCommunist]

A Second Chance at Eden - Peter F Hamilton (short stories)

oooh there's a well good twist the chief tale in that collection. Enjoy.

 

[El Jefe]

well i finished Homicide, which was ace.

Then ploughed through Bill Drummond's excellent, inspirational and very funny 17 (thoroughly recommended) and I'm reading a Charlie Brooker collection before I depress the shite out of myself with John Gray's Black Mass

 

[Citizen66]

Almost finished The Last Of The Godfathers which makes me realise why, disappointedly, anarchist communism probably wouldn't work.

 

[mentalchik]

oooh there's a well good twist the chief tale in that collection. Enjoy.

I did enjoy it mostly......although it wasn't taxing and i sped through it very quickly........read The Nano Flower recently too.......same really !

 

[lighterthief]

Just finished The Hunters, by James Salter - an unexpected and completely random treat, fiction but based on his experiences piloting F86 Sabres in the Korean War.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

"The Constant Gardener" was wonderful and definitely made me want to read more la Carre.

Just started on Richard Morgan's fantasy novel "The Steel Remains" which is shaping up well so far

 

[Dillinger4]

I am continuing to read Vineland by Thomas Pynchon.

Everything else seems to be on hold.

 

[bluestreak]

Over christmas I worked my way through most of the Culture novels, and very impressed I was too. Especially Use Of Weapons. I am taking a break from sci-fi wonderfulness for a while, and instead am going to start Jeanette Winterson's Lighthousekeeping on my journey home.

 

[DotCommunist]

I am continuing to read Vineland by Thomas Pynchon.

Everything else seems to be on hold.

it is a novel requiring full time attention.

 

[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.

Just finished Joe Cinque's Consolation. Very good book. The author gets the justice that was lacking in the courts and exposes his killer as the selfish, narcissistic, spoilt, remorseless person that she is. If anyone wants to read PM me and I'll mail it.

Have started now on The Insider by Piers Morgan. Though I think he is an arrogant nasty prick it was only £1 from Oxfam and I hope it will make me laugh a bit.

 

[Dillinger4]

it is a novel requiring full time attention.

Indeed

 

[moonsi til]

I think mine is 'a million little pieces' by James Fey. Picked it up on holiday in November but although I'm enjoying it it sadly hasn't taken over my life.

 

[DotCommunist]

Indeed

I'll be interested on your opinions when your finished. For me the novel felt intensely american in a way I didn't get from my two stabs at GR. The central character comes off as the last-stand hippy and his daughter as some fusion of hippy idealism and modern pragmatism

 

[Fictionist]

The Place of Tolerance in Islam - Khaled Abou El Fadl et al

 

[tastebud]

Did you really enjoy the book? I read it and found it spare and elegant - but quite vacuous.

I finished it today and def enjoyed the first half beter than the second. No complaints really but he did get slightly annoying about half way through. I think it starts getting annoying from the point where he finds similarities between himself and a jeepney driver in Manila

I also read some of his journalism out of interest and I think he is definitely a better writer of fiction!

I have since started an Orhan Pamuk book.

 

[belboid]

I depress the shite out of myself with John Gray's Black Mass

I wouldn't bother if I were you, grossly over-rated, not particularly insightful justification for going 'oh well, what else can you do?'

I just finished Irvine Welsh's Crime. A quite gripping story, even if a few key bits weren't entirely convincing. Now moved onto A matter of Life and Death - The Brain Revealed by the Mind of Michael Powell. Fascinating stuff.

 

[Orang Utan]

Halfway through The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, but after Xmas giftage, am getting drawn away by Alex Ross's The Rest Is Noise: Listening To The 20th Century and a half arsed bit of fluff by Bill Bryson about Shakespeare.

 

[cliche guevara]

Ben Goldacre's Bad Science.