*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[quimcunx]

''god and the new physics''

Paul Davies

 

[May Kasahara]

Kundera can fuck right off

yes please. in fact i'd like him to come back afterwards, just so he can fuck right off again

 

[QueenOfGoths]

just finished The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale. Marvellous stuff, part whodunnit, part history of police detectives, part history of detective fiction. Enthralling from beginning to end.

Now moved onto The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga, which has started very well.

I bought that for a friend of mine for Christmas and rather wish I'd kept it for myself .

I'm currently reading "The Steel Remains" by Richard Morgan - which i think is his first foray into fantasy rather than sci-fi. Very robust and very good.

 

[maya]

Just finished reading Shantaram by Gregory Davis Roberts (sp?), not able to say anything intelligent about this other than... Please read it!

Equally good (judging from the excited babble of friends whose taste i trust), and with slightly overlapping themes is the book I'm starting right now: by an indian writer named Chandra (first name and title eludes me, but more shortly), from the short paragraphs I've skimmed this looks like a great read!*

(*and if you know me in real life, you'd know that- contrary to what internet prescence would suggest- i don't usually dish out superlatives/such praise that often...)

Updates to follow...

 

[belboid]

I bought that for a friend of mine for Christmas and rather wish I'd kept it for myself .

borrow it back - they should have finished it by now

 

[bluestreak]

Having been very disappointed by Spike Milligan's McGonagal I turn to a very different beast, and have jsut started Patricia Highsmith's Ripley's Game, which has started well even for someone who dislikes the thriller genre.

 

[belboid]

Just started Umberto Eco's On Beauty. Fascinating stuff so far, and utterly gorgeous thing in and of itself.

Seemingly the first things in western europe to be described as beautiful in and of themselves were Helen of Troy's tits.

 

[BoatieBird]

Having been very disappointed by Spike Milligan's McGonagal I turn to a very different beast, and have jsut started Patricia Highsmith's Ripley's Game, which has started well even for someone who dislikes the thriller genre.

I quite like Patricia Highsmith, but it really grates when she writes 'he lighted a cigarette'

 

[DotCommunist]

I have been mostly reading FHM book of 'true' stories.

Christ I need to go bookshopping

 

[El Jefe]

A Scanner Darkly.. can't believe it's taken me this long

 

[maya]

PKD

^^ Tell us when you've arrived at the walking hash man... !

 

[maya]

As for my own reading: Still on the Chandra, but a growing pile of Stefan Zweig books (two were xmas gifts) are silently accusing me from the corner...

Not enough time in the universe, etc...

 

[obanite]

Finally onto book 4 of Tad Williams' Otherland, snatching bits of Gravity's Rainbow in between books... like GR's not confusing enough as it is

 

[sojourner]

Didn't have the mental energy to continue with Shikasta last night, so started re-reading Down All The Days by Christy Brown instead. Doris will have to wait til Sunday for another read

 

[Aldebaran]

I just got a book I think I will find interesting to read:

Michelle Goldberg, "Kingdom Coming, The rise of Christian nationlism", WW Northon & Company, NY, 2006.

salaam

 

[Fictionist]

Homer's Odyssey - Simon Armitage

(For reading after I finish 'The Woman in White')

 

[cybertect]

The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze

The shelves of my local Waterstones always seem to have too many books on Nazi Germany, but this looks to be an interesting new perspective.

 

[sojourner]

STILL not finished Shikasta, but I ordered Homicide by David Simon, and got it on Saturday, so have been unable to help myself starting it already

 

[tastebud]

Moth Smoke - Mohsin Hamid. Liking it so far. Definitely better than his more recent one so far - less preachy and more novelly.

 

[May Kasahara]

Finished that dreadful Kate Furnivall book at the weekend. I've never known a book so crap to jump its own shark so many times. Was quite enjoyable really

Now I am hopping between The No-Cry Sleep Solution and a dark-looking crime novel called The Brutal Art.

 

[El Jefe]

Neil Gaiman - American Gods. excellent so far

 

[Dillinger4]

After all those threads on best/worst novels the other day, I am going to be reading some Borges for a while now.

 

[rubbershoes]

A thousand splendid suns

It was light going and I got through it in a day Interesting but nothing of real substance IMO

 

[Stobart Stopper]

Byron In Love by Edna O'Brien.

Only got it today but it looks really good.

 

[belboid]

I think there was just a piece on the radio about that. And Byron being a complete and utter cunt who was only ever in love with himself. And maybe his sister.

 

[El Jefe]

Neil Gaiman - American Gods. excellent so far

what an ace book, I'm really ploughing through it.

Any other Gaiman recommendations?

 

[DotCommunist]

what an ace book, I'm really ploughing through it.

Any other Gaiman recommendations?

Neverwhere. Fantastic other london tale.

IMO he never tops American Gods but Anansi Boys and Stardust are also worth the time

Good Omens is fantastic and very funny indeed, but co-written with an author you hate, Pratchett

 

[El Jefe]

Neverwhere. Fantastic other london tale.

IMO he never tops American Gods but Anansi Boys and Stardust are also worth the time

Good Omens is fantastic and very funny indeed, but co-written with an author you hate, Pratchett

I read Good Omens and didn't mind it. I imagine if you factor liking Gaiman and loathing Pratchett you end up with "don't mind"

I also prefer the more "grown-up" stuff

I saw the film of Stardust and it was wank, so I guess I'll give Anansi Boys a go.

 

[Sadken]

what an ace book, I'm really ploughing through it.

Any other Gaiman recommendations?

How are you pronouncing that?

 

[Rollem]

started reading "apples" yesterday, by Richard Milward....not sure yet