*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[belboid]

decided to re-read Martin Millars Dreams of Sex & Stage Diving. Hope it's not just 'an off its time' thing

 

[El Jefe]

decided to re-read Martin Millars Dreams of Sex & Stage Diving. Hope it's not just 'an off its time' thing

I rather think it is

 

[starfish]

About a third of the way through "A Fraction of the Whole" by Steve Toltz.
Quite interesting so far & funny.

 

[jeff_leigh]

Grantchester Grind - Tom Sharpe

 

[MightyAphrodite]

A Mind of Its Own - David M. Friedman

(which a lovely urbanite sent me ages ago, im on about my 5th read of it!!!...)

 

[big eejit]

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller Jr.

I don't think I could read a book 5 times. Esp with so many out there to read!

 

[pboi]

Young Stalin


Rocking my world

 

[DotCommunist]

Young Stalin


Rocking my world

shows you what a murderous manipulative womanising bag of shit he was even before he got control of the whole country

 

[pboi]

poor fella was doomed from the beginning. those gerogians are fucking nutbars

 

[snackhead]

Can you trust the media? by Adrian Monck. A few "no shit Sherlock" moments among the more interesting bits.

 

[Fictionist]

The Enchantress of Florence - Salman Rusdie

Quite possibly the best thing he has written in years.

 

[El Jefe]

Peter Carey's The Tax Inspector was one of the oddest books I've read in quite some time

now I'm going to read Perdido Street Station but I've got a bad feeling about it

 

[Orang Utan]

Why?
It's great

 

[Voley]

You read Tortilla Flat, Geoff?

You might like that if you liked Cannery Row. Similar vein. Very drunken throughout.

Any book with a chapter titled 'How Jesus Maria Corcoran, a good man, became an unwilling vehicle of evil' is alright by me.

 

[Dillinger4]

Almost finished this Siri Hustvedt now.

I am enjoying it loads more than I thought I would, because I have always felt a little wary of Paul Auster, for some reason. But it is great. I have read it almost exclusively, which is rare for me.

 

[DotCommunist]

Peter Carey's The Tax Inspector was one of the oddest books I've read in quite some time

now I'm going to read Perdido Street Station but I've got a bad feeling about it

why is that? Just a gut feeling?

 

[Pieface]

You read Tortilla Flat, Geoff?

You might like that if you liked Cannery Row. Similar vein. Very drunken throughout.

Any book with a chapter titled 'How Jesus Maria Corcoran, a good man, became an unwilling vehicle of evil' is alright by me.

Yeh, gonna read that. I'm trying to read less contemporary stuff and work back through some of the 'canon' that I've missed along the way, so I'm kinda alternating between the two

 

[Pieface]

why is that? Just a gut feeling?

Yeh, I used to read huge amounts of scifi / fantasy whatever, but reached a point where I realised most of the writing was so awful I just gave in, regardless of how good the ideas might be. Every now and then I've dipped my toe back in and been disappointed, so Mieville might be my last shot at it

 

[Orang Utan]

You're not PieEye.
Don't make your mind up about a book before you've read it, no matter how tempted you are

 

[Pieface]

oh fuck - el jefe posting

 

[Pieface]

You're not PieEye.
Don't make your mind up about a book before you've read it, no matter how tempted you are

el jefe posting: yeh, you're right - but sometimes it's hard not to..

But i am hoping to be pleasantly surprised./

 

[DotCommunist]

I think you will be. It's very cerebral for fantasy, and crucially doesn't rely on the strength of the ideas over the quality of writing

 

[Orang Utan]

It's the only fantasy book I've ever enjoyed, apart from LOTR.
Mind you, I've only read one other.

 

[Pieface]

You're not PieEye.
Don't make your mind up about a book before you've read it, no matter how tempted you are

it pleases me that you just *knew* that wasn't me. Jefe can be jolly negative about things can't he

 

[silver]

I'm reading the Heroin Diaries, by Nikki Sixx...... how that man is still alive I have no idea

It's really good tho, I like the way he's got people to comment on each section and give their impressions on what was going on at the time

 

[phildwyer]

"The Diana Chronicles" by Tina Brown. I never really rated Brown before, but this is really well-written.

 

[jbob]

The Leopard by Tomasi De Lampedusa. An exceptional novel about Sicilian nobility during the Garibaldi landing.

 

[May Kasahara]

I think you will be. It's very cerebral for fantasy, and crucially doesn't rely on the strength of the ideas over the quality of writing

i dunno, i thought the writing was pretty overcooked. he could easily have lost a few hundred pages of descriptive stuff and improved it no end. but his ideas kept it going for me, and there are plenty of scenes that do really work.

 

[DotCommunist]

i dunno, i thought the writing was pretty overcooked. he could easily have lost a few hundred pages of descriptive stuff and improved it no end. but his ideas kept it going for me, and there are plenty of scenes that do really work.

for the genre, that level of linguistic involvement is pretty special imo.

 

[sojourner]

Finished Homicide (brilliant), finished Grace After Midnight (a 2 hour read - funny, touching, a bit on occasion - I just fancy her even more now!)

Started No Logo by Naomi Klein. Never read it and it was going dirt cheap in the local YM so...yeh. Not much new, but the actual stats themselves are quite shocking