*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[ringo]

picked this up cheap and it's excellent

http://www.bibleroadbook.com/

fantastic collection of photos taken across the US featuring religious slogans and phrases, often incorporated into commercial signs or ads.

And God so loved Brixton he gave his only son....................

 

[Dirty Martini]

Bitten By The Tarantula & Other Writing by Julian Maclaren-Ross

 

[Orang Utan]

that Shakespeare book by Bryson - it's mildly diverting

 

[maya]

Hand Tool Essentials - A collection of articles on tool sharpening and maintenance <insert fnarr here>

Perhaps you'd like the book I ordered last summer- ?
I thought it was a book on rough 'outdoor survival' and hunter-gatherer D.I.Y. antics , ...instead I got a massive tome on livestock and poultry (and the farming philosophy on how to raise them...)

Er... anyway: I'm reading Daniil Kharms at the moment- suitably playful and retro-avant for my evil snob tastes... But in the reading pile and on the bedside table, there's a mountain of old crime novels:
Sjöwall & Wahlöö's 'Beck' series, Maigret, and some paint-by-numbers Christie nonsense... Strictly oldschool at the moment, because i've been having nightmares, and don't want to encourage things further with scary/bloody horror eek...

 

[seeformiles]

"Rat Run" by Gerald Seymour - good escapist thriller for cold evenings by the fire.

 

[Upchuck]

Madness by Marya Hornbacher. This woman has made a literary career of being fucking mad. I don't know if I will feel it as much now as I would have a few years ago. When I read Wasted I got very very sick

 

[Fictionist]

that Shakespeare book by Bryson - it's mildly diverting

It's shite. Go to Schoenbaum instead.

 

[Blagsta]

Michael Eaude - Catalonia: A Cultural History

 

[ringo]

Perhaps you'd like the book I ordered last summer- ?
I thought it was a book on rough 'outdoor survival' and hunter-gatherer D.I.Y. antics , ...instead I got a massive tome on livestock and poultry (and the farming philosophy on how to raise them...)

Not quite up my street

 

[Orang Utan]

It's shite. Go to Schoenbaum instead.

It's short and I needed an easy read. And it was a Xmas present.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

last night i ploughed through 8 chapters of And the hippos were boiled in their tanks by William S Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. its certainly not the greatest thing ever written but its interesting reading both of them at such early stages of their writing.

 

[krtek a houby]

"The Keepers of Truth" - Michael Collins.

A savage indictment on the end of the American dream. And a crime novel.

 

[obanite]

Finished Otherland and Slaughterhouse Five, back to Gravity's Rainbow

Just bought The Illiad today

 

[Fictionist]

His Own Words - A translation of the writings of Dr Ayman al Zawahiri - Laura Mansfield

 

[Fictionist]

Finished Otherland and Slaughterhouse Five, back to Gravity's Rainbow

Just bought The Illiad today

The Illiad is fantastic - which translation did you buy?

 

[Dillinger4]

Finished Otherland and Slaughterhouse Five, back to Gravity's Rainbow

Just bought The Illiad today

I am still on Gravity's Rainbow. I intend to finish it in the first half of this year. I am in the last quarter now!

 

[Pieface]

Muriel Spark - A Far Cry from Kensington.

I'm really not sure if she's my cup of tea tbh. I remember being really ambivalent about the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie but she makes me laugh every now and then and writes very elegantly. I wish I could come up with those sentences in everyday life.

 

[dynamicbaddog]

Just started Switchboard by Roger Longrigg.

It was a balmy London evening - mid-summer. Half of London were attending Everest parties. If Sue and Eddie had switched the light off - or even stayed away from the window - none of it would ever have happened ...

 

[Pieface]

Ooh - do you watch Mad Men baddog? I think you'd like it if you're into those books.

 

[dynamicbaddog]

Ooh - do you watch Mad Men baddog? I think you'd like it if you're into those books.

I've not seen it, but I've heard good stuff about it and that there's a new series of it on telly - I'll check it out next time it's on

 

[El Jefe]

Perdido Street Station has picked up a lot and I'm really enjoying it (still think it's VERY flawed though)

 

[madzone]

The Art of Happiness by HH Dalai Lama & Howard Cutler

It's a weepy

 

[Lea]

The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray.

 

[sojourner]

Shakey - by Jimmy McDonough and Neil Young

Cheers NVP - fucking lovin it If I respected Neil before reading this, I'm practically deifying him now

 

[Voley]

Yay!

 

[sojourner]

Yay!

Same thing happened as when I first read a book about Janis Joplin though...criticisms of his voice, which I've never thought of as being odd in any way at all

 

[ChrisC]

Broken Angels by Richard Morgan

 

[Pieface]

Muriel Spark - A Far Cry from Kensington.

I'm really not sure if she's my cup of tea tbh. I remember being really ambivalent about the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie but she makes me laugh every now and then and writes very elegantly. I wish I could come up with those sentences in everyday life.

This is really very good now. I am so lazy sometimes and found the set up and pre amble to the plot and characters rather tiresome. Now it's getting very funny - our heroine has just called someone a "pissoire de copie" and she's lost her job

 

[sojourner]

Woop, got a cracking haul of books from the YM this affy:

Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Shadow of the Wind
Andrea Levy - Small Island
Hillary Jordan - Mudbound
Gert Ledig - The Stalin Organ
Alan Parker - The Sucker's Kiss

all for the grand total of £4.94!

 

[Dillinger4]

I got some new books today. I got

On Photography by Susan Sontag
The Blindfold by Siri Hustvedt
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin