*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[El Jefe]

i can't be arsed with the Colin McInnes - i appreciate it's "a vivid insight into a changing London", or something, but meh

 

[obanite]

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!

Haha yeah I'm finding it heavy going. Some of the descriptive bits really wow me, and some bits really make me laugh, but it's just so stylised, and BIG!

The Illiad is fantastic - which translation did you buy?

Robert Fagles - looked at a few different translations in the bookshop and ended up picking one at random really...

 

[dooley]

tortilla flat (for the umpteenth time) and whipping girl by julia serrano

 

[RubyBlue]

Between Psychology text books I squeezed in James Patterson's latest novel - I miss reading crap at the moment - fed up of text books

 

[Artaxerxes]

The Punic Wars - Adrian Goldsworthy

 

[Kuso]

island of the sequined love nun - christopher moore

 

[Fictionist]

I'm going to be reading Solzhenitsyn's 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' and 'The Mabinogion' (translated by Sioned Davies).

 

[ViolentPanda]

Between Psychology text books I squeezed in James Patterson's latest novel - I miss reading crap at the moment - fed up of text books

I always try to work in one bit of "pulp fiction" to each couple of academic texts, just to stop myself going too insane.
Currently reading Mary Fulbrook's "The Two Germanies, 1945-1990: Problems of Interpretation" and Steve Turner's "The Man Called Cash".

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Penguin's small collected volume of Orwell's essays called Books versus Cigarettes
How could I not enjoy it? Great writing about my favourite things. A shame they couldn't throw in the one about the perfect pot of tea. It would be my idea of heaven then.

 

[DotCommunist]

Penguin's small collected volume of Orwell's essays called Books versus Cigarettes
How could I not enjoy it? Great writing about my favourite things. A shame they couldn't throw in the one about the perfect pot of tea. It would be my idea of heaven then.

I like Decline of the English Murder best

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I prefer Chandler's Simple Art of Murder to that DC

 

[ChrisC]

Legacy by Greg Bear

 

[Abcinthia]

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

 

[May Kasahara]

the brutal art by jesse kellerman

 

[jeff_leigh]

Movern Callar - Alan Warner

 

[Fictionist]

The Tempest - William Shakespeare

 

[Lazy Llama]

The Complete Ace Trucking Co. Volume 1 - Writers: John Wagner, Alan Grant - Artists: Ian Gibson, Massimo Belardinelli

 

[ivebeenhigh]

Irrationality - Stuart Sutherland

It's a rehash of a lot of things I already know, a god intro guide I suppose, but i don't think I will finish it,

 

[El Jefe]

Ursula LeGuin - The Dispossessed

 

[Orang Utan]

Ursula LeGuin - The Dispossessed

what's wrong with you? Read a proper book

 

[El Jefe]

why is that not a proper book?

 

[cliche guevara]

Douglas Coupland - Life After God

It's too short, I reckon I'm gonna finish it on my lunchbreak today.

 

[Orang Utan]

why is that not a proper book?

I was joking!

 

[sojourner]

Movern Callar - Alan Warner

What do you think of it? I really liked the book...didn't feel like the film worked tremendously well

 

[jeff_leigh]

What do you think of it? I really liked the book...didn't feel like the film worked tremendously well

I'm really enjoying it, I never managed to catch the film

 

[jayeola]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_in_Flight
James Blish. Sci-fi. So far so good.

 

[sojourner]

I'm really enjoying it, I never managed to catch the film

i wouldn't bother with the film then

 

[El Jefe]

I really liked the film.

Flawed, but really interesting.

 

[sojourner]

I really liked the film.

Flawed, but really interesting.

did you read the book first or after? or not at all?

 

[El Jefe]

not read it.