*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[sojourner]

Yeah, it's still interesting I agree. But I'm only really reading it as i've run out of anything else to read :/

one should NEVER allow that to happen!! that's only ever happened to me once, but I did end up reading the daughter's copies of the Pullman trilogy, so it could have been worse

I make sure I've always got at least 3 or 4 books lined up, but it's usually a lot more than that

 

[_pH_]

I know. The world's a terrible place

 

[Roadkill]

Frances Pryor - Britain BC

Seeing him on Time Team recently reminded me how much I enjoyed Britain in the Middle Ages, so I've bought copies of his previous two books - Britain BC and Britain AD - and I'm planning to read straight through all three of them.

 

[mentalchik]

The Summer Queen - Joan D Vinge !

 

[_pH_]

Frances Pryor - Britain BC

Seeing him on Time Team recently reminded me how much I enjoyed Britain in the Middle Ages, so I've bought copies of his previous two books - Britain BC and Britain AD - and I'm planning to read straight through all three of them.

ooh ooh! can i borrow them when you're done? pls!!

 

[fractionMan]

just finished House of Suns - alistair reynolds

now reading some weird book about a zombie who's fucking some kind of mutant rat girl.

 

[dylans]

Bill Bryson. A Short Hstory Of Everything.

I am loving it. It's a really accessible rough guide to science, life the universe and everything

All the really really small stuff, protons etc to really really big, supernovas and big bangs. I'm not a science head at all, i'm more an artistic type but this is written really well and it flows like a novel.

Great personalities and fabulous stories pepper his beautifully clear and understandable tour guide to the wonderful thing that is the universe.He really makes you realise how utterly stupendously mindbendingly awesome the universe is. And how completely unlikely and very very precious everything is.
At times it takes your breath away.

How about this one
"A proton is an infinitesimal part of an atom, which is itself of course an an insubstantial thing. Protons are so small that a little dib of ink like the dot on this "i" can hold 500,000,000,000 of them, or rather more than the number of seconds it takes to make half a million years. So protons are exceedingly microscopic to say the very least."

lovely stuff.

 

[5t3IIa]

I'm reading Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cyberpunk-O...8539820?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242136221&sr=8-3 but the 1991 version. Got to 100+ pages before it mentioned the word 'internet' and says 'In 1980 there were a few BBS, by 1991 there are hundreds'. It's interesting stuff - do you know you could download Moby Dick in three minutes?

 

[Roadkill]

Bill Bryson. A Short Hstory Of Everything.

I am loving it. It's a really accessible rough guide to science, life the universe and everything

I really enjoyed the first few chapters of that and then got distracted and never went back to it. I really must read it again, because what I did read of it, and what everyone else says of it, suggests I'm missing out if I don't...

 

[Urbanblues]

'The Outsider' Albert Camus.

 

[cesare]

That Ben Goldacre 'Bad Science'. Struggling to get into it tbh.

 

[Urbanblues]

That Ben Goldacre 'Bad Science'. Struggling to get into it tbh.

I'm going to read 'The Plague' next; followed by 'Maggie Cassidy' by Jack Kerouac; I'm also reading a 'Beat Poets' book at the moment; and, I'm listening to 'Highway 61 Revisited' as I write this.

 

[cesare]

I'm going to read 'The Plague' next; followed by 'Maggie Cassidy' by Jack Kerouac; I'm also reading a 'Beat Poets' book at the moment; and, I'm listening to 'Highway 61 Revisited' as I write this.

I'm partway into Calvino's Italian Folktales, Miéville's Iron Council, The Pendle Witch-Trial, and Leon's Through A Glass, Darkly. Oh, and the Gnostic Gospels. I've also got a stack that I haven't even started. I think this stress thing has shortened my already short attention span.

 

[wanizame]

By Grand Central Station I Lay & Down & Wept-Elizabeth Smart
The Book of Words - Jenny Erpenbeck
Journalists Under Fire-Frank Webster
Europe in the Global Age - Anthony Giddens

But, read...The Solitude of Thomas Cave, Alias Grace, The Poisonwood Bible, The Spire, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Book Thief, I'll stop now...

 

[El Jefe]

Finished Ballard's Cocaine Nights last night and went straight into Super-Cannes.

 

[sojourner]

Finished Ballard's Cocaine Nights last night and went straight into Super-Cannes.

Agree with you re the ending of Lonesome Dove btw. Stupid blunt way to end a brilliant epic

 

[El Jefe]

Agree with you re the ending of Lonesome Dove btw. Stupid blunt way to end a brilliant epic

yeh, it totally threw me. I mean, maybe it's right that it wasn't climactic as such, but this was all wrong.

 

[Vintage Paw]

I'm still reading Invisible Man, which is excellent, but next week I'll be re-reading the awesomeness that is Erasure by Percival Everett.

 

[Pieface]

I'm reading the Scar by China Mieville and then I'm going to seriously move onto something else.

My mate interviewed him last week and said he was basically my perfect man

 

[El Jefe]

 

[DotCommunist]

He'd be easy to take out in a ruck Jefe, just rip out his mass of earings.

 

[Pieface]

He likes binary opposites DC - he kept making her pick between things like white wine and red - and sometimes there are three-ways (very rarely mind) so he asked her to choose between the Lion, the Scarecrow and the Tin Man.



And he reckons he tries to keep his politics OUT of his books!! Although I think we all know that went to pot in the Iron Council.

 

[Dirty Martini]

Chekhov is doing nothing for me at all.

 

[DotCommunist]

He likes binary opposites DC - he kept making her pick between things like white wine and red - and sometimes there are three-ways (very rarely mind) so he asked her to choose between the Lion, the Scarecrow and the Tin Man.



And he reckons he tries to keep his politics OUT of his books!! Although I think we all know that went to pot in the Iron Council.

LOL

in Un Lun Dun he slips in loads of sly politics at kid-comprehension level.

 

[Dirty Martini]

Super-Cannes.

How you getting on with that? I didn't like it at all, thought it was all a bit hackneyed and automatic.

 

[sojourner]

I'm back on the Sexual Education of Edith Wharton. I paid £2.50 for it so am damn well going to get my money's worth.

 

[Rollem]

having perservered with Revolutionary Road, i have about 8 more pages to go, and whilst i have not exactly enoyed it, i am glad i kept going.

am planing to start on either Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, which a friend has recommended, or The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, by Robert Tressell, which i have been meaning to read for years and always forgotten about!

am thining i need a thin book so likely to be Achebe's offering....

 

[Biddlybee]

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, by Robert Tressell, which i have been meaning to read for years and always forgotten about!

That's on my (borrowed) shelf waiting to be read... heard it's quite hard going.

Just started High Rise by JG Ballard - should be a quick read.

 

[Fictionist]

Having a brief sojourn away from Proust to dip in to 'Selected Poems' by Walcott.

 

[story]

Apparently, sales of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists have increased since the recession started....

I read it years ago, when I was a painter and decorator. Not hard going really imo, but long and old fashioned. Quite a lot fo painter-and-decorator details about linseed oil and so forth, which I found fascinating at the time


Am currently reading Who Moved The Stone? by Frank Morison