*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[Cheesypoof]

James Joyce biography by Richard Ellman. Its 950 pages long.

 

[Geri]

I'm just re-reading Joan Baez's autobiography, And a Voice to Sing With.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Philip K Dick- Ubik. A bit like Ben Elton if Ben Elton could write.

 

[El Jefe]

finished Millenium People, which was a laugh.

Now reading Geoff Dyer's Paris Trance - I've always liked his essays so wanted to see what his fiction is like. Not bad so far, but hasn't really grabbed me

Paris Trance was OK, but didn't really go anywhere.

So now I'm reading For Whom The Bell Tolls, which I was shocked to realise I hadn't already read

 

[DotCommunist]

Jeebus i am dense.........it wasn't where i thought it was........

pwned. its just behind kingsthorp high street

 

[Roadkill]

Still reading my way through Frances Pryor. I'm onto Britain AD now and thoroughly enjoying it.

I've also made a start on Glyn Williams's The Death of Captain Cook, which I bought after being rather impressed with his lecture on the subject last week.

 

[Fictionist]

James Joyce biography by Richard Ellman. Its 950 pages long.

Wow. 950 pages. Amazing. You must be really, really, really clever to read such a big book!

 

[Dirty Martini]

Kind of reading Mortal Engines by Stanislaw Lem, which is like his Cyberiad but with all the jokes taken out

 

[vauxhallmum]

I've had a real obsession with sea voyage stories recently. I loved This Thing of Darkness and The Secret River and The Floating Brothel so I thought I would go back to the real thing and try The Sea Wolf. I've had to abandon it, I just can't get on with the fussy, annoying narrator.
*Sigh* need to find a new book....

 

[Dirty Martini]

I've had a real obsession with sea voyage stories recently. I loved This Thing of Darkness and The Secret River and The Floating Brothel so I thought I would go back to the real thing and try The Sea Wolf. I've had to abandon it, I just can't get on with the fussy, annoying narrator.
*Sigh* need to find a new book....

Rites of Passage by William Golding is a great sea story...

 

[ericjarvis]

Richard Morgan, Broken Angels.

Just finished that. Excellent.

Currently on In The Teeth Of The Evidence, a collection of Dorothy L Sayers short stories.

 

[sojourner]

Ok jefe, you win

Kavalier and Clay IS fantastic I think I just needed to sit down for hours at a time to do it proper justice. Have just started Radioman chapter, but put it down due to sleepy eyes, and having just opened a bottle of wine.

 

[phildwyer]

James Joyce biography by Richard Ellman. Its 950 pages long.

That's a seriously great book. His bios of Yeats and Wilde are even better.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

Just finished Double Vision by pat Barker hich is going in my favourite ooks of all time pile. She is fast becming one of my faourite authors.
Next I will finish Severed Head which is languishing in my handbag.
I have a few things lined up after that but I'm feeling quite distracted. I will read some poetry or finish a few short psychology type things I started months ago...
Have a book of short stories by Doris Lessing in the pending pile, will get round to that shortly.

 

[tufty79]

the sovereignty of good by iris murdoch
big women by fay weldon

 

[big eejit]

Just finished The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. What a powerful read that is. Brilliant stuff. I decided I wouldn't read any more of her stuff after not getting on with The Blind Assassin, but this is much better. IMO.

Currently really enjoying The Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas.

 

[foamy]

just read 'When will there be good news' by Kate Atkinson, it was engrossing but rather fantastical.

Just about to start Jo Brand's 'It's different for girls'.

doing my homework as I'm going to see them both at Hay festival at the weekend.

 

[Greebo]

Olaf Baale's "Aubbau Ost" (about what happened to the GDR's economy after the borders opened, and why it didn't work as well as hoped), and the German translation of Terry Pratchett's "Interesting Times".

It helps get my passive memory of German more active, and the non fiction helps me sleep.

 

[starfish]

A Question of Blood by Ian Rankin. Part of his Rebus series. Only got Fleshmarket Close left to read & ill have read them all.

 

[Pieface]

The Princess Bride.

LOLZERS!

 

[mrkikiet]

A Question of Blood by Ian Rankin. Part of his Rebus series. Only got Fleshmarket Close left to read & ill have read them all.

these are the best. but make sure you read them in order

 

[El Jefe]

The Princess Bride.

LOLZERS!

SOOOO much better than the movie

 

[goldenecitrone]

A Question of Blood by Ian Rankin. Part of his Rebus series. Only got Fleshmarket Close left to read & ill have read them all.

I'm on Set in Darkness, then just the last four in order. Addictive stuff.

 

[Sweet FA]

The Princess Bride.

LOLZERS!

I had a passage from that read out at my wedding (Not the 'Prepare to die!' bit obv).

 

[Vintage Paw]

I'm reading Netherland atm. It's so-so.

 

[obanite]

Finally finished the Iliad - really enjoyed it, found it very readable, definitely going to give the Odyssey a go sometime Onto Bones of the Hills by Iggulden (third book about Ghengis Khan's shizzle), more blood and violence. Still haven't finished Gravity's Rainbow

 

[starfish]

these are the best. but make sure you read them in order

Made the mistake of reading Naming the Dead then Exit Music first. Read the rest in order though.

I read his first post Rebus book 'Open Doors' recently. Unfortunately didnt think much of it. Nowhere near as good as the Rebus series.

 

[llion]

Patrick White - Voss. Really enjoying this so far. Reminds me of a Werner Herzog film in a way as its about a slightly crazy/eccentric German on an epic quest across Australia in the 1840s.

Re Geoff Dyer's novels, 'The Colour of Memory' is a very good one, set in Brixton in the eighties, so quite different to Paris Trance, and better from what I remember.

 

[rollinder]

finished Little Women
currently dipping into the New Internationlist's No Nonsense Guide To Fair Trade - got from the library because of the thread
- also have The Good Life:Guide to ethical living & the creative guide to digital scrapbooking, waiting to be read (got at the same time and will need to renew)

 

[mrkikiet]

I read his first post Rebus book 'Open Doors' recently. Unfortunately didnt think much of it. Nowhere near as good as the Rebus series.

I agree. i thought it was weak and the parts where he changes his mind about what is happening were more obvious in i than in Rebus. ah well.