*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[sojourner]

i read it all in one night on a teenage speed binge. And then in the morning went downstairs and found my mother on the floor covered in vomit with the phone in one hand and a bottle of pills in the other hand. I got her the urgent help she needed, but often wonder if i should have just kept fucking walking

Oh

I can kind of see why you quite like Sylvia then. In an odd sort of way

 

[Orang Utan]

why don't you like her soj?

 

[sojourner]

why don't you like her soj?

already said

I haven't read everything of hers, as evidenced on this thread

 

[Orang Utan]

you didn't really say. you just said she annoyed you and she raised your hackles and she should cheer up the miserable bitch. which isn't really fair cos the bell jar is about manic depression.

 

[big eejit]

Just finished Felicia's Journey by William Trevor. V good.

 

[sojourner]

you didn't really say. you just said she annoyed you and she raised your hackles and she should cheer up the miserable bitch. which isn't really fair cos the bell jar is about manic depression.

Okay. The way she is is a behaviour that I struggle with, due to similarities with my mother. I was being flippant. But it does raise my hackles - it's an automatic response.

 

[Orang Utan]

OK, but everything she does in that is classic bipolar behaviour. i think it's a brave, honest, admirable book.

 

[sojourner]

OK, but everything she does in that is classic bipolar behaviour. i think it's a brave, honest, admirable book.

I'm shit at dealing with any kind of depressive behaviour - literary or not. I feel a bit exposed saying that - it's not something I'm proud of, but can't seem to get rid of.

Blimey.

Back to books!

 

[Roadkill]

Robert Allen - The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective. Not as dry as it sounds, thoroughly researched and very well written: I'm enjoying it.

Daphne Glazer - By the Tide of the Humber.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

"The Player of Games" - Iain M. Banks. Am enjoying it. A lot.

 

[Dirty Martini]

Finished The Fortress of Solitude.

I liked it, despite it being a bit daft in parts. He's not a great stylist -- but is very watchful, tendency to overwrite I guess. Motherless Brooklyn is still the best of his I've read.

 

[Fictionist]

Just finished re-reading Roth's 'The Plot Against America'. Undoubtedly one of the most tedious books I have ever read.

 

[MightyAphrodite]

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 - Hunter S. Thompson

(I read these things over and over, I always have 4 or 5 books going at once, grrr...)

 

[llion]

Murry Bookchin - The Philosophy of Social Ecology - finding this a very, very difficult read but enjoying what sense i can make of it! Its taken me about three months to read the first fifty pages.
Found a copy of Richard Price's Freedomland in Oxfam the other day so I might start that next. Interesting that his books have been re-released probably as a result of the all the attention The Wire has had recently.

 

[maya]

"The Player of Games" - Iain M. Banks. Am enjoying it. A lot.

When you've finished it, tell us what you think about the ending!

PoG is my feavourite in the series actually... That, and Use Of Weapons.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 - Hunter S. Thompson

(I read these things over and over, I always have 4 or 5 books going at once, grrr...)

yes but books like that do merit repeated and random readings don't they

 

[ringo]

Stickleback - John McCabe. No great literary work but reasonably entertaining.

 

[Orang Utan]

the discovery of france - graham robb
anecdote-packed book about the tribes of france and their weird ways.
i wanna go to france on my holidays again

 

[Rollem]

the bolter - frances osborne

 

[moonsi til]

Just started Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts.

So far really enjoying it in a can't wait to go to bed and read way. I have also been to India a few times and loved it as much as he seems to.

 

[Fictionist]

I read 'Wide Sargasso Sea' by Jean Rhys over the weekend, which I found hugely entertaining. The only problem is I will now have to read Bronte's 'Jane Eyre'....

 

[Orang Utan]

don't worry, it's brilliant

 

[belboid]

Finished John Niven's Kill Your Friends - an indie rock version of American Psycho. But nothing like as good.

And started on Q again, fuck knows why I didnt finish it last time, what a cracker. Got fifty pages further so far...

 

[Dillinger4]

I read 'Wide Sargasso Sea' by Jean Rhys over the weekend, which I would found hugely entertaining. The only problem is I will now have to read Bronte's 'Jane Eyre'....

And



I am finishing reading Home by Marilynne Robinson.

After that, I might finish reading The Right Hand of Sleep by John Wray. But I probably wont.

I have just ordered a few new books:

The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence by Andrew Juniper
The Tao Te Ching
(those three are all connected in my mind in a way that I cant really explain here)

And a few books by Italo Calvino that I have had recommended to me by a few different people. One of them is Invisible Cities.

Whilst I am talking about the things I have bought, I have also bought a new watch. It is white.

 

[DotCommunist]

I've given up my re-read of Toll the Hounds and am having another go at my 60's primer on middle english.

once again it has my brain hurtng by page two. What sort of primer supposes that the reader would know loads of relevant stuff

 

[Upchuck]

I'm reading Kafka's The Trial

 

[MightyAphrodite]

yes but books like that do merit repeated and random readings don't they

Yes they do.

I'm packing right now & have a bag separate from my clothes etc for HST books & such, I will never tire of reading this stuff.

 

[MightyAphrodite]

I am also going to be devouring some of frogwoman' s superb writing while I'm in the air.

 

[Dillinger4]

I'm reading Kafka's The Trial

 

[Fictionist]

Just started 'Antigone' by Jean Anouilh.