*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[purves grundy]

Finally got around to reading Edward Said's Orientalism. V good indeed.

 

[quimcunx]

Israeli Apartheid - Ben White.

A slim book. Just an introduction but seems concise and elegant and a good place to start if you want to know about this thorny issue.

 

[sojourner]

Picked up and read Carol Ann Duffy - The World's Wife last night. Been on my shelf for aaaages. I really liked it

 

[Pickman's model]

Israeli Apartheid - Ben White.

A slim book. Just an introduction but seems concise and elegant and a good place to start if you want to know about this thorny issue.

you might try finkelstein's 'beyond chutzpah' too. although it's not that slim.

 

[llion]

A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz - best first novel I've read for a long time. Very exuberantly and colourfully written family epic, bit like an Australian Ken Kesey.

 

[Philip Pomper]

Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire by Marlene Laruelle.

 

[yield]

Perry Anderson's 'Imagined Communites'. One of those big uns I'd never got around to reading. Origins of nationalism and all that. If not always convincing, it's beautifully written.

Finally got around to reading Edward Said's Orientalism. V good indeed.

The two most enjoyable books off my old social anthropology reading list.

Is that what you're studying purves grundy?

...

I've read very little lately. Completely given up hope of finishing Hegel By Charles Taylor. Reread Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson, some great imaginative fantasy... that's about it.

 

[Zeppo]

The Plague Albert Camus.

 

[jeff_leigh]

Just started The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M Auel

 

[cascader]

I've just finished The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson, which was wonderful, and The Queen and I by Sue Townsend, which was fun. I've just started The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney, which is nicely written but not terribly gripping so far. I'll give it a few more chapters, though.

This is the most I've read since my sons were born. It's quite refreshing.

 

[El Jefe]

finished Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris, which was ace, now started The City & The City by Mieville

 

[Fictionist]

Finished 'Jane Eyre', and what a fantastic read it was too. Imperialism, racism, sex, feminism, religion, and very well written. Next it may well be 'Madame Bovary'.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

"How to Lie with Statistics" by Darrell Huff. I read the original 1954 edition ages ago, but I've just bought the updated paperback and I'm reading it to Blind Lemon. Great little book.

 

[rubbershoes]

Just finished 1066 The Year of the Conquest by David Howarth.

Told me a lot i didn't know about who did what, why, when and where.

Just started the Book Thief

 

[tar1984]

I Just finished reading Complicity by Iain Banks last night. It was ace, i read it in 2 days.

 

[Corax]

I've just finished the Dragonriders of Pern series after DotCom was good enough to lend them to me. They were just as good as he said they'd be too.

 

[mentalchik]

I've just finished the Dragonriders of Pern series after DotCom was good enough to lend them to me. They were just as good as he said they'd be too.

(i have all of them by the way)

I have Absolution Gap and Diamond Dogs,Turquoise Days - Alistair Reynolds
Prador Moon - Neal Asher.........


all in hard back for the pricely sum of £2 each courtesy of a discount book shop !


dunno where to start actually...

 

[Pie 1]

Just finished Netherland by Joseph O'Neil.

Melancholic, post 911 NYC set, relationships & questions of home, with cricket thrown into the centre of the mix.

Very well written & a good read but tbh, not all that memorable.
Richard Ford it 'aint

 

[ericjarvis]

Richard Morgan - Market Forces

An utterly brilliant and enormously ugly book.

 

[Corax]

Jonathon Strange & Mr Norrell. Bought it ages ago as part of Waterstones rolling 3 for 2 deal, but didn't get into it the first time around. Enjoying it this time. It's no work of great literature, but it's an entertaining piece of escapism.

 

[ChrisC]

Flight of the Nighthawks by Raymond E. Feist.

 

[ChrisC]

Into a Dark Realm by Raymond E. Feist can't get enough of this guy.

 

[ChrisC]

I Just finished reading Complicity by Iain Banks last night. It was ace, i read it in 2 days.

Arhh yes one of my favourite Iain Banks books.

 

[mentalchik]

(i have all of them by the way)

I have Absolution Gap and Diamond Dogs,Turquoise Days - Alistair Reynolds
Prador Moon - Neal Asher.........


all in hard back for the pricely sum of £2 each courtesy of a discount book shop !


dunno where to start actually...

Have started with Absolution Gap..........bit odd as i haven't read many others, have Revelation Space but read it a long time ago........still, enjoying it so far !

 

[Gym Beam]

Into a Dark Realm by Raymond E. Feist can't get enough of this guy.

Just finished part 2 of the Talon of Silverhawk trilogy - really enjoyed the 1st two and looking forward to starting the last instalment.

 

[DotCommunist]

Have started with Absolution Gap..........bit odd as i haven't read many others, have Revelation Space but read it a long time ago........still, enjoying it so far !

you really should read Redemption Arch and Chasm City first. It's sequential.

Still, I'm sure you'll enjoy.


I have dug out a George R R Martin book. Song of ice and fire book 2. I'm going to read that.

 

[mentalchik]

you really should read Redemption Arch and Chasm City first. It's sequential.

Still, I'm sure you'll enjoy.

I know but these were so cheap.........am enjoying it anyhoo and kinda like reading it out of sequence coz usually am anal about reading things in order !

 

[QueenOfGoths]

After a non-reading week last week I am getting back into Alastair Reynolds' "The Prefect" - and jolly good it is to.

 

[RubyBlue]

Karin Slaughter - Genesis

 

[ChrisC]

Just finished part 2 of the Talon of Silverhawk trilogy - really enjoyed the 1st two and looking forward to starting the last instalment.

Have you read everything before it? I'd recommend Magician probably the best Fantasy book out there.