*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[Mrs Magpie]

Cricket: A History by Rowland Bowen.

 

[Vintage Paw]

In my opinion, yes. Beautifully crafted prose with no attempt to show off is pretty much what I'd count as trademark Bradbury. Often mixed in with a sort of effortless "folkiness" that lets him treat quite abstract ideas very approachably. He's a better short story writer than a novelist though.

The only two of his I've particularly 'liked a lot' are Farenheit and Martian Chronicles. The others I've read haven't come close.

 

[ericjarvis]

Edmund Cooper - Seed Of Light. Just finished. It's very dated.

 

[_pH_]

Understanding Power by Chomsky, really informative stuff

 

[Looby]

I've just finished reading Let The Right One In and it was fantastic. Pretty harrowing and disturbing in places but so worth it imo. It took me a while to read it because Magic Sam has been away quite a bit and I wouldn't read it when I was in the house on my own.

I felt quite sad that it was over tbh, I want to know more.

The film captured the mood of the book and the relationship between Eli and Oskar brilliantly but as always the book was so much better.

 

[sojourner]

Started re-reading You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, by Alice Walker last night

 

[May Kasahara]

I'm reading Brazzaville Beach, by William Boyd, and it's as reliably excellent as everything else of his I've read.

 

[Lea]

Death Angel by Linda Howard

 

[Fictionist]

Ideology - Terry Eagleton

 

[Dillinger4]

Ideology - Terry Eagleton

 

[Voley]

To A God Unknown - John Steinbeck. Pretty good so far.

 

[Orang Utan]

I'm reading Brazzaville Beach, by William Boyd, and it's as reliably excellent as everything else of his I've read.

have you read the new confessions?

 

[sojourner]

Ideology - Terry Eagleton

His wife was one of my lecturers at uni

Right fucking nazi she was. If it weren't on her list, we weren't fucking talking about it. She completely dissed my reading of Villette as a lesbian text. I got a first though for the finished essay

 

[sojourner]

I started The Last of the Savages by Jay McInerney before. Am finding it clumsy, and quite boring.

 

[Orang Utan]

His wife was one of my lecturers at uni

Right fucking nazi she was. If it weren't on her list, we weren't fucking talking about it. She completely dissed my reading of Villette as a lesbian text. I got a first though for the finished essay

i thought she was a marxist? terry certainly is

 

[Pickman's model]

i thought she was a marxist? terry certainly is

you know what they say, opposites attract

 

[sojourner]

i thought she was a marxist? terry certainly is

 

[Zeppo]

I am reading 3 books which is unusual for me. The Plague by Albert Camus (but I got ill) now better and The White Tiger Aravind Adiga and A World without bees Alison Benjamin abd Brian McCallum.

The White Tiger is really good.

 

[rollinder]

The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher by Julian Baggini

not recommended for 'just dipping into one chapter before going off to bed' @ 5o'clock in the morning

Johnny Green & Garry Barker - A Riot Of Our Own : night and day with The Clash (revised/updated version)

 

[mentalchik]

Incandescence - Greg Egan

 

[Fictionist]

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

 

[ericjarvis]

The Futurological Congress - Stanislaw Lem

 

[DotCommunist]

Breaking the Magic Spell- Jack Zipes


It's a collection of critical essays looking at the fairytale. Good shit, albeit a bit germanic in focus and heavily marxist in approach. No bad thing, that.

 

[marty21]

Just finished

"The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" Stieg Larsson - fantastic book, one of the best thrillers I've read in years

Just Started

"The Girl Who Played With Fire" by the same author, I'm hoping it is as good as the other one

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

i finished 20,000 streets under the sky today, haunting elegiac writing, simply Wonderful

 

[sojourner]

Gave up on the McInerney book as it was a massive pile of toss.

Instead, am now reading the wonderful The Stalin Organ, by Gert Ledig. Jesus. Horrific in parts, and a must read for anyone who's ever wondered what it's like to take part in combat. Comparing this with Generation Kill, fuck all has changed within the hierarchy of combat commandment

Weird too, cos I didn't know that Harry Patch prog was on the telly last night until I was flicking through, and it kinda went hand in hand with the book

 

[Roadkill]

Wasting Police Time - PC David Copperfield. He comes across as a rather boorish and unpleasant individual but he does write well and some of what he has to say is thought-provoking.

 

[Dillinger4]

My copy of Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon should arrive today. I am mildly excited.

 

[Leica]

"The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" [...] "The Girl Who Played With Fire"

Lisbeth Salander is my hero.

 

[krtek a houby]

Re-reading

"Letters from Burma" by Aung San Suu Kyi.