*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[han]

Just finished Bad Science by Ben Goldacre - pretty fascinating stuff.

Oh and a Haruki Marukami book called 'What I talk about when I talk about running'. I really liked that book - it's basically all about what's in his head when he's running.....

 

[goldenecitrone]

Oh and a Haruki Marukami book called 'What I talk about when I talk about running'. I really liked that book - it's basically all about what's in his head when he's running.....

I love Murakami, great writer. I've just bought Elephant and other stories by Raymond Carver and the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. That's the rest of my weekend sorted.

 

[cybertect]

finished Iain M Banks' Matter cool earlier this week and started on No One Here Gets Out Alive, the Jim Morrison bio by Danny Sugerman & Jerry Hopkins.

Picked up a second hand copy for 50p a few weeks ago. It's been on my 'should read' list since I was about fifteen. I thought 27 years was long enough to wait.

Pure coincidence that BBC 4 decided to air the TV documentary last night.

 

[Dirty Martini]

Finished Cause for Alarm by Eric Ambler, which was fun. Now: The Acceptance World by Anthony Powell. I'm not sure about this Dance to the Music of Time cycle, but I keep reading it anyway.

 

[El Jefe]

Right, well I really couldn't be arsed with The Blind Assassin. (i'm getting much more comfortable with abandoning books these days, perhaps it's a feeling of mortality).

So now I'm reading Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun - twenty pages in and already feel like topping myself.

 

[Dirty Martini]

Right, well I really couldn't be arsed with The Blind Assassin. (i'm getting much more comfortable with abandoning books these days, perhaps it's a feeling of mortality).

So now I'm reading Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun - twenty pages in and already feel like topping myself.

Patience with books reduces with age.

Time to return to Patrick Hamilton!

 

[llion]

Babs 2 Brisbane by Barbara Haddrill - Inspirational travel book that describes the author's overland journey all the way from Machynlleth to Brisbane via lot of trains, buses and boats so that she can attend her friend's wedding! Her description of the journey on the Trans-Siberian Express from Moscow to Beijing is awe-inspiring.

 

[El Jefe]

Finished Johnny Got His Gun. Probably the most upsetting book I've ever read.

I REALLY need to read something vacuous now

 

[Dirty Martini]

Finished The Acceptance World, now re-reading Roth's The Radetsky March.

 

[Lea]

Still Lake by Anne Stuart.

 

[El Jefe]

i need something light after the Trumbo, so i've restarted the Waits biography

 

[Pieface]

I'm reading If On a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino.

Well he's a smartypants.

 

[El Jefe]

I'm reading If On a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino.

Well he's a smartypants.

 

[Fictionist]

I'm reading If On a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino.

Well he's a smartypants.

Such low standards....

 

[rollinder]

Maus by Art Spiegelman
Demo: The Collection by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan
and re-re-reading fragments of British Summertime by Paul Cornell

 

[Biscuit Tin]

The Wind - up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

 

[(empty)]

Laurie Lee - As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969)
Amazing book.

 

[silverfish]

Memoirs of an economic hit man, John Perkins

7 troop, Andy Mcknob

Histories, Herotodus

An eclectic selection, but I'm in Greenland and the obviously don't have enough trees to make books

 

[DotCommunist]

Good job you took the trusty Mcnab book with you then

 

[Drone Module]

the always fascinating

Clinical Nursing Procedures by The Marsden Hospital

 

[llion]

Alexander Baron - From the city, from the plough. Fantastic novel about the D-Day landings written in 1948 by an author who had witnessed the events as a solider. Quite a short novel, but he builds a really rich portrait of all the different characters in the battalion. Earthy, raw and unflinching.

 

[Shevek]

coin locker babies by Ryu Murakami. Have got stuck after about 150 pages. Boerd of it really.

but no spoilers please.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

The Wind - up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

wonderful book.

 

[starfish]

After years of badgering by ms starfish im finally reading The Collector by John Fowles.

 

[krtek a houby]

"The Tattoo" by Chris McKinney.

Prison drama about errant young Hawaiian.

 

[LindaR]

Second part of Michael Palin's diaries. One of the six books I got for my birthday. Three already read, Michael Moore's biography next.

 

[Biscuit Tin]

wonderful book.

I'm not quite half way through, it is a good read

 

[Pieface]

I loved that book Biscuit Tin but just finished Kafka on the Shore by him and hated it.

 

[Biscuit Tin]

I loved that book Biscuit Tin but just finished Kafka on the Shore by him and hated it.[/QU
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[Biscuit Tin]

I loved that book Biscuit Tin but just finished Kafka on the Shore by him and hated it.

I reserve judgement at this point........... really enjoying wind up bird. my first of his. How disappointing to avidly a book and then read another that just doesn't catch your attention