*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[chooch]

The Crying of Lot 49.

It's a good one, though much hated

Witold Gombrowicz kosmos. Great so far.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Still going with Iain M. Bank's "Excession" - about 2/3 through buty I am finding it really tough going. Can't get interested in the characters or narrative...does it get better those in the know?

I will stick with it but I am finding it hard

 

[El Jefe]

finished Ronson's Them, which was quite interesting and quite fun. Now reading Vital Signs, an Ian Penman collection

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Still going with Iain M. Bank's "Excession" - about 2/3 through buty I am finding it really tough going. Can't get interested in the characters or narrative...does it get better those in the know?

I will stick with it but I am finding it hard

i must admit that my prefered strategy for dealing with them kind of books is to just stop reading and take the fucker down the charity shop tbh.

 

[rubbershoes]

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

the epitome of bleakness

but beautifully written

 

[big eejit]

I don't re-read books. Cos there are too many of them. But I might make an exception for The Road. Bloody marvellous.

 

[Fictionist]

I don't re-read books. Cos there are too many of them. But I might make an exception for The Road. Bloody marvellous.

To achieve wisdom and true understanding you must re-read.

 

[Fictionist]

I have finished Ilium. Not sure what to read next. Any ideas DC?!

 

[Orang Utan]

I have finished Ilium. Not sure what to read next. Any ideas DC?!

you could move in to the femur

 

[Fictionist]

you could move in to the femur

Nutter!

 

[Bakunin]

A Killing For The Hawks - Frederick E Smith.

A little lighter reading again, after the non-fiction historical 'swords and sandals' bloodbath that was Fik Meijer's 'Gladiators: The World's Most Deadly Sport.' Written by Frederick E Smith (writer of the famed '633 Squadron' among other works) this one's set in a British fighter squadron fighting over the Western Front in WW1 and is proving surprisingly enjoyable.

 

[El Jefe]

Wu Ming - 54

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

is that a book or your tea tonight?










*get's coat*

 

[Fictionist]

Wu Ming - 54

Good choice

 

[Bakunin]

Back to true crime again for me. I just started 'Mafia: The First 100 Years.'

Read this many times before, but it's always a enjoyable read ad commendably low on the shock factor that a lot of true crime writers seem to go for.

 

[Dirty Martini]

Norman Collins - London Belongs to Me. It ain't 'the capital's great vernacular novel'. It's passable, in the places where characters called Percy and Doris don't say things like 'Getcher there in a jiff'.

Yes Reading this at the moment. It's beginning to swing, a bit, but I'm failing not to attach Arthur and Pauline Fowler's faces to everyone in the book.

 

[Pieface]

have stalled on smartypants book

Bought Grazia yesterday

fail.

 

[Orang Utan]

what was your smartypants book?

 

[DotCommunist]

And why aren't you reading Cryptonomicon?

 

[Pieface]

I don't have that yet DC.

Smartypants book is If on a Winter's Night a Traveller. It's funny and all pomo and shit. My head's all scrambly right now - I can't do cleverclogs.

 

[Vider]

humbroldts gift, or whatever it's called, by saul bellow. good, as usual for bellow.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

I'm reading More Than It Hurts You. The set up was quite good but now it's meandering a bit too much. We'll see.

 

[sojourner]

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

Purely because a) the local charity shop had 4 of his books going for about 50p, and b) I've never actually read the book

 

[Fictionist]

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

Purely because a) the local charity shop had 4 of his books going for about 50p, and b) I've never actually read the book

I would be interested to know what you make of it.

I'm currently reading Robert Irwin's 'For the Lust of Knowing'. He really doesn't like Edward Said.

 

[sojourner]

I would be interested to know what you make of it.

I'm currently reading Robert Irwin's 'For the Lust of Knowing'. He really doesn't like Edward Said.

Well, I know all about it, I've just never actually read it. I like the writing, and I'm interested in the ideas behind it, although I don't think I actually agree with them. Depends on the circumstances I guess.

 

[Fictionist]

I thought I knew the book and the story but it wasn't quite what I expected. I hope you enjoy it.

 

[DotCommunist]

Did you finish illium or give up in disgust?

 

[Ms Scarlet]

I've been reading..' Sum;40 tales from the afterlife' ...really good!!!!

 

[jeff_leigh]

The Mammoth Hunters - Jean M Auel

 

[Fictionist]

Did you finish illium or give up in disgust?

If you had been paying attention you would have seen that I finished it! (just)