*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[El Jefe]

Currently reading Jonathan Coe's Closed Circle, which is pretty poor really.
In the last fortnight have also read

Love In The Time of Cholera - Marquez
The Demon - Hubert Selby Jr
Exotica - David Toop
Bash The Rich - Ian Bone
Collected Short Stories - Ian Bone
Five Miles From Outer Hope - Nicola Barker

 

[tendril]

Currently...

Look back in hunger - Jo Brand

 

[El Jefe]

finished The Closed Circle. Really quite rubbish - "oh look how our lives are still interacting, but now we have Blair's Britain as a backdrop! Golly - is that a demo?"

meh

 

[vauxhallmum]

Hmm, started The End of Mr Y.

I have a feeling I won't be reaching the end. I'm losing it already.

 

[Fictionist]

finished The Closed Circle. Really quite rubbish - "oh look how our lives are still interacting, but now we have Blair's Britain as a backdrop! Golly - is that a demo?"

meh

Did you finish 54?

 

[Blagsta]

David Harvey - The Limits to Capital

 

[sojourner]

Am halfway through The Inheritors, by William Golding

It's okay...I can see what he's doing with the text, the difference and primal feel to it, but he can't half fucking waffle. Yes, the pond weeds, the weeds, they're trailing, got it

 

[Cheesypoof]

right ho jeeves, pg wodehouse which is genius

and the true believer by eric hoffer. its philosophy and a follow up to his aphorisms one, which ididnt like

 

[Fictionist]

right ho jeeves, pg wodehouse which is genius

and the true believer by eric hoffer. its philosophy and a follow up to his aphorisms one, which ididnt like

What happened to 'Mein Kampf'?

 

[Vintage Paw]

Reading Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel. Liking it a lot so far.

 

[lanepe]

Reading Homicide: A year On The Killing Streets by David Simon, who wrote the HBO series The Wire.

It is aces.

 

[Orang Utan]

it sure is an impressive book. i'm reading the corner, which is by simon and ed burns and that is even more impressive than homicide. it's also rich with people and incidents that inspired many of the stories and characters in the wire.

 

[lanepe]

Cheers, I will check that out.

Loved The Wire, haven't got round to watching The Corner tv series that predated it.

 

[jeff_leigh]

Loved The Wire, haven't got round to watching The Corner tv series that predated it.

Didn't even know there was a Corner tv series.

 

[lanepe]

Didn't even know there was a Corner tv series.

Here you go.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corner

 

[madamv]

Currently I am reading 'A Special Relationship' by Douglas Kennedy.

Its quite harrowing and very clever of him to write from a female perspective on post natal depression.

 

[tastebud]

I'm now reading part two of the millenium series - 'The girl who played with fire'. which i swore i wouldn't do - go straight on to the second one, but they are so good and addictive and lighter than my usual readings, that i am happy i did.

 

[dynamicbaddog]

Cutter and Bone by Newton Thornburg - 1976 thriller novel about a Vietnam veteran who tries to convince his friend that he witnessed a murder.

 

[ChrisC]

Still the Mind by Alan Watts.

 

[vauxhallmum]

Hmm, started The End of Mr Y.

I have a feeling I won't be reaching the end. I'm losing it already.

Actually I take that back. It's so good I've been up all night reading.

 

[Blagsta]

it sure is an impressive book. i'm reading the corner, which is by simon and ed burns and that is even more impressive than homicide. it's also rich with people and incidents that inspired many of the stories and characters in the wire.

I've got that, haven't read it yet though.

 

[Mr Retro]

Just finished "The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest" which I really enjoyed. As I said before it could do with a right good edit not least the title which is shit.

Over here I think the Dutch title is "Men hate Women" but my Dutch is very bad so I'm not sure if thats totally correct

 

[belboid]

"The Air Castle that was blown up" according to wiki! with 'air castle' meaning pipe dream

'Girl with the dragon tattoo' is 'men who hate women'

 

[Mr Retro]

"The Air Castle that was blown up" according to wiki! with 'air castle' meaning pipe dream

'Girl with the dragon tattoo' is 'men who hate women'

Cheers. Thats a good name for one of the books. Given Men hating Women is the theme throughout the trilogy really.

 

[rubbershoes]

Just finished Agent Zigzag. Highly recommended yarn of espionage in WW2.

 

[sojourner]

Am halfway through The Inheritors, by William Golding

It's okay...I can see what he's doing with the text, the difference and primal feel to it, but he can't half fucking waffle. Yes, the pond weeds, the weeds, they're trailing, got it

Finished this last night, and it definitely improved over the second half, came together.

He tries to provide the missing link story basically, and it works quite well.

 

[Orang Utan]

jg ballard - complete short stories - wow, there are a lot of them!

 

[Obnoxiousness]

Necronomicon, The Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft.

Short horror stories, some of which are quite strange.

 

[goldenecitrone]

The Life of Kingsley Amis. Interesting fellow.

 

[llion]

Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose. I've avoided seeing the film over the years which makes it even more exciting to read!