*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[live_jayeola]

Major piece of work! "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" great read by S Larrson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_with_the_Dragon_Tattoo

 

[Dirty Martini]

Finished Child of All Nations, which was great. A story of exiled Germans in 30s Europe through the eyes of a 9-year-old child.

Now something completely different: Jeeves In The Offing.

 

[Dirty Martini]

The Discovery of France by Graham Robb.

 

[ericjarvis]

Wuthering Heights.

I hadn't realised how far ahead of its time it was. Terrific.

 

[Orang Utan]

The Discovery of France by Graham Robb.

that's a great read!

 

[Fictionist]

I'm not reading at the moment. The mojo has gone.

 

[Signal 11]

I've just finished Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. Really enjoyed it and will definitely be reading the other two.

 

[Infidel Castro]

I'm reading The Damnation Game by the feller Clive Barker. First Barker book I've read and it's not a bad read. It's even got sex in it.

 

[DotCommunist]

I've just started The Prince by Machiavelli. See how far I get

 

[Fictionist]

I've just started The Prince by Machiavelli. See how far I get

I found it quite tedious, but I am glad that I read it. You might enjoy it.

 

[Zeppo]

The Road Cormac McCarthy just started looks good.

 

[Dirty Martini]

that's a great read!

Am enjoying it

 

[madamv]

Loads of books over the last couple of pages are great reads.

I have just finished 'The Woman in the Fifth' by Douglas Kennedy. Its my third of his on the trot so I feel a different read is needed.

Anyone read 'Morrissey and Marr' by Johnny Rogan? I was bought it when it came out but havent read it yet. It seems very detailed

 

[Dirty Martini]

Anyone read 'Morrissey and Marr' by Johnny Rogan? I was bought it when it came out but havent read it yet. It seems very detailed

I've read his biography of The Byrds. It is very detailed

 

[nicksonic]

'stone junction' by jim dodge was excellent. i'd love to describe it but i can't. 420 pages, read it in a week, check out the reviews on amazon.

next - 'skeleton crew' by stephen king.

 

[ericjarvis]

I've just finished Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. Really enjoyed it and will definitely be reading the other two.

Conincidentally I just ordered a copy of that. I read Green Mars a while back, and I've long meant to go back to the beginning and read them all in the right order.

 

[Voley]

Tom Wolfe - 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test'

Mixed feelings about it so far. Writing style's pretty dated and Kesey and the people it seeks to glorify sound like the sort of people that would piss me off hugely if I met them. Interesting document of the times, though. Probably hasn't aged that well, this one.

 

[madamv]

I've read his biography of The Byrds. It is very detailed

Hmm, I have just started it last night and it took half an hour to read the preface and forward Still, I hope I will get into it quickly and then I will grateful for the attention to detail.

 

[sojourner]

Elmore Leonard - The Hot Kid

Loving the dialogue, and the writing, although fairly simple, is massively effective

Must read some more of his stuff

 

[Bakunin]

Executioner: Chronicles Of A Victorian Hangman.

A biography of Victorian hangman James Berry, whose major claim to fame was, ironically enough, being the hangman at the failed execution of John 'Babbacombe' Lee who was known afterwards as 'the man they couldn't hang.'

 

[ericjarvis]

Brecht on Theatre.

 

[llion]

Still reading 'The Name of the Rose' and thoroughly enjoying it. How clever/erudite in Umberto Eco? Apparetnly Eco has a collection of 30,000 books in one house and 20,000 books in another house! Think he manages to reference a good few thousand of them in this one book.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

glad you're enjoying it, i think its a wonderful read.

 

[Orang Utan]

Still reading 'The Name of the Rose' and thoroughly enjoying it. How clever/erudite in Umberto Eco? Apparetnly Eco has a collection of 30,000 books in one house and 20,000 books in another house! Think he manages to reference a good few thousand of them in this one book.

you may find this of interest:
http://ruchir75.blogspot.com/2008/01/umberto-ecos-anti-library.html

 

[llion]

Thanks for the above link, it's a really interesting extract. Are Eco's other novels equally worth reading?

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

name of the rose is brilliant.

 

[Orang Utan]

fuck yes! foucault's pendulum is pure joy and the island of the day before is mesmerising. i haven't read his others. he's an author i feel i have to save up for.

 

[llion]

I think I might give Foucault's Pendulum a go after Name of the Rose. I wonder if Eco was friends with Foucault himself?

 

[Orang Utan]

not the foucault referenced in the title - i suppose he may have been acquainted with the latter foucault

 

[bi0boy]

Mieville's The Scar.

I'm liking it more than Perdido Street Station. So much so that I might go straight on to Iron Council rather than resume the abandoned Revelation Space (which I temporarily mislaid after page 29 )