*What book are you reading ?

[Wide Eyed Angel]

by the light of my father's smile - alice walker

 

[astral]

I'm not surprised.
I prefer to refer to it as:
The Unbearable Wankness of Being Milan Kundera

Finally finished it not a book to try and read while stoned

moved on to The Motorcycle Diaries.

 

[Epicurus]

I’m reading a book I found in a 2nd hand book shop, it is called “English Social History” written by G. M. Trevelyan published 1946.

Being Brazilian I am finding it very funny but I’m sure it isn’t meant to be

 

[jugularvein]

i'm reading 'Introduction to Management' by Richard Pettinger.

previous book was 'No Logo' by Naomi Klein.

mmmmmm.

 

[Isambard]

Just re-reading for the umpteenth time

The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek.

READ THIS BOOK!

"his message was tha war is not just merely cruel, unjust and obscene but ludicrous" - Saunday Times.

From a central European history point of view very interesting and in places almost slapstick!

 

[Reg Perrin]

I've just read "The Curious incident of the Dog and the Fork" and "A year in the Merde" I recommend them both!! I'm forced on principle not to read "The Da Vinci Code" as just too many people were reading it whilst I was on holiday.

 

[cyberfairy]

'going gently' by david nobbs (writer of reginald perrin books) made me cry and laugh. wonderful book-ooh just seen above poster..spooky

 

[Echo Beach]

Hey I've read Going Gently too. V good (I can't remember who the murderer was tho!).

I've just done Peter Taaffe's 'A Socialist World is Possible' - his history of the CWI. Unintentionally hilarious in places. I'm also ploughing through the book he wrote with Tony Mulhearn, 'Liverpool - a City that Dared to Fight'. I was expecting a load of self serving rubbish but actually it's quite good.

 

[sparkling]

Recently finished 'we need to talk about Kevin' which was compelling whilst being very disturbing.

Now happily reading 'birds without wings'

 

[j6ango1977]

Reading 'Motley Crue - The Dirt'. Absolutely awsome read

 

[Ryazan]

About to begin my new copy of Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw. Haven't read it in ages.

 

[Boogie Boy]

Still reading 'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand, managed to get to page 815, and I should hopefully get it finished tonight.

Never again! Ever.

BB

 

[gonetoosoon]

emile zola

germinal, slow start, but in english which helps.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

and

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I normally have my nose in a textbook, but I've just started reading Ahpra Behn's 'Love-letters Between A Nobleman And His Sister'. I'm taking it to France with me for holiday reading.

 

[Velouria]

Reading 'The Cuckoo's Egg' by Clifford Stoll which is an excellent (and a bit technical tho he glosses over a lot ) account of his year-long chase after a German hacker. Good book

I did just finish Iain M Banks' 'The Algebraist', which was quite a good book

Post number 1,999

 

[jrj2020]

im reading 'The Monstrous Regiment' by Terry Pratchett for the fourth time. Its truly excellent (as are all Pratchetts!)

 

[IntoStella]

I just read a couple of small anthologies in the wonderful Penguin 70s series -- 9th and 13th by Jonathan Coe and Noise by Hari Kunzru, who I had not read before. Very interesting. In fact, one of the stories gave me a really terrible nightmare last night.

There are loads more of this series that I want and at £1.50 a pop they're worth picking up by the armful.

 

[haggy]

just finished re-reading de lillo's 'white noise', and confirmed for myself that it is his best; and moreover has something over jon franzen

also dipped into le fanu's 'in a glass darkly', mainly for 'camilla', but i think i'll spend a bit of time on the other pieces, too

and also re-reading patrick wright's 'journey thru ruins', which is a must if you live in hackney

 

[rubbershoes]

Just finished Dog Soldiers by someone who's name escapes me. I picked it up thinking it was something else ( I never read the blurb on the back).

It was a rather poorly written tale of amateur drug smuggling in the Vietnam war. The only reason i stuck with it was its anachronism. It's partly the 60s american counterculture slang and characters (groovy freaks), partly the attitudes.

4/10

 

[Combustible]

Waiting desperately for 'A Feast For Crows' which is the fourth book in the amazing 'A Song of Fire and Ice'

In the mean time I'm reading Foundation by Asimov which is interesting but a little dry and Homage to Catalonia. I don't think many can beat Orwell for sheer clarity of writing.

 

[Valve]

just finished burrough's 'junky',
working through hilary kornblith's anothology "naturalised epistemology",

was considering some of will self's books- any reccomendations?

 

[Orang Utan]

The only thoroughly enjoyable one is Great Apes.

 

[Ryazan]

Waiting desperately for 'A Feast For Crows' which is the fourth book in the amazing 'A Song of Fire and Ice'

In the mean time I'm reading Foundation by Asimov which is interesting but a little dry and Homage to Catalonia. I don't think many can beat Orwell for sheer clarity of writing.

I can think of a one.....

 

[maya]

I just read a couple of small anthologies in the wonderful Penguin 70s series -- 9th and 13th by Jonathan Coe and Noise by Hari Kunzru, who I had not read before. Very interesting. In fact, one of the stories gave me a really terrible nightmare last night.

There are loads more of this series that I want and at £1.50 a pop they're worth picking up by the armful.

oooh, i want those ones aswell!
...time for some jet-set book shopping soon, methinks...
(i can't get hold of any decent books in this fucking country- grr )

 

[Ryazan]

Christmas at Stalingrad is good, as is The Trial of Lady Chatterley great books from that series.

 

[Derian]

And "Where I was" James Kelman. Great series, those Pocket Penguins

 

[spartacus mills]

Finished 'Hawksmoor' by Peter Ackroyd last night. Just started on Iain Sinclair's 'Down River'.

 

[Dead Cat Bounce]

Just about to finish A Mad World , My Masters by John Simpson. A book which had me crying with laughter and crying with tears the next chapter.

A friend has just given me The Russians In Israel , The Ordeal Of Freedom (Naomi Shephred) which they recomended.

 

[Ryazan]

Now that Pygmalion is over with I am about to begin the autobiography of Diana Mosley- A life of Contrasts. Having read also her sister Jessica's memoirs- Hons and Rebels, I am sure this book too will confirm my classism rather than contradicting it.