*What book are you reading ?

[IntoStella]

It made my eyes wet

You're some sort of cookery book pervert, aren't you, utan?

 

[Orang Utan]

It's not a cookery book - not even Nigel could make a whole recipe book about toast
His description of his mum's death made me have a bit of grit in my eyes.
You got the pervert bit right though

 

[Mooms]

Emily Maguire Taming the beast

 

[Sunray]

I am voicing a dissatisfaction with this thread. Its a random list of book titles.

I like the DVD thread because people express an opinion in that as they have finished watching the DVD

Shall we have a 'What book have you just finished' thread?

 

[Dubversion]

I am voicing a dissatisfaction with this thread. Its a random list of book titles.

that's not really true, though. lots of people on this thread offer their thoughts, enthusiasms and recommendations as they go along. others list the title. exactly like the DVD thread.

 

[IntoStella]

yr not meant to take the book orally, or things like that will happen.

I don't think he did take it orally -- that's why it made his eyes water.

I don't think people should feel obliged to post a critique, synopsis or anything else of what they are reading. I am interested in what people are reading even if they only put the title/author. Sometimes people are a bit shy to offer up their opinions, especially as newcomers to the thread or the site. Then someone else who has read the book might come along and start up a conversation about it. I think that's good. Unless it's about one of those midlife crisis blerk bozos.

 

[Dirty Martini]

Finished Last Exit To Brooklyn. Liked it.

Reading Invisible Man (Ellison). Liking it.

 

[IntoStella]

PS I am reading the new Terry Pratchett and I DON'T CARE!!! Laugh if you want.

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[Pickman's model]

Gustave Flaubert, Salammbo (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977)

Dorothy Macardle, The Irish Republic: A Documented Chronicle of the Anglo-Irish Conflict and the Partitioning of Ireland, with a Detailed Account of the Period 1916 - 1923 with a Preface by Eamon de Valera (London: Corgi, 1968)

 

[Pickman's model]

Francesco Maria Guazzo, Compendium Maleficarum (New York: Dover, 1998)

 

[Dirty Martini]

Are you reading all these cover to cover, Pickman's?

 

[IntoStella]

Are you reading all these cover to cover, Pickman's?

No, he just reads the titles.

In the bookshop.

That's how he can afford so many books.

 

[Pickman's model]

Are you reading all these cover to cover, Pickman's?

yes.

 

[Pickman's model]

No, he just reads the titles.

In the bookshop.

That's how he can afford so many books.

 

[DrRingDing]

 

[DrRingDing]

^^^^nice scarf

 

[IntoStella]

Nepal's Moist Rebellion??

 

[mrkikiet]

kerouac - on the road

 

[Ryazan]

 

[Sunray]

that's not really true, though. lots of people on this thread offer their thoughts, enthusiasms and recommendations as they go along. others list the title. exactly like the DVD thread.

No, the DVD thread they have completed the watching the DVD and most people give their opinion. Then other people give their opinions if they agree/disagree, (gran starting to suck eggs now?). Getting it all piece meal isn't very good from a discussion perspective. There have been many times I've read a decent book and thought I'd post a little review on here and after reading the all these book titles, I've not bothered. Don't think a book is ever worth a new thread.

Having waded through the last 10 pages of this thread, the most comment that a book gets, past its title, is a single word? Great, brilliant, good etc. Slightly ironic don't you think?

 

[Dubversion]

this is from the previous page:

finished (breathlessly) Toby Litt's excellent Corpsing (with one of the most utterly unsettling sex scenes ever <shudder> ) and now i'm throwing myself excitedly into Not Fade Away by Jim Dodge cos it was a birthday present (and everybody else seems to be reading it too )...

also dipping into a collection of Charlie Brooker's Screen Burn columns, which is cracking

so, not a 'one word' comment, and not 10 pages ago


edit: actually i only quoted mine because i knew it was there, but one the last page there are at least 10 more expansive comments on the books than just the one word you claim.

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Spanish Steps - Travels With My Donkey. Tim Moore.

Possibly the uncoolest title here but, bloody funny. Original, highly witty account of one man and his donkey's Santiago pilgrimage. Surprisingly touching. Bit more than just a travel book. Highly recommended.

Also, just read Gazza - My Story. Possibly the second uncoolest title on this thread. Surprisingly interesting and very honest. To honest perhaps?

With Nails - Richard E Grant autobiography. Possibly unfashionable enough to be uncool but, very funny.

I'm devouring books at a rate of three a week at the moment. No TV or, Internet at home. No TV for 9 months! It is very good for you. Until you run out of books and start trying to write. That's very bad.

 

[fanta]

This one:

The Likes of Us - A Biography of the White Working Class

 

[Divisive Cotton]

I've got a copy of this - boringly academic...

 

[IntoStella]

Spanish Steps - Travels With My Donkey. Tim Moore.

Possibly the uncoolest title here but, bloody funny. Original, highly witty account of one man and his donkey's Santiago pilgrimage. Surprisingly touching. Bit more than just a travel book. Highly recommended.

He is absolutely brilliant. I have read all his books. I highly recommend French Revolutions and Frost on my Moustache, but they are all very, very funny.

With Nails - Richard E Grant autobiography. Possibly unfashionable enough to be uncool but, very funny.

Gah. REG makes my toes curl. I was praying fervently that he would get eaten on Celebrity Shark Bait, but alas. If he had gone "WOW!" once more I would have taken a crowbar to the telly.

 

[Pickman's model]

further to the books i'm reading, enumerated in earlier posts, i have today finished

John Stevens, Not for the Faint-Hearted: My Life Fighting Crime (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005)

 

[chooch]

Reading Invisible Man (Ellison). Liking it.

I liked it. Just found it in a box of old stuff as it happens.

 

[Ryazan]

Incidentally may I recommend Madame Mao- The White-Boned Demon by Ross Terrill?

A decent biography of Mao's bit of fluff (after his 2nd wife) Jiang Quing- showing her transformation from a crap actress, to a vindictive, spiteful, bullying, power-crazed, and ultimately suicidal, bitch. With bits of her part in the Cultural Revolution thrown in to illustrate the fact that she was one nasty piece of work.

 

[Pickman's model]

Professor T K Oesterreich, Possession, Demoniacal and Other Among Primitive Races : In Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Modern Times (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1930)