*What book are you reading ?

[MarkMark]

Pete McCarthy - McCarthy's Bar

Great book too, I can't believe it's taken me this long to get round to it

 

[Rollem]

the time traveller's wife, by audrey niffengger

 

[Bomber]

Just about to start 'In Cold Blood' by Truman Capote after spotting it in Oxfam for £1.49

 

[bellator]

Jane Austin

Well I am reading Pride and Prejudice at the mo-never thought I would be into it but am really quite enjoying it. Am finding it both funny and enlightening! Bloody good read.

 

[chooch]

Just starting Patrick Hamilton- the slaves of solitude and making steady progress through Amartya Sen- development as freedom, again.

 

[tastebud]

the blind assassin - margaret atwood. started it a while ago but never finished it. i love margaret atwood.

 

[bushphobia]

Have just bought the Sandman Library Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman. One of the best Graphic Novel paperbacks you could ever read.

Man i loved that series. Did you get the recent(ish) sandman spin-off of short storeis, each centering around one of the endless?

 

[walktome]

the blind assassin - margaret atwood. started it a while ago but never finished it. i love margaret atwood.

I like Margaret Atwood a lot too, haven't read the Blind Assassin though.

 

[Dubversion]

so bored by my last book i can't even remember what it's called, so now i'm on

Conrad Williams - London Revenant

which is pretty good. it's a bit overripe in places, but - as the cover blurb says - it does seem to straddle the divide between Iain Sinclair style London psychogeography and a more fantasy element (but not too much thank fuck).

yes, pretty good so far. i remember Blagsta raving about this last year.

 

[Boogie Boy]

'The Autobiography of Malcom X' Malcom X with Alex Haley

BB

 

[G. Fieendish]

The Chrysalids - John Wyndham

 

[Teepee]

Narcissus and Goldmund - Hermann Hesse

 

[vogonity]

Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase.

I've read 'em all now except After the Quake and the non-fiction Underground about the Tokyo sarin attacks, which might be particularly interesting to read after recent events in London.

Those are the two I've read by him - fascinating stories in After The Quake. Underground is riveting. Which of Murakami's novels would you recommend to a starter?

 

[Throbbing Angel]

'Unbearable lightness of being'

 

[MysteryGuest]

Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo


A rip-roaring story indeed, with extra booable baddies and much aristocratic intrigue, maidens, counts, diamonds, etc etc. But above all loads and loads of stories, and stories within stories. It reminds me a bit of Robert Irwin's Arabian Nightmare in this respect. I'm presently nearing the end, and am having a find time watching the Count's inexorable revenge starting to make its destructive presence keenly felt - it's compelling watching it all unfold, slowly but unstoppably. Hadn't realised it was quite such a novel of revenge. Most enjoyable.

 

[milesy]

douglas coupland - "eleanor rigby"

 

[jodal]

Brokeback Mountain (Script) - Based on short Story by Annie Proulx (sp?)

 

[spartacus mills]

Will Self - The Quantity Theory of Insanity.
A mixed bag of short stories.

 

[MiddleMonkies]

The new well-tempered sentence by Karen Elizabeth Gordon---it's a book on punctuation and it's wonderful

 

[Barney Bee]

Yoga for people who can't be bothered to do it - Geoff Dyer

 

[vogonity]

Kafka's The Trial, which I'm enjoying.

 

[jeff_leigh]

A People's Tragedy - Russian Revolution 1891- 1924 by Orlando Figes, given to me about a year ago just getting round to reading it

 

[harpo scruggs]

Darkest Fear by Harlan Coben, excellent author

 

[walktome]

Tomorrow I'm starting Dora by Sigmund Freud for my narrative class.

 

[Ryazan]

A People's Tragedy - Russian Revolution 1891- 1924 by Orlando Figes, given to me about a year ago just getting round to reading it

It is good, for a one volume history.

 

[Ryazan]

the blind assassin - margaret atwood. started it a while ago but never finished it. i love margaret atwood.

You might like Slavenka Drakulic too, then.

 

[chris34]

Tail end Charlies by John Nichol and Tony Rennel

Its about tail gunners in bombers during WWII, sounds boring but its really interesting, what the poor buggers went through, and what they and the rest of the bombers did to Germany. Some sad stories..

 

[steeplejack]

Alfred Doblin- Berlin Alexanderplatz

 

[Louloubelle]

I'm juggling:

qualitative data analysis - a user friendly guide for social scientists (work related)

Unlawful Carnal Knowledge - The True Story of the Irish X Case
Just started this, it's a true account of a sexualy abused 14 year old girl seeking an abortion in the UK, it's a book re legal history

also on my next to read list
The Mamie Papers
the correspondence depicting the developing friendship between an impoverished one eyed, jewish, morphine addicted prostitute, Mamie Pinzer, and a wealthy philanthropic 'lady', Fanny Quincy Howe, at the start of the 20th century. I've meant to read this for ages but haven't had the time

 

[MysteryGuest]

Darkest Fear by Harlan Coben, excellent author

Yeah I've read a couple of his (on the recommendation of an urbanite actually) - one of the page-turningest page-turner writers I've ever come across. Welcome to the boards btw.


After I've finished The Count of Monte Cristo (it's all coming down bigtime right now in the last few chapters btw, all very dramatic indeed, dead exciting and stuff), I'm moving on to:


What I Did in My Holidays - Essays on black magic, satanism, devil worhip [sic] and other niceties by the inimitibule Ramsey Dukes! Haven't read anything by this highly diverting chap for a while now, but imo he's a bit of a national treasure. Dead witty and original and all thought provoking and that.