*What book are you reading ?

[foamy]

Surfacing seems like a good book but the words arent going into my head very easily and i have to keep re-reading the sentences, maybe its something to do with being full of cold?!
going to keep trying though as i hate half reading books

 

[tastebud]

Surfacing seems like a good book but the words arent going into my head very easily and i have to keep re-reading the sentences, maybe its something to do with being full of cold?!
going to keep trying though as i hate half reading books

if her other sruff is anything to go by i'd say it was just the cold, but i haven't actually read that one. i might start reading cat's eye later on this evening.

 

[walktome]

The Turn of the Screw, I'm almost done.

 

[Pickman's model]

The Turn of the Screw, I'm almost done.

is there a final twist?

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

i really really liked it.

i am just finishing the blind assassin and am sad to do so.

It's not that it's bad as such, just that for some reason I can't really get into it.

 

[Lock&Light]

I'm enjoying "BODYGUARD OF LIES" by Anthony Brown. I was given the book by a friend, and therefore have to accept that it is a Dutch translation but it's contents fortunately rise above that.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

today=Another Country, James Baldwin

tomorrow= A house for Mr Biswas, V Naipaul

 

[purves grundy]

Excellent. One of my all time favourite authors. Highly recommend finding a copy of 'The Death of Mr Baltisberger and other stories' if you haven't already read it.

Love his twisted sense of humour.

Cheers, after what I read in 'Too Loud...' I'll definitely seek it out. Twisted, tragic, hilarious. Really enjoyed it.

Returning to earth with Jason Burke's book on Al-Qaeda now.

 

[PrinceToad]

Keynes The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

It's a pretty good deconstruction of so-called "classical" or "neo-classical" economics, which is now back in fashion.

Set myself a "reading project" of the main works of economics. Wealth of Nations and Capital done. Next is perhaps what? Marshall's Principles of Economics, Ricardo's Principles of Political Economy, or Rosa Luxembourg's Accumulation of Capital? What do you think?

Also reading Richard Labeviere's Dollars for Terror, but being pretensh, reading it in French Les Dollars de la Terreur, so it takes me longer. Best book I've read yet on Islamic terrorist groups.

 

[Dirty Martini]

tomorrow= A house for Mr Biswas, V Naipaul

That's a cracking read, full of great setpieces. Grumpy, but very funny.

I'm 80 pages into Cloud Atlas and enjoying it a lot.

 

[Dubversion]

now reading "The Skeleton At The Feast - The Day of The Dead In Mexico" by Elizabeth Carmichael and Chloe Sayer, a brilliant account and explanation of the history and meaning of the Day of the Dead, and lots of the folk art around it. fascinating stuff

 

[tastebud]

cat's eye - margaret atwood.

pretty similar style to the blind assassin thus far. which is good but kind of annoying as i just finished the blind assassin.

 

[mrkikiet]

now reading "The Skeleton At The Feast - The Day of The Dead In Mexico" by Elizabeth Carmichael and Chloe Sayer, a brilliant account and explanation of the history and meaning of the Day of the Dead, and lots of the folk art around it. fascinating stuff

have you read Under the Volcano by Lowry (i think)? It's centred round The Day of The Dead and it's pretty good.

 

[Dubversion]

have you read Under the Volcano by Lowry (i think)? It's centred round The Day of The Dead and it's pretty good.

i've always meant to, and should add it to the list

 

[spartacus mills]

have you read Under the Volcano by Lowry (i think)? It's centred round The Day of The Dead and it's pretty good.

I've read that 2 or 3 times. I highly recommend it. It's also worth reading Lowry's selected letters and 'Dark As the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid' (or something like that!). Both will add to your appreciation of UtV.

 

[Dubversion]

about to start Fortress Of Solitude by Jonathan Letham.

 

[foamy]

just started 'god of small things'. i seem to be on a booker prize themed reading list

 

[Orang Utan]

about to start Fortress Of Solitude by Jonathan Letham.

Good luck!

 

[Dubversion]

Good luck!

well so far (30 pages or so), it's incredible - some of the most vivid writing i've read in ages.. what went wrong with it in your opinion?

 

[MysteryGuest]

The Hive by Bee Wilson


It is all about bees!


Bees are amazing.

 

[chooch]

Philip Roth- the human stain. Liking it a lot so far. The bastard can write when he fancies it.

 

[John Quays]

Scenes from Provincial Life by William Cooper

Pre-war whimsy and a stab at the proper English novel.

Or just read Lucky Jim again and again, I guess!

 

[Orang Utan]

well so far (30 pages or so), it's incredible - some of the most vivid writing i've read in ages.. what went wrong with it in your opinion?

I dunno, it was a bit too vivid maybe IYSWIM - it could be that my mind just wasn't on it. I've loved his other books.

 

[stroober]

Now on the complete works of Kafka

 

[tastebud]

Half way through Ian McEwan - 'Atonement'. Rather lovely!

 

[Dubversion]

I dunno, it was a bit too vivid maybe IYSWIM - it could be that my mind just wasn't on it. I've loved his other books.

i do know what you mean, it's brilliantly descriptive but consequently the pages don't exactly fly by

 

[maya]

about to start Fortress Of Solitude by Jonathan Letham.

is that by the same bloke who painted the picture discussed earlier?

 

[Dubversion]

is that by the same bloke who painted the picture discussed earlier?

no, a mere 'e' out. which is a fucking weird coincidence

 

[maya]

no, a mere 'e' out. which is a fucking weird coincidence

...oh. i thought the author was called "lethem" really, and that you were just spelling it wrong (was just about to steam in and point that out)

 

[Orang Utan]

Half way through Ian McEwan - 'Atonement'. Rather lovely!

Well written but I just hated every single overpriviledged character in it. Almost enough to turn me into a class warrior