*What book are you reading ?

[eels]

The piano teacher.

The piano teacher.The piano teacher.The piano teacher.The piano teacher.The piano teacher.The piano teacher.The piano teacher.The piano teacher.The piano teacher.The piano teacher.The piano teacher.The piano teacher.The piano teacher.The piano teacher.

 

[belboid]

it is good, very good. the Sundance stuff is - IMO - initially interesting but then becomes very routine (Redford loses interest, sacks everyone, everyone sulks) but the Weinsteins are just great value, and it's fun to hear a) what a total cunt Tarantino is and b) how much Kevin Smith kisses Weinstein's arse

got it back the other day, and have got as far as Tarantino making Pulp Fiction. Great stuff so far, I didn't really realise how recently Sundance had become such an 'important' festival. The Harvey & Bob stuff is just friggin cracking, two true gents!

And they were right about Cinema Paradiso.....

 

[Dubversion]

got it back the other day, and have got as far as Tarantino making Pulp Fiction. Great stuff so far, I didn't really realise how recently Sundance had become such an 'important' festival. The Harvey & Bob stuff is just friggin cracking, two true gents!

the Sundance stuff does get really dull though, it's the same argument for a decade.

And they were right about Cinema Paradiso.....

ah, i quite like it

 

[belboid]

ah, i quite like it

buyt only in the shortened version - am I right?

 

[Dubversion]

buyt only in the shortened version - am I right?

nooo, director's cut

well, i used to live in a village just like the one in the movie so it kinda resonated (mumbles and walks off)

 

[belboid]

lordy! i'd never have had you down as that soppy

 

[Orang Utan]

I loved it too - I am very soppy though - the kiss reel had me sobbing like a Mike Leigh heroine

 

[pootle]

I'm reading "My Sister's Keeper" you lot probably won't like it cos it was on Richard and Judy's Bookclub.

I however am enjoying it as a moderately trashy read. I have resolved to spend less time watching the goggle box and more time reading and listening to music.

 

[tastebud]

Saturday by Ian McEwan. So far, so good.

 

[Boogie Boy]

'A Room With A View' E.M Forster

I just hope this is better than 'The Trial'.

BB

 

[Pieface]

i've just re-read Middlesex, and feel i have to (albeit still somewhat reluctantly) admit i was clearly very wrong about my earlier slating of the book-
it is a fine piece of writing, and i shan't be as quick with my judgements in the future...it's not the best ever, but it's a great book in every sense.

touché

Fuck you read fast

and....*ner* etc

 

[rennie]

I am reading An Eyey in the Sun, the second book by Ahdaf Soueif in a as many months. it's very BIG but so far is very interesting... it tells the story of an Egyptian family over three generations, between Cairo and London.

it starts off in 1979 and then goes back in time.


I need to lay off the Egyptian stuff after this. I am becoming typecast.

 

[Orang Utan]

Haruki Murakami - Dance Dance Dance - yay!
David Crystal - The Stories Of English - I found the Old English section a bit mind-numbing but it's now fascinating.

 

[DeadManWalking]

Haven't read all this thread so don't know if anyone has mentioned 'Stuart - a life backwards' by Alexander Masters. I finished it a couple of days ago and has to be one of the best books I've read for a while. A tragic biography of a homeless drug addict, alcoholic. It may sound dark but there is light and definitely raises issues that aren't always that obvious.

Highly recommended.

 

[spartacus mills]

'Lucky Jim' - Kingsley Amis

 

[Giles]

I'm part-way through the "His Dark Materials" trilogy. Mainly at the suggestion of my little sister. It's quite involved and surprisingly good for what is "billed" as a kids book....

Giles..

 

[Dubversion]

I'm part-way through the "His Dark Materials" trilogy. Mainly at the suggestion of my little sister. It's quite involved and surprisingly good for what is "billed" as a kids book....

ah, but it is still fundamentally a book for kids to appreciate, which is why it's so marvellous. Pullman insists - rightly IMO - that kids can take on all sorts of interesting and complicated concepts provided they're allied to a cracking good story and involving characters. Rather than being spoonfed inanity like certain other popular childrens books read by adults that i could mention

 

[chooch]

Just reread Simon Louvish resurrections from the dustbin of history inbetween some other stuff. A very enjoyable yarn.

 

[Doctor Carrot]

I've just read The Game by Neil Strauss, this is the second book i've read by him and I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's about him joining a group of pick up artists which at the time was a fairly tight knit comunity online. He goes from being hopeless with women to a real lady killer, it also follows one of the pick up artists named Mystery (they all have nicknames) and how he rose to become the greatest pick up artist in the comunity. Bloody good read.

 

[tastebud]

i've just re-read Middlesex, and feel i have to (albeit still somewhat reluctantly) admit i was clearly very wrong about my earlier slating of the book-
it is a fine piece of writing, and i shan't be as quick with my judgements in the future...it's not the best ever, but it's a great book in every sense.

touché

My line-manager has just finished reading it and said it was amazing. She's going to lend it to me, I think.

 

[Dubversion]

i'm about to start this too, just about to finish the Virgin Suicides and it blew me away

 

[Dirty Martini]

Finished Albert Angelo, terrific book. Now onto Trawl, the second in the BS Johnson trilogy.

Anyone who hasn't read BSJ and wants some 60s London melancholia (and a nice early take on 'fictional' psychogeography) should do so.

 

[Belushi]

'Pompeii' by Robert Harris, dont think so much of the story so far (strikes me to have been written with a movie in mind) but very well researched and I'm learning a lot about the Roman aquaduct system.

 

[MysteryGuest]

Sylvia Smith - Misadventures

Sample chapter:


1979 - Sam

Sam was a fifty-five year old sales rep. We were both employees of the same clothing company. I was thirty-four and private secretary to the Managing Director


As I entered the showroom I heard Sam talking to the Sales Director. He was explaining why he'd been late for an appointment with a client the previous evening. He said, 'I broke down in my car last night'. I interrupted and asked 'Didn't you have a hankie?' which brought some humour to the situation.





I love this book.

 

[anfield]

Hell's Angels by Hunter S Thompson

The Baghdad Blogger by Salam Pax

Will probably dip in and out of Kropotkin's Fields, Factories, & Workshops.

 

[Orang Utan]

Sylvia Smith - Misadventures

Who is she?
At first I thought you meant the stunna from Ice Cold In Alex, but that's Sylvia Syms innit?

 

[Dubversion]

Who is she?
At first I thought you meant the stunna from Ice Cold In Alex, but that's Sylvia Syms innit?

*swoon*

 

[Belushi]

Who is she?
At first I thought you meant the stunna from Ice Cold In Alex, but that's Sylvia Syms innit?

I thougth Joan Sims was more your cup of tea

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I've just started reading Bleak House.
Avoided the recent TV series because I've been meaning to get round to reading it for some time.
Haven't read any Dickens since I was a kid and I'm totally blown away by it so far!

 

[bluestreak]

seneca - on the shortness of life.

makes me feel all calm