*What book are you reading ?

[trashpony]

'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.

I agree completely. I liked the aquaduct stuff

 

[Azrael23]

Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

Its good.

 

[chooch]

the master and margarita...i noticed the other day that i seem to have three copies of that.. if anyone wants one (or two) let me know. update: both spoken for

Much appreciated. Enjoying it so far.

 

[Giles]

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

Well, I've read the first 2 books so far, and it's a good read. I think the last one is going to be the best, though.

Giles..

 

[onemonkey]

Rogers & McClelland(2004)
Semantic Cognition - A Parallel Distributed Processing Approach

 

[Pickman's model]

Nikolas Coupland, Dialect in Use: Sociolinguistic Variations in Cardiff English (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1988)

 

[dynamicbaddog]

Just finished Until I Find You by John Irving, it was 820 pages and took me over 4 months to get through, but it was worth it, highly recommended.

 

[Nina]

Just finished Mitch Albom - Tuesdays with Morrie.

Really simple and really beautiful.

 

[LDR]

My friend Leonard - James Frey

It carries on from where "One Million Little Pieces" left off and it's just more of the same really.

 

[Dubversion]

did he make this one up as well?

 

[LDR]

The thing is when I first read "One Million Little Pieces" I thought it was a fictional story. My Good Lady Wife pointed it out to me that it was supposed to be his memoir.

 

[Dubversion]

yeh, i guess if it's an engaging read it doesn't entirely matter if it's fictionalised, although it's still a bit out of order.

 

[LDR]

It's bloody disgraceful really but I still liked the book.

 

[Orang Utan]

I read an article in the Sunday papers on which Frey claimed that he originally pitched the book to the publisher as a work of fiction, but they suggested that it should be marketed as a memoir, so it's not clear that he deliberately misled anyone.

 

[J77]

Just read Cloud Atlas - enjoyed the 'Letters from...' story the most

Am now reading Waterland by Graham Swift.

So far, it's been a very light and easy read; nice descriptions, but growing up near the Fens, I think in real-life they're much bleaker.

 

[cowbite]

I'm trying to get through the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. It was a set text at uni but I just couldn't get past the first couple of chapters. The release of a Cock and Bull Story made me think I'd like to have another go. I'm actually enjoying it so far, although I have to admit there are some passages of it that still baffle me. I think the difference between my reading now and at uni is that now it doesn't matter if there are bits I don't "get", I can carry on reading without worrying that my possible misreadings will ruin my essay

 

[Orang Utan]

I just picked up Richard Matheson's I Am Legend from my flatmate's pile of new books - looks like I'll read it before him! It's dead short anyhow.

 

[Philbc03]

I Am Legend is dead good. Almost made me want to go out and read more vampire novels. Almost.

Currently on the go are Willy Russell's 'The Wrong Boy' (2000) and .... Marx's 'Capital'

 

[foo]

nearly finished Elenor Rigby - Douglas Coupland.

god, that man is brilliant.

 

[walktome]

Link. And he's apparently going to design an urban park here.

 

[spartacus mills]

'Nights at the Circus' - Angela Carter.

 

[Dubversion]

nearly finished Elenor Rigby - Douglas Coupland.

god, that man is brilliant.

.. and's that the double truth, ruth!

 

[foo]

.. and's that the double truth, ruth!

i gobble up everything Coupland does, with relish and amazement.

i want more!

 

[Relahni]

Big questions in science - edited by Harriet Swain.

 

[mrkikiet]

Saturday - Ian Mcewan
It's the first book for a while that I haven't been able to put down. I would recommend it.

 

[foo]

Saturday - Ian Mcewan
It's the first book for a while that I haven't been able to put down. I would recommend it.

i started this, and put it down.

i couldn't get in to it but i'll give it another go at some point.

 

[mrkikiet]

i started this, and put it down.

i couldn't get in to it but i'll give it another go at some point.

i can understand that, there was a point when i nearly put it down. But, I was on a plane and had nothing else to read so i continued.

 

[andy2002]

Saturday - Ian Mcewan
It's the first book for a while that I haven't been able to put down. I would recommend it.

I'm about 120 pages or so into this and not sure what I think of it. It's an easy, enjoyable read but I'm starting to find the lead character rather irritating and I'm not sure where McEwen's going with this whole pro/anti Iraq war theme (probably somewhere I'm not going to like). We shall see...

 

[tastebud]

I just finished it (Saturday) this morn. 'Twas great! In fact.. I'd seriously recommend it!

<edit: you're right about the main character though.. and just wait till you get to the debate/argument he has with his daughter. you'll like him even less then, i think.>

I'm now reading Something Happened by Joseph Heller.
Fucking amazing! If you haven't read it and work in an office READ IT. Exactly what you need to suit your mood on a dreary cold morning when you're on the tube with a hangover.

 

[Boogie Boy]

'Rap Attack' David Toop

(Again)

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