*What book are you reading ?

[Dubversion]

isn't the Rotters Club brilliant?

i got furvert a copy cos it's all set where she grew up - actual pubs and streets, and the apparently lovely Lickey Hills.

 

[foo]

Yes, it's excellent. and my god is it making me feel nostalgic for the 70s!

I'm now in love with Benjamin.

no hope.

 

[Kidda]

the lickey hills are fabbbbbb, me and my first boyfriend, steven, simon, simone, one them, well thats the place well, yeah to much information lickey hills are great tho dub, likeeeee it!!

im reading
David Blaine : mysterious stranger
and
[some wierd author bloke] - the ancient art of street performance and ring juggling.

 

[scarletwoman]

The Count of Montecristo i think by Dumas
No Logo by we all know who
Cryptic Crimes by some geezer
Blackberry Wine by the woman who wrote Chocolat
Confessions of an Opium Eater by De Quincy

All very good in different ways.

 

[papa lazaroo69]

Originally posted by Cassius Belli
Yeah,all those Schechter books are a good read.

really? This is the first one ive come across, and that was by accident.
What else has he done?

 

[subversplat]

I am reading The Complete Ballad of Halo Jones by Alan Moore and Ian Gibson. It's very good.

I just got done reading Sin City by Frank Miller which was also very good. Some of the artwork is fantastic in its surrealism.

Sometimes I read proper books too Got Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and two Phillip K Dick short story collections (We Can Remember It For You Wholesale and Minority Report) yet to plough through.

 

[septic tank]

Just finishing up Graham Greene's The Comedians, a typically dark Greene, marbled with moral ambiguity, about a Brit hotelier returning to Papa Doc Duvalier's Haiti, complete with tontons macoute, CIA skullduggery and, for comic relief, a couple of uptight Unitarian/vegitarian missionaries from Wisconsin who abstain from acidic food and drink so as not to inflame the passions and profess a great love "for the coloured people." Can't say they sound too unfamiliar. There's also a Haitian character very similar to the Vietnamese stringer in The Quiet American who urges the Anglo protagonist to take a stand. Slow in places, but all in all a worthwhile read.

 

[manstein]

Just finishing

'At the tomb of the Inflateable Pig' by John Gimlette.

Its a bemused progression round Paraguay meeting locals, immigrants from years past and the charming Fer de Lance.

 

[Louloubelle]

I enjoyed The Comedians very much. Dont bother with the film though. almost 3 hours of tedium just to catch about 10 seconds of the wonderful Voudoun drummer Te Ro Ro. Book definitely worth checking out tho.

 

[andy2002]

Recently finished William 'Neuromancer' Gibson's new one, Pattern Recognition. It's the first novel he's written that isn't set in the future and is easily the best thing I've read of his. I'm now about half way through a murder thriller called 'Holloway Falls' by Neil Cross, which has had me totally gripped from page one.

 

[hammerntongues]

Just bought Coastline Joanne Harris, I`ve enjoyed the first 3 and hoping this is as good

 

[Getauscht]

VITAL DUST by Christain De Duve

 

[flypanam]

culture and anarchy - matthew arnold (got to learn this stuff)

White noise- don de lillo

 

[oicur0t]

just read "Are You Dave Gorman?" - Fantastic stuff

about to reread 2001 again.

 

[chegrimandi]

Death in the Andes - Mario vargas llosa - am loving it - about the shining path (sendero luminoso) revolutionaries in peru....

 

[Roadkill]

Just started on Sweet Thames that Rubes gave me.

I'm actually quite enjoying it so far.

 

[Voley]

Nearly finished 'The Godfather' by Mario Puzo. Not a patch on the film: "Reads like an airport potboiler" said Ernestolynch on another thread and he ain't wrong.

I've also been dull and worthy and have been reading 'Fences and Windows' by Naomi Klein which is all well and good but has frankly been boring the fucking arse off of me.

Thing is, I read 'Stupid White Men' by Michael Moore immediately before and he says a similar message but makes you laugh out loud, too. I know who I prefer.

 

[Bomber]

Just started "Malcolm X the Autobiography" ~ shadow written by Alex Haley whose foreword provides a very readable 'potted history' of the life of Malcolm X.

 

[chegrimandi]

hehe

NVP - shows how different people get different things out of a book....I really quite enjoyed the godfather book and thought stupid white men was a bit crap (really badly wirtten IMHO).

 

[ck]

I too loved The Godfather ; especially the part where Michael is in Sicily and get's "struck by a thunderbolt" ; ie falls in love.

 

[chapman baxter]

finally got round to Mark Steele's Reasons to be Cheerful

 

[tijuanadonkeyshow]

East of Eden by John Steinbeck and its just as good as everyones always said it was

 

[Cassius Belli]

Rereading "War And Anti-war" by Alvin and Heidi Toffler,I was wondering how much of their "future telling" has come true.
I had read it a number of years ago and with the way the world is at the moment I thought it may be an interesting read again.

 

[BL2ALLb]

Marjorie Blameys FLOWERS of the COUNTYRYSIDE............there is an obituary of the Blue Butterfly..............the British Large Blue......it says it was extinct on these Isles in 1979........+ a reminder that extintion means forever............

 

[genee_rave]

i'm reading 'Vermillion Gate' by Aiping Mu
-anyone else read it?

i got it cos it was £3 in fopp but i'm totally gripped (which is rare for me with non-fiction). its basically a history of communist china told by a woman who's parents were revolutionaries but later persecuted

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

'Hunger' by Knut Hamsun. It's... OK. Doesn't really get the raving madness that I think it's aiming for.

 

[dwen]

I've got distracted from reading catch22 now and am reading Homage to Catalonia,

<makes note to actually finish books before starting on the next one >

 

[Fledgling]

I'm reading Homage as well. Very good book. In fact it's one of the best I've ever read. There is a newer edition which I bought in some socialist bookshop nr British Museum which has letters from Orwell and his family/friends concerning Spain.

 

[Phototropic]

Just started "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Prisig which my lovely gave me.

I haven't got far into it but I am already loving it. He has a really beautiful style of writing and way of thinking.

Think I am going to enjoy this book immensly

 

[chegrimandi]

'zen and the art...' is a gr8 f/ing book.......



i'm reading, kafka, the trial......tis good