*What book are you reading ?

[chooch]

now, whats next?

Brighton Rock 2: Pinkie's Revenge

 

[Rollem]

barcelona plates - alexi sayle

second time reading this. read about 5 years ago, but having brought it in to lend to a colleague, i flipped through the pages on the tube and found myself reading it again

 

[madamv]

just finished Hidden Camera by Zoran Zivkovic. Which makes me a ponce apparently, hurrah or boo not sure.

just started Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland. Does that unponce me?

 

[bellator]

Book

Just finished Fathers and Sons by Turgenev. Thinking about reading the Colour Purple next.

 

[Dirty Martini]

just finished Hidden Camera by Zoran Zivkovic.

Any good?

 

[madamv]

It was excellent. So visual. His writing (or a least the translation of his writing) is very emotive and descriptive without being too flowery. ITMS.

I started a thread about it cause I wanted to talk to someone who has read it.

Hurry up then

 

[Dirty Martini]

It was excellent. So visual. His writing (or a least the translation of his writing) is very emotive and descriptive without being too flowery. ITMS.

I started a thread about it cause I wanted to talk to someone who has read it.

Hurry up then

Ah, OK

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Instructions for making porridge.

 

[Tank Girl]

milesy wrote that.

 

[Zinedine*]

I'm just about to make myself a cup of tea or a glass of Irn Bru (can't decide yet) and sit down will Ian McEwans Saturday.

is it any good? I have never read any of is stuff yet

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

milesy wrote that.

He wrote my co op porridge instructions?

I've just realised it says 'book' in the title, sorry.

 

[thought]

The Indigo Children - Lee Carroll
Re-Reading The Tempest - William Shakespear
The Life of Edgar Hoover - Anthony Summers
The War with Cape Horn - Alan Villiers

It depends which book I pick up

 

[jeff_leigh]

The Master and Margarita ( cheers onemonkey)

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Guns Germs and Steel

 

[Philbc03]

Iron Council by China Mieville (2004) and Radicals Against Race by Brian Alleyne (2002).

 

[scanner]

The Insider by Piers Morgan, terrific stuff, a good insight to how the press works.

 

[Kidda]

Scared of the kids; curfews crime and the regulation of young people

by Stuart Waiton

just about to start it, it looks quite good

 

[dlx1]

Network Infrastructure Design,

makes my god son got to sleep

 

[atitlan]

Just finished "The time traveller's wife" by Audrey Niffenegger - very enjoyable.

Just started "The Years of Rice and Salt" by Kim Stanley Robinson

 

[maya]

Just started "The Years of Rice and Salt" by Kim Stanley Robinson

i'm waiting for some books by him in the mail (rubbish local bookstore won't stock him ),
what's his writing style like?
i've been really excited about him after conversation w/the literati...

as there's so many examples of apolitical (sometimes even reactionary) science fiction writers, it felt like a breath of fresh air to find someone who's concerned about current issues and not afraid dealing with "difficult" stuff...
also he must be a godsent hero for the environmentalist crowd
...must find out more

 

[atitlan]

i'm waiting for some books by him in the mail (rubbish local bookstore won't stock him ),
what's his writing style like?

You don't say which books you're waiting for, but from those I've read ...

I find him very easy to read. He doesn't try to be overly clever in the structure of the story and is good at hooking you into the sweep of the storyline. He's better than many science fiction writers at characterisation, so you do tend to feel that most of them are real people.

KSR is given to long descriptive passages on landscapes - especially true if you've picked Antarctica or the the Mars Trilogy to read (in the Mars books especially this really helps to make you feel like you're there). He is definitely a political writer 'Green Mars' covers the formation of a constitution for an independent Mars and the problems of Earth not wanting to let go. His portrayal of corporations will also strike a chord with anyone used to U75's usual opinion of them.

He is also environmentally savvy. Global warming and its consequences turn up in the mars trilogy and in his recent novels Forty Signs of Rain and Fifty Degrees Below.

Hope you enjoy the books you've got on order

 

[maya]

You don't say which books you're waiting for, but from those I've read ...

I find him very easy to read. He doesn't try to be overly clever in the structure of the story and is good at hooking you into the sweep of the storyline. He's better than many science fiction writers at characterisation, so you do tend to feel that most of them are real people.

KSR is given to long descriptive passages on landscapes - especially true if you've picked Antarctica or the the Mars Trilogy to read (in the Mars books especially this really helps to make you feel like you're there). He is definitely a political writer 'Green Mars' covers the formation of a constitution for an independent Mars and the problems of Earth not wanting to let go. His portrayal of corporations will also strike a chord with anyone used to U75's usual opinion of them.

He is also environmentally savvy. Global warming and its consequences turn up in the mars trilogy and in his recent novels Forty Signs of Rain and Fifty Degrees Below.

Hope you enjoy the books you've got on order

...ah, that sound promising!
thanks

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

The Biggest Secret by David Ike.

I love the way he opens by saying 'all my friends begged me not to include the lizards, but I thought the world had to know the whole truth'.

Tee hee.

 

[CharlieAddict]

life of pi - yann martel.

crap pace so far. i keep falling asleep. my friends say i should stick at it but man, this is a boring as fuck book.

 

[walktome]

I had to read that a year or two ago and I really didn't enjoy it all that much, despite everyone else raving about it.

 

[Tinker_bell]

I've just started reading 'Kathy's Story: A Childhood Hell Inside the Magdalen Laundries' by Kathy O'Beirne and Michael Sheridan.

Now, i was nearly in tears just reading the prologue and i know the suffering that these children went through is going to really upset me, as it would anyone, but i take the view that as these people actually lived with such horrific abuse, the least i can do is read about their story...

Has anyone else read this?

 

[kazza23]

I am reading Johnothan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Suzanne Clarke. Its great, spells, magic and old english manners.

 

[Orang Utan]

I've just started reading 'Kathy's Story: A Childhood Hell Inside the Magdalen Laundries' by Kathy O'Beirne and Michael Sheridan.

Now, i was nearly in tears just reading the prologue and i know the suffering that these children went through is going to really upset me, as it would anyone, but i take the view that as these people actually lived with such horrific abuse, the least i can do is read about their story...

Has anyone else read this?

Nope, but I've seen the film The Magdalen Sisters which is all about the Laundries - a disgraceful par of Ireland's/RC's history and shockingly recent too.
A friend of mine's mother was in one and it's heartbreaking hearign what she went through.

 

[chooch]

William Gaddis carpenter's gothic.

 

[pootle]

Now, i was nearly in tears just reading the prologue and i know the suffering that these children went through is going to really upset me, as it would anyone, but i take the view that as these people actually lived with such horrific abuse, the least i can do is read about their story...

Has anyone else read this?

No...there was a film based on people's experiences in those places though.

There something that makes me uneasy about people's experience of neglect and/or abuse being marketed to me though...stuff like the above and the Dave Pelzer Child Called It. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's a bit voyeuristic? I don't like seeing such matter as "entertainment"

I mean, if it's upsetting you Tinker Bell, why read it? I had to give up on reading "Stalingrad" because it just upset me...