*What book are you reading ?

[siarc]

just starting gravity's rainbow
i tend to avoid things which are too canonical/obvious
which is stupid, evidently

 

[zenie]

Only Anarchists are Pretty by Nick O'shea.

The early days of the Pistols.

It cost me 3 quid in fopp so I'm not holding out much hope but you never know

 

[MysteryGuest]

The most difficultest book of complicated scientifical political sociologicistic difficultness ever in the whole world ever. With lots of sums in as well.

 

[chooch]

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, Geoffrey Rose. Fascinating, if occasionally irritating.

 

[coronet]

What book are you reading?

I'm reading "By Myself" by Lauren Bacall ; it's very good than-you very much.

What about you ?

I'm reading Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel.

Superb book fronm the fifties about using zen to discipine the mind.

 

[Sid's Snake]

I'm reading Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel.

Superb book fronm the fifties about using zen to discipine the mind.

Great book.

Started me off on years of mindless practice.

I wasn't even upset when I found out Herrigel was a total fucking fascist and the book was almost certainly a early, if well written example of new age fraudery - you see, it, really, doesn't, matter

 

[chemn]

Just finished David Mitchell's 'Number 9 Dream' and it wsa quite good

 

[Boogie Boy]

'The Count Of Monte Cristo' Dumas. Having enjoyed 'The Three Muskateers' (book one especially) I decided to try another of his works.

BB

 

[onemonkey]

recently finished the poisonwood bible which was bleak, beautiful, brilliant and disturbing

and just finished Les Enfants Terrible which was just plain disturbing.

now breezing through William Goldman's Adventures in the Screen Trade.. which is great fun

 

[Leica]

and just finished Les Enfants Terribles which was just plain disturbing.

What did you find disturbing about it?

 

[onemonkey]

I'm reading Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel.

Superb book fronm the fifties about using zen to discipine the mind.

i read that recently... there is something comical about all zen parables and practices but who knows there may be something to it

 

[Nicsi]

Nic is currently digesting:

The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde by Neil McKenna

and

The Truce by Primo Levi.

and hasn't finished a book since January, thanks to too much coursework

 

[Dubversion]

finished Boyle's East Is East and ploughed straight into Chandler's Long Goodbye.. been a long time since i read Chandler, he's brilliant

 

[Idris2002]

Benjamin Prado's _Not Only Fire_. It's about three generations of a left-wing Spanish family that remains scarred by what happened under Franco.

And it's very good. It's a while since I read a 'literary' novel as good as this.

 

[maya]

still halfway through the Granta book of India, which i've continually put aside for other reads, but this time i'm going to finish it through, no matter what!!
*peeks longingly at crime novel placed temptingly on top of bookpile*

(it's not a bad book at all, 'ts just that i'm used to switch between books in frenetic as-it-suits-me tempo, attention span of a goldfish, so it's bloody hard to actually enforce the discipline to concentrate on one book only and stick with it to the (bitter?) end...)

 

[stroober]

America - Franz Kafka

 

[foo]

nearly finished The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen.

one of those books i wish wouldn't end. i'd highly recommend it.

work's dead right now so i'm going to take it down by the river to read cos it's lovely out there...

 

[Dubversion]

nearly finished The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen.

one of those books i wish wouldn't end. i'd highly recommend it.

told ya

 

[Belushi]

Just started Orhan Pamuk 'Istanbul', his personal memoir of the city he's spend his life in.

After reading the brilliant 'My Name is Red' he's my favourite author at the moment.

 

[foo]

told ya

yep - it's a gorgeous & wonderful book.

i want more.

would you recommend any of his other stuff Dub?

 

[Dubversion]

yep - it's a gorgeous & wonderful book.

i want more.

would you recommend any of his other stuff Dub?

for my sins, it's the only one i've read..

 

[foo]

oh right. well, i'll have a look in the bookshops and if i come across another good un by Franzen, i'll let you know.

(i got the wigwam cd btw)

 

[wiskey]

i was reading Moab is my Washpot by stephen fry but i got a bit stuck when he was about14. i really enjoyed the bit i read i just fizzled out a bit.

so now i'm reading Middlesex by jeffrey eugenides on stigs reccomendation and its already proving to be a superb book

 

[EatMoreChips]

'The Mole People' by Jennifer Toth. About the thousands of people who live in the tunnels under NYC. Fascinating and saddening at the same time.

 

[dynamicbaddog]

just started reading The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark

 

[maya]

'The Mole People' by Jennifer Toth. About the thousands of people who live in the tunnels under NYC. Fascinating and saddening at the same time.

have you seen the film Dark Days? it's a very good documentary about the same people...

 

[onemonkey]

What did you find disturbing about it?

a lot - mostly how terrible those enfants were

how they were permanently, tragically and grotesequely stuck in childhood

 

[brixtonbard]

Hi

Any of you guys read EAST OFACRE LANE?

 

[Leica]

a lot - mostly how terrible those enfants were

how they were permanently, tragically and grotesequely stuck in childhood

I see now what you mean. It can be unsettling to think how much they try to hold on to it. On the other hand it is also understandable, given how much people as adults try to return there too... Perhaps this is what love is about, becoming reunited with something a person had previously been separated from... that missing same part that formed a whole. No wonder they were so scared of losing each other.

I don't know if you've seen that recent film by Bertolucci, the Dreamers, it is there too - the brother and sister (twins), the third person who threatens to separate them.

 

[jeff_leigh]

A Multitude of Sins - Richard Ford, collection of short stories