I just finished the thid book in the Cairo trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz. excellent book! very sad to see the family members age n some die... life is cruel! and the portrayal of Egypt under English occupation during WW2 is fantastic. highly reccommended... make sure u read all three tho!
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May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Kate Atkinson - Case Histories, and enjoying it very much too.
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Finished 'The Coming of the Third Reich' by Richard J Evans. Very good on the whole, though the last section, on the reasons why the Nazis came to power with such a relatively low level of support, doesn't really pull the book together as he intended. Perhaps 50 or 100 pages too long, but it's a good read. The second volume of his TR trilogy is coming out in p'back this month, so I look forward to that.
Now onto 'The Pity Of It All: A Portrait of Jews in Germany 1743-1933' by Amos Elon.
Now onto 'The Pity Of It All: A Portrait of Jews in Germany 1743-1933' by Amos Elon.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Still reading "Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole. Funny book, very interesting, just haven't had time to read much lately.
kalidarkone
Bringing YOU round.....
I just finished 'eleven minutes' by Paulo Cohelo', not really a fan of his but the blurb interested me,I found it an interesting read and there were some issues in it that made me question my self.
Iam said:
oh, god, don't put yourself through it
i finished the Letham book and wished i hadn't, i wanted Lionel Essrog to be part of my life forever, he's one of the hardest characters i've ever had to give up
now reading Kitchen Confidential because it was handy
onemonkey
winmonkey
so i have also started TROLL by Johanna Sinisaloonemonkey said:rather too ambitiously i have recently started both Fernando Pessoa's Book of Disquiet
and Francis Bacon's The Advancement of Learning
Doubt i'll finish either
a finnish 'thriller-fantasy/ love story' about a guy who takes in a helpless young troll..
great so far
if you want to borrow LOTS of other Idler stuff, let me know 
elevendayempire
Registered Loofah
The Prestige, by Christopher Priest. Well, the film's out soon so I thought I'd better read it first...
SG
SG
han said:
why d'ya think i got their logo as a tat?
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
Vixen said:
Fantastic book, IMO.
I'm on 'American Pastoral' by Philip Roth.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Finished 'Case Histories' at the weekend and give it a thumbs-up, although as it draws to a conclusion it suffers slightly from glibness (then again, I felt compelled to read the final third or so in one humungous hit so possibly I wasn't giving it the proper time to sink in). Glibness aside, it remains an excellent book and moved me to tears several times (also to loud laughter several times).
Now reading 'Naoko' by Keigo Higashino, which reads rather like it was bashed out in a weekend and not read through but which is nonetheless pretty good. It made Mr K cry on holiday last year, so something's gotta be going on with it.
Now reading 'Naoko' by Keigo Higashino, which reads rather like it was bashed out in a weekend and not read through but which is nonetheless pretty good. It made Mr K cry on holiday last year, so something's gotta be going on with it.
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
Eleanor Rigby - Douglas Coupland as recommended by this Forum
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