*What book are you reading ?

[Vintage Paw]

So I finally finished The Grapes of Wrath - months it took me, but that's coz I bin busy innnit.

Anyway, gone straight into my number 1 spot - recommend it highly.

Now reading The Quiet American - Graham Greene.

Next on my list ... probably The Jungle - Upton Sinclair (can anyone tell I'm studying American Lit? )

 

[tangerinedream]

Consider The Lobster - David Foster Wallace.

(bought this once, and left it on a bus or something, so bought it again last week. Not really been able to concentrate on it, cos been arround people and like to read in peace.)

 

[cyberfairy]

Consider The Lobster - David Foster Wallace.

(bought this once, and left it on a bus or something, so bought it again last week. Not really been able to concentrate on it, cos been arround people and like to read in peace.)

Sorrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

[mrkikiet]

Now reading The Quiet American - Graham Greene.

one of greene's best.

the seymour tapes by tim lott. i kept on seeing it in bookshops but didn't feel it looked worth it. having read it i'm glad i didn't spend my mone on it. trying a little bit too hard to capture the surveillance fears.

 

[bluestreak]

in bed i'm still reading a bob dylan biography. it's ok but a little too brown-nosey.

on the bus i'm reading robert graves' greek myths. a wonderful piece of work. he tells the common forms of the myths, and then explains whay they most likely mean, and how they represent anthropological and religious history according to archaeology and assorted version that have been recorded.

 

[jeff_leigh]

Soul Music - Terry Pratchett

 

[Hawkeye Pearce]

Zola - Germinal

 

[lights.out.london]

Brett Easton Ellis - Lunar Park

William Gibson - Idoru

The Beano Annual - 1978

 

[Orangesanlemons]

Steven Sherrill - "The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break".

5000 years later the minotaur winds up as a diner line-chef in the deep south. Very deadpan and beautifully mundane. Recommended.

 

[zenie]

On Beauty - Zadie Smith

and the book group book

 

[tastebud]

I was disappointed with the end of my crime novel.

I'm now reading Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark. It's no Lolita (obviously) but I'm still enjoying it a lot.

 

[tangerinedream]

A short history of tractors in ukranian.
When saturday comes, the half decent football book.

 

[Philbc03]

Brett Easton Ellis - Lunar Park

A brilliant brilliant book. I just couldn't put it down.

 

[Dirty Martini]

The 'Bandini Quartet' by John Fante. Four novels about Arturo Bandini, Italian-American author and all-round nutter, the first written in 1933, the last in 1982. Fante is a great stylist, and the depiction of 30s LA is brilliant. In 'The Road To Los Angeles' and 'Ask The Dust', the two best of the four, I kept having to remind myself that the books were written 75 years ago. Very fresh, very contemporary.

Anyone thinking of reading the four books together would do best to read 'Wait Till Spring, Bandini', which deals with B's childhood, last. It doesn't satisfy like the others; and though the books don't and aren't meant to tally factually, it did throw me off the Bandini scent for a bit.

Steven Sherrill - "The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break".

5000 years later the minotaur winds up as a diner line-chef in the deep south. Very deadpan and beautifully mundane. Recommended.

Just checked this out on Amazon, looks fun.

 

[MonkeyMagic]

The Prince and The Art of War by Niccolo Machiavelli

 

[cyberfairy]

I was disappointed with the end of my crime novel.

I'm now reading Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark. It's no Lolita (obviously) but I'm still enjoying it a lot.

I find many crime novels are excellent until the end
I got annoyed with Doctor Strange and Mr Norrell (as Pie eye forewarned!) so am now about to begin Nightwatch by Sarah Waters-hope it is as good as her victorian lesbian romping

 

[Dirty Martini]

The Dalkey Archive by Flann O'Brien

 

[sojourner]

Finished Annie Proulx, Bad Dirt, (she is now in my all time favourite top 5 writers, fucking wonderful short stories), and am 100 pages into The Bell by Iris Murdoch, which is a complete change of style, and is also quite brilliant

 

[Philbc03]

I read Douglas Coupland's 'jPod' yesterday, which was a nice read. I'm now looking at Edmund White's autobiography, 'My Lives'.

 

[han]

I'm reading Marc Almond's autobiography 'Tainted Life' at the moment.

It's a crackin' old read. Especially the bits about him taking Ecstasy in New York in 1981!

 

[fear-n-loathing]

Steven Sherrill - "The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break".

5000 years later the minotaur winds up as a diner line-chef in the deep south. Very deadpan and beautifully mundane. Recommended.

bloody good book that

 

[Reg in slippers]

my lives sounds bloody good


just finishing kafka on the shore, which i relished

 

[Dirty Martini]

'Ordinary Men -- Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland' by Christopher Browning. Grim reading.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho.

 

[sojourner]

Finished The Bell - must get some more Iris Murdoch - love her writing. Quite hilarious at times, almost farcical, and an excellent character writer. Started Will Self, Feeding Frenzy but I think that's going to be for bedtime reading.

 

[Rollem]

call me elizabeth - dawn annadale

 

[Dandred]

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho.

That doesn't take long but it gives you a really nice feeling..

 

[Dandred]

I'm currently reading "Sophies World" it's a kind of history of philosophy but gets strange later, haven't finished it yet, give me a day or two on the bus.

 

[sojourner]

I'm on an Annie Proulx mission. Started The Shipping News last night. I remember watching the film ages ago - and reading the book last night started wondering just who the FUCK decided it was a good idea to cast Kevin fucking Spacey as Quoyle???! Whoever it was wants fucking sacking is all I can say

Anyway, rant over - it's as I expected, an unfailingly brilliant read. I think I'm in love with Annie Proulx.

 

[Dirty Martini]

The Collected Shorter Fiction of Joseph Roth.