*What book are you reading ?

[May Kasahara]

Yet again, for no good reason, I started a Rupert Thomson book then put it aside temporarily and haven't picked it up again...instead, I've reread Tim Moore's "Continental Drifter" which was as hilarious as before but made me really sad too as it was something my brother and I used to share. Am supposed to be reading "To The Lighthouse" for book club next week, so will probably make a start on that tomorrow *sigh* Also have got a Marcus Sedgwick book and two Thailand guides out of the library, and really want to start reading that Rupert Thomson book again!

 

[roney]

finished 'the house on bear tree road' - amazing. recommned it.
also 'the pyjama game' - about judo - really good.

and irivine welsj's new on. 'if you liked school you'll love work' - ok.

and now reading 'Londonstani'..fascinating book. still not sure what a 'desi' is though.

 

[ViolentPanda]

"The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy" by Adam Tooze. Heavy going but extremely interesting.

 

[D'wards]

Just starting on The Picture of Dorian Gray - about time i read that.

 

[souljacker]

Just finished Miss Wyoming -Douglas Coupland

I liked it, he's a very witty writer. However, I was completely uninterested in the fate of any of the characters. None of them even remotely interested me. I got the impression Coupland was more interested in writing some witty prose than actually engaging me with any of the characters.

It was, however, good enough to make we want to read his other novels.

 

[Grego Morales]

The Player of Games by Iain M Banks. Not read any of his Sci-Fi stuff before, but it's dead good so far.

 

[obanite]

Renegade Magic was a bit boring in the middle but had a really nice ending.

Almost finished Persian Fire by Tom Holland, all about events leading up to and during Xerxes' invasion of Greece, it's really well written and I recommend it! Didn't realise quite how many of our words are greek or persian

 

[foamy]

just started Bill Bryson: The life and times of the thunderbolt kid.

 

[Dubversion]

Just finished Miss Wyoming -Douglas Coupland

I liked it, he's a very witty writer. However, I was completely uninterested in the fate of any of the characters. None of them even remotely interested me. I got the impression Coupland was more interested in writing some witty prose than actually engaging me with any of the characters.

It was, however, good enough to make we want to read his other novels.

IMO, Coupland's only written two bad books, and that's one of them. All Families Are Psychotic sucks too

read Hey Nostradamus, that's awesome

 

[Lea]

Just finished Dead Heart by Douglas Kennedy.

 

[Orang Utan]

Dub - what of C McM's books should I read now I've finished The Road?

 

[sojourner]

Dub - what of C McM's books should I read now I've finished The Road?

I know you asked him and not me, but I'm gonna recommend what he did to me

the Border Trilogy - excellent. I'm on the last book now

 

[Dubversion]

yep, those.

 

[Dillinger4]

IMO, Coupland's only written two bad books, and that's one of them. All Families Are Psychotic sucks too

read Hey Nostradamus, that's awesome

I have read just about everything Douglas Coupland has published, and liked most of it, but I admit that those two mentioned are not Coupland's best.

I would reccomend Hey Nostradamus aswell.

 

[foo]

IMO, Coupland's only written two bad books, and that's one of them. All Families Are Psychotic sucks too

read Hey Nostradamus, that's awesome

i loved All Families Are Pshchotic! and thought Miss Wyoming was good, not brilliant, but a good read.

i'm a bit pee'd off with Coupland - i have read every book and wish he'd bloody write more. he is (i think) my favourite living author.

 

[Orang Utan]

I know you asked him and not me, but I'm gonna recommend what he did to me

the Border Trilogy - excellent. I'm on the last book now

before The Road, all I was aware of him was that he did All The Pretty Horses and that title and the impression I got of him as a cowboy western writer prejudiced me against him, so I need to rectify things!

 

[Dubversion]

the border trilogy is set later than that - mid 20th century - and is just immense.

 

[sojourner]

before The Road, all I was aware of him was that he did All The Pretty Horses and that title and the impression I got of him as a cowboy western writer prejudiced me against him, so I need to rectify things!

Hmm...I read lots of that sort of stuff when younger and it was pap. This is the best ever cowboy story in the WORLD. Made me resent my job more powerfully than I ever have, and started hankering after a lost world.

It's some powerful stuff OU - well worth reading

 

[May Kasahara]

I guess it's just me that doesn't really get on with Cormac McCarthy then.

 

[bodach]

I'm reading "A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away" by Christopher Brookmyre. A really good book

 

[Orang Utan]

I guess it's just me that doesn't really get on with Cormac McCarthy then.

I didn't think I would, but I was attracted to the post-apocalyptic setting - it reminded me of Riddley Walker

 

[sojourner]

I didn't think I would, but I was attracted to the post-apocalyptic setting - it reminded me of Riddley Walker

I was impressed by that cos I thought post-apocalyptic stuff was dead in the water by now, but he turned it right around

 

[May Kasahara]

I didn't think I would, but I was attracted to the post-apocalyptic setting - it reminded me of Riddley Walker

Yeah, I'm certainly willing to have another go round with him as I know he's good and all that. I bought Blood Meridian after reading a review that vividly described an intriguing kind of power and passion, but I found the actual book strangely unengaging. Then had to read All The Pretty Horses for a university module - I think I made it to the end, but again, found it hard to give a shit.

Maybe The Road is the book for me to start again with

 

[Orang Utan]

The Road is the most compelling book I've read in years - as I said, I read it in one sitting - give it a go! It is so bleak and depressing though.

 

[May Kasahara]

Yay

 

[sojourner]

It's not just bleak and depressing!! there's fuckloads of stuff in there - I found a whole heap of theological questions running through it, without giving too much away

 

[Dirty Martini]

A Buyer's Market by Anthony Powell. Second in the Music of Time sequence. 'S ok so far, bit windy and fussy.

 

[ChrisC]

Currently reading Revelation Space by Alistair Reynolds. Interesting so far.

 

[Mandla]

The Blind Watchmaker by Dickie Dawkins. Enjoying it - but not as good or readable as The God Delusion. However certainly not as 'preachy' as God Delusion.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Crime & Punishment - Fyodor Dosotevsky.

Damned fine book although I want him to get away with it but know he quite obviously won't.......