*What book are you reading ?

[Pieface]

Finally reading "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie. Had to wait ages for the library to get it in then they got 2 in at once!
Great so far!

Such a fantastic book.....weird premise too

I'm still being irritated by Everything is Illuminated - I should have finished it ages ago

Thing is, when I start reading it, I love certain parts but I can't bring myself to pick it up very often. Hmmmm.....

 

[baldrick]

jpod.

not enjoying it at all. which is a shame. lots of people seem to like it, but i'm just not getting it. maybe it's shit? i'm reluctant to think that coupland's written a crap book, but it's possible.

anyway. waste of 7.99.

 

[Vintage Paw]

I are mostly reading far too much at the moment.

Need to finish Middlesex - I've read it before and love it, this second time around is for my course.

Just finished The Scarlet Letter, again second time around for my course.

Next on to Veronica by Mary Gaitskill, and 'Billy Budd' by Melville.

Also need to find time to read Oracle Night and The Brooklyn Follies as background for my dissertation.

Recently read Travels in the Scriptorium - hard core fans of Auster and his pomo wankery will love it.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Such a fantastic book.....weird premise too

I'm still being irritated by Everything is Illuminated - I should have finished it ages ago

Thing is, when I start reading it, I love certain parts but I can't bring myself to pick it up very often. Hmmmm.....

I loved Midnight's Children too - totally not what I was expecting, no idea it was a magic realist book before I read it. Had the same wtf moment as when I watched Devil's Advocate before realising it was anything other than a normal lawyer film lol!

Foer's other book, incredibly extremely everything whatsit is on my reading list, so I bought the first one too - haven't had time to read it yet though.

 

[El Sueno]

I'm reading Dogwalker by Arthur Bradford. It just gets funnier and funnier, a real gem of little short stories.

Just finished The Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby which was pretty interesting too. Shamans seeing DNA after ingesting hallucinogenics etc.

 

[Pieface]

Had the same wtf moment as when I watched Devil's Advocate before realising it was anything other than a normal lawyer film lol!

I think I might have had that as well

"oh blah, Al Pacino, ranty ranty, blah.........OH! What the fuckingfuck?!"

 

[Yetman]

Just finished The Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby which was pretty interesting too. Shamans seeing DNA after ingesting hallucinogenics etc.

Hmmm...sounds like my kind of thing, might check that out

 

[Structaural]

Fiction: No Country for Old Men, much brevity and to the point, but not very nice story, be interesting what the Cohen brothers do with it.


Just finished Noam Chomsky's 'American Hegemony...etc' - I really enjoyed it (if enjoyed is the right word). Can anyone recommend further reading?

I'm particularly interested in the (unglossed) history of Palestine...

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Can anyone recommend further reading?

Yes, I recommend you continue reading.

 

[Structaural]

Yes, I recommend you continue reading.

But what?

 

[no-no]

Second attempt at The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester. I got bored of it last time for some reason, can't figure why, it's great this time round.

 

[El Sueno]

Hmmm...sounds like my kind of thing, might check that out

I loved it and it's one of my tripping buddys' favourite book too, I think it'd be definately up your street.

 

[May Kasahara]

Hey El Sueno, I thought of you the other day - I was watching some bizarre trippy kids' tv with the sound off, and they showed a massive clips compilation of Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow It was so great.

 

[El Sueno]

Hey El Sueno, I thought of you the other day - I was watching some bizarre trippy kids' tv with the sound off, and they showed a massive clips compilation of Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow It was so great.

Oh mannnnn!!! I wish I'd had my digibox tuned to that one to record for posterity...

For now I have to content myself with clips like .

 

[Rainingstairs]

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

EXCELLENT! but sometimes I look outside myself and am like "geez...I've been reading about the proliferation of wild seeds via defecating animals and fertile latrines for like an hour now...."

 

[mrs quoad]

Are about to start 'Theatre of Horror: Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Germany' as bedtime reading

It is - apparently - v readable. AND with a booklet of mini-post-its by t'bed doubles up as course work. Woo.

Geek @ self

 

[chooch]

The Gay Talese Reader and Flann O Brien- The Poor Mouth.

 

[jeff_leigh]

Bandersnatch - Ed McBain one of his 87th Precinct novels, The series got some good reviews on here so thought I'd try it out

 

[Pieface]

Finished Everything Is (FINALLY ) Illuminated.

Not that impressed - the structure was interesting but too confusing I think. Some parts were very impressive but there was too much going on - I didn't get what the whole story was....
Although the theme of memory and its incomplete nature explains that.

I still didn't like it very much and the whole eastern european take on english was just irritating.

Meh.

Got Ursula Le Guin's The Disposessed now.

 

[Cribynkle]

Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England. Only just started it but very interesting so far....love books about the Planagenets - quite a dramatic bunch!

 

[tufty79]

Foer's other book, incredibly extremely everything whatsit is on my reading list, so I bought the first one too - haven't had time to read it yet though.

beautiful, beautiful stuff.
get it read

 

[Dillinger4]

I am reading 'The conference of the Birds' by Farid ud-din Attar.

I have read 'Spiritual Verses' by Rumi as well recently.

I am getting quite into my 12th Century Persian Mystic Poetry.

 

[Strumpet]

Am LOVING Altered Carbon....again

 

[maya]

Another attempt at the "famous russian novels" pile which threatens to consume me not only by their ingenious verbosity and brick-like authority, but also by my mounting guilt of leaving them unloved and unfinished at crucial moments...

 

[Dirty Martini]

Finished most of Promises, Promises by Adam Phillips, a collection of essays on psychoanalysis and literature. I like him more and more. Some of his lit crit is stunning.

Then it was Hey, Have You Got a Cig, the Time, the News, My Face? by Barry Hannah, from The Granta Book of the American Long Story. Very funny, snappy, honed American prose, but the story doesn't really go anywhere.

Now it's A State of Denmark by Derek Raymond.

With their whiskers, their chat about shares and their false grief, they were a high, braying concerto to the abuse of democracy.

is the quintessential Raymond sentence

 

[chooch]

Finished most of Promises, Promises by Adam Phillips, a collection of essays on psychoanalysis and literature. I like him more and more. Some of his lit crit is stunning.

Looks interesting.

With their whiskers, their chat about shares and their false grief, they were a high, braying concerto to the abuse of democracy.

 

[sojourner]

Then it was Hey, Have You Got a Cig, the Time, the News, My Face? by Barry Hannah, from The Granta Book of the American Long Story. Very funny, snappy, honed American prose, but the story doesn't really go anywhere.

That sounds interesting

I'm about 30 pages away from the end of Middlesex...read from 8am to 10pm yesterday, with a 3 hour break for housework and corrie - what a fucking fantastic book. Sooo much in there it would take me a week to analyse it all

 

[Roadkill]

David Cordingly - Cochrane The Dauntless: The Life and Adventures of Thomas Cochrane
Interesting bloke, Cochrane, and this is a really good biog.

 

[May Kasahara]

Finished Death Of A Murderer a few days ago, really enjoyed it. Am now reading Brighton Rock - why the fuck haven't I read any Graham Greene before? The writing is astonishing.

 

[Dubversion]

now reading The Amazing Adventures Kavalier & Klay by Michael Chabon, which is off to a cracking start

.. and continues to be cracking