*What book are you reading ?

[J77]

Just read Sophie's World

Mainly because someone bought me Russell, and I thought I'd read the summary first

It's a nice history book -- the Sophie/Hilde/Alberto/Albert story's a bit lame tho'

 

[Barking_Mad]

Well what did you think of it? Sad to say, I never had the patience to finish my 'great russian novel', so I copped out and settled for some crime noir Chandler instead...

Thing is, even though those huge novels are a bit intimidating and takes a while to get into- I tend to just njet over the looong, triple russian names that all sound the same when you're not used to that sort of thing anyway- If you're determined enough to plow through the tome all the way to the bitter end, it ends up being one of the greatest books you've ever read and the flowery, 18th century language is beautiful and you just want to cry and read the damn thing over again...
At least that's what I felt when finishing the Master And Margarita...
Bulgakhov rocks... Perhaps one of my favourite books ever, that...

Bros K. is good, but 120 pages in not much has happened, but then I dont expect it to. Yes, the names can be hard work, and remembering who is who and did what can be a struggle, but it gets easier the more you read similar books I think.

I have the Master & the M., not read it yet!

 

[Dubversion]

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

have just finished this.

wow.

just. wow.

 

[Yossarian]

have just finished this.

wow.

just. wow.

Yeah, I really liked that book. I've heard Chabon wrote a series of actual Escapist comic books to follow...

 

[Nikkormat]

Watership Down by Richard Adams.

 

[Zorra]

Making Globalization Work by Joseph Stiglitz. Fairly interesting and much more readable than Globalization and it's Discontents.

I are also reading the collected letters of Nancy Mitford, and preparing myself for my new life as a 1930s dilletante

 

[Julie]

The Matriarch.

A good, true crime, Aussie yarn.

 

[idioteque]

Pompeii, by Robert Harris. Half because it's for a university module, half because volcanoes are sexy.

Edit for spelling.

 

[ChrisC]

Dreamcatcher by Stephen King. Too early to tell if it's any good.

 

[idioteque]

Dreamcatcher by Stephen King. Too early to tell if it's any good.

Really good book, I thought it was very different to everything else I've read by him. Wierd, but worth it.

 

[claxton]

I just started reading Winkie, by Clifford Chase. It's about a living teddy bear accused of acts of terrorism.

 

[Dirty Martini]

Finished Motherless Brooklyn. It's a fantastic novel, the best contemporary novel I've read this year I think. It's a proper wonder how Lethem writes so well with apparently such little effort and with none of the self-consciousness that, for me, mars a lot of the stuff around at the moment.

Lionel's kidnapping by a group of Zen doormen makes it into my all-time favourite comic set-pieces, just brilliant

A masterpiece I guess, and a future American classic.

 

[Dubversion]

Finished Motherless Brooklyn. It's a fantastic novel, the best contemporary novel I've read this year I think. It's a proper wonder how Lethem writes so well with apparently such little effort and with none of the self-consciousness that, for me, mars a lot of the stuff around at the moment.

Lionel's kidnapping by a group of Zen doormen makes it into my all-time favourite comic set-pieces, just brilliant

A masterpiece I guess, and a future American classic.

Really glad you enjoyed it. It was my favourite of last year.

Bit worried about the movie, though - Ed Norton as Lionel?

 

[Dirty Martini]

Really glad you enjoyed it. It was my favourite of last year.

Bit worried about the movie, though - Ed Norton as Lionel?

I had no idea they were making a movie. I love Ed Norton, but Lionel has to be big, it's kind of the point

It would be fun movie to cast though ...

 

[Dirty Martini]

Roscoe by William Kennedy. Never read any of his stuff before.

 

[Mogden]

The making of a chef by Michael Ruhlman. It's great so far but now I want to pack up my worldly belongings and chuff off to CIA.

 

[sojourner]

Iris and the Friends: A Year of Memories by John Bayley

Whilst trying not to cry

 

[Vintage Paw]

Recently finished Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and I liked it.

Now reading Heidi Julavits's The Uses of Enchantment and so far, only a little way into it, it's so-so.

Next on the list is Henry Adams and his bloody education. Not looking forward to that one.

 

[ThierryEnnui]

Just finished Nostromo by Joseph Conrad, it has replaced The Secret Agent as my favourite Conrad book. Fantastic.

 

[Roadkill]

On two long tube journeys and a lunch break, I've read all the way through one of the OUP Very Short Introductions series today - John's Guy's one on Tudor England.

 

[Dubversion]

trying to avoid reading a proper novel cos I'm supposed to be reading set texts.

But curling up in bed with a book about Ricardian fucking economics is just cunty. So I might buy ANOTHER Michael Chabon book

 

[the button]

I'm reading EP Thompson's biography of William Morris, which I got for cheap in Judd back in April. Interesting stuff so far.

 

[crustychick]

where do you people find the time to read all of this?!?!

hmmm, it took me 2 month to finish The Diamond Age (which I LOVED)

Just started Black Swan Green by David Mitchell. So far I like it.

 

[the button]

where do you people find the time to read all of this?!?!

½ an hour on the DLR on the way to work, ½ an hour on the way home. You'll notice I bought my current book back in April. I have something of a backlog.

I have a meeting in Manchester tomorrow, so that means I get paid to read a book on a 2 hour train journey. Not bad, eh?

 

[Blagsta]

Laurie Lee - A Moment of War

 

[Roadkill]

where do you people find the time to read all of this?!?!

Not having the internet at home used to help. I'd doubtless be reading now if I still hadn't. I get a lot read on days when I go to the PRO, since it's about an hour and a half each way. Assuming the train and the tube aren't too crowded, that is, since I'm not good at reading with my face jammed into someone's armpit...

I bought Roy Porter's last book, Flesh in an Age of Reason: How the Enlightenment Transformed the Way we see our Bodies and Souls at the weekend, and I'm a big fan of Porter so that'll probably be my next read.

 

[jeff_leigh]

Planet Simpson - Chris Turner

 

[Barking_Mad]

anyone read any Victor Pelevin? Ive recently discovered his stuff but not as yet bought any. It looks really quite splendid

http://www.amazon.com/Yellow-Arrow-...3552/ref=pd_sim_b_title_4/104-8393857-6337556

 

[quimcunx]

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan.

Nothing we do is right. Why do the govt's measure everything by how well the big corporations are doing, and everything have to be moulded for their benefit and our and everything elses detriment?

 

[Barking_Mad]

im going to attempt the impossible, to walk into a bookshop and come out without a book. Wish me luck fellow readers.