*What book are you reading ?

[chooch]

It looks like it might have one of those hardback covers without a dust jacket that go all smeary and end up with loads of nail marks on them.

I associate those with the late 1970s: The Usborne Children's Book of the Animal Kingdom, a Time Life series on People of Action, a set of World Books missing Q-R.

Heartache spoken here

Looks interesting.
Thanks to all for recommendations.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Idle Passion: Chess and the dance of death by Alexander Cockburn.

 

[May Kasahara]

I'm in between fictions at the moment and am having trouble deciding what to read next - just taken delivery of an Amazon order, so have:

George R R Martin - Dreamsongs
Steven Sherrill - The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
Kathe Koja - Extremities
A big compilation of new horror stories (The Year's Best Horror, or something)

I need to read all of these anyway, but dunno which to start first.

 

[DotCommunist]

I'm in between fictions at the moment and am having trouble deciding what to read next - just taken delivery of an Amazon order, so have:

George R R Martin - Dreamsongs
Steven Sherrill - The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
Kathe Koja - Extremities
A big compilation of new horror stories (The Year's Best Horror, or something)

I need to read all of these anyway, but dunno which to start first.

he is so unrelentingly grim

 

[May Kasahara]

I know I love it!

Hopefully it'll keep me going till the next Ice and Fire book arrives.

 

[foamy]

I'm just going back to The Child In Time by Ian McEwan, I left it to read Northern Lights which I finished yesterday.

I have 44 unread books on my shelf so I need to get a wriggle on and read them before I can justify buying anything else - this does not include the 6 books that are winging their way to me from Amazon right now

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Started Richard Hammond's On the Edge on the tube this morning and have just finished it.

A great read for anyone who has ever had someone close to them admitted to hospital or for anyone who's lost their memory

First book I've read in absolutely ages

 

[Dirty Martini]

The Soccer War, Ryszard Kapuscinski.

 

[bodach]

The Island of the Women by George Mackay Brown

 

[ruffneck23]

Raving Lunacy by Dave Courtney : dont know what i was expecting but its the first book ive ever physically chucked across the room . The odd bit about the raves is good but the whole ' im so fcking hard cos i did this / that ' gets really tedious........ im sure some of its true but its all a bit crass ( i hope he doesnt read this cos i reckon he will kill me in the face !! )

 

[foamy]

I've put down the McEwan again today as my order from amazon came at lunch time so I read The Road by Cormac McCarthy which I have now nearly finished

 

[quimcunx]

I've put down the McEwan again today as my order from amazon came at lunch time so I read The Road by Cormac McCarthy which I have now nearly finished

If you want my advice don't bother picking it up again.

Just finished Eleanor Rigby. Very good.

About to start Venus as a Boy by Luke Sutherland. No idea if it will be any good. I picked it because I met him back in the old country when I was a slip of a lass. He was wearing odd socks and kindly gave me a lift home. And it was adapted into a play at the Soho theatre recently which reminded me of it.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Steven Sherrill - The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break

I read this last year i think it was - it's enjoyable enough in the main and some interesting characterisation but it did leave me a little feeling like it wasn't properly finished or something, like it runs out of steam a little. Be interested in what you think about it as i think its definitely worth a read.

I've just finished Stormy Weather by Carl Hiassen, ok as a quick holiday read, now getting serious with A History of the Arab-Speaking Peoples by Albert Hourani. Bit heavy-going but fascinating stuff all the same.

 

[Dirty Martini]

The Soccer War, Ryszard Kapuscinski.

Finished this. Fantastic book. The best place to start with Kapuscinski I reckon, being a mix of straight(ish) reportage and more meditative stuff.

Next up, I think: Too Loud A Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal.

 

[chooch]

Next up, I think: Too Loud A Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal.

It's not as immediate as Closely Observed Trains or I Served the King of England, but it's probably my favourite of his now.

Whipping through Stewart Home Memphis Underground as an in-betweener.
I want to punch him regularly, but it's very entertaining.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Bobby Fischer: His Approach To Chess - Elie Agur.

 

[Dirty Martini]

It's not as immediate as Closely Observed Trains or I Served the King of England, but it's probably my favourite of his now.

Whipping through Stewart Home Memphis Underground as an in-betweener.
I want to punch him regularly, but it's very entertaining.

Yeh, I wanted to get I Served but they didn't have it.

I enjoyed the Home, without really getting it I think

 

[cybertect]

Reading on the train this week has been Roland Barthes' Mythologies

 

[chainsaw cat]

Erewhon.

 

[dessiato]

just re reading 'The Old Man and the Sea'. I've read more times than I care to remember.

 

[chooch]

Yeh, I wanted to get I Served but they didn't have it.

It's a corker, but I fear you wouldn't like it.

I enjoyed the Home, without really getting it I think

Yeah. I think he's mostly dicking about. Can't pretend to chortle knowingly, but the sniggering bits are good. And it's page-turning, in an occasionally punchable kind of way. I'm not getting the impression of vast, unconquerable self-doubt with it.

 

[BBORCIK]

A Life Played For Keeps

I am half way through Ringolevio - A Life played for Keeps by Emmett Grogan - figured I should read the story as my brother named himself Ringolevio!! It's a great read for anyone that hasn't read it...or am I the only one that hasn't?!! ** Wondering if I should feel dumb now?! **

 

[senny dreadful]

Hello!

I've just finished reading Watchmen by Alan Moore for the second time- even more amazing this time round, in my top ten reads of all time easily.

So now I'm also nearing the end of Evolution by Stephen Baxter (good read, if you can get past all the monkey penis) and just starting Stephen Fry's Making History.

 

[El Jefe]

I am half way through Ringolevio - A Life played for Keeps by Emmett Grogan - figured I should read the story as my brother named himself Ringolevio!! It's a great read for anyone that hasn't read it...or am I the only one that hasn't?!! ** Wondering if I should feel dumb now?! **

It's a really brilliant book, and I think it's cool you're reading it

 

[El Jefe]

finally tracked down a new copy of my long lost Modern Primitives book, published by Re: Search. Brilliant collection of pieces / interviews about tattoos, piercing, ritual, scarification, body modding etc.

 

[Scarlette]

The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch. I love Iris Murdoch.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

finally tracked down a new copy of my long lost Modern Primitives book, published by Re: Search. Brilliant collection of pieces / interviews about tattoos, piercing, ritual, scarification, body modding etc.

Great book

 

[ViolentPanda]

I'm struggling manfully through Paul Hegarty's "Noise/Music: A History". It's a good book that could have been great (IMHO) if the author had resisted the urge to cite quite so often.

 

[BBORCIK]

It's a really brilliant book, and I think it's cool you're reading it

Thanks El Jefe! I am digging it!

 

[BBORCIK]

finally tracked down a new copy of my long lost Modern Primitives book, published by Re: Search. Brilliant collection of pieces / interviews about tattoos, piercing, ritual, scarification, body modding etc.

Haven't read that one but read similar ones - will have to check it out!