*What book are you reading ?

[Mrs Magpie]

Well maybe you're used to it. I had to keep reading lines (they weren't sentences) again to understand them, and so it didn't flow at all. It stopped and started and was one line forward two lines back. Just couldn't be doing with it at all.

 

[Pieface]

You'd HATE Cormac McCarthy then

 

[sojourner]

You'd HATE Cormac McCarthy then

Heh


Shame about that Mrs M - I thought it was an excellent book. Still, each to their own

 

[kyser_soze]

'Splinter' by Adam Roberts. Kind of a rewrite of a Jules Verne story, an asteroid hits earth and it's about a group of end-of-world cultists who were right and try to make a life on the US-sized planetoid chunk...

 

[blueplume]

which novel of Jules Vernes has inspired him ?

 

[May Kasahara]

I'm reading Extremities by Kathe Koja and The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill, both of which are very good indeed.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Im currently reading 'No Country for Old Men' absolutely love it at the moment. Also when I find it I'm reading a book about Operation Sea Lion, by Peter Flemming which is dam fine book but a might heavy going. Thoose are the ones I'm reading theres a pile of books 10 high by my bed.

Just starting reading this - in the anticipation of seeing the film

 

[bodach]

A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction - Mapping Histories Nightmares by Mighall. And it is a fucking nightmare of a read.

 

[jeff_leigh]

Scoop - Evelyn Waugh

 

[Barking_Mad]

Just read 'The Road', which was superb. Now reading 'God is Dead', a story about God coming to earth in the body of a female African refugee, and then dying.

 

[alexjames]

I read Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five recently and I've been re-reading bits of Simon Reynold's Rip It Up and Start Again on the bus. Other recent reads: Glue by Irvine Welsh and The Rum Diaries by Hunter S. Thompson. I really want to get hold of a copy of On The Road by Jack Kerouac but all the local libraries are out.

 

[belboid]

I read Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five recently and I've been re-reading bits of Simon Reynold's Rip It Up and Start Again on the bus. Other recent reads: Glue by Irvine Welsh and The Rum Diaries by Hunter S. Thompson. I really want to get hold of a copy of On The Road by Jack Kerouac but all the local libraries are out.

lordy, I've read all of them, and damned good they all are. Don't bother with On The Road tho, Kerouac is the most over-rated author in the history of the world (tho his dreams book is worth a read)

 

[bluestreak]

Half way through Fury by Salman Rushdie. Very good so far, there's something about Malik that reminds me of myself though, which is a worry.

Read Albion by Alan Moore the other day, which was a nice idea but didn't grip me.

 

[Sneaky Rushton]

Just finnished The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins last night... I found it a good read...

 

[chazegee]

 

[CharlieAddict]

Cormac McCarthy's The Road - loving it.

defo will read Suttree next.

 

[MightyAphrodite]

Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen

The Gangs of New York - Herbert Asbury

is next.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

J.G. Farrell – The Singapore Grip

Great book - have you read any of his others?

 

[Orang Utan]

Great book - have you read any of his others?

Troubles is ace

I'm still reading the Bewick biog - it's shaping up to be the finest biography I've ever read.
That man had the skills:

 

[chooch]

Next up, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.

Which I've only just started. Kracking so far.

Also finished Caroline Lucas/Mike Woodin: Green Alternatives to Globalisation: A Manifesto. An impressive piece of work, though a little patchy. RIP Mike.

 

[sojourner]

Crocodile Soup by Julia Darling

Hmmm. It's okay, but a little too self-conscious I think...

 

[El Jefe]

stopped reading Chabon for a bit (6 novels in about 4 months may have been overkill) and am finally reading Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell - I picked up a nice 3-part paperback set which isn't quite as wrist-threatening as the usual edition. Loving it so far, funnier than I'd expected.

 

[May Kasahara]

The bulk is what's put me off so far Maybe I'll look out for that three part edition...

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Just read Rupert Thomson's Death of a Murderer. It's a slight, single-sitter. He's written a lot of good books, Thomson, but ti's not looking likely any more that he'll write anything superb. Which is a shame, because he's a top-rank stylist.

 

[Orang Utan]

Still reading about Bewick, but my flatmate's making me read Perdido Street Station by China Miéville - is this what they call fantasy then? It's very well written, but I haven't quite got to grips with his world, or maybe it's the genre I'm having trouble with - only read 1 chapter so far though - it's pretty gripping so far in that I want to find out more.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Reading a book called Galilee by Clive Barker which my mate got for me cos he thought it would be right up my street. It's an interesting mixture so far...

The other week, I read "On Beauty" by Zadie Smith, which I thought was awesome.

 

[maya]

Finally started The Road... Spent ages beforehand trying to peel off the annoying 'Oprah's Bookclub' sticker without damaging the dustjacket... devil's spawn, etc...

 

[colbhoy]

Just started All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. It's taking me a bit of time to get used to his unique writing style but it is slowly building up into something quite intriguing.

 

[pootle]

The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland. Am loving it, after a slow start, but then Coupland can do little wrong in my eyes.

 

[bluestreak]

Started Portnoy's Complaint yesterday. seems like a good little read so far, though I have this vision that it's going to get cringingly grim very soon.