*What book are you reading ?

[Maurice Picarda]

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.

Still Roth's best.

 

[bluestreak]

Yeah, I read one of his then recent ones a few years ago, cannae remember what it was called but they made a film of it. Dull as fuck. Never bothered after that, but I thought I'd give him another chance seeing as I've owned this for years and enver read it.

 

[Orang Utan]

Yeah, I read one of his then recent ones a few years ago, cannae remember what it was called but they made a film of it. Dull as fuck. Never bothered after that, but I thought I'd give him another chance seeing as I've owned this for years and enver read it.

The Human Stain?

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Gary Shteyngart: Absurdistan. I'm liking.

 

[chooch]

Yeah, I read one of his then recent ones a few years ago

They've all started pretty well, tailed off some, IIRC.

 

[bodach]

Under the Glacier by Halldór Laxness

 

[Roadkill]

Isabel Fonseca - Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and their Journey

<edit> I'm now 2/3 of the way through this, and it's one of the most fascinating, thought-provoking things I've read in ages. I couldn't recommend it too highly.

 

[the button]

Having been diverted via the Kipling biog I mentioned earlier in the thread, I am now on volume 2 of William Cobbett's Rural rides.

 

[Sunray]

Currently its Labyrinth by Kate Mosse. Its OK, the Wire has me distracted at the moment.

 

[Dillinger4]

Waiting for The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch to arrive. It has been a week now.

So in the meantime I am rereading Jpod by Douglas Coupland.

 

[the button]

Waiting for The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch to arrive. It has been a week now.

It'll be worth the wait.

 

[mentalchik]

Just finished Blood Music by Greg Bear and am part way into Koko by Peter Straub......both charity shop finds in perfrct condition too !


realised i have about 10 books piled on my bedside table....really must sort 'em out !

 

[Nikkormat]

A biography of Gertrude Bell, Daughter of the Desert by Georgina Howell.

 

[May Kasahara]

Just got a nice box of books through from Amazon:

Geek Love
Middlesex
Perdido Street Station
King Rat

I don't know where to start!

 

[Orang Utan]

Perdido Street Station, cos I'm reading it and we can discuss!

 

[liquidlunch]

Just got a nice box of books through from Amazon:

Geek Love
Middlesex
Perdido Street Station
King Rat

I don't know where to start!

King Rat was a good read but Clavells best has to be Noble House

 

[May Kasahara]

Perdido Street Station, cos I'm reading it and we can discuss!

(((my wrists)))

I've just realised that sounds perverse. It's a big book, people, before you start sniggering!

 

[Roadkill]

I've just started on Arctic Apprentice, by Rob Ellis. It's the memoirs of a bloke who started on Hull trawlers in the 1950s - I picked it up in Hull last weekend. I wasn't expecting it to be that good, but so far I'm rather impressed.

<edit again> I enjoyed it so much that I finished it on the tube this morning, having read it from cover to cover in a couple of sittings.

 

[Dillinger4]

I am STILL waiting for my copy of The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch.

It got delivered to my dads house instead of where I live. So it should be here on Monday.

In the meantime, I reread The Fall by Albert Camus, as it ties in with the existentialism essays I am writing.

 

[lenny101]

I am currently reading Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Its quite disturbing.

I can't wait to finish it so I can read Angel by Katie Price. AKA Jordan. Is there anything this woman can't do!

 

[Scarlette]

I am STILL waiting for my copy of The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch.

It got delivered to my dads house instead of where I live. So it should be here on Monday.

In the meantime, I reread The Fall by Albert Camus, as it ties in with the existentialism essays I am writing.

Eek! The fact that you've bought this makes me foolishly pleased. I should have sent you my copy, sorry!!

 

[MysteryGuest]

I've owned this for years and enver read it.

ern would be proud.

 

[Dillinger4]

I am very close to ordering The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz.

I will restrain until I have a bit more money though.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Dostoevsky - The Idiot.

*thinks it will be a sad day when he has no more Dostoevsky to read*

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Richard Fortey’s new book Dry Store Room Number 1. I'm really enjoying it.
www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2008/january/news_13240.html

 

[bodach]

The Wasp Factory. Again. I'm after it's gothic this time.

 

[Roadkill]

Nik Cohn - Yes We Have No. I read this years ago and I remember enjoying it, but now I don't know what to make of it. I can't make up my mind whether it's self-satisfied, cliched middle-class slumming or roughly what it claims to be. I am enjoying it though, in a way. Cohn's a good writer.

Three entries on the last two pages. I must be reading rather a lot atm.

 

[Dillinger4]

It'll be worth the wait.

oh yes.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Nik Cohn - Yes We Have No. I read this years ago and I remember enjoying it, but now I don't know what to make of it. I can't make up my mind whether it's self-satisfied, cliched middle-class slumming or roughly what it claims to be. I am enjoying it though, in a way. Cohn's a good writer.

He is a good writer. I really wanted to punch him by the end, though. And send tanks into his "republic".

 

[Roadkill]

He is a good writer. I really wanted to punch him by the end, though. And send tanks into his "republic".

I'm just not sure how much of it I believe. It's a bit pat and dramatised in places.