*What book are you reading ?

[Dirty Martini]

So it's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Gray, after much recommendation on this thread.

e2a: Clay, not Gray :/

 

[El Jefe]

So it's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Gray, after much recommendation on this thread.

Look forward to hearing what you think

 

[Dirty Martini]

Look forward to hearing what you think

I'm 50 pages in, enjoying it a lot. I'm appreciating the slow expansive style, a nice contrast to Lethem's tightly wound aphorisms

 

[foamy]

I've had to give up on Nelson Algren's A Walk On The Wild Side for the moment as I was finding it really hard to get into - i'll have to book myself a beach holiday to finish it off

now onto Mister Pip by LLoyd Jones. Enjoying it a lot so far and it'll hopefully kick start a bit more reading after the sense of achievement i get from finishing all 199 pages in one day

 

[bluestreak]

I'm reading The Canterbury Tales. Bloody good actually, I'm really enjoying it, though it's hard work at times.

 

[Dirty Martini]

I'm reading The Canterbury Tales. Bloody good actually, I'm really enjoying it, though it's hard work at times.

Ah, they're great. In the Middle English or a modern English version?

 

[Biddlybee]

So it's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Gray, after much recommendation on this thread.

I keep meaning to get that out the library... I might do it this afternoon, none of the books I've half-heartedly started are really grabbing me at the moment.

 

[Dirty Martini]

I keep meaning to get that out the library... I might do it this afternoon, none of the books I've half-heartedly started are really grabbing me at the moment.

It's building up nicely

 

[foamy]

none of the books I've half-heartedly started are really grabbing me at the moment.

this has happened to me for the past month so i had to go and get a book not good enough for the Booker prize but good enough for Richard and Judy' book club and the Galaxy awards

 

[Rollem]

i'm reading 'empress orchid', by anchee min. just started it but already engrossed

 

[El Jefe]

Nashville Radio by Jon Langford - fantastic book of his art and lyrics

 

[bluestreak]

Ah, they're great. In the Middle English or a modern English version?

I'd say modern, but it's a rather interesting 1950s variant!

 

[catinthehat]

I'm reading The Canterbury Tales. Bloody good actually, I'm really enjoying it, though it's hard work at times.

You could practice your middle english by posting every tenth post in it. Having said that the only words I remember is Blacke Rockkes, which is not even spelt like that and rarely comes up in conversation.

 

[Blagsta]

Sue Gerhardt - Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain

 

[Nikkormat]

Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery.

 

[Roadkill]

Tim Harford - The Undercover Economist

Impulse buy in Waterstone's yesterday. Amusing enough and fairly light, but he has an unhealthy regard for Kenneth Arrow...

 

[bodach]

Amongst Women by John McGahern. A thoughtful book.

 

[Annierak]

'The Wrong Boy' by Willy Russell. Excellent so far, almost feel like it was written about me except i'm female . Can identify with it on every level and it's funny too

 

[sojourner]

Finished Touching From a Distance by Deborah Curtis this morning. Was never into Joy Division, so don't know much about them. Liked this book though - shed a bit of light.

Now - East of Acre Lane by Alex Wheatle

 

[Fledgling]

I've started plenty of books but slacked off reading them. I'm going to continue with Crime and Punishment though because I'm about a third of the way through and it's actually very good but I haven't really got into it. It is a bit irritating though, you can tell the novel was a serial, this guy must have really needed the money, a bit repetitive so far.


I have lots of books now and aven't read many of them, buy faster than read.

 

[heinous seamus]

The Secret Life of Salvador Dali

I'm not sure I have the concentration levels to make it to the end.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Sue Gerhardt - Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain

you big softie you

 

[Orang Utan]

I've finally got round to finishing From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddy Campbell - it took a while! It's great - so many strands and ideas in it - shame Moore isn't such a great writer but the ideas he has and the research he's done more than make up for that. I may have a look at V For Vendetta next.

 

[May Kasahara]

My favourite bit of From Hell is the Ripperologists chasing the gull at the end

Finished A Clergyman's Daughter last night - it was decent enough, but I'm not really sure what Orwell was trying to say. A lot of it is state-of-the-nation journalism shoehorned into a pulpy novel, which made me wonder why he didn't just write it as straight journalism, and the book depends a lot on the reader taking any kind of interest in issues of Christian faith, which I don't. I'll be interested to hear what the book club selector has to say about it tomorrow night.

Bedtime reading at the moment is a Love and Rockets compilation (Heartbreak Soup - v good), and am going to start Middlesex this evening

 

[Pieface]

Aw - Love and Rockets is ace! And Middlesex is one of my favourite books ever

 

[BennehBoi]

Matter - Iain M Banks - very slow to get moving but looks like the end may rock.

 

[maya]

The Secret Life of Salvador Dali

I'm not sure I have the concentration levels to make it to the end.

The weirdest (and most annoying) book abut Dali is the one he wrote about himself: "The Diary Of A Genius"...

 

[colbhoy]

I'm reading Touching from a Distance, a biography by Deborah Curtis of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis and on which the film Control was based. Got the book free when I ordered the DVD from Amazon.

 

[idioteque]

I'm about to start either The Satanic Verses or A Wild Sheep Chase by Murakami. Can't decide which to read first though!

 

[Dillinger4]

Murakami.

I wouldn't bother reading The Satanic Verses, tbh.