*What book are you reading ?

[Dirty Martini]

An amazing book!

I'm enjoying it a lot. I've had it on my 'to read' list for about 20 years

 

[chooch]

The Periodic Table by Primo Levi

Is that mine?

 

[Dirty Martini]

If yours has a pencilled note to 'phone plumber' on the title page, it is

 

[foamy]

first book i've read for ages: 'Russell Brand's My Booky Wook'.

 

[D'wards]

Into "We Need to Talk about Kevin" by Lional Shriver.

I was given it by a friend who said the first 50 pages are very hard going, and he disgarded it to be told to persist. He was right, once you get passed the scene-setting and get used to the over-articulate style (nobody talks like that), its got very good.

 

[heinous seamus]

I've been reading Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard.

To be honest for all I could tell you about it I'd have been as well just reading a brief summary of the book.

 

[sojourner]

Graham Swift - Waterland


Fantastic so far, loving it

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Graham Swift - Waterland


Fantastic so far, loving it

It's definitely his best.

 

[sojourner]

It's definitely his best.

is it? damn you - i was going to try reading some of his other stuff on the basis of this being so good

 

[Maurice Picarda]

is it? damn you - i was going to try reading some of his other stuff on the basis of this being so good

It's still worth doing so.

 

[sojourner]

It's still worth doing so.

oookay

any recommendations? he's a marvellous storyteller, have to say

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Two early ones which are very good are Shuttlecock and The Sweet Shop Owner.

 

[chooch]

If yours has a pencilled note to 'phone plumber' on the title page, it is

If it does, then I didn't

 

[quimcunx]

Girlfriend in a Coma, douglas coupland.

 

[sojourner]

Two early ones which are very good are Shuttlecock and The Sweet Shop Owner.

cheers

 

[rennie]

A Tunisian Tale, a book published by a mate on, you guessed it, Tunisia.

 

[cuthbert]

Just finished Gulag by Anne Applebaum - fascinating, packed with detail that brings home reality of Russian labour camps. Just starting Life & Fate - Vasily Grossman. Blown away by this. V long but getting through it. Its a gripping story briliantly written

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Richard Mabey's biography of Gilbert White. Very good.

This Gilbert White btw....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_White

 

[mentalchik]

Black Man - Richard Morgan

 

[Orangesanlemons]

Kill Your Friends by John Niven.

An entertaining enough read if you've an interest in the Britpop years but really, Martin Amis should sue.

 

[rover07]

'Wee Free Men' -Terry Pratchett. Just read the 'Wintersmith' ...finished it that morning when it snowed

 

[cliche guevara]

'Wee Free Men' -Terry Pratchett. Just read the 'Wintersmith' ...finished it that morning when it snowed

I have a couple of Pratchett books lined up, "Making Money" and the science of discworld books, I want to have them all out of the way for when the next one comes out, as it seems likely that it'll be his last. *sniff*

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Black Man - Richard Morgan

I enjoyed that - though prefer his Takeshi Kovacs novels

 

[Dirty Martini]

The Periodic Table by Primo Levi

This is a beautiful book, I am in awe of it (to use a reviewer's cliche). There are pages in there, I think, that are some of the best I've ever read. I am a twat for leaving it so long to read it.

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Now it's Open Doors by Leonardo Sciascia.

 

[Spion]

just read 'In search of the blues' by Marybeth Hamilton.

Next is Pride and Prejudice

 

[dpc]

Coming Up For Air, by George Orwell. One of the funniest books I have read for ages.

 

[ChrisC]

The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker. Read it before when I was younger remember enjoying it. Have to wait for my ordered copy of Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds to arrive. Got the Clive Barker book for next to nothing at an fate.

 

[Roadkill]

Charles McKean - Battle for the North

Very interesting on the politics and the rivalries among the various companies building railways in Scotland, but his analysis of the Tay Bridge disaster isn't so good. A good and easy read, though.

 

[Stig]

Just finished the amber spyglass, last of three, then quickly did the finn family moomintroll. Am now on Jack Vance-Star King. Aaah, thin books. I'm going to embark on George R R Martin's A Feast for Crows next, so I needed a couple of thin books, he does go on.

 

[Fictionist]

'The Satanic Verses' by Rushdie