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*What book are you reading ?

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The Master & Margarita - Bulgakov

About 80 pages in and still not sure what to make of it! Has anyone else read this?

:)

Yes, I found it fabulous. I then bought a graphic novel of it which was black and white and disappointing graphically.

The novel filled me with powerful image after powerful image though there were moments where I wondered what exactly was going on and where the characters were, etc.

Three cheers for Behemoth!
 
I've just finished The Enchantment Of Lily Dahl by Siri Hustvedt and though I never thought I'd say it: I now prefer her to her husband, Paul Auster.

Put the bejeezuzes into me at times, it did.

I recommend Hustvedt's What I Loved as well: Mark is an utterly believable sociopath, so to speak, and yet I felt I knew him so well.
 
Eric Hobsbawm The Invention of Tradition, and some Julio Cortázar short stories.
First cracking so far, second will take some getting in to.
 
Finally got round to Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides and can't believe it's taken so long. What a wonderful writer. So frustrating that there's nothing new on the way, as far as I know

Well, another night of shocking insomnia (what, you thought I got up at 6am? ) means I finished Middlesex in almost one sitting.

What a beautiful, moving book. Just brilliant
 
I'm finally about to start reading Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. It's been on my book shelf untouched for as long as I can remember :oops:
 
Masters of horror.
Stuart Gordon made a version of this story, which, by Stuart Gordon standards at any rate, was pretty good.
Seen it yet? I hate to admit that it's worth watching, but, when it's good....you cannea complain.
 
Black book: The league of extraordianary Gentlmen. For about the fourth time.
By some fella named Alan Moore.

The Terror, by Peter Straub.
It's the eighteen hundreds.
Two ships set off from England on an expidition to chart the uttermost limits of the North pole.
One of these ships was called the Terror.
Kind of a mix of Scott of the Antartic and John Carpenters the Thing.

Dan Brown and J K Rowling can fuck off.
This is popular fiction, as written by someone with actual talent, intelligence and the mileage to prove it.
 
The God Delusion.


No, I am not baiting for an arguement.
This book is, well, many things. Contentious. Controversial. compelling.
A very good document of how the rational mind of one of the worlds more infamous thinkers battles against a world that apparently seems determined to turn more and more dogamatic.
Any deconsruction of the disturbing swing of thought control through out this still very young century must be welcomed.

I do not think it is that regular an occurance to come across a book so focused and clear on the subject.

I use it to hit sheople over the head when the herd get restless. ;P
 
I'm finally about to start reading Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. It's been on my book shelf untouched for as long as I can remember :oops:

me too (had the book on the shelf for ages), report back with what you think of it

I've just finished reading The Choice by Nicholas Sparks, who wrote The Notebook. Very good, I liked the way he built up the relationship between the two lead characters.

Just about to start The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
 
Insomnia plus time off certainly gets reading done. Now flying through The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey,which is excellent
 
Black book: The league of extraordianary Gentlmen. For about the fourth time.
By some fella named Alan Moore.

The Terror, by Peter Straub.
It's the eighteen hundreds.
Two ships set off from England on an expidition to chart the uttermost limits of the North pole.
One of these ships was called the Terror.
Kind of a mix of Scott of the Antartic and John Carpenters the Thing.

Dan Brown and J K Rowling can fuck off.
This is popular fiction, as written by someone with actual talent, intelligence and the mileage to prove it.

Great book - I finished it early this year...but isn't it by Dan Simmons rather than Peter Straub :confused:

I've just started "Sacred Games" by Vikram Chandra. Okay but my mind is still in 1950's Buenos Ares with Bernie Gunther and loads of ex-Nazi's so I think I may have to set it aside for a couple of days as it gets fantastic reviews and I don't want to waste it by reading it when my mind is still on another book.
 
I'm STILL ploughing through the Morley book. By the christ he's one whinging moaning self-obsessed pretentious CUNT :rolleyes: I don't even know why I'm bothering to finish it. I just keep hoping that there might be something, if only one paragraph, that might make it worth all the effort.

Great cure for insomnia though - eh, El Jefe - try Paul Morley - Nothing. Guaranfuckteed to send you to sleep!!
 
The Last Wrestlers: A Far Flung Journey in Search of a Manly Art - Marcus Trower.

i'm already a 1/4 of a way through and don't want it to end!!
 
I'm STILL ploughing through the Morley book. By the christ he's one whinging moaning self-obsessed pretentious CUNT :rolleyes: I don't even know why I'm bothering to finish it. I just keep hoping that there might be something, if only one paragraph, that might make it worth all the effort.

Great cure for insomnia though - eh, El Jefe - try Paul Morley - Nothing. Guaranfuckteed to send you to sleep!!

Which one, think I've read them all. If it's WOrds & Musuc, i LOVED that.

The point with Morley is that he IS pretentious. It's just really good fun


eta: ah, just realised it's called Nothing. Haven't read that one.But I will :D
 
Which one, think I've read them all. If it's WOrds & Musuc, i LOVED that.

The point with Morley is that he IS pretentious. It's just really good fun

Err, it's called Nothing


It's not fun. I can see what he's TRYING to do. But he just doesn't quite pull it off. Not for me anyhow
 
Insomnia plus time off certainly gets reading done. Now flying through The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey,which is excellent

I was given that ages ago and never read it. If it's that good I might give it a go. :cool: :)

I've just bought an old book by journalist Tom Geraghty called 'A North-East Coast Town,' about the bombing of Hull in World War II, so that'll be my weekend reading.
 
The Owl Service by Alan Garner. Don't usually read kids books but remember the tv series when i was young which spooked me a lot and found this in an Oxfam shop a few days ago. Bloody good writing.

The Open Society and Its Enemies (Vol1) - Karl Popper.

I'm also dipping into London in the Nineteenth Century by Jerry White.
 
I'm still slowly working through The Master & Margarita, which is proving to be quite frustrating. I think I can now see where the book might be 'going', and I really hope this doesn't prove to be the case.
 
Yeah, Mea culpa. Tis Dan Simmons. I was tired, ok. :)
And the Alan Moore is the black Dossier. Yep, I was very tired.
Bernie Gunther and ex-Nazi's? Damn, that sounds interesting.
 
Yeah, Mea culpa. Tis Dan Simmons. I was tired, ok. :)
And the Alan Moore is the black Dossier. Yep, I was very tired.
Bernie Gunther and ex-Nazi's? Damn, that sounds interesting.

That's okay. You had me worried 'cos I am useless at remembering author's names. "The terror" is a great book though, fantastic - made me want to know more about the actual voyage though I would advocte leaving this until after you've finished the book itself.

Bernie Gunther and the ex-nazi's is Philip Kerr's latest "A Quiet Flame". Very, very good though if you haven't read any of the his Bernie Gunther novels yet I would recommend reading them in sequence

Berlin Noir trilogy

* March Violets. London: Viking, 1989. ISBN 0-670-82431-3
* The Pale Criminal. London: Viking, 1990. ISBN 0-670-82433-X
* A German Requiem. London: Viking, 1991. ISBN 0-670-83516-1

The One From the Other. New York: Marian Wood, 2006. ISBN 0-399-15299-7
A Quiet Flame. London: Quercus, 2008. ISBN 978-1847243560

If you like noir Raymond Chandler type novels you will love them!
 
I'm still slowly working through The Master & Margarita, which is proving to be quite frustrating. I think I can now see where the book might be 'going', and I really hope this doesn't prove to be the case.

first time i tried to read this i gave up, but i read it in a few days when i tried the next time - couldn't put it down. fucking amazing book. :eek:

Now then, "auto da fe" by Elias Canetti... still haven't managed to get on with this ...:(
 
You really did enjoy this book didn't you? Without giving too much away (I'm still getting through it) what did you like most? I'm really beginning to feel a little lost with this one.

Personally, I loved the sense of humour. I thought it was very funny. "riotus" is the phrase I think reviewers use. It's wonderfully anarchic, darling ...
 
ive just got my flight bag ready and im taking a book called....

"Gazza: My Story"

i dont even know why i bought it, but i got it off amazon cause its here:confused: the last time i was here, so i may as well read it....:confused:
 
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