*What book are you reading ?

[Emilie]

Currently reading:
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I've been on the same page for over a month tho. Thanks to the mainstream media I already know the plot, so I can't be arsed reading it tbh.

 

[rubbershoes]

Originally posted by NVP
Just started 'Last Night A DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey' by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton.

Only just started it but so far it's a right load of old crap.

The writers reckon that DJ's fulfill the role of modern-day shaman's; amazing beings capable of inducing transcendence in their devotees. Hmmm. They're not just blokes that play records, then.

I'm gonna persevere but I'm only three chapters in and I'm already filled with loathing.

Don’t take what they say too seriously. It’s not a sociological treatise

 

[haggy]

Just read Simon Ford's Hip Priest - Mark E Smith and the Fall.
rather odd back to back with Gimme Danger - the Iggy Pop biog.

Both very good, and have had me digging out my old Stooges and Fall lp's. I checked out Grotesque again last night, the second very best Fall lp after Hex Enduction Hour. Have to say MES is consistently better as a lyricist/songwriter than Mr Pop.

Also read "the Verbals" - interview with Iain Sinclair - which is interesting if your intersted in the same obsessions as he is.

Finally, having temporarily exhausted any new books, I've started Neil Stephenson's Cryptonomicon again. Brilliant stuff. Has he published anything since this came out?

 

[Roadkill]

Just started No Logo on the train back yesterday. Now I see why everyone's been making such a fuss about it for the last four years - it's an excellent book.

 

[Relahni]

Have started reading Billy by his wife Pamela Stephenson. It's not my kind of book at all - don't usually read biographies and don't really like Billy Connolly. But at the bargain price of 30p from Rugby's Sue Ryder shop I thought it was worth it.!

It's pretty good so far.

 

[Ms T]

I've just started The Human Stain by Philip Roth. It's been highly recommended by lots of people so I hope it doesn't disappoint.

Recently, I've loved Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold and Annie Proulx's new one, That Old Ace In the Hole.

Oh, and I'm on a one-woman campaign to promote the Number One Ladies' Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith. I can't praise these highly enough.

 

[Aitch]

Just finished Porno by Mr Welsh excellent from start to finish, not sure what to read next though

 

[little loaf]

i wanted to read Porno but was terrified that my mum'd find it and jump to the wrong conclusions.

just finished 'twelve' by nick mcdonell - i thought it lived up to the serious hype it got. i certainly couldn't put it down, and it was incredibly impressive considering he was at the tender age of 17 when he wrote it. maybe it's about time i started writing my own first novel...

 

[Gumbert]

Just read 'Birdsong', need I say more..

Starting 'The Road to Nab End' by William Woodruff.. Apt for me seeing as I grew up inthe town of Blackburn.

 

[oddjob]

still reading a harry, but awaiting for the next ian rankin

due out about the time of the oban games me thinks

and he's signed it as well, personally

well he does know my mum

hi mum

 

[Elpenor]

Originally posted by Gumbert
Starting 'The Road to Nab End' by William Woodruff.. Apt for me seeing as I grew up inthe town of Blackburn.

Fantastic book. I couldn't believe the poverty described. Recommended it to my grandad who grew up in Lancashire in the 20's too.

Now reading A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers. I hope it's as good as I've heard it is.

Also on the lookout for Dead Air by Iain Banks, but this is dependent on being lucky and finding it in the library.

 

[little loaf]

I loved 'A Heartbreaking Work...' - I think it might be the kind of book you either love or you hate. Like Marmite, but not as smelly. Dave Eggers has written a new one (which I haven't read yet but is on my list) called 'You Shall Know Our Velocity'.

...argh...so many books...

 

[Rollem]

ive started reading attonement, after many many people telling me i'll love it

have only read two chapters, and to be fair, and a bit bored. the language is a bit flowery (although having just finished "grits" anything would probably appear flowery! )

am gonna stick with it though (and have resisted the urge to read the last page first!)

 

[Ms T]

Stick with Atonement. Everyone thinks the first bit is a bit rubbish, but it really is good if you persevere.

 

[Power]

Originally posted by Rollem
ive started reading attonement, after many many people telling me i'll love it

have only read two chapters, and to be fair, and a bit bored.

that's because it's utter drivel. i would suggest carrying out a small controlled explosion on that threadbare tome will bring much more enjoyment than any attempt at reading it would.

god help you.

 

[Nina]

Just been and spent far too much cash on Bukowski, Angela Carter, Elizabeth Wurtzel and a Graham Greene ready for my 3 weeks lazing on a beach...starting tomorrow. Can't wait

 

[Roadkill]

I've just been to a charity shop near me that's very good for books. I've picked up:

Robert Goddard - Dying to Tell
James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Thomas Hardy - Far from the Madding Crowd
E. Nesbit - The Railway Children
Anthony Trollope - The Small House at Allington ('cos I'm working my way slowly through the Barsetshire series)

So, once I've finished No Logo and the book on the Battle of Trafalgar I picked up out of boredom yesterday and got really into, there's my reading for the next few weeks sorted.

 

[chemical_girl__]

recently finished the color purple by alice walker.............. i liked it, but it was nowhere near as good as i'd been led to believe......... too angry and militant, too feminist, too contrived and emotionally manipulated........ maybe thats just cuz ive got the opinion of a young woman from the noughties, but cant help that.......

so now im on the plague by albert camus....... im on the 2nd part, and i am finding it hard to get into the characters, but i like what camus is doing..........

 

[Power]

camoo...

 

[charlotte]

just this minute finished rules of attraction by breet easton ellis? the american psyho writer. pretty good.
also reading voyage of the dawn treader by c.s.lewis, and age of extremes by eric hobsbawn for my degree in sept cos i lost what is history? by e h carr before i read it

 

[Dubversion]

just started 45 by bill drummond.

for the third time.

because it's so beautiful you don't want it to end.

 

[mrkikiet]

what a carve up. in know all books are contrived but this one felt a little excessively so. I enjoyed it anyway.

I just finished 39 steps. a detective thriller by John Bucham, which, despite being a Wordsworth classic was poor. do those 'wordsworth' or other classic actually mean anythin at all? i ask you.

I've started a passage to india, which has me gripped.

 

[Mab]

Iain M. Banks : Feersum Endjinn just started.

Shipping News by Annie Proulx

Duncton Tales by William Horwood for later.

Taking a break from "The buying of the president" profit over people" etc etc. I need stories to "take me away", must wind down

 

[Voley]

Re-reading 'Heart Of Darkness' - Joseph Conrad. Love it.

Rollem - stick with 'Atonement'. Ace book.

 

[corporate whore]

East of Eden, John Steinbeck. Epic, so far...

Apparently, this was the first book recommended by Oprah Winfrey in her recently relaunched book club - it sold more copies in two weeks than it had in the previous 20 years.

 

[Orangesanlemons]

Originally posted by Dubversion
just started 45 by bill drummond.

for the third time.

because it's so beautiful you don't want it to end.

I love that book, 'A Christmas Carol' and 'Gimpo's 25' in particular. The format's beautiful too: IMHO more books should be 7" single size.
You'll probably know this: did 'Bad Wisdom' the soundtrack ever emerge in any form, or was it all just Drummond's fantasy? I'd quite fancy hearing Bill 'n' Zed's take on Radio Mafia...

 

[Fledgling]

Originally posted by corporate whore
East of Eden, John Steinbeck. Epic, so far...

Apparently, this was the first book recommended by Oprah Winfrey in her recently relaunched book club - it sold more copies in two weeks than it had in the previous 20 years.

I too am ploughing through this and finding it rather good. I have recently been on holiday and as opposed to plumping for Archer, I read a load of Steinbeck.

The Red Pony is overrated.

And well done on Laurie Lee, classic

 

[2 Hardcore]

Last two books I read were both Niall Griffiths - 'Sheepshagger' and 'Stump'. I love Griffiths' use of language. 'Sheepshagger' in particular was riveting.
About to start 'Tommy's Tale' by Alan Cumming for some light relief!

 

[WasGeri]

I've just started reading Frank Skinner's autobiography. It's funny

 

[kris]

Confessions of a Philospher by Bryan Magee and when it gets too difficult A Centuary of Spurs