*What book are you reading ?

[Dubversion]

reading and loving Paul Morley's Words & Music.

at the moment he's talking about the twin poles of Alvin Lucier's I Am Sitting In A Room and Kylie's Can't Get You Out Of My Head, and how different the book would have been if he'd used two different books.

nonsense, clearly, but eloquent and engaging nonsense. even when Morley goes off on one - and god knows, he does - it's always a good read....

 

[mentalchik]

Will be starting KPAX, the trilogy, by Gene Brewer,

have'nt seen the film yet !

 

[blend]

I'm reading a H.P. Lovecraft Omnimbus. Scary stuff, last time I read anything of his i had nightmares

When I finish that it its probably gonna be the Illuminatus! trilogy by Robert Shea.

 

[IntoStella]

Muriel Spark's novella The Abbess of Crewe -- a beautifully, incisively-written satire on Watergate with not a slack word or phrase in it. It's just 100 pages long but in the hands of a lesser writer would have been a good 250.

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm reading a H.P. Lovecraft Omnimbus. Scary stuff, last time I read anything of his i had nightmares

When I finish that it its probably gonna be the Illuminatus! trilogy by Robert Shea.

which hpl are you reading? cos there's quite a few anthologies about - i've loads.

good stuff, mind you. especially "the dunwich horror", "the festival", "pickman's model" o), "the shadow out of time" and "dreams in the witch house".

and "the rats in the walls" and "the nameless city". in fact, all of them.

 

[Pickman's model]

also, blend, you may be interested in lovecraft's poetry, there's a compilation (the ancient track?) with it all. including the excellent "fungi from yuggoth". & s t joshi's bringing out a five volume edition of his nonfiction, the first two volumes are out (literary criticism & amateur journalism, if memory serves).

 

[Mrs Magpie]

The Destruction of Lord Raglan, by Christopher Hibbert (Penguin Books 1961). Really good. I think Hibbert is a great historian...also half of the duo that edited my favourite reference book.....The London Encyclopaedia. Editors: Ben Weinreb & Christopher Hibbert, published by Macmillan

 

[Rollem]

about to start reading "provincial daughter" by r.m. dashwood - not my usual style of read, but will see how i get on...

 

[playghirl]

Murphy By Samuel Beckett...as all my friends know I havent beeen able to get into him...however I have found in Murphy a Beckett I can get into.

 

[Pickman's model]

weinberg, robert. stalin's forgotten zion: birobidzhan and the making of a soviet jewish homeland. an illustrated history, 1928 - 1996 (berkeley, ca: university of california press, 1998)

 

[Orang Utan]

Brixton Library has surprised me cos I managed to get hold of:
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered The World by Francis Wheen
Perfect holiday reading

 

[belboid]

i was considering looking up that Francis Wheen, sounds quite interesting, and he writes well, even if he is a bit pompous sometimes.

Bill Hicks - Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines, bloody marvellous
Time Out - Rome, poor plot development, but when it's good it's great.

 

[Idris2002]

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon. Fecking excellent it is too, even if some of its a bit dated.

 

[crissy]

My friend passed me a book called Rock and Roll Sucide by PP Hartnett,

Its really very good

 

[Strumpet]

Wanted a light, amusing , easy read and found it in "The Bad Mother's Handbook". Not finished it yet but it's just what I neeed for the moment.

 

[LadyofScott]

what am I reading

Hopps the bunnie runs away by my daughter age 8

ok, so I'm kid oriented what can I say

 

[Delia]

I just finished reading 'Hammer of the Gods', the Led Zep bio. I got a little bored in the middle, it was just a blur of touring and it all seemed the same.

Overall a pretty good read!

 

[loud 1]

band of brothers by steven ambrose.

suprisingly the series based on the book does it perfect justice.

the beeb site is here...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bandofbrothers/

for the first time for me,it made no differance wether i read the book first or watched the series..


both breath taking.

 

[playghirl]

Today I am reading The Prodigy by Hermann Hesse. It is Hesses indictment of conventional education. It is of interest to me obviously as I also am in education.

 

[Pickman's model]

weinberg, robert. stalin's forgotten zion: birobidzhan and the making of a soviet jewish homeland. an illustrated history, 1928 - 1996 (berkeley, ca: university of california press, 1998)

finished that!

Holland, Tom. Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic (London: Abacus, 2003)

 

[MightyAphrodite]

bill clinton my life

ok i was curious!!

ive got it in .lit form if anyone wants to read it

 

[atitlan]

I've got two books on the go at the moment:

"Northern Lights" by Philip Pullman (with the rest of the trilogy to follow)

and

"What is Good?" by A C Grayling - which is a history of the philosophical view of what it means to live a good life, with a bias towards the humanist perspective.

 

[G. Fieendish]

Currently, I'm reading Space Family Stone by Robert Hienlien (Has'nt it dated though...) & Pattern Recognition By William Gibson....
Grimley

 

[baby face]

Just literlay fine4shed The damage done by Warren fellows , atrue story about a bloke who smuggled herion through Tailand and got caught. Dont care what any1 says he dident disurve the shit he got in that prison, read it its a proper eye opener

 

[Pickman's model]

finished that!

Holland, Tom. Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic (London: Abacus, 2003)

put that down to read

Hibbert, Christopher. King Mob (Stroud, Gloucs.: Sutton, 2004)

which i finished yesterday, very interesting book about the gordon riots of 1780; and

Levin, Ira. Rosemary's Baby (London: Bloomsbury, 2002)

the novel the film was based on (i think!). about 2/3 of the way through...

 

[zora]

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.

Now I don't know what any of it means but this story of the devil and his not so little helpers causing havoc in Moscow kicks some serious ass.

Anyone else's read it and been blown away?

 

[killer b]

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.

Now I don't know what any of it means but this story of the devil and his not so little helpers causing havoc in Moscow kicks some serious ass.

Anyone else's read it and been blown away?

yup - tis awesome.

i believe the rolling stones' "sympathy for the devil" is inspired by mr bulgakov.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

A book about Albrecht Durer.

 

[Brainaddict]

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.

Now I don't know what any of it means but this story of the devil and his not so little helpers causing havoc in Moscow kicks some serious ass.

Anyone else's read it and been blown away?

Indeed. Hail Mikhail! I think I also only understood half of what it meant, but that only means I can re-read in 5 or 10 years and get loads more out of it. Kick ass it does. Anyone for a cigar?

 

[hovis]

The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith