This week, I are mostly reading....

secret_squirrel

ionapaul wrote:

War of the Flowers by Tad Williams? I have read almost all of his works and really loved them, but would like to hear an opinion before diving in...

Its good - v. good , bit long for a single novel but covers a lot of ground. Like most of his its a bit slow to start but soon makes up for it.

Re-reading it now.

Nimrod's Son

Ricky Tomlinson's autobiography. I never realised he's led such a colourful life.

pukey

ye gods does ulysses ever end?

Dades

pukey wrote:

ye gods does ulysses ever end?

Watch the 80's cartoon I say.
Time better spent.

Closing Doors

pukey wrote:

ye gods does ulysses ever end?

No...and it's not worth it when it does. Took me about 4 months - I couldn't read more than 2 pages at once without losing interest

John

I'm reading Words and Music by Paul Morley. Seems good, very different from most other books on music I've read.

OfflerCrocGod

pukey wrote:

ye gods does ulysses ever end?

No you're better off burning it. Save you a lot of time and effort. I'm presently reading Faerie Tale by Raymond E Feist - the begining was dull and slow but it's begining to pick up now; still I class it as a loan only

ronano

I'm a third way into the secret life of sebastian knight by vladimir nabokov,i love his writing so much and got a good few books on the cheap

dudara

Just started "My name is Red" by Orhan Pamuk

Branoic

"Flight of the Nighthawks" - Raymond E. Feist's new yarn. A promising return to form.

adonis

the plague - albert camus...

i didnt rate that "my name is red book" one bit...

John

adonis wrote:

the plague - albert camus...

Good book but I don't think I got 100% from it. I'll have to go back and read it again.

gaf1983

Dublin's Finest wrote:

Catch-22

I love it.

So many great quotes. Mar shampla:

"Yossarian - the very sight of the name made him shudder. There were so many esses in it. It just had to be subversive. It was like the word subversive itself. It was like sidicious and insidious too, and like socialist, suspicious, facist, and Communist. It was an odious, alien, distasteful name that just did not inspire confidence. "

At the moment I'm reading "Cross Bones" by Kathy Reichs. She goes to great lengths in the forward to explain that she had come up with the idea for the novel before The Da Vinci Code was published. Hmmm. So far it's okay. The author herself is also a forensic anthropologist so she goes into alot of detail regarding that sort of stuff.

I'm also reading Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, but I'm afraid that 300 pages since I started I'm not really into it. I remember my old English teacher saying in his opinion it was the best novel ever written but maybe at 21 I'm still not old enough to get it.

pukey

just read an online book from pointlesswasteoftime.com called "john dies at the end", about 350pages if printed so hefty for a wbsite i think. pretty weird but good, an aside to the ulysses project, which i will finish if it kills me or those in my immediate proximity

tSubh Dearg

Still reading The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux. It's quite good, oddly the Father in it reminds me a bit of a grown up version of your man from Catcher in the Rye. But not in an annoying way.

Kolodny

Just started 'Vitals' by Greg Bear. About the 4th by him that I've read and very fast paced so far.

growler

just back from a weeks hols, managed to get through Bank's "Use of Weapons"... quality, Robert Rankin's "Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse" which was very Rankin and almost done with Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell which is one of the best books I've read this year, really great technique and style.

cashback

Just finished 'The Men Who Stare at Goats' by Jon Ronson.
Really enjoyed it. Funny yet scary. He also knows when to tone down the humour. Great read.

Nimrod's Son

I'm just getting started on The Dark Tower part 2 by King. The first one was a fairly good aul yarn so I've got high hopes for the second instalment.

pukey

have finally finished "ulysses", am starting "anansi boys" by neil gaiman

secret_squirrel

pukey wrote:

"anansi boys" by neil gaiman

Let me know how you find that - it looks interesting

John

A Drink With Shane MacGowan

Closing Doors

pukey wrote:

have finally finished "ulysses"

Did you think it was worth the effort?

pukey

it's a really weird book. there were bits where i could read 100pages in an hour and then it might be impossible to get more than 5pages read in a session. i only finished it last night so i'm still thinking about whether i liked it. i think i did. i might read it again in a few months or so, maybe in the dead of winter. plus that hallucination bit was reallky ****ed up

doonothing

the little friend, grapes of wrath, on the road, crime and punishment, less than zero aaaand.. thats it

OfflerCrocGod

The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud it's a kids trilogy which is actually quite good; I'm anxiously waiting for my younger cousin to bring me the next part of the trilogy - good fun

secret_squirrel

Just finished Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold. Re-reading the first one of the series The Curse of Chalion. Both top class fantasy.

Just bought Judas Unchained by Peter F Hamilton - only released today, and Im already trying to resist its call..... Still got it in Trade Paperback format from Easons so saved me €9 over the hardback in Waterstones.

pukey

just read the first 2 chapters of "anansi' boys". it's completely different to "american gods" but good in a different way. more to come...

Dublin's Finest

You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers

Enjoyed his short stories more.

pukey

anansis boys is well worth a read
ireland:a novel by frank delaney up next