This week, I are mostly reading....

jrey1981

reading The Outsider by Colin Wilson, have listened to 1st chapter of The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman downloaded from audible.com although I have the paperback as well.

John

Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day

ZorbaTehZ

The Book Of The New Sun
-Gene Wolfe.
Finished book one and two - starting book three now. Holy moly absolutely staggering stuff, can't put it down (my studies are suffering because of it). Very coarse and shocking in some places, but so entertaining.

Karlusss

Kate O'Brien - The Land Of Spices

The best book about being a Mother Superior struggling with vocation and feeling out of place in a foreign country I've ever read.

theCzar

Finished John Grisham's "The Broker", pretty good, better than a lot of his recent his books, in that it actually has an ending rather than just petering out half way.

Started "Passage to India" by Forster. Good stuff so far.

jackdaw

Reading "The Historian" by Elisabeth Kostova .. Great great book ..
im not finished it yet so no spoilers!!!

tHE vAGGABOND

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History by P.J. Heather

Saw it in a bookshop the day after I saw 300, and picked it up..

Its really interesting, but its really like a college textbook rather than a relaxed read. But its always a subject I have wondered about so Im getting thru it pretty fast..

Jello

The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden.

Only €5 in HMV btw..

John

JRR Tolkien The Return of the Shadow. Volume 6 in The History of Middle Earth series, finally Christopher Tolkien gets around to LOTR. Really interesting book, some of the early versions were shockingly different (and fairly crap).

Karlusss

Salman Rushdie - The Moor's Last Sigh

Complete with Stephen quote and "homage" to episode 17 of Ulysses.

Good stuff so far, though.

robo

Marion Husband - Say You Love Me
It is a very thought provoking,compelling read and the controversial subject matter is handled very sensitively and well.

John

James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Tar.Aldarion

William Shakespeare - Romeo & Juliet

Mrs. MacGyver

Harlan Coban 'The Promise' and Jodi Picoult 'Nineteen Minutes' (sooo excited about her new book just got it today )

JCDenton

Just finished the "His Dark Materials" trilogy, and about to start "Don Quixote"

Tar.Aldarion

That is a fantastic trilogy.

John

Agreed. I think it's time I should read it again.

Currently re-reading parts of The Emerging Mind by Vilayanur Ramachandran

Mick86

dusf wrote:

Finished Tuesday's War yesterday and highly recommend it. I didn't know there was a sequel so thanks for the info. Parts of the former I didn't get so perhaps we could discuss it when you're finished.

Just finished Tuesday's War a few days ago. I found it less strange than Charlie's War, possibly because I read Charlie's first.:D

I thought Fiddimore captured the WW2 zeitgeist well.

So what didn't you get?

Capt'n Midnight

John

Perfume by Patrick Sueskind.

nesf

Creative Industries by Richard Caves.

An economic analysis/discussion of the creative industries. Interesting and reads well. He's got a nice flow of words.

Blush_01

Just finishing Platform - Michele Houellebecq. I like it a lot better than I thought I would. Not sure what to go for next though... maybe something like The Scarlet Pimpernel or something.

Ok, finished Platform, really liked it. Also just finished Prep - Curtis Sittenfeld and Heaney's translation of Beowulf (again). Not at all obvious that I'm procrastinating about writing my essay.

John

Beckett Remembering: Remembering Beckett by James and Elizabeth Knowlson. A collection of interviews with Beckett and interviews of people who knew him, not just famous people but people from his everyday life throughout the years. Fascinating so far.

ZorbaTehZ

John wrote:

James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Picked it up for E3.05 in Easons, couldn't believe it.:)

ATM: East of Eden - John Steinbeck.

John

ZorbaTehZ wrote:

Picked it up for E3.05 in Easons, couldn't believe it.:)

It's almost an insulting price for it, isn't it? (not that I'm really complaining )

Klept0

TDT: Songs of Susannah - Stephen King
once finished TDT series I'll finally get to 1984 =o

Prufrock

Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

Not half bad.

Blush_01

Just finished Catcher in the Rye. I both did and didn't like it. Now reading American Pastoral because I lost my copy of The Land of Spices somewhere and have to get another one.










Then it's Generation X - I can't wait! I love Douglas Coupland.

Chinafoot

Blush_01 wrote:

Now reading American Pastoral

I just couldn't get into that book when we did it in college in 2nd year.

Currently reading The Great Gatsby and Catcher in the Rye is next in Line.

Rabies

Picked up The Children or Hurin yesterday. Haven't read a review of it so don't know what to expect.