This week, I are mostly reading....

CathyMoran

Am reading a book about Tori Amos called "Tori Amos. Piece by Piece" by Tori Amos and Ann Powers - only just began it but it seems to provide a useful insight into the artist.

John

More Pricks than Kicks Samuel Beckett

simu

Blush_01 wrote:

Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser. I've meant to read this for ages but really bothered. It's interesting, to say the least.

Me too! I get to be all smug about living in the EU, with stricter food production rules!

brianthebard

Have you read not on the label then??? Cause I did and now I can't feel smug about the EU thing!!!

Captain Smiggy

A confederacy of Dunces- John kennedy Toole...

Ignatius j. Reilly, WHAT A MAN

Madge

Am halfway through "Burnt Toast" by Teri Hatcher (she of 'Desperate Houswives' fame)

Corruptedmorals

Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen. Just finished Malka by Mirjam Pressler and Stalin: Court of the Red Tsar is still unfinished, can't seem to finish the last 100 pages without picking up another book..

Tar.Aldarion

The Darkness That Comes Before - R. Scott Bakker

John

The Treason of Isengard by J.R.R. Tolkien. More Middle-earth madness!

Blush_01

Hysteria: The History of a Disease - Ilza Veith.

Pretty cool, to be honest! Light(ish) reading, but very interesting.

John

I am Legend by Richard Matheson

RawK

Just finished "Illuminatus Trilogy; The Eye of the Pyramid"

currently re-read "Marabou Stork Nightmares!"

Faerie

I've just started My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk. It's a bit weird but really good so far!

brianthebard

I'm finishing What are you like? by Anne Enright, its quite good. I like the way she messes around with the time line and the odd way she has of describing things. I was reading it for one of my exams but its good enough to finish.

theCzar

I'm sitting in the Congo estuary reading "Heart Of Darkness" by Joesph Conrad. Very atmospheric.

theCzar

John wrote:

I am Legend by Richard Matheson

One of my favourite books. I love the ending.

Tetra

I'm reading The Round Tower by Catherine Cookson. I enjoy reading 'chick lit' books, among others, but I think people can have certain ideas about this genre

John

theCzar wrote:

One of my favourite books. I love the ending.

I had seen it mentioned on here a few times and liked the sound of the blurb. Really enjoyed it, flew through it. Scared the crap out of me (zombie apocalypses are a recurring nightmare!) and yes the ending was brilliant. Good job people on boards!

John

WG Sebald Vertigo

Blush_01

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

Oh how I wish I could stop reading it, and maybe try something of a more academic vein. I should finish it tonight. If I choose not to sleep. So simple and such a quick read...

Red Hand

Drowning Ruth

It is well written as regards characters and situations but I dislike the way that it jumps from Third person to First Person without warning, and jumps between different times...its not that fluid in that regard, and makes it pretty confusing.

theCzar

The Third Policeman, Flann O'Brien.

RetroRainbow

'The Bell Jar'- Sylvia Plath.

John

RetroRainbow wrote:

'The Bell Jar'- Sylvia Plath.

That's a great book. I absolutely devoured it when I read it.

ZorbaTehZ

Candide, ou l'Optimisme - Voltaire

BopNiblets

theCzar wrote:

The Third Policeman, Flann O'Brien.

Any good? I'm considering buying it.

I started Catch 22 again because I abandoned it for Batman comics when they arrived.

JCDenton

A Clockwork Orange

daiixi

Cosa Nostra: A history of the Sicilian Mafia. Really really really interesting.

doonothing

the world according to garp - john irving, such a great book!

i might search out i am legend next, sounds fun. my name is red and the bell jar are fantastic! just to reiterate what was said up yonder..

theCzar

Currently reading The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

very good. I'm enjoying it more than At-swim two birds tbh. More of a novel, as opposed to a collection of disjointed segments (albeit funny ones )