This week, I are mostly reading....

BossArky

Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett

Jello

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

MooseJam

a long long way - sebastian barry

GhostInTheRuins

Omertá - Mario Puzo

Great read so far

Chinafoot

Just finished "We need to talk about Kevin" by Lionel Shriver. Very good.

Starting "Book of Lost Things" by John Connolly. I like his stuff. His latest one "The Unquiet" was very good.

Tar.Aldarion

The Warrior Prophet - Bakker

John

Just finished Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and now I've started The Golem by Gustav Meyrink (and it's bloody brilliant so far).

Crazy Christ

just finished The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne what a great read..

At Swim Two Birds was some crazy stuff!

nesf

Reaper's Gale - Steven Erikson.

Any of you who are amenable to fantasy and who haven't already started reading the Malazan series should do so immediately...

Rredwell

"Candide" by Voltaire, "The Satyricon" by Peronius, "Empires of the Word: A Language History of the Word" by Nicholas Ostler. I got Satyricon only because it was 25c in Chapter's, and it is a really funny commentary on Nero's Rome.

brianthebard

Freud's interpretation of dreams. Interesting but much more long winded than civilisation.

Psychedelic

just finished Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams (the last in the Hitch Hiker series). thought it was okay.

starting on Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury now.

brianthebard wrote:

Freud's interpretation of dreams. Interesting but much more long winded than civilisation.

yes some of it is quite tough to get through, very interesting book though.

Hermione*

The Victorians by A.N. Wilson ... history that's extremely readable, and he makes the period he covers come alive.

GhostInTheRuins

Just finished Omertá, fairly good overall. Just started The Sicilian by Puzo too.

iosfra

My first post how exciting , currently reading Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey.

Red Hand

Interesting Times-Terry Pratchet.

sAid

quite early one morning - Dylan Thomas

blondie999

Watermelon by marian keyes (old I know) I have gone through a faze of reading her books. First was Is there anybody out there, which was only so so, Rachels holiday, which was hilarious!! Marian is way way better than alot of the so called chick lit authors that are out there esp cecilia ahern. Her writing is like something a 10year old would write for a school essay. Watermelon is very funny aswell. She taps into the female psyche so well!!!

Slow Motion

About a third of the way through "The Curious Incident of the dog in the night-time" by Mark Haddon, Whitbread book of the year, a pretty good read and an interesting look into the head of someone with Asperger's Syndrome, it's a detective novel by the way !

bullpost

Reading "Against the Tide" the autobiography of Dr. Noel Browne.
Interesting insights into Ireland from the twenties on.
Plenty to say on Fianna Fail cronyism and the appalling state of the health service during the first half of the twentieth century. The Catholic Church doesn't come out of it exactly smelling of Roses either.

NextSteps

HG Wells's The War of the Worlds. I'm having dreams about Martians!

John

How the Mind Works by Stephen Pinker

iosfra

Slow Motion wrote:

About a third of the way through "The Curious Incident of the dog in the night-time" by Mark Haddon, Whitbread book of the year, a pretty good read and an interesting look into the head of someone with Asperger's Syndrome, it's a detective novel by the way !

One of my favourite books!

tHE vAGGABOND

Cannery Row - Stienbeck..

Its a bit good..

John

James Joyce Ulysses

nesf

John wrote:

How the Mind Works by Stephen Pinker

How did you find this?

brianthebard

bullpost wrote:

Reading "Against the Tide" the autobiography of Dr. Noel Browne.
Interesting insights into Ireland from the twenties on.
Plenty to say on Fianna Fail cronyism and the appalling state of the health service during the first half of the twentieth century. The Catholic Church doesn't come out of it exactly smelling of Roses either.

It wouldn't though, considering how Browne was treated by the CC. Sounds interesting though I might check it out.

John

nesf wrote:

How did you find this?

I read it before and I didn't enjoy it. I'm reading it again now that I've gotten a few years of neuroscience under my belt and I still don't like it. He doesn't explain things very well and if he's losing me on things that I'm not only familiar with but actively research in, well I don't know how a person who isn't a specialist in the field could enjoy it.

nesf

John wrote:

I read it before and I didn't enjoy it. I'm reading it again now that I've gotten a few years of neuroscience under my belt and I still don't like it. He doesn't explain things very well and if he's losing me on things that I'm not only familiar with but actively research in, well I don't know how a person who isn't a specialist in the field could enjoy it.

I thought it was ok. It's a bit like the "Language Instinct". It works, kinda but if you've no previous knowledge of the area it's going to be slow going and require a fair bit of rereading to get all his points.

Red Hand

Night Watch-Terry Pratchett