This week, I are mostly reading....

Mrs. MacGyver

Picture Perfect - Jodi Picoult

tHE vAGGABOND

The Pillars of the Earth by Follett, Ken

Its a big 'un, but brilliant so far

John

Simon Reynolds Bring the Noise

AJG

Laurence Durrell - The Black Book

sioda

Just finished The Judas Strain by Jmaes Rollins and moving onto Corsair by Tim Severin

dubsgirl

Still Summer - Jacueline Mitchard.

Schlemm

Hello everybody,

I just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy, which is a fantastic book, and now I am reading The Savage Garden by Mark Mills.

ZorbaTehZ

AJG wrote:

A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift

^^
Really great book too.

oxygen_old

Just finished "The end of Mr Y". Not really worth the read.

Moving on to Elf Sorrow by James Barclay now. Looking foward to that read, if its any good I think I will read the other two books in the Legends of the Raven trilogy

stovelid

John Updike - Licks of Love (mainly for the concluding 'Rabbit Remembered' novella that is included)

John wrote:

Simon Reynolds Bring the Noise

What do you think? Not as good as Rip it up or Energy Flash but it's to be expected from a collection of articles. Still enjoyed it though.

black #8

Just started " do androids dream of electric sheep? "

Always meant to read it, but never got around to it, so i finally bought it and away i go! It's good so far.

ircoha

Ryanland by Philip Nolan. Nice light writing style.

MooseJam

Lisey's Story - Stephen King

ZorbaTehZ

black #8 wrote:

Just started " do androids dream of electric sheep? "

The_Minister

Just finished Stephen King's "The Dead Zone". Absolutely ****ing brilliant.

Miss Fluff

Just finished The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney

stolenwine

Just finished last Harry Potter. I didn't read any of the others but have seen all the films so far. In the past I have scoffed at reading this series but I was completely wrong, loved it.

I'm now reading 1984 before I go back to college and enforced learning begins.

John

stovelid wrote:

What do you think? Not as good as Rip it up or Energy Flash but it's to be expected from a collection of articles. Still enjoyed it though.

Not really enjoying it so far. I'm only about 50 pages in (so all articles from 1986-ish) and his style is so utterly pretentious that I just want to slap him! I really enjoyed Rip it Up... but this isn't doing much for me at all.

Valmont

Finished Metamorphosis and a few other of Franz Kafka's short stories and now I'm almost at the end of Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice. I'm reading it only because I loved the first two so much. This seems to be an excuse for a ridiculous theological adventure. Grrrrr... I hope The Vampire Armand is good because I'm losing hope with the Vampire Chronicles.

Tar.Aldarion

Theory of Poker by David Sklansky

Red Hand

Wolves eat dogs by Martin Cruz Smith.

Quite a good thriller.

AJG

Just finished Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson and started Full of Life by John Fante.

monkey tennis

Just finished Filth by Irvine Welsh, now on to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which I'm determined to finish this time!

black #8 wrote:

Just started " do androids dream of electric sheep? "

This is on my 'must get around to it' list as well - I've seen (the various editions) of Blade Runner so many times, it's silly that I haven't read the origin.

AJG

On a bit of a Fante kick lately, finished Full Of Life and moved onto West Of Rome which is two novellas, his stuff is very accessible and straight from the heart. I'm debating whether I could do his 'Ask The Dust' novel with a 2nd year class. I'm really reticent about tackling 'To Kill A Mockingbird' for the trillionth time, but it mightn't be my call so I'll have to wait and see. Not knocking Lee's book but its been set up as a bit of a 'tome'. It would be nice to try something else for a change.

BaZmO*

AJG wrote:

I'm really reticent about tackling 'To Kill A Mockingbird' for the trillionth time, but it mightn't be my call so I'll have to wait and see. Not knocking Lee's book but its been set up as a bit of a 'tome'. It would be nice to try something else for a change.

I know what you mean about it being a bit of a 'tome' but I read it for the first time recently and it's a fantastic book on so many levels. I read it in two days and I'm by no means a bookworm. I would highly recommend that you give it a bash. Apart from being a literary masterpiece it's a bloody good read.

AJG

Its not a bad book by any means. Thats not my problem but I went to the school I teach in currently and read the exact same book in 2nd year. It just seems that things haven't changed a jot. I'm more in favour of alternating it. I would like to show my class that there's a bit more to literature (the same reason that Shakespeare is accepted as the be all and end all of drama). I've been looking at the curriculum and as far as I can tell its not a prescribed text. So there's no reason why I have to do it with them. I just want to keep both myself and the class interested. (Hope that doesn't sound too selfish).

Sorry for straying off topic.

BaZmO*

Sorry, I misread your post. I thought you said that you'd never read it. All clear now.

stolenwine

Colm Toibin - The Story of the Night. So far so good.

Valmont

Well Memnoch the Devil completely redeemed itself so I'm happy.

Just started Simon Schama's 'Citizens'. I've been looking forward to reading about the French Revolution after reading a Tale of Two Cities by Dickens.

AJG

Just finished 'Down And Out In Paris And London' by George Orwell and moved onto 'The Complete Book Of Friends' By Henry Miller.