This week, I are mostly reading....

AJG

'The Bhagavad Gita'

AJG

'Peter Camenzind' - Hermann Hesse.

AJG

'Proust and Three Dialogues With Georges Duthuit' - Samuel Beckett.

Thrill

Read "Auschwitz" by Laurence Rees last week.

"Stalingrad" by Antony Beevor is next on the list.

AJG

'Let It Come Down' - Paul Bowles.

randomguy

Women with Men - Richard Ford.
Finished Strumpet City

John

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Real Ultimate Power by Robert Hamburger

AJG

'Points In Time (Tales From Morocco)' - Paul Bowles.

AJG

'De Profundis' - Oscar Wilde.

kaimera

Still making my way thru "Executive Orders": Tom Clancy.

Also "The Road Ahead": Bill Gates

arbeitsscheuer

Spying on Ireland by Eunan O'Halpin

Solarball10

I'm just finished All Because of You by Melissa Hill, fab with a few twists that you don't see coming!! Before that I read the Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella - also couldn't put it down!

jackbhoy

The Black Swan by Nicholas Taleb. Fascinating topic but find his writing style quite disjointed and hard to warm to.

The_Minister

Finished Stephen King's Carrie, and the girl who loved Tom Gordan, and am now reading the ODESSA file, and The Shining.

Chinafoot

'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' by Kim Edwards.

PmcG01

Catch 22.
Read it years ago and thought it was amazing. It still is.

AJG

'The War Of The Worlds' - H.G. Wells.

Hrududu

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

about half way through it now, not enjoying it a whole lot, the style is a bit annoying and not much happening plot wise.

I'm nearly finished this and feel the same. I don't like the style of writing at all. I've lost count of all the times something like this appears in the middle of a chapter: "In two months time in the dead of night he would find out the reprecussions" Once or twice might have made an impact but I've lost count of the things I've been told will happen that are still yet to happen. I also think its a little easy. The good guys are serious Mary Sues and the bad guys are one dimensional. Its taken me a long time to read is as I find it hard to work up enough enthusiasm to pick it up.

staker

shantaram by gd roberts
based on a true story, prison in nz,living in the slums of bombay, fighting with the mujahedeen in afghanistan- and i'm only half way through!!

cashback

The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux.

Old enough at this stage as dating from the seventies but an entertaining read nonetheless.

FruitLover

Finished that Russian fella's Crime & Punishment, now on to Iain M. Banks' Consider Phlebas

AJG

'Amerika (The Man Who Disappeared)' - Franz Kafka.

Galvasean

I Am Legend
-finally seeing what all the fuss is about.

IvyTheTerrible

I'm reading "Mao - The Unknown Story" by Jung Chang (of Wild Swans fame) and Jon Halliday.

It's fascinating but also horrifying, and a real eye-opener. I had never read any Chinese history, but I'd recommend this.

Also it proves you don't have to be popular to gain power..

Silent Partner

I'm now reading "Hound of the Baskervilles" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I read a lot of Sherlock Holmes when I was a kid so it's nice to revisit them.

iFight

AJG wrote: »

'Amerika (The Man Who Disappeared)' - Franz Kafka.

Any good?

I read The Stoker a while ago and loved it. Think that is the opening chapter for Amerika or something.

Myself, I am reading For Esmé - With Love and Squalor - J.D. Salinger.

John

JG Ballard Empire of the Sun

crotalus667

Lyra's Oxford , by Philip Pullman , it was horrendously short at just 45 pages

JangoFett

"Glamorama" - Bret Easton Ellis

So far of his books I have read "American Psycho", "Lunar Park" and "Rules of Attraction"

Lunar Park is weird, weird as ****ing hell!!

I have 2 left, "Less Than Zero" and one other I can't remember the name of right now

I wanna read I am Legend too...might try pick that up today!!

JangoFett

I finished Glamorama, its excellent!! LOVED IT!!

Taking a slight break from Mr. Ellis, went and bought I am Legend, shorter than I expected, will start it tomorrow