This week, I are mostly reading....

Kold

Albert Camus - The Outsider

kincsem

Soups - Eileen O'Driscoll
The Man Who Knew Too Much - Alan Turing And The Invention Of The Computer - David Leavitt
Just The One - The Wives And Times Of Jeffrey Bernard 1932-1997 - Graham Lord
Fooled By Randomness - The Hidden Role Of Chance In Life And In The Markets - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Sire Lines Updated Edition - Abram S Hewitt

TonyM.

DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS -- JOE BAGEANT

HalloweenJack

Catch 22.

I was prompted to re-read it after someone started a thread about it on here.

phelixoflaherty

Spike Milligan

Sad Professor

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates.

Half way through it and really enjoying it. I just found it there's a film adaption of it with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet coming out shortly.

skybluejay

When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris - really not as good as any of his previous stuff; he's become almost dull.

Also Laurie Lee's I Can't Stay Long, which is quite delicious.

Havermeyer

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

gillyfromlyre

Hi all,

I bought a cheap book lately, the day the world sat still, I thought it was a novel but its actually written by a religious nut whos convinced the world sat still on the 3rd of april, 1924, do not buy, rubbish

Delirium

Starting

Frankenstein, volume 1 by Dean Koontz and Kevin Anderson.

KIVES

gillyfromlyre wrote: »

Hi all,

I bought a cheap book lately, the day the world sat still, I thought it was a novel but its actually written by a religious nut whos convinced the world sat still on the 3rd of april, 1924, do not buy, rubbish

If it's the same book - a Polish guy wrote it in the early seventies - it's not meant to be taken so literally - from memory it's based around an aristocratic southern Polish family who herd bison on a large holding between Krakow and the Slovakian border - Sure it's meant to be a yearning for a more iyllic lifestyle, set as it is between the two world wars - could be wrong but have another glance through it, you may be pleasently surprised...

theCzar

currently reading Iain M Banks: Consider Phlebas

BroomBurner

Just finished The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morten, awaiting inspiration on what book to start now...

john77

Just finished reading Zugzwang by Ronan Bennett, staying in the same part of the world with J.M. Coetzee's The Master of Petersburg.

theCzar

theCzar wrote: »

currently reading Iain M Banks: Consider Phlebas

and now reading Player of Games, which is more coherent and more enjoyable IMO

billypilgrim

Finished Bleeding Heart Square - nice historical crime novel

Just started Watchmen.

Still have to finish Deer Hunting with Jesus - his style is a little hard to take at times but i will finish it

Halla Basin

I's going through The Reality Dysfunction again. Much better the second time around, like all of Hamilton's work. Except The Dreaming Void, which was meh.

Recently finished Brisingr, the second sequel to Eragon. Possibly the worst book I've ever read, but maybe that's just because in the four years since Eragon, I've grown out of High Fantasy.

Censorsh!t

I are reading and nearly finished The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, by Dali himself. Really interesting and weird.

IvyTheTerrible

I'm almost finished "The Whisperers: Private life in Stalins Russia" by Orlando Figes. It's really excellent and tells the stories of ordinary people living under a dictatorship. Not your average history book!

José Alaninho

Re-reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas after a good few years.... a truly gritty masterpiece.

Heisenberg.

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corblimey

About half way through 'The Book Thief'. Considering the last 6 (count 'em) novels I read were trashy murder/crime novels (both Connellys, a couple of Cobens), this was a huge jump. I nearly put it down a couple of times near the start, but I've persevered and can see why people enjoy it so much.

DenMan

Rant by Chuck Palahniuk. Brilliant book. Everybody's has their own memories of him and give their opinions on Rant Casey. Really enjoying this very much.

nerdysal

The Tea House on Mulberry Street by Sharon Owens

laurashambles

Finsihed Carrie by Stephen King on Wednesday, and I'm about halfway through Stardust by Neil Gaiman. =]

crotalus667

The boy in the striped pyjamas

BroomBurner

corblimey wrote: »

About half way through 'The Book Thief'. Considering the last 6 (count 'em) novels I read were trashy murder/crime novels (both Connellys, a couple of Cobens), this was a huge jump. I nearly put it down a couple of times near the start, but I've persevered and can see why people enjoy it so much.

I loved that book. Found it hard not to!


Have started reading Tim Butcher's book about the Congo. What a mess (not the book).

Ian C

"Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. So far so good.

ahaaha

readin a fraction of the whole by steve toltz. so far so good but not necessarily un-put-downable

theCzar

Song of Susanah by Stephen King, 6 down, 1 to go.