What book are you reading atm??

On a bit of an anthropology binge at the moment so got Sapiens by Yuval Noah Hararai. Serious page turner.

rushfan

Downloaded "Fire and Fury" onto the Kindle today. Looking forward to reading this one.

patchyamac

rushfan wrote: »

Downloaded "Fire and Fury" onto the Kindle today. Looking forward to reading this one.

Finished it last night, interesting stuff.

gutenberg

Reading Fergal Keane's Wounds: part memoir, part family history, part history of revolutionary Ireland. I like his narrative and writing styles, so I'm enjoying it so far.

Currently reading Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, the 2017 Booker Prize winner.
Got it as a Christmas present and have about 50 pages left to go.
It's........strange. Very very strange. But (mostly) in a good way!

Birneybau

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Currently reading Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, the 2017 Booker Prize winner.
Got it as a Christmas present and have about 50 pages left to go.
It's........strange. Very very strange. But (mostly) in a good way!

I've been in an out of it, will get stuck in. The audiobook is incredible:

http://time.com/4631970/george-saunders-lincoln-in-the-bardo/

Nick Offerman as HANS VOLLMAN
David Sedaris as ROGER BEVINS III
Carrie Brownstein as ISABELLE PERKINS
George Saunders as THE REVEREND EVERLY THOMAS
Miranda July as MRS. ELIZABETH CRAWFORD
Lena Dunham as ELISE TRAYNOR
Ben Stiller as JACK MANDERS
Julianne Moore as JANE ELLIS
Susan Sarandon as MRS. ABIGAIL BLASS
Bradley Whitford as LT. CECIL STONE
Bill Hader as EDDIE BARON
Megan Mullally as BETSY BARON
Rainn Wilson as PERCIVAL “DASH” COLLIER
Jeff Tweedy as CAPTAIN WILLIAM PRINCE
Kat Dennings as MISS TAMARA DOOLITTLE
Jeffrey Tambor as PROFESSOR EDMUND BLOOMER
Mike O’Brien as LAWRENCE T. DECROIX
Keegan-Michael Key as ELSON FARWELL
Don Cheadle as THOMAS HAVENS
and
Patrick Wilson as STANLEY “PERFESSER” LIPPERT

Hector Bellend

Ann and Barry

bonzodog2

The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
https://www.amazon.com/Great-War-Civilisation-Conquest-Middle/dp/1400075173/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1514033731&sr=1-1&keywords=robert+fisk

Its very long, sometimes not very pleasant reading, but its very very good.

Birneybau

Birneybau wrote: »

I've been in an out of it, will get stuck in. The audiobook is incredible:

Wow, that's some cast! :eek: (Stiller and Dunham irritate me hugely, but you can never have a perfect lineup I guess)

patchyamac

bonzodog2 wrote: »

The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
https://www.amazon.com/Great-War-Civilisation-Conquest-Middle/dp/1400075173/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1514033731&sr=1-1&keywords=robert+fisk

Its very long, sometimes not very pleasant reading, but its very very good.

I like Fisk,I might have to warez that one

rushfan

bonzodog2 wrote:

Its very long, sometimes not very pleasant reading, but its very very good.

A fantastic read. I read it myself a few years ago, got bogged down a bit on the Albanian situation, but yeah it's very very good alright. It's only a couple of euros on Amazon Kindle atm too.

Poochie05

Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton.

Part of a series about a detective called Kinsey Milhone that started at A.
Sadly she died a week ago so the alphabet will end at Y as she promised to haunt her kids if they ever sold the rights to her books or called in a ghost writer!

denis160

The good daughter by Karin Slaughter
Excellent thriller, loved it.

banie01

Currently reasing Dynasty by Tom Holland and SPQR by Mary Beard.
Very contrasting voews of the end of the Roman Republic and the emergence of Empire.
Both great books and both offer contrary views and interpretation of that period.

bonzodog2

bonzodog2 wrote: »

The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
https://www.amazon.com/Great-War-Civilisation-Conquest-Middle/dp/1400075173/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1514033731&sr=1-1&keywords=robert+fisk

Its very long, sometimes not very pleasant reading, but its very very good.

Here's another, its maybe 3 years since I read it, but its also good
The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order (Council on Foreign Relations Books (Princeton University Press)) Ben Steil
https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Bretton-Woods-Relations-University/dp/0691162379/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1515326751&sr=8-3&keywords=bretton+woods

Another was a bio of the Dulles brothers

branie2

Cathar, a novel set in 13th century southern France

dudara

Couldn’t resist the hype, reading Wolff’s “Fire & Fury” about the Trump White House

Neames

The Midnight Line....a Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child.

It's good if a little formulaic....but I like the formula.

_Kaiser_

The Trump expose "Fire and Fury"

It's certainly worth the read, even in a WTF comedy sense, although the reaction from the White House and Trump himself suggests that there's a lot of truth in it

buried

The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost. Juvenile dossier type yoke trying to explain what's going on from the great TV show. Not everything needs to be explained to be enjoyed and too much explanation will kill the enjoyment. Got it as a gift. Ok for reading while sitting on the jacks and that's about it.

The Last London by Iain Sinclair. Sinclair's latest lament at the current state of the city he has lived in and spent so much time writing about. Sinclair is in bad form about it all but still a very entertaining read. The descriptions of gibberish statements roared into smartphones on the streets is worth the price alone.

The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic by Owen Davies. Beautiful hardcover copy with great colour plates and illustrations. Owen Davies is a total master of social history, his book on Grimoires is also a great read but this is outstanding work. Ten out of the Ten.

Sive by John B. Keane. Going to see this next month, seen it last in the Gaiety back in 1994 or that so catching up on it. Always a pleasure from the genius mountain man magician John B

NIMAN

How Not To Be A Boy, by Robert Webb, very good so far.

_Roz_

The Tin Man by Sarah Winman. Meh, so far. Another one of those poetic yokes with admittedly lovely prose and no speech punctuation recollecting the impact of an intersection of lives. Rarely do the characters jump sufficiently off the page for me to really care. It's a short one, though, so I'll finish it and maybe even be surprised.

GLaDOS

I rarely read non-fiction and never read more than one book at a time, but I'm breaking both of those trends at the moment.

"Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief" by Lawrence Wright is one I've had on my list for ages

And of course, Fire and Fury (though the non-fiction description could be disputed)

Makes for some interesting parallel reading!

ankles

Fire and Fury and also the Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt. There is no hope. I think I'm going to read some Thomas the Tank Engine for a while after I get through these

eviltwin

The Hate U Give, it's a young adult book which is a genre I usually avoid but this is a great book. It's about the aftermath of a policeman shooting an unarmed black teen

Carry

ankles wrote: »

Fire and Fury and also the Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt. There is no hope. I think I'm going to read some Thomas the Tank Engine for a while after I get through these

That's why I avoid to read even more about the desperate situation of mankind, for my own sanity. Hannah Arendt analysed a past, so I thought, but the present is even more frightening.

I love crime novels and thrillers, because there is always someone good who keeps evil away, or whatever. But looking at reality I think no crime writer can keep up with all the cruelty and bull**** in our current world.

At the moment I'm on a discovery mission of probably obscure Irish crime fiction as escapism reads.

Currently it's Jo Spain's With our Blessing. I'ts no great literature, but a good solid police procedure novel. It's about the murder of a nun and a priest and digging into their past concerning a Magdalene Laundry in Limerick. Actually, I felt satisfied that they were killed...

Next is Andrea Carter's The Well of Ice. It's the latest in her series about a solicitor in Inishowen who always manages to get involved into bizarre and very parochial crimes. A kind of sexy Miss Marple in Malin and in a sweet way undemanding, but a satisfying bedtime read.

Bending down my dining table, just by weight and size, is that massive tome Atlas of the Irish Revolution. I'm not even halfway through browsing - reading it will take months, if not years. But boy it's fascinating!

eviltwin

Carry wrote: »

Currently it's Jo Spain's With our Blessing. I'ts no great literature, but a good solid police procedure novel. It's about the murder of a nun and a priest and digging into their past concerning a Magdalene Laundry in Limerick. Actually, I felt satisfied that they were killed...

Thanks for the recommendation, just bought this on Kindle (£1.99 if anyone's interested ) Looks intriguing.

Sephiroth_dude

Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

GBX

Started 1984 George Orwell

eisenberg1

The Hearts Invisible Furies - John Boyne

Awful aul rubbish....