What are you reading?

kay · Post by **kay** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 8:45 pm

Picked this up in a secondhand bookshop a couple years ago:

PinUp · Post by **PinUp** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 12:14 pm

I'm currently reading "salmon fishing in the yemen" thought it was going to be a bit shit but my mum said it might surprise me, which it has. Not the predictable love story I imagined it to be and actually a very cleverly written book with great characters.

jaydot · Post by **jaydot** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 2:10 pm

"Hard Times" by Charles Dickens. Not all at once now, girls.

magma · Post by **magma** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 2:22 pm

kay wrote:Picked this up in a secondhand bookshop a couple years ago:

Is this good? I've been wanting to get up on Norse mythology...

kay · Post by **kay** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 6:47 pm

It's decent. He's taken authentic pre-13th century Viking poems and re-written them in modern mythical prose so each of the myths is pretty short. He also gives a bit of historical background for each one, and Viking society in general.

wolf89 · Post by **wolf89** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 10:54 pm

Ooh sounds cool

meanmrcustard · Post by **meanmrcustard** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 11:05 pm

Reading 1Q84 at the moment, just started book 2 and I still don't really know what the FUCK is going on. Murakami can come in with all sorts of surreal when the mood takes him :/

Terpit · Post by **Terpit** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 9:45 am

I keep trying to read the Kode 9 book and giving up

didi · Post by **didi** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 9:47 am

Terpit wrote:I keep trying to read the Kode 9 book and giving up

i've been there.

magma · Post by **magma** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 9:59 am

kay wrote:It's decent. He's taken authentic pre-13th century Viking poems and re-written them in modern mythical prose so each of the myths is pretty short. He also gives a bit of historical background for each one, and Viking society in general.

Nice one - I'll add it to the ever-growing list of books I need to find time to read.

PinUp · Post by **PinUp** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 11:29 am

Anyone read any of the Harry Hole books by Jo Nesbo??

Really good crime novels set in norway, there's a massive series of them all of which are really good reads.

Currently reading The Rebreast, not quite sure where in the timeline of the series it's meant to sit but I read the first 200 pages yesterday and I can just tell it's going to be a good one!!

MrBlack · Post by **MrBlack** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 12:52 pm

I am currently reading this page.

kay · Post by **kay** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 6:28 pm

wolf89 wrote:Ooh sounds cool

magma wrote:
kay wrote:It's decent. He's taken authentic pre-13th century Viking poems and re-written them in modern mythical prose so each of the myths is pretty short. He also gives a bit of historical background for each one, and Viking society in general.
Nice one - I'll add it to the ever-growing list of books I need to find time to read.

You can have a flick through when you're next round mine.

cosmic_surgeon · Post by **cosmic_surgeon** » Sat Sep 28, 2013 7:51 pm

I'm not always sure if his conclusions are quite there, but the genius is in his method imo. His understanding of the failure of early Marxism is true of any "purely" political ideology. Great book by a curious man.

Jizz · Post by **Jizz** » Sat Sep 28, 2013 8:15 pm

Anybody got some recommendations for books on Modernity? I know thats quite a broad question haha, but frankly i'm not sure where to start

wub · Post by **wub** » Tue Oct 08, 2013 6:39 am

My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep’s Prodigy

Fucking hell, talk about living the life

Man has had an utter gangster lifestyle from the start, some of the shit that he's done is just mental.

PinUp · Post by **PinUp** » Tue Oct 08, 2013 10:34 am

Snowblind by Robert Sabbag

An interesting look at the life of a cocaine smuggler. It's half case study on coke and smuggling and half biographical account of a guy called Zachary Swann who was moving coke from Columbia into the US before the Cartels moved in and took control.

It's a fascinating read. Anyone got any reccomendations for other books like this? I've read Mr Nice and enjoyed that as well, the exciting lifestyle of a smuggler seems to really appeal to me

Muncey · Post by **Muncey** » Tue Oct 08, 2013 10:43 am

Monetary Policy b2b Debunking Economics b2b Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas

PinUp · Post by **PinUp** » Tue Oct 08, 2013 10:58 am

Muncey wrote:Monetary Policy b2b Debunking Economics b2b Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas

Never actually got round to reading fear and loathing, good shout!

Will check out the other 2 as well, cheers.

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