What are you reading?

frebentos · Post by **frebentos** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:44 pm

badger wrote: might return to my inner geek and read a graphic novel

If youve not read Watchmen or From Hell, I would give them a go...two different styles with Watchmen being my favourite for sheer storytelling and From Hell providing a different perspective on the Jack the Ripper mystery, good thick graphic novel with historical notes at the back....

dutty yuppie · Post by **dutty yuppie** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:48 pm

Just read "a Sunday by the pool in Kigali" by Gil Courtemanche. It's a story set during the Rwandan genocide and is one of the most moving books I've ever read. Hard to believe the extent of what happened only 13 years ago. Urge you to read it.

Now reading "A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Irving. It's meant to be a superb book, 100 pages in and I'm yet to see that. I think the decision to put it down may need to be considered soon. If so, I'll move on to War And Peace because I have always intended to read it.

LEQ · Post by **LEQ** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:57 pm

@ Boomnoise, sorry dude totally forgot about this thread, finished Jpod a while ago now and I agree with your point in that I was a little disappointed to be honest, It was self-indulgent, yet still enjoyable, some of it was really funny and then other parts were just like 'wtf, why is that in there?'. Some of the sub-plots would have been better suited in a cartoon , it was a middle of the road Coupland book I reckon, you won't be disappointed but you won't be raving about it.

Now on the Murakami

sri · Post by **sri** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 4:20 pm

i just started reading there are no accidents ~synchronicity and the stories of our lives by robert h. hopcke. i picked it up at the library and got suckered by the quote on the back, "chances are, if this book has found it's way into your hands, you are supposed to read it" i'm glad i picked it up though. so far, it has been amazing. i have been noticing so many synchronistic events lately and realizing how enigmatic this universe is

paolo · Post by **paolo** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 7:09 pm

'London Orbital' by Iain Sinclair. It's like JG Ballard crossed with WG Sebald

jah pat · Post by **jah pat** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 7:43 pm

product · Post by **product** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 4:39 am

"kzy" ras:man · Post by **"kzy" ras:man** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 11:13 pm

Ive just started to read Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon were in a film called " a cock and bull story" which was loosly based around it andit was awesome!

schamotnik · Post by **schamotnik** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 9:15 am

LEQ wrote:Now on the Murakami

which one? have read quite a few .. really love murakami, although I reckon it might not be for everyone..

LEQ · Post by **LEQ** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:33 am

Schamotnik wrote:
LEQ wrote:Now on the Murakami
which one? have read quite a few .. really love murakami, although I reckon it might not be for everyone..

The Wind up bird chronicle, I've had it for ages and never got round to starting it, so far it' excellent.

slothrop · Post by **slothrop** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:54 am

Jah Pat wrote:

Nice.

Kzy ras:man wrote:Ive just started to read Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

Ha ha, wicked book. Two centuries ahead of its time.

dutty yuppie · Post by **dutty yuppie** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:21 pm

Swung - Ewan Morrison.

It's a fictional book about an impotent man and his lover who embark across some adventures through the Glasgow swinging scene. 140 pages in and he's only been tossed off.

I bought it on the basis of Irvine Welsh's gushing praise for the book.

I'm hoping itpicks up - by that I mean I hope the characters can endear themselves to me a bit more.

ufo over easy · Post by **ufo over easy** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 2:39 pm

paolo wrote:'London Orbital' by Iain Sinclair. It's like JG Ballard crossed with WG Sebald

I've tried so hard to like Iain Sinclair but I just can't...

I thought London Orbital read like 600 pages of short, extremely well written but completely unrelated paragraphs about him and his famous mates pissing about doing nothing for a few months, and taking notes on it.

'so then this one time I met up with my buddy from the klf and we did something arty and then moaned about the state of things for a while and then the next day I had some coffee in an abandoned power station and wandered across some desolate bridge and thought about london for a bit and then there were some ghosts but not real ghosts more like metaphorical ghosts of the city and then I came up with some other metaphors, then I went home'

I just finished Remains of the Day by kazuo ishiguro again - heartbreaking

I read his latest one, Never Let Me Go recently as well... absolutely fantastic. Hugely recommended.

paolo · Post by **paolo** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:25 pm

^ Bit harsh I think but I see what you mean!

"kzy" ras:man · Post by **"kzy" ras:man** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:04 pm

Slothrop wrote:
Jah Pat wrote:
Nice.
Kzy ras:man wrote:Ive just started to read Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Ha ha, wicked book. Two centuries ahead of its time.

haha definatly "a post modern classic before there was any modernism to be written about"

ufo over easy · Post by **ufo over easy** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:44 am

paolo wrote:^ Bit harsh I think but I see what you mean!

I completely see why people like him - he has a real talent for evocative prose.. but I just can't help feeling that beneath all the flowery sentences it's quite shallow

geiom · Post by **geiom** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:38 am

'Small Island' by Andrea Levy -

Informative, scary and funny book about Jamaica and England around the time of WW2...

K

victor liechtenstein · Post by **victor liechtenstein** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:38 pm

Greatness.

LEQ · Post by **LEQ** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:44 pm

So far, brilliant.

frebentos · Post by **frebentos** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:48 pm

100 years of solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Beautiful prose.

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