What are you reading?

betamaxnomates · Post by **betamaxnomates** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 8:07 am

Just finished 'The Diving Bell & The Butterfly'. Amazing story - funny, sad, angry, and strangely hopeful as well. His description of the accident that left him paralysed in the penultimate chapter is just breathtaking.
I've since started Don DeLillo's 'Falling Man'. I've found most of DeLillo's recent stuff to be a bit lacking but supposedly this is a return to form. Too early to tell at the minute though.

kins83 · Post by **kins83** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:12 am

I'm on the last book of Stephen King's 'Dark Tower' series. It's f*cking brilliant, and I'm gonna be a little bit gutted when I finish it. It's his attempt at doing a lord of the rings type thing. I'd thoroughly recommend it to anyone into that kind of stuff.

*grand* · Post by ***grand*** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:19 am

I am reading gaining and sustaining competitive advantage

Jay. B. Barney..

BLZDub · Post by **BLZDub** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:15 pm

I posted earlier in this thread about Half of a Yellow Sun. It got boring to be honest, wouldn't recommend it, though I will finish it. Hate not finishing a book.
Now reading 'Cross' by Jason Patterson. Had never read any Patterson before and so far so good, pretty standard detective fiction format but engaging and fast paced which suits the type of story being told.

alfie · Post by **alfie** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 6:28 pm

currently still reading barack obama- the audacity of hope

jack kerouac- on the road is cued up next for reading

datura · Post by **datura** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 6:34 pm

alfie wrote:jack kerouac- on the road is cued up next for reading

great book

BLZDub · Post by **BLZDub** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:44 am

Just started 'How to be free' by Tom Hodgkinson. 9 Pages in and the anarchist in me is getting all hot and bothered. It's basically a book describing how you can attempt to live a simplier and freer life, throw off the shackles of anxiety, bureaucracy, debt, government, housework and all those other really bad things.

bert · Post by **bert** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:55 pm

Just rediscovered Pat Mill's comic strip 'Charley's War' - used to read it as part of Battle when I was a nipper. Reading back I'm amazed that this was aimed at kids, its one of the most poignant anti-war peices I've read for time, and its a comic for 10 year olds. Stands the test of time and I read it cover to cover in one go, couldn't put it down...

Gonna hunt out the other volumes this weekend.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Charleys-War-Ju ... 1840236272

forensix (mcr) · Post by **forensix (mcr)** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:56 pm

datura wrote:
alfie wrote:jack kerouac- on the road is cued up next for reading
great book

just finished again before that the Road - Cormac McCarthy

datura · Post by **datura** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 4:09 pm

forensix (mcr) wrote:
datura wrote:
alfie wrote:jack kerouac- on the road is cued up next for reading
great book
just finished again before that the Road - Cormac McCarthy

I just read that a few weeks back after the recommendation of the Richard & Judy book club.

Need to check the Border trilogy next.

paolo · Post by **paolo** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:41 pm

'After Dark', Haruki Murakami's latest. He's like the Japanese David Lynch, but a novelist rather than a director

lilt · Post by **lilt** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 6:27 am

'politics in new zealand' by richard mulgan

its an old undergrad text book (i have never taken any politics but have an interest)

its out of date and is written at a level that i surpassed a long time ago (unfortunately)

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:05 pm

paolo wrote:'After Dark', Haruki Murakami's latest. He's like the Japanese David Lynch, but a novelist rather than a director

Sounds good, will give this a try!

bert · Post by **bert** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:19 pm

Now reading The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

and

Empire: How Britain made the Modern World by Niall Fergasun, good so far, a modern take on the postivite/negative impacts of Britain's empire

stanton · Post by **stanton** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:48 pm

I am still reading the Myth Of Sisyphus by Albert Camus and Noise by Jacques Attali.

They're both jolly good but the translation of the Camus seems a bit blunt compared to translations of his fiction that I've read. Noise is excellent, but I'm unsure as to where he's going with all of the Baudrillardian simulacrum hoo ha as I was never a fan of that.

pandaia · Post by **pandaia** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:21 pm

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jim · Post by **jim** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:24 pm

jim · Post by **jim** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:26 pm

stanton wrote:I am still reading the Myth Of Sisyphus by Albert Camus and Noise by Jacques Attali.

They're both jolly good but the translation of the Camus seems a bit blunt compared to translations of his fiction that I've read. Noise is excellent, but I'm unsure as to where he's going with all of the Baudrillardian simulacrum hoo ha as I was never a fan of that.

Camus is the man. I read the Fall twice in a row the other week. So much going on in there.

jim · Post by **jim** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:26 pm

Not in one go obviously!

skukol · Post by **skukol** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:51 pm

chuck palahniuk - "rant"

www.chuckpalahniuk.net

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