[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[Fitzcarraldo]

Read few books over the last couple of weeks:

You Don't Have to Live Like This - Benjamin Markovits

A book about a dot com millionaire setting up a society in the abandoned properties of Detroit and how his idealists clash with locals whilst he goes around promoting the scheme for other cities. Quite enjoyable.

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Not read it since school. Very very good, obviously.

You Talkin' to Me? - Sam Leiths

Interesting introduction to Rhetoric and how it is used well in every day life.

And am currently reading The Sellout by Paul Beatty.

 

[BHA Haywards Heath]

Reformation, Europe's House Divided - Diarmaid MacCulloch

Love the subject area, but christ its a bit of a mission.

Really want to read the Bruce Springsteen auto-biography heard its great. Apparently also uses a lot of the imagery and language he uses in his songs as well which is really cool for me, given as I have lost whole years to purely his music.

 

[Bigtomfu]

The Silk Roads - Peter Frankopan

An alternative take on the route of knowledge through civilisation challenging the concept that the bulk of all knowledge flowed from Egyptians to ancient Greeks to the Romans and on to us and providing an alternative from east to west and vice versa via the Persians who's original civilisation precedes all of the above.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Short story. The Signalman by Charles Dickens.

 

[The Modfather]

Set the boy free. The Johnny Marr autobiography

 

[GT49er]

Picked up 'Lord of the Rings' again - must be ten years since I last read it (and I've read the whole of it aloud, to two of my daughters, as a bedtime serial story book too!)

Love it!

 

[Marshy]

Just finished - "Solo" by William Boyd, a James Bond Novel set in 1969.... It really only kept me entertained because it was Bond..otherwise pretty bang average

Now reading " River God " by Wilbur Smith - Ancient Egypt Land of the Pharaohs etc... only 50 pages in but enjoying it very much so far

 

[Rod Marsh]

Just finished "Stand by your manhood" by Peter Llyod. Fun and informative.

 

[CHAPPERS]

I've had this for a while, but I keep putting off starting it. Let me know if it's worthwhile! I'm halfway through the much easier The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway. Should be finished in a couple of days. Was considering revisiting The Return Of The Native by Hardy afterwards.

Gave up on A Brief Histroy of Seven Killings. It wasn't going to get any easier and I just didn't have the will in me to complete it.

Now on to Medium Raw, Anthony Bourdain's book. It's okay but I feel like he's just going over old ground a bit.

 

[twiggles]

Would anyone have recommendations for a similar style to Danny Wallace?

 

[tinycowboy]

Gave up on A Brief Histroy of Seven Killings. It wasn't going to get any easier and I just didn't have the will in me to complete it.

Now on to Medium Raw, Anthony Bourdain's book. It's okay but I feel like he's just going over old ground a bit.

I have no problem abandoning a book. Last time I did it, it was with a fellow Booker Prize shortlist book A Little Life. Just too much.

 

[Buzzer]

I have no problem abandoning a book. Last time I did it, it was with a fellow Booker Prize shortlist book A Little Life. Just too much.

2015 was a low point in the history of Booker Prize. Seven Killings is unreadable whereas A Little Life was grief-porn and an insult to the Booker Prize.

 

[Scampi]

2015 was a low point in the history of Booker Prize. Seven Killings is unreadable whereas A Little Life was grief-porn and an insult to the Booker Prize.

I thought seven killings was brilliant

 

[TheJasperCo]

Phil Collins' autobiography. Let's just say, he makes an infinitely better musician than he does a writer.

 

[tinycowboy]

2015 was a low point in the history of Booker Prize. Seven Killings is unreadable whereas A Little Life was grief-porn and an insult to the Booker Prize.

I agree it wasn't the best year, but Satin Island is very entertaining - as a fellow office worker with exposure to consultants, it's worth a read, if you haven't already.

 

[Buzzer]

I agree it wasn't the best year, but Satin Island is very entertaining - as a fellow office worker with exposure to consultants, it's worth a read, if you haven't already.

I have, that's a great call. It was my favourite from that year by a long chalk. It reminded me very much of Douglas Coupland in style. I did think though that it ended rather abruptly, almost as if I'd only read two-thirds of a book.

 

[tinycowboy]

I have, that's a great call. It was my favourite from that year by a long chalk. It reminded me very much of Douglas Coupland in style. I did think though that it ended rather abruptly, almost as if I'd only read two-thirds of a book.

I think that's part of the attraction - an ending that's not really an ending. Like a cross between Kafka and Ballard. I should check out his other stuff.

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Phil Collins' autobiography. Let's just say, he makes an infinitely better musician than he does a writer.

I doubt he wrote a single word.

 

[CHAPPERS]

I'm currently reading Ready Player One by Ernest Cline and I think it''s ruddy fantastic.

 

[Left Back]

I'm currently reading Ready Player One by Ernest Cline and I think it''s ruddy fantastic.

Friend at work suggested Ready Player One to me and I couldn't put it down.

Growing up in the 80s, I loved all the retro video game references. Passed it on to both my teenage boys and they both loved it too. (a rarity nowadays to find something we all agree on!)