[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[DIFFBROOK]

I am reading Viv Albertines autobiography. Ex of the Slits, on/off girlfriend of Mick Jones. Really good read and interesting even past her "Punk" life.

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Map Addict by Mike Parker- As you would imagine a celebration of maps. Only just got going with it but hugely entertaining and being a bit of an ordnance survey fan very informative.

 

[robinsonsgrin]

The Son by Jo Nesbo.... have always enjoyed his thrillers....taking me a while to get into this one though.

 

[Don Quixote]

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.

 

[Steve in Japan]

I understand what you mean, but I read for entertainment not as part of an English Literature Degree.

A bit like enjoying a film without worrying too much about it winning an Oscar for Editing or Cinematograhpy

I saw Peter James was named "best crime writer of all time" (small print - in a WH Smith readers poll). Quite remarkable, really. Not because he is terrible - he's not - but because I think there are many, many better authors. And some of them are on the list. See link.

http://blog.whsmith.co.uk/best-crime-authors-time-voted/

 

[Gwylan]

I saw Peter James was named "best crime writer of all time" (small print - in a WH Smith readers poll). Quite remarkable, really. Not because he is terrible - he's not - but because I think there are many, many better authors. And some of them are on the list. See link.

http://blog.whsmith.co.uk/best-crime-authors-time-voted/

That's a truly shocking list. Any list of crime writers that doesn't have Raymond Chandler or Arthur Conan Doyle at the top is really bad. I like Peter James' books, they're great entertainment but is Roy Grace really a more memorable creation than Sherlock Holmes or Philip Marlowe?

 

[Silk]

I've decided to re-read Gene Wolfe's "Book of the Long Sun", have raced through the first two volumes of one of the finest works of fiction I have ever read.

 

[Bombadier Botty]

Invisible - Paul Auster. Love Auster's writing and really enjoying this one.

 

[Man of Harveys]

A book about the old coaching roads between London and Brighton. Fascinating stuff. Got to love City Books btw.

 

[Steve in Japan]

Dissolution by C.J. Sansom (aka The Shardlake Series). I think I have made a mistake, am finding it very slow and may not make it to the end.

 

[Marshy]

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

100 pages in, enjoying it so far

 

[jimbob5]

I am reading "Damned United" which has been recommended on this site several times. Basically a fictionalised account of Brian Cloughs short stay as manager of Leeds United with extensive "flashbacks" to the incidents that shaped his extraordinary career.

About halfway - still to get to the bits covering his spell as Albion boss. A great read so far.

The film kept switching dates. If I had not been around at the time and a football fan, I'd have been a bit baffled.

 

[Don Quixote]

Foundation - Asimov

 

[jimbob5]

If you're stuck, want a page turner that keeps you guessing, some dry wit, circa 300 pages only, mainly modern who done its, try some Peter Loversey.

 

[Rodney Thomas]

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

100 pages in, enjoying it so far

Terrific but horrifying book... an excellent read

 

[Rodney Thomas]

I'm currently reading Eleni by Nicolas Gage

 

[mune ni kamome]

Foundation - Asimov

Never been bettered in SF in my opinion

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Danny Baker's second autobiography, It is quite a life.

 

[Danny-Boy]

Just finished reading "The jungle book" by Kipling. I bought the same old red-covered leatherette edition from the 1920's I had at home as a kid.

Ironically Kipling used a symbol on the front cover, an elephant's head together with a sacred Hindu symbol of good luck. It was later appropriated and swivelled 45 degrees by the Nazis and has been reviled ever since. Around 1934 all of the Kipling books still being printed in this format were shorn of the symbol.

Since these books were printed during WW! originally or even before, interesting to speculate that Adolf who I think was a POW for a while, might have seen one and decided to use the symbol for his own fledging National Socialist movement later.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Danny Baker's second autobiography, It is quite a life.

The bit about Davey the Dwarf genuinely scared the living daylights out of me. Great book, the man is a legend.