[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[Surf's Up]

Don't do it. Slow down. I brought the 10 or so from Amazon I hadn't read and now because they are such a very good read, I am finding it difficult to get into any thing else.
I shall wait a couple of weeks and start them all again.

Similarly addicted but just broken my sequence up with Kate Atkinson's "When Will There Be Good News?"

 

[Barry Izbak]

Don't do it. Slow down. I brought the 10 or so from Amazon I hadn't read and now because they are such a very good read, I am finding it difficult to get into any thing else.
I shall wait a couple of weeks and start them all again.

You're so right. I have been trying to do Lee Child every alternate book, but struggle to get into anything else.

 

[Meade's Ball]

Finished The Sister Brothers last week - an expertly semi-parodic take of the wild west rightly Booker Prize nominated. Enjoyed that a lot. Even read it in Texan.
Now just trying to get through Jose Saramago's The Double, the tale of a man finding his exact double on film and becoming fixated with how they seem to have maybe always kept the exact same look and style to themselves. Paragraphs are about 4 pages long, though, and i find that annoying as i never know when to stop. Will do it, though, i think, because i've had the book for a number of years, and the subject in itself holds an interest for me.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

White Bicycles:Making Music in the 60's by Joe Boyd.

It's a cracking read although I guess you need to be of a certain age and have an interest in music.

 

[blue2]

1,000 years of Russian history

 

[rocker959]

Spanking Weekly and Rubber Review !!

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

After reading Robert Harris's Fatherland a few weeks back, I caught part of The Ghost on Film 4 and am now reading the book (also by Harris) - problem is I can't get Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan out of my head when I'm reading it.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Just read Shadow Divers - the story of how a sunken U-Boat was discovered and identified. Does not sound much from that - but a fascinating insight into the diving culture and a human tale of submariners.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

After reading Robert Harris's Fatherland a few weeks back,

I have started to read that a few times thinking that I should enjoy it - but for some reason it just doesn't grip me. I even started listening to a dramatisation on i-Player and gave up. Strange - as I rarely not complete a book.

 

[willow147]

You're so right. I have been trying to do Lee Child every alternate book, but struggle to get into anything else.

I quite agree although it's worth giving "Mitch Rapp" a go, he's a very similar sort of character in the series of books by Vince Flynn.

 

[Peteinblack]

Finished reading Zola's Germinal last week (pretentious? moi?!) Now just over half-way through Dickens' Great Expectations. When I've finished this, I'll read something a bit lighter, probably Keith Richards' autobiography.

 

[Sompting_Seagull]

Bought I, Partridge, we need to talk about Alan, for holiday next week but couldn't resist starting it, very funny.

 

[Woodchip]

Just finished Racing Through The Dark by David Millar. For anyone with an interest in cycling or why drug cheats do it then this is a good insight.

 

[Tubby Mondays]

Nearly finished Skagboys by Irvine welsh

 

[Braders]

Finished
* Karren Brady : Strong Woman
* Alan Sugar : The way I see it

enjoyed both alot and were quick reads , very inspirational

currently reading A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke by Ronald Reng

 

[Kumquat]

Bought I, Partridge, we need to talk about Alan, for holiday next week but couldn't resist starting it, very funny.

Superb book. Best line for me is the footnote about meeting Frank Bough. Won't ruin it for you. Had me in tears.

 

[Gritt23]

Mockingjay ... the third and final part of the Hunger Game trilogy. The best of the 3 IMHO.

 

[father_and_son]

Latest Mo Hayder paperback.

 

[TheBlueAndWhiteStrips]

Telling Stories By Tim Burgess

 

[Easy 10]

Gangsters and Goodfellas, which is the follow-up to Wiseguys (the book that Goodfellas was based on).

It picks up where Goodfellas finished off, with Henry Hill as an ordinary "Joe Schmo" in the FBI's witness protection programme. Good stuff, I love a bit of true crime.