[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[keaton]

Part of my work teams "book club". I will have to suffer the final third as no doubt we'll be discussing it.

You migh find it alright. I just got the sense that all of the really interesting stuff was in the front of the book, and they seemed a bit obsessed with the education system but without finding out much of interest too me.

 

[JCL666]

Recently started reading King Leopolds Ghost by Adam Hochschild.

It's very interesting but halfway through loses it's momentum and becomes a bit of a turgid history book.

Working my way through Iain M Banks. Have read a whole bunch, currently reading Look to Windward, he really is a brilliant SF writer.

 

[Herne Hill Seagull]

I spent the last year re-reading everything Banks wrote, JCL, after his untimely death*. Left Look to Windward 'til last, as it was a favourite. A huge loss, him - the Culture novels are without equal in my opinion.

I've just started David MItchell's new one - he of Cloud Atlas fame - The Bone Clocks. Very good already.

*Edited - piss-poor sentence structure. I did not, of course, mean that I'd been reading everything Banks wrote posthumously. Not even he was that good...

 

[bernster]

One three one by julian cope.A kind of road trip novel but with a few weird twists involving time travel and football violence amongst other things.Also foundation the first book in a series about the history of England by Peter Akroyd

 

[Leekbrookgull]

The rise and fall of The Third Reich,1.600 pages !!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Just bought this. Has had some tremendous reviews and has just been released in paperback format. Just under a thousand pages. WH Smith's in London road are selling it for a ludicrously reasonable £5.49!

 

[R. Slicker]

Not as highbrow as you lot, but released just in time for my holiday.

 

[Don Quixote]

A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene.

 

[Slough Seagull]

The nowhere men by Michael Calvin. Worth a read and features some stuff about the Albion.

 

[Silk]

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, for the second time

 

[narly101]

Stephen Donaldson's The Power That Preserves (3rd Book in the Thomas Covenant series) for the second time. And what an amazing series.

 

[mune ni kamome]

Just finished American Gods-Neil Gaiman. Brilliant.

Also finished whilst on holiday:
Bring up the Bodies-Hilary Mantel
A Sense of an Ending-Julian Barnes

Both Booker prize winners and both also brilliant

 

[mune ni kamome]

Stephen Donaldson's The Power That Preserves (3rd Book in the Thomas Covenant series) for the second time. And what an amazing series.

Read those many years ago now. Fond memories. Superb.

 

[mune ni kamome]

ALIAS GRACE-MARGARET ATWOOD

Very good indeed. Another author I will now follow

 

[Don Quixote]

Grass by Sheri S. Tepper

 

[FamilyGuy]

Just bought this. Has had some tremendous reviews and has just been released in paperback format. Just under a thousand pages. WH Smith's in London road are selling it for a ludicrously reasonable £5.49!

I read that earlier this year - its v v good!

 

[FamilyGuy]

Not as highbrow as you lot, but released just in time for my holiday.

I'm reading that right now too - it too is v v good!

 

[FamilyGuy]

I'm also reading "Alan Turing - the Enigma" by Andrew Hodges - its v v deep and very hard work - but full of good stuff!

 

[Monsieur Le Plonk]

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. My first foray into the caste system of India in the last century. A beautifully written and captivating read.
On advice have since purchased God of Small Things to read next.

In the meantime having a crack at the Narrow Road to the Deep North which is chugging along quite nicely.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I read that earlier this year - its v v good!

Certainly is, an breathtaking achievement. Taught me far more about WWII than they ever taught me at school.