What book(s) are you currently reading?

[Dandyman]

I normally have two on the go. I currently have;

Fiction: The Ghost, Robert Harris
Non-Fiction: 12 days revolution 1956 (Hungary), Victor Sebestyen

Marty, you might find "Failed Illusions - Moscow, Washing, Budapest and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt" by Charles Gati (Stanford University Press) of interest.

Myself, I am mainly reading " Fusiliers - Eight years with the Redcoats in America" by Mark Urban (faber & Faber).

 

[bobbab5]

the new Dalziel and Pascoe

 

[coventrygull]

The Golden Guru

 

[Eggmundo]

Aldous Huxley- Island.

Hopefully it will be as good as "Brave New World".

 

[sams dad]

A quiet belief in Angels - R J Ellory

 

[Robbie G]

Mmmmmmmm..........price elasticity.

Immensly thrilling when you add that with income and cross-price elasticities

 

[Stat Brother]

Dry Store Room No.1 The Secret Life of The Natural History Museum - Richard Fortey (The guy who wrote Trilobite!).

Purchased mainly on the bases of a fantastic interview, done with Simon Mayo (5-live).
It's a great read, but as in keeping with a book I found in the science/reference section, tough.
But as my basic education centres around Geography/geology, I'm just about able to keep going. This is made easier by Richard Fortey being one of those 'obviously far to intelligent' bloke, but very witty.

 

[John Bumlick]

Douglas Coupland - jPod.

geek-tastic, mate.

I'm reading the second volume of Ian Kershaw's biography of Hitler - Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis.

 

[cannedheat]

Mein Kampf

 

[Marty McFly]

Marty, you might find "Failed Illusions - Moscow, Washing, Budapest and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt" by Charles Gati (Stanford University Press) of interest.

Myself, I am mainly reading " Fusiliers - Eight years with the Redcoats in America" by Mark Urban (faber & Faber).

Cheers for the tip, it looks quite good, and I have now ordered it. Though it'll take me a while to get round to it, as I have just started the rather hefty (1385 pages) 'Europe: A history' by Norman Davies.

 

[steward 433]

Nothing at the moment as we are STILL f***ing DECORATING but when i get time it will be

Terence Strong-Conflict of lions

 

[defrocked priest]

latest fourfourtwo

 

[Lady Whistledown]

A quiet belief in Angels - R J Ellory

I just read that, quite enjoyed it, along with Robert Harris's The Ghost (love all his books), and The Appeal, by John Grisham.

Currently reading Child 44, by some author I'd never heard of until I picked the book up. It's pretty good so far.

 

[unnameable]

Playback, the last of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe novels. I've read the other six.

 

[Tooting Gull]

Another one for Flat Earth News by Nick Davies.

A must-read for any journos on here - and a very good one for anyone else vaguely interested in what they read, peppered with great examples that you would remember seeing at the time.

It's not without its faults - he is slightly snobby about news, and clearly sees little or no benefit in items that can amuse and entertain, as well as inform - but for all that, it's an excellent book.

 

[who me?]

bedroom secrets of the masterchefs- irvine welsh (no believe me its TSFW)

(quick cut and paste job follows)

The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs - Summary

Troubled Environmental Health Officer Danny Skinner is engaged on a quest to uncover what he refers to as 'the bedroom secrets of the master chefs'. He regards the unravelling of this classified information as the key to learning genetic facts about himself and the crippling compulsions that threaten to wreck his young life. The ensuing journey takes him from Europe's festival city of Edinburgh to the foodie capital of America, San Francisco. But the hard-drinking, womanising Skinner has a strange nemesis in the form of model-railway enthusiast Brian Kibby. It is his unfathomable, obsessive hatred of Kibby that takes over everything, threatening to destroy not only Skinner and his mission but also those he loves most dearly. When Kibby contracts a horrific and debilitating mystery virus, Skinner understands that his destiny is inextricably bound to that of his hated rival, and he is faced with a terrible dilemma. The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs is a gothic parable about the great obsessions of our time: food, sex and minor celebrity, and is a brilliant examination of identity, male rivalry and the need to belong in the world.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Tales from the Hanging Court

Tales from the Hanging Court draws on published accounts of Old Bailey trials from 1674-1834, a rich seam of social, political and legal history. Through these compelling true stories of theft, murder, rape and blackmail, Hitchcock and Shoemaker capture the early history of the judicial system and the colourful, vibrant and sometimes scandalous world of pre-industrial London:

‘This was a time when an orphan could live for a week by stealing a single handkerchief, but be hanged for less; when stocks and pillories were still in use, duels were still fought, and the medieval punishment of ‘pressing’ to death – spreadeagled on the ground and poled with heavy weights – was still on the statute books; when your jailer could invite you upstairs for a beer or leave you in an airless dungeon with no water on a whim; when you might be murdered in your bed for some linen or a silver tankard …’ Time Out

In its heyday the court was a soap opera of intrigue, sensation and murky goings on where authors such as Dickens and Defoe would go for inspiration. Thieves and murderers were often caught by members of the public and prosecutions brought by victims. Hitchcock and Shoemaker chart an increasingly sophisticated society taking crime and punishment away from the anarchy of the London mob to put it into a court where a judge and jury meted out justice.

The authors paint a vivid picture of a flourishing city where market capitalism and Enlightenment thinking battled to impose order on the chaotic crime that accompanied Britain's economic miracle.

http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk/Title/9780340913758/Tales_from_the_Hanging_Court.htm

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

P.S I love you - it's very girly, but i like it!!