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What book are you currently reading?

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Biography of Syd Barrett.
 
I like to have a non fiction and fiction book on the go..

I'm slowly working my way through "the chemistry of mind altering drugs - Dan Perrine", which is a pretty decent book imo, it's not overly dumbed down and contains a nice amount of pharmacology and presents it in such a way that someone from a chemical or biological background (not specifcally pharmacology) can understand it. I'm a physicist / chemist (chemical physicist ;D) so I'm still getting to terms with all the biological crap.

Also working my way (again slowly) through naked lunch. Burroughs races around so much.. its a really difficult book to follow.
 
Currently (re)reading my way through the catalogue of Heinlein's books..
I can't say I'd forgotten how good they are, but I'm certainly remembering _why_ I liked them.. :)

oh, and *50 post victory dance* :)
 
Not started reading them yet buy my other half has just finished reading the Millenium trilogy (Girl with The Dragon Tattoo, Girl Who Played With Fire and Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest) and reckons they are some of the best books she has ever read so I'll be giving them a go next.
 
Bad Science, by Ben Goldacre. Absolutely essential reading - exposes bad research, bad science reporting, and tips you off to common cognitive errors that people make - I learned a lot from it.

(He also rips a new asshole for everyone who thinks that skunk is 25 times stronger than it was in the 70s).

After that going to hit up some science fiction from Alistair Reynolds, and some lit by Doris Lessing.
 
I rented a beach house near Padstow last week which had a small library.

Wanted something light to read for those lazy hours, and found "Iain Banks - Complicity"

I won't say too much about the plot, but the style of writing (i.e. the movement of 1st to 2nd person) is very effective in keeping you guessing as to what is happening. Not many books I have read manage to use it so well.

Well worth a read if you want a fast paced and clever thriller which is a bit different.

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^ funnily enough I am currently reading Ian Banks The Wasp Factory, fucking dark and superb!

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def going to be reading more from him, just amazing! :)
 
welshmick said:
I'm reading

PAPILLON by Henri Charriere.

Enjoying very good !
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Ooh. I want to read this. It's about escaping Devil's Island, yeah?

Currently reading Man's Fate by André Malraux. So far, it's fantastic, but I've just started it, so my mind is still thinking about my last book, which was a collection of stories by Pushkin.

White Guard by Bulgakov right before the Pushkin. Bulgakov is the shit. The Master and Margarita is probably the first one I'd recommend. It's hilarious, tense and tight in its description of the (sociological) climate of Stalinist Soviet Russia.

Goddamn, though, Pushkin is phenomenal. Very exciting and very funny. Plus, I've been getting into 19th - early 20th C.. Russian literature recently. Pushkin kind of reminds me of Stendahl: the events described are thrilling and very detailed. Easy to enter his world even if he's describing Russian/European/Parisian life of almost 200 years ago.
 
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