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What book are you currently reading?

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Stephen King - The Mist

Got the Dark Half and Insomnia to read after that then im gonna make a start on the Dark Tower series.

Just recently re discovered my love for books, i can't read when im stoned so gives me something to do when i run out of green.
 
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Sebastian Mallaby takes us into the secretive world of hedge funds and the result is a wonderful story and an education in finance. --Fareed Zakaria, author of The Post American World

`An enormously satisfying book: a gripping chronicle of the cutting edge of the financial markets and a fascinating perspective on what was going on in these shadowy institutions as the crash hit' --Observer

`A splendid account of the ups and downs of an industry in which few of the twenty-something hedge-fund wannabes know their history. They, and meddling politicians, should read this book before they are condemned to repeat it' --Financial Times
 
The gates to Hell have been opened, releasing unnatural creatures and threatening to turn the world into a killing field. In the middle, caught between warring gods and fallen angels, humanity finds itself pushed to the brink of extinction. Its only hope is the most unlikely of heroes ...Former assassin Rachel Hael has rejoined the blood-magician Mina Greene and her devious little dog Basilis on one last desperate mission to save the world from the grip of Hell. Carried in the jaw of a debased angel, they rush to the final defensive stronghold of the god of clocks - pursued all the while by the twelve arconites, the great iron-and-bone automatons controlled by King Menoa, the lord of the maze. But the strange fortress of the god of clocks is unlike anything they could ever have expected. And now old enemies and new allies join in a battle whose outcome could end them all...
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excellent third volume of the deepgate codex...well worth a read,picture a submarine travelling through hell ,powered by the bodies of the dead..brilliant stuff
 
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Been reading Dave Mustaines autobiography, which was pretty decent, not amazing but worth a look.

The best two books i've read this year are Next Man Up by John Feinstein, which follows the Baltimore Ravens NFLteam through an entire season. It was amazingly absorbing, and not too dry and stat filled which some books like this can be.


And Rock Chicks by Lili Taylor (i think) which is a sex and drug filled chick lit kinda thing about a Motley Crue esque band and was fucking entertaining, proper sex scenes that were pretty explicit. Gave it to a couple of gay lassys at work and they were kinda shocked =D .
 
I recently finished "Less Than Zero" by Brett Easton Ellis.

Bag of shite.
 
Doris Lessing: The Making of the Representative for Planet 8

Part of her science-fiction series (which is really more meditative/myth than sf; hard to categorise and I'm not sure if I like it or not.

Just finished Ian McEwan's Atonement. Great book - I enjoyed the film but it doesn't really do the book justice; apart from the actual plot, the book is far more concerned with discussing the nature of writing, of what books should be about.
 
Infinite Jest said:
Just finished Ian McEwan's Atonement. Great book - I enjoyed the film but it doesn't really do the book justice; apart from the actual plot, the book is far more concerned with discussing the nature of writing, of what books should be about.
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It's good isn't it. I read Enduring Love after atonement, also fansastically written. I find films rarely do the books justice.
 
The Bell Jar was brilliant. I read it in less than a week, and that's the first time I've done that in years.

I've just started reading The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
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Only read the first chapter thus far, and it hasn't grabbed me yet. But I'll continue with it as I think it'll pick up somewhat.
 
The Kid said:
I recently finished "Less Than Zero" by Brett Easton Ellis.

Bag of shite.
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Nah Kid its a classic !! quintessental 80's innit. :)

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Just read this, thought it would be bad cos of the cheesy title, but its actually a great read, although "HFM" isnt anonymous anymore since he started doing Radio Interviews.....


http://www.witf.org/news/smart-talk/4900-diary-of-a-very-bad-year

From Booklist

This book is a series of interviews with an anonymous hedge-fund manager (HFM) by the co-editor of a literary magazine (who admits to being ill-informed on finance); he sets out to understand what is happening on Wall Street. The HFM offers a brilliant financial professional's view of the economic situation in real time, from September 2007, when problems in financial markets began to surface, until late summer 2009, when the financial meltdown generally subsided and the financial community went back, in HFM's view, to business as usual. With definitions of financial terms and products, and explanations of domestic and global issues as they occur, HFM draws from his decade of nonstop work as a hedge-fund manager to educate the interviewer and us as the financial crisis unfolds. This is a great read. The interviews are edited in a readily understandable manner and will provide a thoughtful perspective for a wide range of library patrons who want to learn about the recent financial debacle.
 
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers.

Recommended off here I think. I've a funny feeling its gonna end strange (no spoilers please) Trying to read a bit more. Last book I read was - The Road

Fuck that was dark.
 
I did a lot of reading in hospital and thoroughly enjoyed it. I hadn't read properly in years and it reminded me how much I used to love it! A few of them were just short, easily digestable books or excerpts.

'Close encounters' by Alina Reyes gave me lots of errections which made me question some things haha (Think hermaphrodite angels in an orgy).

Another easily digestable one I read was Satyricon from Nero's Empire. It was so beautifully worded and painted an unfolding masterpiece in my head.

I found 'The Dream of the Red Chamber' by Cao Xeuqiqn absolutely beautiful. However, I can't help but feel that I would have taken some parts differently if I was reading it before translation.

A book I'm still reading now is James Ellroy - Crime Wave (reportage and fiction from the underside of L.A).

It's a collection of some of his investigative articles and two short fictional novels - 'Hollywood Shakedown' and 'Tijuana Mon Amour'. His writing style is excellent. It's so jazzy and snappy, you can hear it so vividly in your head. I can't put it down (just like that book I read last year about anti-gravity ;))
 
Recently finished reading a few of Irvine Welsh's new-er books -

Reheated Cabbage - not a bad little collection of stories (I think mostly republished short stories) with an excellent return to "Juice" Terry & Carl Ewart at the end (from Glue) featuring Blacky, the old school headmaster - very amusing..

If You Liked School You'll Love Work - collection of new short stories - some pretty good ones in there - the highlight is the last novella "The Kingdom of Fife" an incredibly witty new character with an amusing catch phrase - some lovely dark wit lies within.

Crime - his new novel - a follow on from Filth - definitely a step away from his other work, this book is more plot driven and based in America. A definite page turner and I think worth reading if you are a fan... not so much of the dark wit and in depth exploration of the main characters though...

So a summary of each for anyone who is interested... now reading Slaughterhouse 5 (Kurt Vonnegut), seems good so far...
 
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