What book are you currently reading?

[B9]

One flew over the cuckoos nest is an excellent book.


Yes indeed it is.

 

[PinholeStar]

^ Agreed.

I'm currently reading Roadside Picnic by some Russian brothers whose names I can't remember right now. Tis a strange, scratchily unsettling beast indeed.

I've also got The Tibetan Book Of Living & Dying on the go, which I'm enjoying immensely & has already given me a different perspective on its subject. I'll have much to say on this when I've finished it, I should think.

I'll hunt down that Umberto Eco book you spoke of too entheogenius. You are a master book salesman, I must say.

 

[cherrycolouredfunk]

I'm dreadful for reading about 4 or 5 books at once. Its the english literature student in me and I do it well. I just found on my dads bedside table...

Richard Dawkins - The God delusion

Stef Penney - The Tenderness of Wolves

'As winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Done River, a woman steels herself for the journey of a lifetime. A man has been brutally murdered and her seventeen-year-old son has disappeared. The violence has re-opened old wounds and inflamed deep-running tensions in the frontier township - some want to solve the crime; others seek only to exploit it.

To clear her son's name, she has no choice but to follow the tracks leaving the dead man's cabin and head north into the forest and the desolate lanscape that lies beyond it....'

They both appeal to me.

 

[PinholeStar]

The Tenderness Of Wolves is great. I highly recommend it.

Funnily enough I saw it lying round my mum's house & it piqued my interest too.

 

[cherrycolouredfunk]

I'll start that one when i'm still crashing at my fathers then as none of my current readings are here

I saw it and was reminded of dances with wolves and other such nice things....

 

[snollly]

reading anna karenina and one of those paperback crime novels you get at the book aisle in asda ;D can't remember the name.

 

[The Kid]

Leadbelly. It's non-fiction about the Melbourne gangwars over recent years. Quite interesting, but not amazing.

 

[Fishface]

I've also got The Tibetan Book Of Living & Dying on the go, which I'm enjoying immensely & has already given me a different perspective on its subject. I'll have much to say on this when I've finished it, I should think

Look forward to hearing your thoughts

Can't settle to read anything at present

 

[Bella Figura]

Criminal by Caspar Walsh
its alright so far.

 

[4-OH]

The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks.

Complicity was great, this is as well so far.

 

[felix]

^ my favourite author.

the wasp factory is so fucked up, i really must read it again soon! :D

 

[Thou]

Genius, genius book. It's every piece of written correspondence he's written from 68 on (this is his second collection of letters, both at 600 pages at least).

 

[Evad]

Genius, genius book. It's every piece of written correspondence he's written from 68 on (this is his second collection of letters, both at 600 pages at least).

yeah this and the proud highway are excellent. Just finished naked lunch after not being able to get into it fully the first time and absolutely loved it, going to borrow junky to read but might read valis by phillip k dick first.

 

[Bella Figura]

junky is quite possibly my favourite book.

 

[B9]

^ I thought "Queer" was probably a better book in some ways.

 

[haribo1]

^The change from first person to third person while following the same timeline was interesting.

 

[eDDe9]

The Age of Arthur
A history of the British isles from 350 to 650

John Morris

 

[felix]

^ iain banks does that in a couple of books too.

 

[Riklet]

I have a mild irrational dislike of Ian Banks, despite never having read a book of his, based solely upon the fact I used to work at a bookshops and serve people who would request his stuff. I'd grab the books out, and they'd give me this condescending, snide look, or a pitying smile, and then say nice and speaking-to-a-tard-ly "noooo, Ian M Banks, I meant... obviously!".

Ok, maybe this only happened once or twice, but the Wasp Factory better be pretty fucking good to inspire unconditional love, again... %)

I'm reading "If you liked school, you'll love work" by Irvine Welsh, which is quite good, but hardly fantastic. I gave up with the short stories after the first one (it was kinda great actually!) and went to the mini-novel. It's kinda good, but not Trainspotting, so...

Also reading "Filth" by Welsh, but it's just so deliciously evil and cutting in it's slicing open of the most selfish and depraved areas of the human mind... I kinda needed a break! Plus it was making me cackle to myself on trains, and a few cunts loved giving me the "next you'll be shitting on the ceiling!" look...

Ah, i'm also reading "Kafka on the Shore" by Haruki Murakami, which is fantastic, and just touchingly bizarre, but I gota have a break from it too, you have to be in the mood.

Before these, best recent reads were "The Outsider" by Camus, and "Moab is my Washpot" by Steven Fry. Both were fantastic...

 

[felix]

I have a mild irrational dislike of Ian Banks, despite never having read a book of his

irrational indeed.

just read a couple.