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What book are you currently reading?

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duck_racer said:
Currently:

Freakonomics - Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner

Most people here have probably read it but it slipped the net for me. A really interesting take on al manner of subjects. Highly recommended.
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never heard of it; added to basket.

was thinking about resurrecting this thread but SHM beat me (off) to it. well done. :-)


p.s. currently reading: The Origins of the Second World War... one page per night... :-/
 
^Like the sound of your book felix.

Me I have several on the go , reading and the concentration required have been lacking, until recently.

So I picked up Zen and the art of motorcycle maintainence again and resumed at page 80, which is good.
 
StoneHappyMonday said:
Breaking Open The Head - Daniel Pinchbeck

Author traces history of psychedelic drugs while writing about his own experiences.

Recommended.
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Stumbled on this by accident actually. The guy is a man after my own heart in that he is OBSSESSED by Walter Benjamin...I think I have probably mentioned this before...Zoph has a copy of Benjamins 'Illuminations' I believe.

Pinchbeck's a good writer and its a bloody good read. I wouldnt mind reading his newer stuff...apparently hes had a few too many licorice allsorts now and has gone a bit bertie. Quetzcoatls return 2012 etc...
 
Excession by Inam M Banks. pretty good part of the 'culture' series which i love. also a load of electronics/C books. geekcore
 
^yea i picked up one of his books called 'against a dark background' and couldn't get into it at all. However this wasnt in the Culture series. Player of games, look wayward are both excellent in this series. Any reccomendations?
 
i'm reading the damned utd. which is a fictionalised account of the 44 days brian clough managed leeds utd. in 1974:

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ntype said:
^yea i picked up one of his books called 'against a dark background' and couldn't get into it at all. However this wasnt in the Culture series. Player of games, look wayward are both excellent in this series. Any reccomendations?
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Consider Phlebas (the first Culture novel, & in fact the first that he wrote under the Iain M. Banks name) is his best imo. I personally thought that Against A Dark Background was one of the best books of his that I've read, but hey ho.
 
^cool, ill have to give it another crack, i only got chapter 2 or something. There usually slow starters. I'll definately llok into Phlebas too
 
ntype:

personally i'd recommend reading the Culture novels in order, but it's not strictly necessary. i love them all, i want to live in the Culture, it sounds like my kinda place. especially the drug glands, hehe.

AADB takes some getting used to cos it's not set in the Culture (unusually for IMB) but it's well worth it.

CP, the player of games, use of weapons, excession are all wonderful culture novels. use of weapons is amazing and is considered by many fans to be his best work.

http://www.iainbanks.net/sf.htm

leave feersum endjinn till last. i still haven't managed to complete it, it's too weird.

\my favourite author
 
TheSpade said:
Glue is fantastic, you'll love it. Porno is wicked as well, read that a few times now, I'd say maybe better than Trainspotting.
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I used to love Irvine Welsh but Glue depressed me so much that it was the last book I read by him. I mean don't get me wrong, it was a great book, just too much decadence for me I think. Although I did love Trainspotting and Porno was fantastic.

I've been re-reading (for the third or fourth time) my all-time favourite book, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I just love it *so* much, it's more than a book to me, it's like a whole different universe or something. Latin American magical realism rocks!!!

Don't have much time for reading at the moment though, which sucks. This summer I had been looking forward to spending whole days just reading books that I would actually *enjoy* reading, as opposed to the stuff I have to read for my Literature course (Beowulf and Shakespeare and such nonsense). But no such luck yet.
 
The absolute funniest parts of that book are when he talks about that IRA guy McCann. He's fucking hilarious despite the fact that he's trying to be deadly serious. It really is a great great book.
 
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