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What book are you currently reading?

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I'm almost finished:

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. Which has been a great read so far, very surreal and poetic, like most of his fiction.

I'm currently trying to work my way through as many Phillip K Dick books as I can, so I intend on picking one and getting straight in to it next week.
 
I recently finished "labrynth" by Katte Mosse, its got to go down as the best book ive ever read.

Its very well researched and the book consists of two merging stories that happen centurys apart.
When i put it up it was almost impossible to put down.
 
Neither Here Nor There - Bill Bryson

Last book I read was Mao's biography.
 
I just finished Mr. Small. It was a riviting read. Hopefully I'll get the time to read Mr. Forgetful next week.
 
'Aviation Disasters' by David Gero.

Describes all of them from 1950 to present.

I've just read one in which an aircraft crashed into a mountain in Italy in 1972. Everyone was killed. 6 months later a father who lost his daughter in the crash went to the site to pray for her and was killed when a piece of the wreckage fell on him!!
 
^ Classics to a Mr... Except for Mr. Rush - that one was a slight disappointment.

I'm currently ploughing through Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - there's a lot of 'em. As far as 650 year-old medieval poetry goes, it's really rather good. I chickened out on the Middle English version and went for a modern translation and it's surprising what an easy read it is. It's all written in rhyming couplets so has the rhythm of children's poetry, which is somehow rather soothing. The stories are varied and good too and really transport you to a distant past populated with real people. I read the very first section (can't remember what it's called, but it's where all the pilgrims are first described) in the doctor's waiting room, but could just as easily have been sat in a 14th Century alehouse, laden with buxom wenches and with a tankard of foaming mead in my hand. It even got me laughing (yes, out loud) at some of the descriptions, which is rare for any book. Very good, the writing is excellent and you can see why it's lasted through centuries - but there's a lot of them there tales to get through.
 
Deathrow558 said:
'Aviation Disasters' by David Gero.

Describes all of them from 1950 to present.

I've just read one in which an aircraft crashed into a mountain in Italy in 1972. Everyone was killed. 6 months later a father who lost his daughter in the crash went to the site to pray for her and was killed when a piece of the wreckage fell on him!!
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How cheery! :D
 
I'm also reading 'Nausea' by Jean Paul Satre... an odd book to be sure. It's kind of depresing, but I want to get through it so I can compare Camus & Satre properly (I'm beginning to think Camus already).
 
haribo1 said:
I'm also reading 'Nausea' by Jean Paul Satre... an odd book to be sure. It's kind of depresing, but I want to get through it so I can compare Camus & Satre properly (I'm beginning to think Camus already).
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Aye Camus better, Nausea is a good description of the horrors of derealisation; but when he spends 3 pages describing the attrocity that is a door handle it begins to remind one of a particularly nasty comedown.

Mersault is a true hero; the random Arab killing only serves to give it so much more resonance in the 21st century.
 
Just finished Light by M.John Harrison.. some really epic science fiction type of book. Unique.
Now onto Shikasta by Dorris Lessing
 
Currently reading Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman. It's the full version that he wrote when he realised the tv series could never be anything like he hoped.
It's about the world underworld below London which is occupied by the people that fall through the cracks of society. There's magic, anthropomorphic personifications and general weirdness.
Before that was American Gods, which is absolutely fantastic. I won't go into this one because while bits are obvious from the start, there was still a lot that took me by surprise. Needless to say I recommend it.
 
I need to get a new book just finished my current one.

Amazon here I cooooooooooome..................
 
im reading stephen kings dreamcatcher at the moment, just found out that it was made into a film so im gonna buy that when ive finished the book to compare the two, the book is great so far
 
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