What book are you currently reading?

[snafu]

Illusions by Richard Bach

 

[Allein]

almost done, pretty good read so far, the author presents some pretty crazy concepts.

Everything the man ever wrote is pure genius "A Scanner Darkly " is a must read, probably one of my top 3 books of all time ( the films not bad either)

 

[KiNo04]

Just finished Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Starting on Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann tonight

 

[dalek1983]

The Enigma Of Capital - David Harvey

 

[JJ-180]

If you liked "Man in the High Castle" you'll love "Clans of the Alphane Moon". It's totally deranged and hilariously good fun. The hexo-amphetamines sound great. Lord Running Clam is a brilliant character, etc. MInd you, if you want to get to the true dark heart of Phil Dick try "We can Build You" or "Our Friends from Frolix 8".

 

[badandwicked]

The Scapegoat by Daphne du maurier. well written (of course) but a bit boring.

 

[effie]

I am reading My Cousin Rachel by Ms Du Maurier. Love it

Not read The Scapegoat, might avoid if it's boring.. haha

 

[badandwicked]

Hi Effie Have you read Rebecca? amazing. The Scapegoat's good, easy to read but just didn't 'grip' me. An interesting concept though. I'll have to get hold of My cousin Rachel.

 

[effie]

Yeah I have B&W, and I loved it :D

I've only just started My Cousin Rachel but it already has me gripped, so on that alone I would recommend it!

 

[dhcdavid]

HITLER 1889 - 1936: HUBRIS

by Ian Kershaw.

A 900 page beast of a book written by arguably the world's foremost expert on Hitler. I'm just about to sink my teeth into the second book of this two-book biography (1936 - 1945) and I can't wait.

I think everyone should read books such as these; namely works which attempt to explain how the supposedly unexplicable, unforseeable and unbelievable horrors which the 3rd Reich and many, many "ordinary" German people brought to bear on the Jews and many other "outsider" groups.

On the subject of the complicity (or lack thereof) of the German people I'd also recommend "Hitler's Willing Executioners" by Daniel Goldhagen. Horrifying stuff but deeply important if we're to understand a little better the Holocaust and Germany during the Nazi years.

 

[charlie clean]

Whoever said dopers don't read? I'm reading the latest Michael Connelly and feel like I'm letting BL down.

 

[Allein]

^^^

I i'm too lazy to read and only listebn to audio so dont feel too bad

 

[tribal girl]

I'm ploughing through books at breakneck speed these days, and even working my way through books I gave up on many moon ago...such as:

I started this for like the third time in history today and I've already started to enjoy it immensely. I shall be finished by the end of the week methinks.

Disco Bloodbath: A Fabulous but True Tale of Murder in Clubland is a 1999 memoir written by James St. James about his life as a Manhattan celebutante and club kid. The book specifically chronicles his friend Michael Alig's rise to fame and his subsequent murder of fellow club kid and drug dealer Angel Melendez. St. James was Alig's mentor in the scene and was familiar with many of its key figures. The memoir was later renamed Party Monster after the motion picture of that name starring Macaulay Culkin, Seth Green, Chloë Sevigny and Marilyn Manson.

Disco Bloodbath has since gone out of print and often goes for several hundred dollars in auctions. It was only available in paperback and hardcover and was printed 3 times in 1999, twice in paperback with different coloured jackets, and once in hardcover. It was re-printed in 2003 under the title Party Monster - The Fabulous but True Tale of Murder in Clubland' paperbacks are available

 

[helpwithhabit]

Ketamine Dreams and Realities

 

[desaparecidos]

speaking of party monster, i heard that michael alig was up for parole and the judge saw the movie that come out in the same year and that was the reason he wasn't granted parole

 

[Infinite Jest]

If you liked "Man in the High Castle" you'll love "Clans of the Alphane Moon". It's totally deranged and hilariously good fun. The hexo-amphetamines sound great. Lord Running Clam is a brilliant character, etc. MInd you, if you want to get to the true dark heart of Phil Dick try "We can Build You" or "Our Friends from Frolix 8".

Mmm, I gotta re-read Frolix 8. Read it when I was about 14, confused the fuck out of me . Read most of his, other than the non science-fiction he wrote early on.

I'm reading Russia's War, by Richard Overy. Nice clear account of WW2 on the Russian front, predominately from the Russian point of view obviously.

 

[th3 s1aught3r]

SLASH
By Slash

To indicate my era and musical preferences. GnR were a fine band, Axl was a dick head , but arent most lead singers. Slash is a gifted guitar player
The best part of this book is the absolute hedonistic lifestyle he led apart from the band from a very young age. Every drug and combo possible was consumed
In many ways the music saved him

 

[third eye squeegee]

Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore - about his brother Gary Gilmore and fucked up family background - very interesting book

 

[knock]

The Dispossessed by Ursula le Guin. Not that far into it yet but its an interesting read. Can't really give a proper synopsis but it's one of the few novels which covers the theme of anarchism. It's science fiction, so far one of the characters has left his anarchist planet to visit a capitalist planet. I like the style, fairly to the point but imaginative.

I've been reading it on my phone from a torrented PDF as I'm a cheap skate, I should really get a paper copy.

 

[fluffybudzz]

The Secret History by Donna Tart. an amazing book