[previous user]

Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky,

[bythewoods]

Finished "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" in 2 short stretches of reading it. So unbelievably touching, I actually teared up at points. What an unbelievable read!

[jumpguy]

Reading "Super Freak-onomics" by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubnerr (just noticed now they're both Stephens...or Stevens) and it really is an excellent read. Mind-blowing stuff really, can't put it down!

[amacachi]

Originally Posted by jumpguy

Reading "Super Freak-onomics" by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubnerr (just noticed now they're both Stephens...or Stevens) and it really is an excellent read. Mind-blowing stuff really, can't put it down!

You just reminded me that I haven't read a fiction book in years.


I'm reading If This is a Man/The Truce at the moment, would highly recommend it. It's one of those books that make you really wish you knew the language it was originally written in because if it's this good in English...

[jumpguy]

Originally Posted by amacachi

You just reminded me that I haven't read a fiction book in years.

Ehhhh, how say you? All their sources are fairly decently recorded. I think their points on global warming, doctor's washing hands, child safety restraints and the debunking of all the crap that the human race is incredibly altruistic are all well backed-up, and just merely underreported by modern media (for commercial reasons, mostly), and hence unbeknownst to many people.

I think it's a bit like "Bad Science" (which I haven't read yet but have heard plenty about), except with a more general focus rather than just science.

[tim_holsters]

Originally Posted by amacachi

You just reminded me that I haven't read a fiction book in years.


I'm reading If This is a Man/The Truce at the moment, would highly recommend it. It's one of those books that make you really wish you knew the language it was originally written in because if it's this good in English...

I think If This Is A Man/The Truce maybe the best book I've ever read.

It must be 10 years since I read it, must do it again.

I wonder what Mr Levi would say (if he was still around) about what's happening regards the settlers today.

[Jay P]

I've officially put War & Peace to the side, which is annoying because I was really keen to read it, but my mood hasn't been great, so I can't get motivated enough to read it. Instead, I started reading a book I got for Christmas called Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, who funnily enough, has been described as a modern-day Tolstoy. I'm not sure what to make of that, but I'm liking the book so far anyway. A few chapters in and it's already quite moving.

[Duffy the Vampire Slayer]

Read this last night. Not as good as I thought it would be, but thats probably because two chapters were essentially devoted to praising Margaret Thatcher and George W Bush neither of whom I'm very fond of.

[tim_holsters]

If it's Andrew Roberts the historian who wrote that he's a known right winger.

[Duffy the Vampire Slayer]

Originally Posted by tim_holsters

If it's Andrew Roberts the historian who wrote that he's a known right winger.

Yeah I looked him up after reading it and realised why I wasn't a fan. My friend who loaned it to me is even more to the left than me so its no surprise he didnt like it either.

[tim_holsters]

Originally Posted by Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Yeah I looked him up after reading it and realised why I wasn't a fan. My friend who loaned it to me is even more to the left than me so its no surprise he didnt like it either.

You gotta be careful out there

[Insect Overlord]

Based on all yer lovely recommendations, I recently invested in The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat and Trainspotting. Together with Tender Is The Night, they make up the 3 books I most look forward to reading in the near future.

First, however, I must finish the last 150 pages of this silly teenage vampire story!

[Lawliet]

^I use to read that series when I was a kid! I didn't know there was a new book out, I thought the series was over seeing as how they retconned Alisa's life as a vampire

[Insect Overlord]

Originally Posted by Lawliet

^I use to read that series when I was a kid! I didn't know there was a new book out, I thought the series was over seeing as how they retconned Alisa's life as a vampire

Pike found a fairly tenuous way of getting around that

I re-read the whole series over Christmas so I could get the new one. It's ridiculous, but there's something addictive about it!

[Colm!]

Originally Posted by jumpguy

Reading "Super Freak-onomics" by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubnerr (just noticed now they're both Stephens...or Stevens) and it really is an excellent read. Mind-blowing stuff really, can't put it down!

I haven't read Superfreakonomics but I have read the original, it's a brilliant book.