what I'm reading

lili

i'm reading "l'étranger" albert camus.

Bibliofemme

Not sure if anyone here is a fan but Will Self is doing a reading in Eason's (Nassau Street) on Thursday January 22nd to talk about his new book Dorian (his take on Oscar Wilde's book)

Anyone read anything? I read 'How the Dead Live' and really liked it...

Bibliofemme

Apologies, this duplicated my other post.

What I meant to say was that's one of Camus' books I haven't read. I loved 'The Outsider' and I liked 'The Plague' even though it was fairly heavy going.

I'm reading a bit of everything at the moment. Short stories in Flannery O'Connors 'A Good Man is Hard to Find', Biography in Anne Stevenson's 'Bitter Fame: A life of Sylvia Plath' and a novel - our next bookclub book - Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart'

So little time to read with all this Christmas shenanigans!

LoLth

currently re-reading Eca de queroz's "Du Mais".

A very Dickens like tale set in victorian era Lisbon. (full of incest, social maneauvering etc.)

simu

I've just finished Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas de Quincey. I really enjoyed it although he goes off on tangents quite a bit, which could irritate some readers. Opium sounds like a wonderful drug if we could get past all the hysteria any mention of it produces.

I'm also reading High Society by Dave Sim - it's a graphic novel about an arrdvark who gets into politics. The drawing style is unusual, the characters are quirky and Sim manages to draw the reader fully into the world he has created - it's the best comic I've seen in ages.

Also (I read a lot) Fiasco by Stanislav Lem - it's a sci-fi book about contact with an alien civilisation. It's very cool as Lem shows he has knowledge about both science and philosophy.

Finally, I am about to start Youth by JM Coetzee. He won the Nobel Prize for literature this year so I'm curious about his work.

Woden

just finished reading "the deeper meaning of liff" and "last chance to see" by douglas adams both written with other authors

in the middle of another star trek novel at the moment

DapperGent

I'm reading two at the moment (as is my wont):

Quicksilver By Neal Stephenson and Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind.

Both well worth a look.

echomadman

Quicksilver is excellent, I cant wait for the next one in April.

I'm reading a few books atm, one in the toilet, one in bed and one in the sitting room

Toilet > The Penguin book of war a collection of essays, short stories and poems from a range of historical figures and more modern authors

Bed > George Orwell, Burmese Days (which you can also read for free online here )

Sitting room > Iain Banks, Walking on Glass

DapperGent

Next one is April? Jebus that's quick, has he got them all written already?

Walking on Glass is wonderful, I love it. Very very Banks.

echomadman

Yeah the next ones in April, and the third in The Baroque cycle is in september next.

HC: When can we hope to see the next volumes in the Baroque Cycle?

NS: They're coming out at six-month intervals, so April 2004 for The Confusion, and then October 2004 for The System of the World.

excerpt from interview published here


Thankfully he isn't going to do a Robert Jordan on the whole thing

skittishkitten

Shelter Of Stones by Jean Auel

waiting to be read is "Exiles Honor" by Mercedes Lackey

eclectichoney

i loved the plague by camus i have to say...but otherwise...

i just finished wild swans...fantastic read

and iv just started the human stain by philip roth which is superb so far, the film that's coming out in the new year will destroy its brilliance i imagine though.

Krusty_Clown

Went for something really light for the Christmas period (lots of late night reading) - James Patterson's the Jester.

quank

Hereticus
third book of a warhammer trilogy

tba

"Absolution Gap" by Alstair Reynolds

carbonkid

ive been reading 'at swim two boys' by jamie o'neil and im finding it really good.
its bacially about the relationship between two boys during the uprising against british rule in ireland.
i though it was really well written...almost finished but dont know what my next book going to be...:rolleyes:

Woden

the first discworld book

Gillie

"Went for something really light for the Christmas period (lots of late night reading) - James Patterson's the Jester."

Excellent Read IMO.
I'm waiting on the follow up to Big Bad Wolf.
The man can't write fast enough.

Reading "A time to die" at the mo. Reporters take on the Kursk Disaster.
Also. The Stone Cold Truth by Steve Williams.

Manach

Essential Militaria - Hobbes, trival of army life through the ages, good read, especially the list of the most bloodless battles ever.
The Science of Xmas - Roger Highfield, nanotech and Santa, who whould have thought.
Eats, shoots, and Leaves - A quirkly guide to puncuation

passive

"a series of unfortunate events" :rolleyes:
first 2 read over the last 2 days..next one tonight then i'll have to go librarying to find some more..

i like them

Electric Mole

Naked Lunch by William Seward Burroughs (the man is insane)
Some biography of Lou Reed
Two pages into a Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man.

exiztone

Neuromancer by William Gibson :> it's nice

Trojan

The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown. Excellent read (one of those all-in-one sitting books).

Pompei - Robert Harris. Best one I've read of his, very good.

Small Gods - Sir Pratchett.

Electric Mole

Gave up PotA, but now it's:

Coming Up For Air by George Orwell
Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

Woden

artemis fowl book 1

krattapopov

airframe by michael crichton

simu

tender is the night

f. scott fitzgerald

ThenComesDudley

George Orwell

THe Road to wigan pier.

LoLth

George RR martin's Song of Ice and Fire.

On book 3 part 1 at the moment.

Very enjoyable so far. Getting more fantasy as it goes along. Very detailed and nicely narrated.

gucci

stephen kings-the dark half.......il never look at twins the same way again:D

treefingers

douglas adams - hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.
tolkien - lotr (nearly finished though, well into 3rd book)

Samson

Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk.

byte

Having recently finished readind Roddy Doyle's "A Star called Henry" (pretty good read), I have started reading LOTR. That'll keep me busy for a while!

krattapopov

king of torts - john grisham

Beëlzebooze

Im on the last pages of Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell....

Waiting to be read Anne Frank.

Waiting to be read for a while "On the shoulders of Giants" edited by Stephen Hawking. But I think this is going to wait for quite a while longer......

dod

Bill Bryson - A short history of nearly everything.

Very very readable (and I'm not a Bill Bryson fan),

Typedef

IdleWild - Nick Sagan.

Pretty standard tech book.

Kali

robert pirsig - zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance

echomadman

Re-reading Dune for the first time in years.

Stark

"Sarah" by J.T. Leroy which I borrowed off carbonkid a while back. About 30 pages from the end, so he should get it back soon

Woden

artemis fowl book 2

echomadman

BlackHawk Down : Mark Bowden

Kai

On the Road by Jack Kerouac.

Krusty_Clown

The horse and his boy - C.S. Lewis
Never read the series before, so I thought I'd give 'em a try.

MarcusGarvey

A Cooks Tour, the followup to Kitchen Confidential. Its so so.

Chevano Riley

The Corrections - Jonathan franzen

i bought his earlier book Strong Motion for bus maerial and adored it. this one is great too.

echomadman

Read that yesterday, Its an odd one, Sam Spade meets Irvine Welsh and H.P. Lovecraft

Swifty

Without Remorse by tom clancy.

Isn't great so far, ain't no Rainbow 6.

o sleep

Dickens' Hard Times (never read it before)
Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake (really really good)
Alduous Huxley Devils of Ludoun

Kai

Originally posted by Swifty
Without Remorse by tom clancy.

Isn't great so far, ain't no Rainbow 6.

semi pisstake spoiler.

Day 1
I met a girl on the road and i love her

Day 2
Girl and me get shot, she dies, must get revenge.
i met a nurse.

Day 3
i love the nurse.

Day 4
I learned a new phrase
"character development"
might come in useful one day.

Woden

just started the catcher in the rye