This week, I are mostly reading....

Tar.Aldarion

Oh, you win!


Unless I can claim to have written it?

Oh yeah, then how many midgets appear in the final battle? And how many of them throw petrol bombs at the orb of Kharshlax?

3, and they all do. I am assuming all characters are midgets. (:
Even Jeremiah is ahead of me.

genericgoon

Yes those midgets are fearsome

Cake Fiend

The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

Not as good as Cryptonomicon, but better than Snow Crash.

Zaph

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson

An account of Bill Bryson's childhood growing up in Iowa in the 1950s. I'm already a Bryson fan and I'm thoroughly enjoying it, very funny in parts and with Bryson's gentle humour throughout.

Crazy Christ

100 years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Hermione*

Re-reading HP & the Order of the Phoenix frantically - want to have it finished by Thurs

nesf

Cake Fiend wrote:

The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

Not as good as Cryptonomicon, but better than Snow Crash.

That's on a shelf somewhere here in the "To read" pile. Snow Crash has a great opening but isn't that strong later into the book (imho).

That said, it's worth reading if only for the opening few pages.

Pompey Magnus

"Imperium" by Robert Harris.

I have recently read the Emperor series (based on the life of Juilius Caesar) by Conn Iggulden and really enjoyed them. Imperium is on the life of Marcus Cicero, and there is some overlaps between both storys.

theCzar

"The State of Africa: A History of fifty years of independence" by Martin Meredith. Fun stuff.

_blank_

Just finished reading Watership Down. Great read.

anthonyk

On holidays, so my reading levels have gone up despite the fact I do English in college!

Anyway last 4 books I've read in the last 3 weeks:

Portrait of the artist as a young man - James Joyce
Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

I might start reading Persian Fire by Tom Holland now or maybe just make a trip to the library and take something cool out.

Tar.Aldarion

You also think the Buther Boy was absolute tripe?

Mrs. MacGyver

zaph wrote:

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson

An account of Bill Bryson's childhood growing up in Iowa in the 1950s. I'm already a Bryson fan and I'm thoroughly enjoying it, very funny in parts and with Bryson's gentle humour throughout.

Reaading that too! it's so brilliant, it's his best yet. Also reading Harry Potter and the half-blood prince as i'm getting the new book Saturday and i forgot where the last one left off!

Scarabae

"The Harsh Cry of the Heron" by Lian Hearn

John

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

You also think the Buther Boy was absolute tripe?

Heheh, I see what you did there!

I'm reading The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste, 1904–1920 by John McCourt.

Selphie

I've just finished Eternal by Craig Russell.
Anyone else read booksd by him? They centre around Jan Fabel... German murder mysteries?

Ulysses Gaze

Just about to start into 'Hand Me My Travellin' Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell' by Michael Gray.

Just got it and am really looking forward to reading it!!

John

The new Harry Potter. Just had to refresh my memory on the last book with Wikipedia, I'm really going to have to read the whole lot again soon.

Tar.Aldarion

I reread the 6th harry potter yesterday and I will read the 7th today.

Reynolds.irl

I'm still trying to get through Hard Times by Dickens, I want to finish it off soon as I want to move onto something a little more lighter.

Goat Mouth

just started 'the contortionists handbook' - Craig clevenger.

see how it pans out!

bringitdown

The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins
and
The End of Faith - Sam Harris

interesting stuff.

cavanmaniac

anthonyk wrote:

Portrait of the artist as a young man - James Joyce
Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

Read all those apart from Things Fall Apart. In Cold Blood is a fantastic book.

Just finished Short history of tractors in Ukrainian, an amusing little jaunt, now reading Hellfire by Mia Gallagher which seems interesting after the first few pages.

AJG

Henry Miller and James Laughlin Selected Letters edited by George Wickes.

I wouldn't normally be a fan of correspondence books but for Miller I'll make an exception. James Laughlin incidentally was head of New Directions publishing in the US and published most of Miller's work there. An engaging read, they're relationship extended beyond what you would think of as a typical author/publisher one.

John

Plucking Feathers from a Bald Frog by The Hafler Trio.

Valmont

Mysterious Skin - Scott Heim

and just finished Pnin - Nabokov, my new literary hero:p

The_Minister

Confessions of an English Opium Eater and Other Writings by Thomas De Quincey.
Nearly finished actually.

ixoy

'Endymion' by Dan Simmons.

OfflerCrocGod

The Art of War by Sun-Tzu - yes, yes I'll show myself out now don't worry

AJG

This week its Pleasures & Regrets by Proust. First thing I've read by him. Its alright but has anyone read In Search of Lost Time/Rembrance of Things Past?