This week, I are mostly reading....

AJG · 29-01-2008 11:11PM

'Blue Boy' - Jean Giono.

gaf1983 · 30-01-2008 01:49AM

David McWilliams - The Generation Game. Saw the series which I liked but afraid reading the book is just like going over old ground.

The State of Africa - Martin Meredith. Can't put it down. Region by region account of Africa's progress since independence.

Jack Sheehan · 30-01-2008 11:20AM

ZorbaTehZ wrote: »

Opinions on it? (If you don't mind )

It's absolutely quality, if you have the paitence to get through it's 700 odd pages. Highly reccomended.

Regeneration is also great, if you're interested in WW1.

Krusty_Clown · 30-01-2008 11:54AM

A Fortune Teller Told Me - Tiziano Terzani

A Travel book with a twist - An exploration of Asia, by train and boat, a cultural analysis of the Chinese who have left China for other Asian countries and an investigation of fortune tellers throughout the countries that Tiziano visits.

A wonderful book. Recommended to anyone traveling to Asia, or looking for a travel narrative with a difference.

Tar.Aldarion · 30-01-2008 12:12PM

The Emporor Mage - Tamora Pearse.

skybluejay · 30-01-2008 04:18PM

I'm reading Lolita by that Nabokov dude. Racing through it and thoroughly enjoying it - I always half-expect much-feted books to be a bit of a letdown, but it's great when they're not.

Red Hand · 30-01-2008 04:24PM

Spelchure-Kate Moss.

I can't say that it is any good-very DaVinci code/amateurish.

missingtime · 30-01-2008 04:25PM

The Unquiet by John Connolly.

Charlie Parker is back...:)

haff · 31-01-2008 06:05PM

Marooned in realtime - Vernor Vinge

(looking fwd to the release of 'Matter - Iain M Banks' in the coming weeks)

31-01-2008 07:07PM

haff wrote: »

'Matter - Iain M Banks' in the coming weeks)

Picked that up myself this afternoon. Lloking forward to reading it.

GBX · 31-01-2008 10:36PM

"Dead Men" - Stephen Leather. Just finished it. Great follow up to Hot Blood. Dan Shepherd is back in all is glory. Very good read. :cool:

Tar.Aldarion · 31-01-2008 10:38PM

The Divine Lands - Tamora Pearse

buck65 · 01-02-2008 09:34AM

Tolstoy Anna Karenina

AJG · 02-02-2008 12:41AM

'Song of the World' - Jean Giono.

genericgoon · 02-02-2008 01:08AM

Failed States- Noam Chomsky
Monarchy- David Starkey

AJG · 02-02-2008 02:34PM

'A Gentle Creature And Other Stories' - Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Tar.Aldarion · 02-02-2008 04:46PM

The Realm of the Gods - Tamora Pearse

AJG · 02-02-2008 05:19PM

'Nohow On (Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho)' - Samuel Beckett.

AJG · 02-02-2008 08:39PM

'The Last Summer' - Boris Pasternak.

John · 03-02-2008 12:08AM

Noise/Music: A History by Paul Hegarty

AJG · 03-02-2008 05:12AM

'Walden and Civil Disobedience' - Henry David Thoreau.

eclectichoney · 03-02-2008 04:12PM

Paradise - A.L. Kennedy (Christ, what a stylist!)
Making Globalization Work - Joseph Stiglitz (a bit of a rehash of Globalization & Its discontents with a few reforms tacked on at the end of each chapter, and nothing particularly insightful)

monkey9 · 05-02-2008 11:06AM

missingtime wrote: »

The Unquiet by John Connolly.

Charlie Parker is back...:)

I've got this at home but haven't begun it yet. Judging by your comment, it sounds like a sequel. If so, would i need to read previous books to get what's going on or is it just a stand alone book that happens to use the same character as before?

AJG · 05-02-2008 07:46PM

'Satyricon' - Petronius.

FruitLover · 05-02-2008 07:59PM

Just finished Murakami Haruki's Kokkyō no Minami, Taiyō no Nishi, now on to Iain M. Banks' The Player of Games

Mr. Bones · 06-02-2008 08:55PM

'Be Near Me' by Andrew O'Hagan

tSubh Dearg · 06-02-2008 09:33PM

I'm reading in the K-PAX trilogy at the moment. On the first book and really enjoying it, though the main character looks like Kevin Spacey in my head, I wonder why...