What book are you reading atm??

castletownman

About two hundred pages into Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks.

Is really gripping me at the moment, painting as it does a vivid picture of WW1

muppetkiller

The End: Germany, 1944-45 - Ian Kershaw

In almost every major war there comes a point where defeat looms for one side and its rulers cut a deal with the victors, if only in an attempt to save their own skins. In Hitler's Germany, nothing of this kind happened: in the end the regime had to be stamped out town by town with an almost unprecedented level of brutality. Just what made Germany keep on fighting?

Kershaw's gripping, revelatory book recounts these final months, from the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in July 1944 to the German surrender in May 1945.

Bookworm85

muppetkiller wrote: »

The End: Germany, 1944-45 - Ian Kershaw

In almost every major war there comes a point where defeat looms for one side and its rulers cut a deal with the victors, if only in an attempt to save their own skins. In Hitler's Germany, nothing of this kind happened: in the end the regime had to be stamped out town by town with an almost unprecedented level of brutality. Just what made Germany keep on fighting?

Kershaw's gripping, revelatory book recounts these final months, from the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in July 1944 to the German surrender in May 1945.

I haven't read this, but if you enjoy it you might also like 'Berlin' by Antony Beevor. Grim, horrific in parts but a compelling read none the less. Also recommend 'Stalingrad' by the same author.

dyer

must trawl through this next time i'm looking for a good read.

have a few going myself atm...
this http://www.amazon.com/Tropic-Cancer-Henry-Miller/dp/0802131786
this http://www.amazon.com/Being-Time-Martin-Heidegger/dp/0061575593
and this.. http://www.amazon.com/The-Stars-Destination-Alfred-Bester/dp/0679767800

Odysseus

Back on The Merchant of Venice again for me. Whilst I'm reading a Sahakespeare text , I also read an academic paper on the play, wacth a DVD production and listen to an audio propduction of the play. Not at the same time of course. But it has helped me work through the complete works more than once.

Tauriel

Just started reading The Sanctuary by Raymond Khoury. He is similar enough to Dan Brown - which I was delighted to read a few weeks ago was writing another book, so I can't wait for that to be released!

x_Ellie_x

Seven Up by Janet Evanovich and The Client by John Grisham.

Novella

I'm reading Fifty Shades of Grey. It's... porn.

Doc Ruby

I'm dividing my time between Becoming the Iceman by Wim Hof and Justin Rosales, and Alastair Reynolds' breathtaking Revelation Space.

The former is by an adventurer who holds eighteen world records in ice endurance, they actually had to cut him out of the block at one stage as it had frozen solid, jogged up Kilimanjaro in his boxers, claims he does it by yoga and can teach anyone. The other guy Rosales is a bit of a tourist, but I'm getting into it.

mongdesade

Seven Pillars Of Wisdom, an autobiographical account of the experiences of T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), while serving as a liaison officer with rebel forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks from 1916-1918.

Rubberlegs

Reading The Wind through the Keyhole by Stephen King, it's an extra part to The Dark Tower series. Not getting much time to read these days, but enjoying it when get the chance.
Can't wait to start Blue Blood by Edward Conlon. It's a memoir of his time in the NYPD, it looks brilliant..

Tabitharose

Novella wrote: »

I'm reading Fifty Shades of Grey. It's... porn.

it's the next book I'm going to read - what you thinking so far?

OakeyDokey

Bleak House - Charles Dickinson

Palytoxin

Cryptonomicon- Stephenson
Started it a few months ago and only getting back to it now.

sarah88

Reading 'Freakonomics' by Levitt and Dubner, have already watched some documentaries based on the book, still a very good read.

Jen Pigs Fly

William Shatner's Tech Wars

cee_jay

Novella wrote: »

I'm reading Fifty Shades of Grey. It's... porn.

I have just finished this trilogy - the first book is porn, but it gets a lot tamer as the books go on. Or else I got used to the filth :eek:

I'm now reading Stay Close by Harlen Coben.

Captain Graphite

Currently reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Only about five or six chapters in but am liking it so far.

OakeyDokey wrote: »

Bleak House - Charles Dickens

That book is a slog to get through. It's the only Dickens book I've read so far (in hindsight I probably should have picked an easier one to start with) and it took me ages to read it. It's a great novel and I did enjoy it but there's a bit too much going on in it for me to "love" it.

Hootanany

Ronald Dahl Going Solo very good indeed.

UpCork

Almost finished "The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes and then movng onto "The Leopard" JO Nesbo.

Pushtrak

I'm in the deciding what to read next stage. I have a lot of books that I've been meaning to read for a long time.

A Brief History of Time (and The Grand Design, but I'd read this after brief history), Cosmos, Bad Science, Fermat's Last Theorem and In Search of Schrodinger's Cat.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Louis Theroux 'Call Of The Weird'

Fascinating read, I'm a big fan of Theroux and his style of journalism.

Captain Graphite

Pushtrak wrote: »

I'm in the deciding what to read next stage. I have a lot of books that I've been meaning to read for a long time.

A Brief History of Time (and The Grand Design, but I'd read this after brief history), Cosmos, Bad Science, Fermat's Last Theorem and In Search of Schrodinger's Cat.

Bad Science is brilliant. The author is a little arrogant but makes up for it by with his sarcastic cutting wit. And some of the stuff in there is a real eye-opener; not only does he cut chancers like Gillian McKeith and Patrick Holford to shreds but also discusses a number of more dangerous people with more powerful profiles that I'd never heard of before:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Rath
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manto_Tshabalala-Msimang

A Brief History of Time is very good too. Relativity, cosmology, black holes etc. are topics that are far too complicated for my tiny brain to ever comprehend fully but this book does a good job of explaining things at an understandable level.

I have a copy of Fermat's Last Theorem too but haven't read it yet. Went on a book buying craze a while back and now I've 30+ books gathering dust in my room, waiting to be read.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Hootanany wrote: »

Ronald Dahl Going Solo very good indeed.

Wonderful story, He really had an eventful life. Did you read Boy beforehand?

The King of Moo

xxxJennyxxx wrote: »

William Shatner's Tech Wars

Reading a schoolbook outside school hours?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRsPheErBj8

:pac::pac::pac:

Odats

First Game of Thrones book.

pablomakaveli

Started on the third book of the Song of Ice and Fire or Game of Thrones as its also known as. The sex,violence and incest just seems to get more frequent with every book. Thats why they're so good.:D

Thwip!

Fault in our Stars - John Green

Sunnyisland

INLA deadly divisions, updated edition.

Aidan_a

The shining -Stephen King. Just started...

Next I wanna read The Perks of Being a Wallflower, anyone know if it's any good?