Currently Reading...2

eclectichoney

Just thought i'd start this one again on a new thread as the other one was getting a bit full.

Just finished The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Just started Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan

handyandy

www.boards.ie

I've bought a bunch of books in the last while, but haven't read any of them.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

was there some reason you included a link to this site in your post?

.. i'm currently re-reading the elenium, by David Eddings

DrunkLeprachaun

Lord of the Rings... again. On the two towers atm.

yellum

I think it was in answer to "what are you currently reading ? " , he was reading boards.ie ...


American Gods - neil gaiman
permission marketing - seth godin
generation X - douglas coupland

Hope to get some of gaimans sandman graphical novels soon.

eclectichoney

How is the Douglas Coupland one? I have often meant to check out some of his stuff. Did he do Girlfriend in a coma or am i getting him mixed up with someone else?

Khynareth

Dragonsworld,
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (again)
Mary Stuart
LOTR (Again)
Harry Potter (I had to start)

pugwall

The Third Way - Anthony Giddens
(The renewal of Social Democracy)

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (again)

Clintons Cat

the taliban >Ahmed Rashid

the Competitive Advantage Of Nations

IRISHLILY24

starting the second lotr book
read all 4 harry potter books, cant wait for the 5th
but my all time fave book is borstal boy, by brendan behan

kitton

i liked the bell jar alot!its amazing!i'm reading catch 22 at the moment too,i actually think it's the most hilarious book ever!i cant stop laughing!i just finished king of the world by david remnick ,dont like sport like books about boxing for some reason though.

Cheez

The proud Highway - Hunter s thomson

not bad quite interesting bout a 3rd of the way through

irishgeo

Hello my first post here.

I am reading Notes From A Big Country by Bill Bryson.

any other fans of bill here.

I have to boorrow Harry Potter books and the LOTR books of my friend. But she is always reading them.

If you into comedy crime try an author called Christopher Brookmyre.

Thanks

Bye.

Manach

At the mo:
Why the West has Won : Culture and Carnage - Victor Hanson
CGI Programming - O'Reilly book
Harlequin - Bernard Cornwell

Da Bounca

The beach - Alex Garland

Ruaidhri

i'm reading the science of diskworld by terry pratchett and some other guys...it's classgives good background on physics in general with a good laugh

Lord of the Rings... again. On the two towers atm.

i read the lotr twice..it's a really good book,but i think it's going a little bit far calling it the best fantasy book ever.i (personally) prefer the cycle of fire by janny wurts..now before you start the flaming this is my personal opinion.read both before you start flaming me at least..

Thorbar

I'm reading all the petty horses by Cormac MarCarthy, Just finished Do androids dream of electric sheep? by Philip Dick.

Monkey

Lord of the Rings (nearly finished) and some books about artists

Next: About A Boy by Nick Hornby

DadaKopf

Rise to Globalism: US Foreign Policy since 1945 - Stephen Ambrose and Douglas Brinkley
Lipstick Traces - Greil Marcus
Tonnes of great politics stuff and philosophy stuff for college.

sixpack's little hat

Just finished Black Hawk Down and starting Unconditional Surrender.

eclectichoney

Monkey > I was very disappointed with about a boy but then again maybe i was expecting it to live up to the heights of High Fidelity which would have been virtually impossible to do.

Robbo

"Monty Python's Flying Circus: Just the Words - Volume 2"

"Data Structures, Algorithms and Software Principles in C" - Thomas Standish

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" - Oscar Wilde

mise

return of the king - tolkien and harry potter: the prisoner of azkaban, which i should finish soon and hope to get stuck into either dream brother: jeff and tim buckley, or U2: A Conspiracy of Hope

immort4l

'Necroscope' - by Brian Lumley .Great book

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

just started Tad williams - otherland

rachel

fast food nation...

never going to mcdonalds or burger king again, no matter how drunk and hungry I am... :eek:

immort4l

Heh , is the book that bad that it's put you off food or is it the content?

Ronan|Raven

The Faber Book of Treachery, very good book detailing some of the most famous spies, covering the russians,british, germans and the americans.

Kolodny

Anvil of Stars: Greg Bear. The follow up to The Forge of God. Not as good as the first one so far I think.

Scruff

Nearly finished Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
First sci-fi book i've read in ages. set in a Syndicate type version of America. Goes into some really deep stuff to do with the origins of language and religion, excellent stuff.

Kolodny

Originally posted by Scruff
Nearly finished Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
First sci-fi book i've read in ages. set in a Syndicate type version of America. Goes into some really deep stuff to do with the origins of language and religion, excellent stuff.

Cool. It's a favourite of mine. I've recommended it to so many people.

Scruff

Originally posted by Kolodny


Cool. It's a favourite of mine. I've recommended it to so many people.

tis deadly alright.
Have ye read Cryptonomicon?
I'm going to read that next. Just read the review of it at amazon uk. looks good. my flat mate has it and he said it is way better than Snow Crash :eek:

Bloody Drunkard

Gotta love Bill Bryson I am currently re-reaing Notes from a small Island. His books are all quality

I'm also reading A Season With Verona where Tim Parks follows Hellas Verona and theri fans for a season ala Joe McGuinness did with Castel di Sangro. Anyone read ths book or McGuinness's ???

Manach

Joe McGuinness did with Castel di Sangro

Indeed I did, and I found it excellent. I thought McGuinness played it a bit too American-Innocent but still the ending is the most unexpected yet in retrospect right for that Italian soccer team, 8/10.

DapperGent

Against a Dark Background Iain M. Banks and a stupid dumb annoying Visual Basic Book.

Kolodny

Originally posted by DapperGent
Against a Dark Background Iain M. Banks and a stupid dumb annoying Visual Basic Book.

Read Against a Dark Backgroud recently, what do you think so far?

Raskolnikov

That book someone mentioned, 'The Third Way' i don't suppose you fancy telling us something about that? I was going to buy it a few days ago there but ended up buying something entirely different

Krusty_Clown

King of the World - by David Remnick. Very good it is too...

Lenny

lies of silence - brian moore

CodeMonkey

Northern Lights - Phillip Pullman

Thanx 4 The Fish

Just Re-read Northern Lights - Cracking book
A Beautiful mind - Bout Halfway - Not too bad
Valkyries ride out - Nearly finished - V good SF from Australia

Rufus T Firefly

Just finished "Them: Adventures With Extremists" by Jon Ronson and also recently finished reading "The Shipping News" by Annie Proulx. Both were well worth the time.

Next up I think I'll have a lash at "Sex Art And American Culture" by Camille Paglia.

pyure

im between books atm...gonna finish the last few david gemmell books, then i might read into the james bond books - read casino royale a while back, wasnt bad

i read northern lights last year - and to be honest i thought it was the biggest load of ****e ive ever read

lookin forward to the next age of chaos book...sigh, to many books, just not enough hours in the day...

deco

Montaigne's essays

Samson

I have just started reading Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder.

Johnny_the_fox

Im not a big reader... but decided to read something that I have alot of interest in

Phil Lynott: the Rocker - Mark Putterford

potlatch

I suppose I'm starting Fast Food Nation now. But I have 'Manuel Castell's Reader of Social and Urban Theory' which should be fun. Going to also buy Thomas Pynchon's 'The Crying of Lot 49' as well.

alb

Anthony Burgess - Earthly Powers
Hunter S. Thompson - Hell's Angels

Monkey

An Accidental Diplomat by Eamon Delaney
and as always a book about art

rob1891

Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse.

Bought it in an airport last year, we had been making our way home for 30 hours and had to wait another 12 in London for the last leg .... I could barely put the freakin sentences together I was so tired.

Corega

Just finished Trusted Mole by some guy whos name I can't spell from the top of my head, true story about an interpreter in the Balkans during 92'/93' and far too heavy reading for me.

Now starting Tripwire by Lee Child about 6'5 ex-military policeman Jack Reacher. Predictably enough always getting into scraps.