This week, I are mostly reading....

gracehopper · 20-09-2007 11:18AM

The bedroom secrets of the master chefs - irvine welsh.

Pretty decent, fast moving, loads of cursing, scottish dialogue. About 2 guys trapped in a kind of voodoo doll tit for tat fight. It makes edinburgh sound like a horrible gaudy place. If you liked the acid house and trainspotting you'll be into this.

John · 20-09-2007 10:12PM

Finished:
Dante The Divine Comedy (I even read some of it in his pre-exile house and in the church he saw Beatrice for the first time)
Dario De Tuoni Ricordo di Joyce a Trieste
Bill Bryson The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (very enjoyable and funny)

Currently reading:
Frederick Taylor The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989
Vivien Igoe James Joyce's Dublin Houses & Nora Barnacle's Galway
The catalogue for the Guggenheim Museum in Venice

Stargal · 24-09-2007 08:33PM

Reading The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen and dipping into On Purpose by Nick Laird.

Deirdre Maguire · 25-09-2007 09:26PM

This is an odd one, I know, but I just finished Sean Moncrieff's novel, 'The History of Things' (I think it was only published this week), and it was really, really good - which surprised me greatly because I never liked him on television. He should write full time.

AJG · 30-09-2007 03:12PM

Just finished 'The Serpent Of Stars' by Jean Giono and I've moved onto 'The Decline Of The West' by Oswald Spengler.

crotalus667 · 30-09-2007 06:08PM

The catcher and the rhy

GhostInTheRuins · 30-09-2007 06:19PM

I finally got around to reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I've been meaning to read it for years. About time I say!

ZorbaTehZ · 01-10-2007 07:24AM

Wilde's The Picture Of Dorian Gray. Amazing stuff.

Mrs. MacGyver · 01-10-2007 06:39PM

Mercy by Jodi Picoult
The woman who walked into doors by Roddy Doyle

arbeitsscheuer · 01-10-2007 09:58PM

Robert Fisk In Time of War
Clair Wills That Neutral Island
Mark M. Hull Irish Secrets
and, if I can feckin' well find it in our library,
Carolle J. Carter The Shamrock and the Swastika

tHE vAGGABOND · 02-10-2007 01:02PM

Shakespeare, by bill bryson

MooseJam · 02-10-2007 03:20PM

the selfish gene - richard dawkins

luckylucky · 05-10-2007 10:19PM

gracehopper wrote:

The bedroom secrets of the master chefs - irvine welsh.

Pretty decent, fast moving, loads of cursing, scottish dialogue. About 2 guys trapped in a kind of voodoo doll tit for tat fight. It makes edinburgh sound like a horrible gaudy place. If you liked the acid house and trainspotting you'll be into this.

I finished this a few weeks ago, good book, funny in parts, but very bleak.

stovelid · 06-10-2007 10:06AM

luckylucky wrote:

I finished this a few weeks ago, good book, funny in parts, but very bleak.

What, Irvine Welsh...bleak? Surely not.

Platform - Michel Houellebecq

Watching the Door - Kevin Myers

toomevara · 06-10-2007 07:05PM

The Road - Cormac McCarthy.....stunning, possibly his greatest work.

XJR · 06-10-2007 07:07PM

The Broker - John Grisham - a reasonable yarn and something to do when I wake at 3am.

shepthedog · 07-10-2007 12:28AM

John Simpson - The Wars against Saddam.. Interesting read..

Finished "This Book Will Save Your Life" a while back and enjoyed it immensely. Very different but think its like marmite, you'll love it or hate it..

John · 09-10-2007 01:04PM

The Master by Bryan MacMahon.

theCzar · 09-10-2007 01:33PM

Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6. *sigh*

youcancallmeal · 10-10-2007 10:13PM

Just finished Fields of Fire by James Webb. A very poignant book about the horrors and losses of the Vietnam war.

I'm about a third of the way through catch-22 after read it on and off for the last while. Apart from a few mildly humorous parts its doing absolutely nothing for me but I'm determined to finish it!

Blush_01 · 10-10-2007 11:45PM

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris
The Portable Creative Writing Workshop - Pat Boran
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Dream Life of Sukhanov - Olga Grushin
Poor Souls - Joseph Connolly
Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
Pieces of Me: A Life-in-Progress - Róisín Ingle

BossArky · 11-10-2007 12:16AM

Dubliners - Joyce

John · 12-10-2007 03:31PM

Eric R. Kandel In Search of Memory

prendy · 12-10-2007 04:07PM

just finished harry potter no7.
only started bk1 in july.they are such addictive books!

John · 15-10-2007 12:07PM

Samuel Beckett Murphy. It's... dense.

Dudess · 15-10-2007 12:46PM

Blush_01 wrote:

A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

Great book - very sad.

I'm reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy - cheery. But my aim is to read every apocalyptic/dystopian book ever!

Tar.Aldarion · 15-10-2007 01:31PM

Gardens of the Moon - The Malazan Book of the Fallen, Book 1
by Steven Erikson

15-10-2007 01:32PM

I'm currently reading Contract by Simon Spurrier.

ZorbaTehZ · 15-10-2007 05:19PM

John wrote: »

Samuel Beckett Murphy. It's... dense.

Could you expand a little on that?

15-10-2007 05:20PM

This Champagne mojito is the last thing I own.Not quite as dense as some of Samuel Beckett's work!:D

This week, I are mostly reading....

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