This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

tim_holsters · 06-08-2011 11:41AM

Moneyball by Michael Lewis. A book about baseball or to be more specific baseball statistics. I know absolutely nothing about baseball but yet this book is fascinating.

x_Ellie_x · 06-08-2011 05:09PM

I've started two books today: Six Suspects by Vikas Swarup and The Once and Future King by Terence White for the boards book club.

AnnyHallsal · 06-08-2011 10:16PM

Taking a break from Quixote with Stewart Lee's How I Escaped my Certain Fate: The Life and Deaths of a Stand-Up Comedian.

One page and two chortles in .. brilliant

baconsarnie · 07-08-2011 12:28PM

AnnyHallsal wrote: »

Giving Don Quixote a go.

Let me know how you get on, I have it in my "to read pile" and it's getting close to the top. Although i've just read "The Man Without Qualities" and I'm less than likely to jump into another large "classic" so soon.

baconsarnie · 07-08-2011 12:31PM

Einhard wrote: »

A Death in Tuscany by Michele Giuttari.

Written by the former head of police in Florence. I hope to God he was a better policeman than he is a writer.

I got that for my wife for a present a while back. She said it was pretty poor alright!

Currently "Journey to the End of the Night" by Loius-Ferdinand Celine. Superb

AnnyHallsal · 07-08-2011 01:03PM

baconsarnie wrote: »

Let me know how you get on, I have it in my "to read pile" and it's getting close to the top. Although i've just read "The Man Without Qualities" and I'm less than likely to jump into another large "classic" so soon.

I'd say definitely give it a go at some point. It's amusing, sometimes funny and a lot of the little episodes are entertaining. It's also long and can get repetitive, so I like to rotate it with something lighter. I read fifty pages or a hundred pages then put it aside for a few days.

Caros · 08-08-2011 09:30AM

Started Game of Thrones by George RR Martin last night.

flyaway. · 09-08-2011 05:10PM

A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess

Monkeybonkers · 09-08-2011 07:55PM

Following some glowing references from on here I'm just about to start A Confederacy of Dunces. Read about four pages last night before I fell asleep (nothing to do with the quality of the book, I was just knackered)

Very tragic about the author.

Hermy · 10-08-2011 12:46AM

Currently reading Athena by John Banville and loving it.

Asphyxia · 10-08-2011 12:56AM

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

A last minute pick up while at the library! I read it quite young but so far it still the same to me, very bland start!

KnifeWRENCH · 11-08-2011 04:56AM

Midnight's Children

Been reading it a while but am just over half way. Like The Satanic Verses (the only other Rushdie novel I've read) it's slow moving at times and the language can be a bit difficult and flowery. But Salman Rushdie is one hell of a stroyteller!

sproggy13 · 11-08-2011 06:05PM

Reading 'Black Angel' by John Connolly. Its my first read by this author. Not bad.

UpCork · 12-08-2011 08:28AM

I am reading "The Facts of Life" by Patrick Gale. I love Gale's way with words. It is good so far.

Cygni · 12-08-2011 12:30PM

flyaway. wrote: »

A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess

That, it's totally win.

Travel is good · 12-08-2011 03:25PM

I'm about 2/3 of the way in "The Stranger's Child" by Alan Hollinghurst. I'm really enjoying this book. It starts off a bit like "Brideshead Revisited", now it's all over the place. The story starts about 1911 or so, then moves on during the century. I don't want to give too much away.

It's nominated as one of the Booker Prize titles for 2011, on the longlist.

I'm glad I started reading this one first from the 2011, as I didn't have a great experience with some of the Booker Prize books last year.

Asphyxia · 13-08-2011 12:42PM

Started Sepulchre by Kate Mosse, I really enjoyed her book Labyrinth so I picked it up this morning while I was in the library

WesternNight · 13-08-2011 07:11PM

Bad Science - Ben Goldacre

x_Ellie_x · 14-08-2011 08:54PM

I'm about to start a crime novel called The Burning by a Dublin writer named Jane Casey.

oeb · 15-08-2011 12:58PM

I'm working my way through Philip K. Dick's short story collections.

Currently reading Volume 2 (Second Variety)

DarkDusk · 15-08-2011 01:50PM

Roughly half-way through Clash of Kings by George Martin atm. Its brill! Just after finding out that

Bran MIGHT have found out who pushed him off the tower while he was dreamiing. Dont know yet though.

Callan57 · 15-08-2011 09:51PM

Starting Snowdrops by A D Miller

The Princess Bride · 16-08-2011 01:04AM

Have just started Lisa Gardner's Live to Tell- scary,thought provoking stuff.
(If you don't know whether or not to have children, this may help you decide.)

Censorsh!t · 17-08-2011 09:39AM

I finished At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O Brien two weeks ago. Absolutely loved it. Parts were confusing, but otherwise it was great. Books rarely make me laugh out loud but I did a few times while reading this.

I'm now reading The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. Very good thus far.

Paulownia · 17-08-2011 10:29AM

Recently read the hare with the amber eyes and loved it!

Callan57 · 17-08-2011 10:31AM

Paulownia wrote: »

Recently read the hare with the amber eyes and loved it!

Great read ... loved it too

Cygni · 17-08-2011 10:58PM

Fin. reading George Orwell's 1984.
Brought out some mixed emotions in me ... a never forgetting experience.
Loved it. Not recommended for the mentally challenged.

Started Animal Farm by him .. ah damn, it's like '84 all over again!

TanG411 · 18-08-2011 12:40AM

Finished Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney. It was a fantastic ending, now what you would expect.

Starting Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson now.

Callan57 · 18-08-2011 10:48AM

A Fair Maiden by Joyce Carol Oates

emeraldstar · 18-08-2011 08:10PM

Anne of Green Gables.

This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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