This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

Callan57 · 21-11-2011 09:09PM

mdood32 wrote: »

Caitlin Moran's book is hilarious!!!!!!!!!!

A few laughs but I wouldn't have called it hilarious IMHO

Travel is good · 21-11-2011 11:51PM

mdood32 wrote: »

Caitlin Moran's book is hilarious!!!!!!!!!!

I really liked that book too. I bought a few extra copies to share with people.

I am reading "Them - adventures with extremists" and "What I do" , both by Jon Ronson. I am in this non fiction book swap. It's good because it is making me read my non fiction books.

tim_holsters · 22-11-2011 12:19AM

The Lacuna by Barabara Kingsolver. It's taken me about 90 pages or so to settle into it but feeling very comfy with it now, I think I'm going to really like this one.

x_Ellie_x · 22-11-2011 05:45PM

Yesterday, I started reading Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews. I can't put it down. I'm half way through it already.

Captain Graphite · 23-11-2011 12:22PM

I finished Life of Pi this morning. The ending was good but overall I was underwhelmed by it.

Frankly, Pi bugged the hell out of me. He was quite an irritating, self-righteous little bastard. I'd have been much happier if Richard Parker had just eaten him and then took over narration of the story!

24-11-2011 11:16AM

x_Ellie_x wrote: »

Yesterday, I started reading Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews. I can't put it down. I'm half way through it already.

i ate through that series when i was a kid, brilliant

read snow flower and the secret fan last night
it wasn't very good
entertaining i suppose but i wouldn't recommend it

starting on the fountainhead next as it also arrived last night

Callan57 · 24-11-2011 11:48AM

A Greyhound of a Girl by Roddy Doyle .... loving it

Swampy · 24-11-2011 12:57PM

The Ninja. Eric Van Lustbader. Just started it.

emeraldstar · 24-11-2011 02:42PM

How Many Miles to Babylon, Jennifer Johnston

flyaway. · 24-11-2011 03:38PM

Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

x_Ellie_x · 24-11-2011 10:16PM

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

daithi1970 · 24-11-2011 10:21PM

I just finished Children of Men by PD James..a departure from her ususal genre,but well worth the read..it has some interesting things to say about the role of government, and the way it impinges on peoples lives

daithi

AnnyHallsal · 25-11-2011 09:29PM

Antonio Damascio, Descartes's Error

Callan57 · 25-11-2011 09:37PM

Roddy Doyle's A Star Called Henry

mariebeth · 25-11-2011 10:47PM

I'm reading Suzanne Collins 'Hunger Games' Trilogy this week, I'm on the third and I've really enjoyed them all.

[-0-] · 26-11-2011 04:28AM

http://www.amazon.com/Einstein-Life-Universe-Walter-Isaacson/dp/0743264746/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1322278054&sr=8-1

Einstein: His Life and Universe from the same dude that wrote Jobs biography. It's fun.

Kiva.D · 26-11-2011 07:09AM

I picked up Emily Brontes 'Wuthering Heights' while waiting for the boards winter book club reads to arrive.

flyaway. · 26-11-2011 08:59PM

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

Byron85 · 27-11-2011 03:40PM

The Genesis of Values - Hans Joas

http://www.amazon.com/Genesis-Values-Hans-Joas/dp/0226400409

It's mostly research for my dissertation but I read The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris immediately before it, and that was as much for my dissertation as it was for myself, so The Genesis of Values has taken on that form too, even if it is a bit of a tome at times.

Bill Shock · 27-11-2011 08:54PM

Just finished Mistaken by Niall Jordan...well worth reading, especially if you are familiar with Dublin.

Have now started The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst...

purplek · 28-11-2011 12:11AM

callmescratch wrote: »

Started The Ask and the Answer yesterday. very good

Patrick Ness is brilliant. Loved that series. Just started "Perfume" by Patrick Suskind. Pretty good so far.

Callan57 · 28-11-2011 11:30PM

The Song House by Trezza Azzopardi

Hermy · 29-11-2011 02:49AM

Rereading A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking - superb.

emeraldstar · 29-11-2011 12:16PM

purplek wrote: »

Patrick Ness is brilliant. Loved that series. Just started "Perfume" by Patrick Suskind. Pretty good so far.

I really enjoyed the first half or so of Perfume, then found it just started to drag.

Bill Shock · 30-11-2011 02:48PM

Picked up Patrick de Witt's Booker-nominated "The Sisters Brothers" yesterday and am almost finished it already. Absolutely brilliant and an easy read.

Surely the Coen brothers have already secured the film rights......

AnnyHallsal · 30-11-2011 08:00PM

Erving Goffman, Asylums.

Found this in the attic and thought it might be interesting to read such a seminal work.

purplek · 30-11-2011 10:22PM

Bill Shock wrote: »

Just finished Mistaken by Niall Jordan...well worth reading, especially if you are familiar with Dublin.

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Not a patch on Neil Jordan's "Shade" IMO.

Miss Fluff · 01-12-2011 03:47PM

Finished Everything and Nothing by Araminta Hall which was quite good.

Am about a third of the way through Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks as wanted something light and fluffy. It is probably one of the worst written books I've ever read....will persevere.

Looking like Orwell's 1984 after this to remind myself what real writing is

cosmic · 01-12-2011 04:40PM

Sebastian Faulks - A Week in December

tim_holsters · 01-12-2011 07:22PM

Bill Shock wrote: »

Just finished Mistaken by Niall Jordan...well worth reading, especially if you are familiar with Dublin.

Have now started The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst...

The Line of Beauty is simply superb and the BBC did a brilliant job with their adaptation too.

Just finishing The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver which I thought was very good indeed, I'm glad that I bought The Poisonwood Bible at the same time but I'm going to read If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor next.

This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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