What book are you reading atm??

razorblunt · 03-11-2013 12:29pm

Thinking fast and slow.

Interesting but labours the point a tad.

iwantmydinner · 06-11-2013 1:23pm

Flew through A Thousand Splendid Suns on holidays. Such a brilliant read, bloody heartbreaking!

pharmaton · 06-11-2013 1:25pm

I found by accident a book I've had with years called Legends, a compilation of short stories including one of the prequel novella's to a Song of Ice and Fire called The Hedge Knight. was in my element when I discovered it

david75 · 10-11-2013 8:13pm

Couldn't put down Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch.
Then discovered there's a whole series!!

They're a brilliant read. Best I've read all year actually.
Heartily recommend them!

GLaDOS · 10-11-2013 8:15pm

Just finished The Silence of the Lambs, thoroughly enjoyed it

Einhard · 10-11-2013 8:39pm

Reading The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco. It's excellent. he has such an amazing way with language, and sometimes I don't even recognise the words he's using, let alone understand them, but am still pulled in by the sheer exuberance of it all. Also helps that its pretty damn funny at times! :pac:

Aidric · 10-11-2013 8:45pm

Just started 'Thinking, Fast and Slow' by Daniel Kahneman.

My interest was piqued by the following review from the Financial Times on the back cover 'There have been many good books on human rationality and irrationality but only one masterpiece. This is one of the greatest and most engaging collections of insights into the human mind I have read'.

cballrun · 10-11-2013 8:47pm

Year of the Intern (1972) by Robin Cook

cloudatlas · 11-11-2013 12:19am

'Just Kids' by Patti Smith

playedalive · 11-11-2013 12:58am

I just finished Dracula (finally) today. To be honest, I liked it in parts but the writing style was just not my cup of tea.

Next book is George Orwell's 1984

czechlin · 11-11-2013 2:38pm

cloudatlas wrote: »

The Harry Hole series is a bit out of synch if you are reading it in translation. It starts with 'the Bat', which is rated poorly and it doesn't have much bearing on the rest of the series, sometimes it's mentioned in passing. The second book 'Cockroaches' is being released in December. Most people start with 'The Redbreast' the third book which is one of my favourites. (I cheated and skipped ahead to 'The Snowman' and then back tracked to 'The Redbreast'). Jo Nesbo writes each book as a standalone but for the fans that read the whole series there is the reward of a few peripheral threads running through the books that add an extra dimension if you start with 'the redbreast'. It's a good series, the cases are satisfyingly complex and Nesbo writes in a very filmic way.

I was in a bookshop the other day and The Snowman was on sale so I couldn't really leave it there. I'm way into Part 2 of the book and really enjoying it. Will definitely read the other books. I'll try to read them in some sort of an order from the next one

baron von something · 11-11-2013 5:47pm

Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever,#1) by Stephen r. Donaldson

judgefudge · 14-11-2013 3:36pm

The autobiography of Malcolm X

Collie D · 14-11-2013 3:42pm

Just finished Part One of Tim Pat Coogan's Michael Collins bio and a de Valera one by T. Ryle Dwyer. Both were from the Indo's Irish biography series a couple of years back. Both quite interesting, especially the dev one as I think most of my history knowledge would be Collins based.

Currently about half way through "A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal" by Asne Seierstad. Had read The Bookseller of Kabul by her and finding the current book more interesting. Would recommend

JohnMearsheimer · 14-11-2013 3:51pm

Con Cremin: Ireland's Wartime Diplomat. It's a decent account of Ireland's diplomat in Vichy France and Nazi Germany during World War 2.

david75 · 19-11-2013 10:22pm

Wizard- the Nikola Tesla story.
This is available online in those ebook libraries for free and so far I heartily recommend it.
If only for the fact that people including members of his family, maintain Tesla was left on earth by an alien ship, as a child and was meant to make things better for us.
It's written by his grand-nephew and really moves at a fair clip. And the guy was genius beyond telling. Give it a go

Sgt Hartman · 19-11-2013 11:00pm

Just reading Sorceress of Darshiva by David Eddings atm. It's the fourth book of the 5 part Malloreon series. Standard fantasy fare but an entertaining read all the same.

Clandestine · 19-11-2013 11:21pm

Hunger by Knut Hamsen

Eroticplants · 20-11-2013 2:46pm

The Shining by Stephen King.

secretagent · 20-11-2013 3:03pm

Bad Times In Buenos Aires by Miranda France. Very funny and sad account of living there. It's most famous resident hasn't been back there since his promotion, not surprised.

K-9 · 20-11-2013 10:54pm

I predict a riot by Colin Bateman, it's set in Belfast and he captures the dark humour well, good page turner.

Vincent Vega · 20-11-2013 11:36pm

The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley

GLaDOS · 20-11-2013 11:41pm

11/22/63 by Stephen King, an entertaining read so far, but hardly a classic.

mariaalice · 20-11-2013 11:45pm

The wolves of mid winter by Ann Rice, it is only alright but as I have started it I will finish it.

sheroman01 · 21-11-2013 3:31pm

Started A Clockwork Orange. Very interesting, however I did not realize I needed to know Russian for it

Merkin · 21-11-2013 3:46pm

Finished The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty recently which was a thumping good read - couldn't put it down and have recommended it to lots of people since!

Have a couple of chapters left of Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler which is very good too, have flown through it.