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[Sue Denim..]

Originally Posted by Pierre Von Mondragon

Dystopias are great, I mean shit, but great.

You should read 'The City and The City' by China Mieville.
If you like 1984, Brave New World, Neverwhere, Steampunk, Kafka and suchlike.

Also just finished 'Un Lun Dun' by China Mieville. (Dystopia for junior readers.)

[Stichman]

The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth

This is one of the best books I've ever read. It follows a couple of generations of an Austro-Hungarian family and beautifully charts the demise of the empire. Some absolutely brilliant characters and astonishingly vivid imagery. I just loved this so much, what a book. I can't recommend it highly enough.

[Stichman]

Originally Posted by Lucky Rathen

I started Wuthering Heights a while ago but I struggled to get into it and it's been sitting with a bookmark in the same place for a few months now.

Pack it in and go for The Mill on the Floss for all your effeminate classic needs. It's ace.

[KarmaTsunami]

I'm reading 'Among Muslims: Meetings at the Frontier of Pakistan' by Kathleen Jamie, and it's both very interesting and very good. I'm a big fan of her poetry and I'm reading this as part of an argument in my PhD. I read her other travel book 'Findings' which is a great wee as well.

On the fiction front I'm a wee bitty through Murakami's 'The Wind Up Bird Chronicles' but if I don't finish it before 'The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest' comes out it will be on hold for a short while.

[Lucky Rathen]

Originally Posted by Stichman

Pack it in and go for The Mill on the Floss for all your effeminate classic needs. It's ace.

I've actually re-started Wuthering Heights. I'm getting more into it this time. Before I was just giving it 20 minutes a day on my lunch break, but it's really a book you need to concentrate on without people coming in and out and talking to you. Now I've got Stephen King in my desk drawer for lunch breaks and Wuthering Heights next to my bed

[Shaki]

Originally Posted by Lucky Rathen

Now I've got Stephen King in my desk drawer for lunch breaks

Does he just pop out and do requests?

[Godzilla Blues]

Now finished 'The Death of Bunny Munro' by Nick Cave. Enjoyed it OK but it sees a fair shift in style from 'And the Ass saw the Angel'. In fact it read more like an Irvine Welsh novel. It actually seems to be a continuation of Cave's apparent ongoing mid-life crisis so far seen in Grinderman.

Now reading 'Reheated Cabbage' by Irvine Welsh, so far so good. I think it shows that despite still being an enjoyable read, his later period writing has not been near his earliest work in terms of quality.

[Chris]

I'm on a bit of a non-fiction thing at the moment. Just finished Bad Science by Ben Goldacre (excellent book about how badly the press report science stories, fraudulent claims made by alternative medicine practicitioners etc) and in the middle of reading Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality by Manjit Kumar (a bit of a biography of the two scientists and an account of their contributions to Quantum theory and the repercussions of it).

Might need to read something lighter after that one...

[Flash@TMB]

Originally Posted by Chris

I'm on a bit of a non-fiction thing at the moment. Just finished Bad Science by Ben Goldacre (excellent book about how badly the press report science stories, fraudulent claims made by alternative medicine practicitioners etc)

I read that a few months back. The chapter on Gillian McKeith is priceless.

[Flash@TMB]

Am currently reading "Entering The Castle" by Caroline Myss. It's a modern reworking of El Castillo Interior written in 1577 by Saint Teresa of Ávila. Am only at page 44 but already it's shaping up to be one of the most beautiful things I've ever read. The foreward by Ken Wilber and the authors own preface are worth the admission price alone.