Larsen B Posted January 23, 2007 Report Share Posted January 23, 2007 Having recently finished Bohumil Hrabal's Too Loud a Solitude I am going to begin reading Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepeep Posted January 29, 2007 Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 I finished Bulgakov's "master and margarita", great stuff, it really picks up in book two, when satan gets to hold his ball, with all the dead come for a dance...it's fantastic reading.I also just finished the haruki murakami "south of the border, west of the sun".it's such a brilliant read too, so simple, yet beautiful, it's like a novel of poetry, a sheer joy to read.all about a guy who runs a jazz bar, and an old girlfriend comes in after 20 odd years, and the shit it causes...it's just great.onto one flew over the cuckoo's nest next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted January 29, 2007 Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 i'm reading 'the machine that changed the world' about toyota's intropduction of the lean system in their organisation from the 60s-the 80s. have been meaning to read it for years and finally got round to it. it's pretty dry content but the story is well told. just waiting for a heap of other books to drop through my door any day now. i've ordered about ten in the last week alone. /x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen B Posted January 29, 2007 Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 Having recently finished Bohumil Hrabal's Too Loud a Solitude I am going to begin reading Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson today.And having finished that and LD Beghtol's book about 69 Love Songs by the Magnetic Fields, i have started How We Should Rule Ourselves by Alasdair Gray. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addi Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 I read 'Notes from Underground' last week and am reading 'The Double' at the moment. (both by Dostoyevksy.)still reading the bible, someone needs to edit the hell out this thing. get rid of all the chapters which are just people begetting each other and replace that shit with a bigass family tree.I also got the collected works of William Carlos Williams (pt 2...dont have pt 1 yet though) and also got 'Alice in Wonderland'/'Through the looking glass' when i bought the Dostoyevsky stuff last week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 still reading the bible, someone needs to edit the hell out this thing. get rid of all the chapters which are just people begetting each other and replace that shit with a bigass family treei agree with that. if it came with a pullout family tree for your wall it'd be more a pamphlet than a novel! /x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_inthehills Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 I'm currently reading One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Its about the life of a political prisoner in a soviet "special" camp after the war. Its not as depressing as it sounds, before that it was two Prachett novels -Wee free men and erm...some other instantly forgetable one. The next on the list is the Crazy dervish and the pomegranate tree by Farnoosh Moshiri. Its another about prison in Iraq during the regilous revolution.I seem to be reading a lot about prisoners at the moment....hmmm....perhaps I'm feeling trapped in my life or something....Peteinthehills Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bob Double Jack Posted February 10, 2007 Report Share Posted February 10, 2007 finished michael palins diaries, a pretty good read. took me a week on honeymoon which is the longest it's taken me to read a book in years!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen B Posted February 10, 2007 Report Share Posted February 10, 2007 I've just started Poor Things by Alasdair Gray. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 have recently read 'the machine that changed the world' about toyota's lean production system, 'notes from a big country' by bill bryson which was fantastic and i'm currently reading 'an equal music' by vikram seth for the bookclub on here. /x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bluesxman Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Hannibal Rising is finished and was pretty dissappointing overall. I then re-read Judge Dredd In Oz for some reason and have decided to re-read my rather nice black leather bound copy of Watchmen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
french_disko Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Just finished "The LIfe of Pi" and started "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner.Amazon.co.uk: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything: Books: Steven D. Levitt,Stephen J. Dubner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 good shout. did you enjoy 'life of pi'? get yourself in the thread and get typing! /x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RF Scott Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 "Guernica - The biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon" by Gijs van Hensbergenand"The music of Chance" by Paul Austerboth awesome so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Denim.. Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 I just picked a random book off the bookshelf offshore and it's 'Atlantis' by David Gibbins. Not bad so far. Incredibly far fetched. Think Time Team underwater discover Atlantis and a booby-trapped Russian nuclear sub. It can only get better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afro Droid Posted February 13, 2007 Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 Just started "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner.I quite enjoyed that, it gets a bit dense and maths-y in places but the chapter about drug dealers in LA is brilliant.I'm currently reading:His Dark Materials: The Northern Lights - Philip Pullman(Been meaning to pick this up for ages, and definitely wanted to read it before the film appears, it's pretty good so far)Batman Knightfall Vol 3. - Chuck Dixon/Alan Grant/various (It's OK, but they've skipped a whole buncha plot from Vol 2.)Also got issue 6 of Garth Ennis' new effort, 'The Boys'. It's extrememly promising, anyone wanna lend me issues 1-5? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moshulu Rob Posted February 13, 2007 Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 Also got issue 6 of Garth Ennis' new effort, 'The Boys'. It's extrememly promising, anyone wanna lend me issues 1-5? Ask Doorman Sean from Bassment/Moshulu. i believe he is addictd to themR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted February 13, 2007 Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 i finished 'an equal music' by vikram seth (which was fantastic!) last night and now i'm on to 'forced ranking' by dick grote - management texts a-go-go! /x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Denim.. Posted February 13, 2007 Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 I'm currently reading:His Dark Materials: The Northern Lights - Philip Pullman(Been meaning to pick this up for ages, and definitely wanted to read it before the film appears, it's pretty good so far)Now that's a trilogy I really enjoyed. If you really want to get into the scientific explanations of the book as I did then I recommend you buy The Science of Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" By Mary and John Gribbin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodast Posted February 14, 2007 Report Share Posted February 14, 2007 I don't do too much casual reading usually in term time but right now I am reading:The Slaves of the Mastery - William NicholsonI love it, I'm re-reading it because it's one of my favourite series.Running with Scissors - Augusten BurroughsMy friend sent me this for Christmas, highly recommended. However so far I don't like it, just find the style crappy, forced and unpleasant to read. But I'll finish it anyway.Then for uni I'm reading:RUR - Karel CapekBoring...Combray - Marcel ProustThis is the only one of my reading list that I really liked before starting to study it, even though everyone else hates it because he's a pussy and writes too much description. The stuff about reality/dreams is interesting and he can be pretty funny at times too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaTsunami Posted February 15, 2007 Report Share Posted February 15, 2007 having finished 'naked lunch', i am now moving on to truman capote's 'in cold blood'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afro Droid Posted February 15, 2007 Report Share Posted February 15, 2007 have decided to re-read my rather nice black leather bound copy of Watchmen.Aaah, one the greatest works of graphic fiction ever. May re-read it myself soon, I did my sixth year English dissertation on Watchmen y'know? Read V For Vendetta? If you like Watchmen you'll probably dig it, the film (which is not bad) isn't a patch on the book, as is often the case.There was fresh talk of a Watchmen film recently, it's been in pre-production hell for ages. I can't help but feel it's un-filmable though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bluesxman Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 Aaah, one the greatest works of graphic fiction ever. May re-read it myself soon, I did my sixth year English dissertation on Watchmen y'know? Read V For Vendetta? If you like Watchmen you'll probably dig it, the film (which is not bad) isn't a patch on the book, as is often the case.There was fresh talk of a Watchmen film recently, it's been in pre-production hell for ages. I can't help but feel it's un-filmable though...Yeah I had a copy of V For vendetta knocking about the house for ages, finally got round to reading it recently, great stuff. Thought the film was OK too. Watchmen is far too wide in scope to make a decent film I think, although I kind of like From Hell as a film, in comparison to the range of material in the bookit falls well short of a decent adaptation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Denim.. Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 I just picked a random book off the bookshelf offshore and it's 'Atlantis' by David Gibbins. Not bad so far. Incredibly far fetched. Think Time Team underwater discover Atlantis and a booby-trapped Russian nuclear sub. It can only get better.It didn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metarie Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 Now that's a trilogy I really enjoyed. If you really want to get into the scientific explanations of the book as I did then I recommend you buy The Science of Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" By Mary and John Gribbin. Does it explain the religious stuff too? I was really struggling with the final book in the trilogy until I read Paradise Lost for Uni and suddenly it all made a little more sense but it's a bit of an uphill slog too.I'm up to my eyeballs in Yeats, Plath and Auden for my dissertation but had to read Capote's In Cold Blood for class which was really good, rather similar to books like The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, or vice versa considering what came first. I'm also flicking through The Dirty Bits of Girls which I got for Christmas and investigating books mentioned in that. Purely for educational reasons of course Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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