Reading!

[becks]

What are you reading at the moment? Well it's kind of a literature question, and i am reading the Count of Monte Cristo which definitely counts as literature (if not a door-stop.)...

[thekraut]

I've just started East of Eden again, although I think it's not quite as brilliant as The grapes of Wrath. But with books, i'm a bit on the depressive side.

[sft42]

Stephen King - The Girl who loved Tom Gordon.......The Darwin Awards - Wendy Northcutt.....and lastly The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels.

[andy hughes]

I've just finished Russ Winstanley's excellent book about the Wigan Casino, and the history of Northern Soul, and I'm about to start a book about touring with Bob Dylan. Yes, i do love music books, the more the merrier!

[Janetex]

A book of accounts british women poisoners. Wonder what that means.

[apricot]

Crabwalk by Gunther Grass. It is hyped as his best book since The Tin Drum and that is my all time favourite book.

[becks]

Cool, thanks everyone, have not heard of one single book you are all reading which is cool because now i have some new authors to try so cheers! x

[brawburd]

Brick Lane by Monica Ali. Terrific!

[LeMarchand]

Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code". So far it's a real page-turner (though I have a nagging feeling that he's making up a lot of his "facts").

[Smiffy]

Currently reading A Suitable Vengeance by Elizabeth George. Last book was Cider with Roadies by Stuart Maconie - very funny. The next will be The Tulip by Anna Pavord; no, I'm not a gardener, but I heard her speak once and she was so enthusiastic I just had to read the book!|

[bernardo]

"A Polar Paradise: The Glaciation of South Victoria Land, Antarctica" PhD thesis by Dr Mark T. Lloyd Davies. It is a subject which I would not normally be remotely interested in, but I'm reading it because I knew him at University and he sent me one of his spare copies of his PHD thesis. I never realised how much fun it would be to read something with such a plethora of baffling specialist technical words, many of which are not even in my dictionary. It had never even occurred to me before that there was any difference between warm-based and cold-based glaciers, and the ways in which they erode or deposit trocks on the landscape.
But more typical of the sort of things I would read are the books I have read recently: "Trotskyism After Trotsky" by Tony Cliff; "Selected Works volume 4 (1966 to 1975)" by Enver Hoxha; "Dialectical and Historical Materialism" by Joseph Stalin (1938); and "Main Kampf" by Adolf Hitler. Oh and I have just finished re-reading "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell (for about the 8537th time) and I am consumed with a burning hatred and desire to track down and vapourise any thought-criminal who incorrectly refers to it as "1984" instead of "Nineteen Eighty-Four".

[woofgang]

Yes, I enjoyed the Da Vinci Code, need to get hold of the holy blood and the holy grail again, had it in paperback but it did a vanish like these things do, also re reading some of the Dune books by Frank Herbert, and if you liked "Da vinci", try "The Eight" by Katherine Neville or "Landscape of Lies" by Peter Watson. The latest Terry Pratchett is well up to standard (A Hatfull of Sky), also desperate for the next Robert Jordan due out (I think) october this year...have just finished the latest Guy Kay which I didn't like as much as his earlier work. and a must read?? "The Curious Affair of the Dog in the Nightime"

[becks]

Ah Woofgang, yes i loved TCIOFDITNT it's brilliant, read it in about two days - absolutely brilliant! Bernardo, I LOVED nineteen eighty four, thought it was so fab, currently have Animal Farm on my shelf to read but am worried i won't get it. After i finish the Count of Monte Cristo however i shall be doing some easy reading so i have the Kalahari Typing School for Men, part of the number one ladies' detective agency series, Vernon God Little and a book about Marilyn Monroe to read. Wish i could have a job where all i had to do was sit on the beach and read books all day...

[bernardo]

Becks - don't worry about Animal Farm - it is really easy and can be read in about 3 hours. It is a good way of teaching 12-year-olds about the Russian revolution and the contrast between Trotskyism and Stalinism. I have not only read "Animal Farm" loads of times; I have counted the number of words in it five times. The answers were 29993, 30174, 30178, 30180 and 30194.

[FTVS]

I am readoimng teh London Autobiography, just finished the His Dark Materials series (Phillip Pullman) and am alsa reading "Raising the Stones" by Sheri S Tepper

[woofgang]

Thank you, I had forgotten about Sheri Tepper. I loved her True Game books, also the Ki and Vandien stories

[sexy_bef69]

Batman Doesn't eat Lemons

[Hamish]

just finished Animal Farm, now on Jarka Ruus (Terry Brooks).

[Lillianmort]

I am reading Brunelleschi's Dome, an interesting story about a unique, genius builder in the rennaisance