what book are you reading

[astro]

Yeah, I've got the Te of Piglet too - they're both together in the same book.

[sportbilly]

Just finished Christopher Pike's "The Last Vampire" series ... now I feel sad because it was edited to be a "Young adult/teen" series. Damn editors!! I want my pages and pages of vampire sex and blood drinking!

Now on to Dean Koontz "House of Thunder" ... it's still a little weird, but I guess that's just the author.

[Enos]

Time and Chance - Sharon Penman

[Cpt Jellybean]

Been doing a bit of reading at the moment.

1st Metal box, Stories from John Lydon's Public Image Ltd.

Was very good, it'd been hard to find much info on this band so was good to get the goss especially the first few years and how those records came about.

2nd Cullotta the life of a Chicago Criminal, Las Vegas Mobster & Government Witness.

Very easy to read, probably could have been a bit deeper but it was a good read on the actual guy who played himself in the film Casino doing a hit on a guy who's running all about a house until he finally dies outside in the pool.

3rd Donnie Brasco Unfinished Business.

I saw the film but didn't read the book Donnie Brasco but in this he recaps but mainly talks about all the cases that undercover operation brought about. It's really interesting to see the dominoes and how they fall. Very easy to read and funny at times too.

4th The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll

Before the internet became the web that it is, this guy is tracking a hacker in his systems. It's so far been great, it really does read like a spy thriller except it's real.

[and3w]

Benjamin Hoff - The Tao of Pooh

If you like that, try Counselling for Toads (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Counselling-Toads-Psychological-Robert-Board/dp/0415174295/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208075544&sr=8-1), TA the wind in the willows way, tis good.

I am reading Newtons Wake by Ken Macleod. I love his books, most are SF with a socialist/marxist/anarchist slant. Very good.

[Dundasbro]

Hitchhiker's Guide.

[pliskin]

Matter- Ian M Banks

[Enos]

Matter- Ian M Banks

I never thought I'd say this about anything from Mr Banks but prepare to be disappointed...

[Glompbot]

He died with a felafel in his hand.

[Grizzlee]

American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Its the first novel I have read of his. I have read some Sandman and Dark Omens, thought it was about time to give a novel a go.
So far so good.

[el rod]

Just finished "Cosmic Trigger 2" by Robert Anton Wilson. Currently Phillip K. Dick, "Unik"

[lilmz-obsessive]

the joys of postmodern literature

The French Lieutenant’s Woman - John Fowles

&

If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino

[Enos]

Prador Moon - Neal Asher

[and3w]

the joys of postmodern literature

The French Lieutenant’s Woman - John Fowles

You poor sod :(

Oh, and Neal Asher is awesome Enos...The Skinner is my favourite.

Currently re-reading 'Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned' by one of my fav crime authors, Walter Mosley. G'wan Easy!

[Girl.]

the joys of postmodern literature

The French Lieutenant’s Woman - John Fowles

Love French Lieutenant, one of my favourite books.

At the moment I'm reading Babel Tower by AS Byatt. I like it, it's very different to Possession (which is also one of my favourite books) but it's good nonetheless.

Next on the to-read list is a book on sex in the Middle Ages.

[meg]

Little Miss Chatterbox by Roger Hargreaves

An amazing tale of the trials and tribulations of a young lady struggling to find her calling

Brilliant

[BlueBoy]

Crisis on Infinite Earths.

[Hairyman]

The Children of Hurin.

[Serpent_Girl]

A book on sex in the middle ages sounds interesting, actually. I wonder how different things would be to the present situation and ideas on it, they have changed so much in even 100years.


I read a book called The Gift by Alison Croggon yesterday and liked it so much I already am starting on the second in the series called The Riddle. They're not really short, it was just a pleasure to read. Well written and a good, if traditional, fantasy storyline throughout them.

[Icky]

I am reading WYRD SISTERS by Terry Pratchett

[Mr. Bungle]

the joys of postmodern literature
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino

Brilliant brilliant book. The opening chapter is one of the funniest things in literature.

[Colonel Kurtz]

Ummmm, Calvin & Hobbes comics.....

... I just need easy escape right now.

[Guest.]

The book of Mormon. I'm upto the exciting part where Joseph Smith Jr receives the golden plates by the angel Moroni.

[carsinogenic]

i am reading....
- underbelly, the book that insired the TV series. and a darn good read at that!

(and i was going to list all the text books i am reading atm, eg php, sql, active directory cook book, etc....... but that would be boring, so i wont)

[dwarfthrower]

God and the New Physics (http://www.amazon.com/God-New-Physics-Paul-Davies/dp/0671528068) by Paul Davies (http://cosmos.asu.edu/)

A bit "pop-physics" for my liking, but not too bad.

[metalhed00]

Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride

[and3w]

The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson, currently Quicksilver.... I'd forgotten what awesome erudition these books contain.

[locust]

Alastair Reynolds' House of Suns.

[satori]

Alastair Reynolds' House of Suns.

Is that a new one from him? He is quite the space opera guru.

[locust]

Is that a new one from him? He is quite the space opera guru.

Yeah it's new.

I decided to start it anyway, even though I've fallen behind - I'm yet to read The Prefect.

[Hit And Rum]

Barrack Obama - The Audacity of Hope

[Enos]

Alastair Reynolds' House of Suns.

Same :)

Seems to be completely different universe so can't see any drama reading this before The Prefect

[Girl.]

Re-reading War and Peace.

[BlueBoy]

Watchmen.
Alan Moore was right. It's absolutely unfilmable.

[Xythan]

Re-reading War and Peace.

You are totally insane...totally.

Servant of the Empire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Trilogy) for me.

[and3w]

Watchmen.
Alan Moore was right. It's absolutely unfilmable.

But it makes a good T-Shirt :greenwink

[Girl.]

You are totally insane...totally.

Servant of the Empire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Trilogy) for me.


Why? I've read it several times and its an amazing book... I honestly can't understand why people think it's a difficult book to read. In fact, it was the only book I took backpacking with me because I think it's something you can read over and over again and find something new in it each time.

For me, totally insane would be reading, say, Kafka's The Trial - that book frustrates me so much I threw my copy out before I finished reading 20 pages of it.

[johny_roberts]

the shinning a good old Steven King mindless read....

[wenches.inc]

the shinning a good old Steven King mindless read....

you're just pissed there's fuck all references to sex acts :p ....the book rocks when you live alone and read it late at night :reaper:

[and3w]

The "shinning" - man lives in hotel and slowly transforms into a serial leg-bone thief - ooooeerrr, scary! :)

[Jimma]

Why? I've read it several times and its an amazing book... I honestly can't understand why people think it's a difficult book to read. In fact, it was the only book I took backpacking with me because I think it's something you can read over and over again and find something new in it each time.

For me, totally insane would be reading, say, Kafka's The Trial - that book frustrates me so much I threw my copy out before I finished reading 20 pages of it.

Haha. Funny you should say that, because when I saw the comment on War and Peace I thought "Well it's not exactly Albert Camus' 'The Plague'" which pretty much everyone says is identical in its narrative tone to Kafka and The Trial in particular. Both great allegorical novels about humanity and the way we deal with new situations that completely change everything. Both really boring if you take them both to be nothing more than drawn out narratives describing mundane events.

War and Peace is plain by comparison.

[satori]

Yeah it's new.

I decided to start it anyway, even though I've fallen behind - I'm yet to read The Prefect.

I really enjoyed The Prefect. Not quite as much as Redemption Ark and Revelation Space, but close.

[Narcho]

I'm reading one of the many discworld books at the moment which is a really good pisstake on the modern world theres about 30 of the bastards so hook in

[and3w]

I'm reading one of the many discworld books at the moment which is a really good pisstake on the modern world theres about 30 of the bastards so hook in

...and after reading one they are all shit/the same IMHO

[Glompbot]

Deadhouse Gates

I've noticed the books are MUCH easier to find in bookstores at the moment because of the newest book in the series has been released.

[hallmitchell]

It's about a zombie war that has just happened and a UN commisioner is putting together a report.

I'm up to page 26.

This is very good.

By Max Brooks.

[and3w]

Hilldiggers by the ever reliable Neal Asher

[Soahc]

I'm half way thru "Sun Cluster System Administration Guide for Solaris OS" it's a real page turner. I'm up to the upgrading of nodes, will they come back, won't they?!?! It's so suspenseful!

[Meatsack]

The Gap Into Ruin: This Day All Gods Die, by Stephen R. Donaldson. Last book in his Gap series, i have trouble finding the time to finish it.

also happen to be reading the oregon state drivers manual, but thats not so much fun. :raspberry

[BtrFly]

lately i have been reading Laurell K Hamilton's - Anita Blake - Vampire Executioner (not exactly mind blowing, but a good read none the less) and Kim Harrison's "The Hollows" series (see above ()!)

[StAUG]

Darkly Dreaming Dexter. Kicks arse.

[annie]

heh, darkly dreaming dexter is pretty good. Not as great as the series it's based on, but good all the same.

I've had a little reading spree the past fortnight. I've read:
"I am Legend" by Richard Matheson,
"The Host" by Stephenie Meyer (awesome awesome book)
"Everything Eventual" by Stephen King (short stories)

and now I'm reading "It" by Stephen King too.

I'm going to buy a few other Stephenie Meyer books this week because I was really impressed with "the host". I'm also going to get some Stephen King novels, because I really think he's a wonderful writer. Very close to my favourite author (who is Stephen Erikson).

[Mr. Bungle]

re-reading Eon by Greg Bear, but it has been at least 15 years since I first read it.

[bronco]

Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall - Down To This: A Year Living with the Homeless

Very interesting book. Not the best writing as such, but considering half the time he was pissed and he was living in shack in Canada during winter when he wrote I suppose I can look past that, but still quite captivating to read.

[Hired Goon]

I'm reading The Book Thief and I think its pretty good so far.

[Cpt Jellybean]

Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad

It's very interesting and turning me onto some bands I had no knowledge of.

[annie]

Just finished reading "It" by Stephen King, and once again I am in awe of his writing.
I could NOT put this book down. I've even been reading it on the sly at work. I'm very very impressed by it, and can't wait to read it again.

[Girl.]

I'm reading The Book Thief and I think its pretty good so far.

Interesting - I started reading it a while ago, thought the start was good but found it got a bit tedious halfway through and lost interest. Maybe I should finish it.

[Dundasbro]

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde

[BtrFly]

The Observations by Jane Harris.

Unusual, but not bad so far.

[and3w]

On to Part 2 of The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson - The Confusion
Awesome erudition, great story, funny as all hell in parts...

Bobby Shaftoe FTW!

[satori]

On to Part 2 of The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson - The Confusion
Awesome erudition, great story, funny as all hell in parts...

Bobby Shaftoe FTW!

I have heard that 'The Confusion' is a reward for slogging though 'Quicksilver'.

It's on my list.

[willh1967]

The Pictorial Treasury of Famous Men and Famous Deeds. (c1880)

[gunsella]

just finished godel, escher, bach - an eternal golden braid. by douglas hofstadter.

my first attempt more than ten years ago failed. but this, my second attempt, was successful. and so so so worthwhile. i feel like my hat size has increased.

i just started critical mass by phillip ball. anyone else read it? any good?

[Spades]

Interview with a Vampire - ANne RIce, boy did they ever fuck the movie as the book is fantatastic

[Elf]

The Rotters Club - Jonathon Coe. I just finished it. An awesome read about growing up in the 70's from the perspective of the English middle class.

[alcor]

1984 - George Orwell

[bronco]

1984 - George Orwell

We have a winner...

[Glompbot]

Deadhouse gates still
I've been really busy and the only time I get to read is when I'm eating lunch at work.

[Hit And Rum]

Marvel's "Secret Wars" TPB

[StAUG]

Stark - Ben Elton (again).

[pliskin]

Stark - Ben Elton (again).

fucking great book, will have to read again .
thanks for the idea.......

[Enos]

The Voyage of the Sable Keech - Neil Asher

Don't you love it when you find a new author with a big back catalogue to read :)

[deelicious]

Delta of Venus - Anais Nin

[and3w]

The Voyage of the Sable Keech - Neil Asher

Don't you love it when you find a new author with a big back catalogue to read :)

Neal Asher = total win. Have you read 'The Skinner' yet? if not, read it first...

Reading Genet by Edmund White, biography of my favourite French :fag:

[Elf]

The Skinner is awesome.

And3w - go read The Rotters Club. You'll like it a lot.

[and3w]

Yes ma'am

[Enos]

Neal Asher = total win. Have you read 'The Skinner' yet? if not, read it first...

Reading Genet by Edmund White, biography of my favourite French :fag:

Just finished Skinner and had bought Sable Keech in preparation :)

Have read most of the Ian Cormac ones so far, think I'm going backwards actually. Started with Brass Man.

[and3w]

LO... yeah, arse-backward :)

I think the first one was his collection of stories, The Engineer. (may be wrong)

The Skinner just kicks arse, what a great idea... and the Prador are such cool baddies...

[alcor]

Leviathan - John Birmingham
- The unauthorized biography of Sydney.
I cannot recommend it enough.

[ShinymetalASS]

The Stone Key - book 5 in Obernewtyn series.

I was half way through the Exile saga, by Julian May when I picked up Stone Key.

Exiles will have to wait. It is set in the same world (only 6 million years past) as the Galactic Milieu series.

[Sikosis]

Just Finished reading Solomons Song, by Bryce Courtenay

[annie]

The Stone Key - book 5 in Obernewtyn series.

I was half way through the Exile saga, by Julian May when I picked up Stone Key.

Exiles will have to wait. It is set in the same world (only 6 million years past) as the Galactic Milieu series.

I remember reading the obernewtyn chronicles in high school, and that the series wasn't finished.. is book 5 the last one? I can't even really remember what it's all about, but I know I enjoyed it... may have to pick them up again.

[Colonel Kurtz]

Re-reading Isaac Azimov's foundation series.

Finished, Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation, and Foundation's Edge. Just started Foundation and Earth last night. When I finish that I'll read Prelude to Foundation.

If you like Sci-Fi and haven't read the series, do yourself a favour and get them.

[kiki]

Shaun Tann - Tales from outer suburbia

[BlueBoy]

Cormac McCarthy - The Road.
Pulitzer prize-winning, post-apocalyptic, literary fiction.

[Phyltr]

An Underground Education : The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human Knowledge - Richard Zacks

It pretty much does what's written on the tin - I'm only part way through, it has been an enjoyable read thus far.

[Fleur]

Cormac McCarthy - The Road.
Pulitzer prize-winning, post-apocalyptic, literary fiction.

I'm just about to start reading that! (For uni) How are you finding it?

Currently finishing off Zadie Smith's White Teeth

[and3w]

An Underground Education : The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human Knowledge - Richard Zacks

It pretty much does what's written on the tin - I'm only part way through, it has been an enjoyable read thus far.

I thought I was the only person who had that book - tis great. I particularly liked the section on Torture :D

[BlueBoy]

I'm just about to start reading that! (For uni) How are you finding it?

Currently finishing off Zadie Smith's White Teeth

At first the lack of punctuation pissed me off and I couldn't figure out how it won the Pulitzer.
Once I figured out that the novel structure itself is post-apocalyptic the book has been great.

[Enos]

Just started Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa

[MisterBishi]

Almost finished Shantaram, it's pretty good. The film will need to be about 3 weeks long.

[Pirate]

Pirate by Ted Bell. No shit. I love my nautical adventures.

[Glompbot]

Book 3 in the malazan book of the fallen

[nrejones]

Packers's Lunch.....

[Fitty]

Almost finished Shantaram, it's pretty good. The film will need to be about 3 weeks long.Awesome book, the film will be a disappointment for sure.

[carsinogenic]

for all those who also enjoy reading obscure text...
here are a heap that i stumbled across today.

http://www.ticalc.org/pub/92plus/asm/programs/ebooks/date.html

i especially like the old philosophy books, ie rings of the samuri, beyond good and evil, Budoshoshinshu: The Code of the Warrior, etc.

plus there are some less serious but still interesting reads, like (pi to 5000,000) and "Why Nerds are Unpopular", etc.

thought that i would post the link and share the love.

[Girl.]

Jeffrey Eugenides 'My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead'

[Mr. Bungle]

re-reading Among the Thugs by Bill Buford

[and3w]

On to book 3 of Neal Stephenson's Barok Cycle, 'The System of the World'.

But between the two I took a day out to read, on Elf's recommendation, 'The Rotters Club' by Jonathon Coe. I really enjoyed it, having grown up at much the same time, in much the same area, it really hit some spots.

[Mr. Bungle]

On to book 3 of Neal Stephenson's Barok Cycle, 'The System of the World'.

System of the World is the best of the Baroque Cycle in my opinion.

[Twitchylady.]

Matter Iain M banks and Toll the Hounds by Steven Erikson.

[ShinymetalASS]

I remember reading the obernewtyn chronicles in high school, and that the series wasn't finished.. is book 5 the last one? I can't even really remember what it's all about, but I know I enjoyed it... may have to pick them up again.


yeah i think i was about 12 ish when i started, book four came out about ten years ago and there is a book 6 forthcoming.

think i'll be an old lady by the time she is done.


although, the writing isnt as good when you are 30 as when you are 12. :)

[carsinogenic]

just started reading the "heroes" comic book.
its pretty interesting, for it tells a lot of the back stories that the tv series does not even cover. niiiice!

[Dundasbro]

Recently read World War Z by Max Brooks, and then The Great Gatsby by John F. Fitzgerald. Loved both and highly recommend them to anyone who enjoys well written books.

Am currently reading The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. Only one chapter in and I can tell this will be one of the most life changing books I have ever read. I very much recommend this to anyone out there, I guess if I had to say another book that is similiar to it I would pick Catcher in the Rye. If you enjoy Catcher, then get this one because you will love it.

[gunsella]

simplexity - jeffrey someone. ablsolute pile of shit.

into the wild - (book the film is based on) - not bad, but as a book it is not sure if it is biography or 'tales of the wild north'

now reading great apes by will self. astonishingly good.

[BlueBoy]

jPod - Douglas Coupland.
Utter, utter genius.

[and3w]

Blood & Fire: William & Catherine Booth and their Salvation Army by Roy Hattersley

[Gargamel]

jPod - Douglas Coupland.
Utter, utter genius.

The TV show is worth watching. It only got one season before being canned though.

[Munchkin]

The Count Of Monte Cristo.

[Megabyte]

P.S. I Love You by Cecilia Ahern

[Dundasbro]

Tales of Mystery - Edgar Allen Poe

[willh1967]

Saucer by Stephen Coonts

[excalibur]

Modern Man In Search Of A Soul - Carl Jung

[bronco]

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World

I love reading these old 'futuristic' books and realising how insightful some of the stuff was for their time. Not a bad read either.

[bronco]

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World

I love reading these old 'futuristic' books and realising how insightful some of the stuff was for their time. Not a bad read either.

[MisterBishi]

I'm reading 1984 by George Orwell, another old 'futuristic' book. :)

[and3w]

10 Days to D-Day - Countdown to the Liberation of Europe by David Stafford

[mr_russy]

Alex James - A Bit Of Blur.

He was bassist in the band Blur, it's his autobiography.

[meg]

I'm re-reading The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole...it still makes me smile :)

[foolish42]

Just got a shipment from amazon;

Songs of Kali (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/031286583X)
Wicked (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061350966)
Saturn's Children (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0441015948)
Halting State (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0441016073)
Mainspring (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0765317087)
Whitechapel Gods (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451461932)
Little Brother (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0765319853)
Quantum Phsyics: A Beginners Guide (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1851683690)

[Fitty]

Picked up an old school novel, Came Back To Show You I Could Fly by Robin Klein. Good read.

[Gargamel]

Just got a shipment from amazon;



Check out bookdepository in the UK, free worldwide shipping. Takes from 6 to 10 business days in my experience. I don't use Amazon any more.

[vantastic]

Facebook

:(
:cry:

[RedMaN]

Borrowed The Watchmen graphic novel from someone at work.
I didn't understand what all the excitement was about when the trailer was released recently. Decided to find out for myself.

[and3w]

That comic is da bollox mate, especially if you remember when it came out....

[ChodeMaster]

Reading Anathem by Neal Stephenson!

I'm a bit over a third of the way through and really enjoying it!

[and3w]

Re-reading American Tabloid by James Ellroy, something I do every year or so, just to remind myself how bloody brilliant it is... then onto The Cold Six Thousand.
I can't wait for the final part of the American Underworld Trilogy to come out next year, Blood's a Rover!

[kiki]

Chomsky - a guide for the perplexed - John Collins

[Enos]

Toll The Hounds - Stephen Erikson

[Xythan]

Toll The Hounds - Stephen Erikson

Hmmn...picked that up not 3 hours ago, tell me how it goes...

I've just finished Flight of the Nighthawks and bought Into a Dark Realm, which I'll start tonight.

I've read 12 Raymond E. Feist books since May...so, almost the whole series (so far) since Christmas.

After that, I'm thinking of revisiting a few good Sci-Fi books...I have the follow up books to Eon now, so that set and likely before that I'll read The Night's Dawn Trilogy because that is the best Sci-Fi I've ever read.

[Phife]

The Ancient by RA Salvatore.

[Dundasbro]

Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs

[Colonel Kurtz]

Ditto re-reading Fesit in anticipation of picking up new books.

The I think I'll read the Dune series

[MisterBishi]

I'm half way through cult classic The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dice-Man-Luke-Rhinehart/dp/0586037659/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222064380&sr=8-2), which has been packed in a box for about 10 years and only recently got unpacked when I moved house.

Now available for £0.01p + £2.75 shipping, bargain!

[tomsyman]

The Ice Man - Confessions of A Mafia Contract Killer
Philip Carlo

A book about this dude in the States who killed over 200 people, as a hitman and also just for fun or because someone gave him the finger when he was driving. this is a fantastic read. He also says he was the hit man on Jimmy Hoffa.

[Marchpig]

I'm half way through cult classic The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dice-Man-Luke-Rhinehart/dp/0586037659/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222064380&sr=8-2), which has been packed in a box for about 10 years and only recently got unpacked when I moved house.

Now available for £0.01p + £2.75 shipping, bargain!


Is that the one where he lives his life by the roll of the dice?

[MisterBishi]

Indeed it is, sounds a little gimmicky but its actually very good, worth a read.

[and3w]

AND it's got some hard core sex in it! :D :wank:

[ChodeMaster]

So just finished Anathem, and now more or less out of things to read. Anyone got any suggestions? I'm quite keen to start something new and good!

[and3w]

So just finished Anathem, and now more or less out of things to read. Anyone got any suggestions? I'm quite keen to start something new and good!

American Tabloid by James Ellroy (same bloke who wrote 'LA Confidential). Read AT and I promise you won't be disapointed...

[bobdown]

Curse Of The Spellmans...Lisa Lutz

[and3w]

Tank Girl! Armadillo - Alan Martin (a novel featuring the comic character)

[FatherShark]

Takedown by Andrew Quinlan. I enjoyed his debut "Smoked", so I've taken a chance on this, reads well so far.

[and3w]

I read Smoked and thought it was OK for a first effort. I should be interested to hear what you thought of Takedown

[motherduck]

the chronicles of an age of darkness (again and all of them) by Hugh Cook. Book 5 RULES.

[Marchpig]

I know this sounds lame, but being a busy man, on the road a lot, it's the only way I have found to "read".

I just finished listening to Cloudstreet by Tim Winton. Yeh, I know, a talking book, but, I really enjoyed it.
Awesome story, the images painted with his words made me yearn to live in those times, sounded a much simpler life.
Highly recommended.

[muppet]

just finished "The Dark Half" by stephen king, and am now starting on Skeleton Crew, i dunno but for some reason they were a hell of a lot scarier when I was 13. Oh well, still good for a laugh.

[MisterBishi]

I know this sounds lame, but being a busy man, on the road a lot, it's the only way I have found to "read".

I just finished listening to Cloudstreet by Tim Winton. Yeh, I know, a talking book, but, I really enjoyed it.
Awesome story, the images painted with his words made me yearn to live in those times, sounded a much simpler life.
Highly recommended.

I like talking books for long drives and sometimes flights (esp. night flights where you want something to entertain you into an uncomfortable sleep).

A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson is a good way to learn a lot of interesting things on an otherwise dull 8hr drive.

[Marchpig]

(esp. night flights where you want something to entertain you into an uncomfortable sleep).


Alcohol?

[metalhed00]

Book about Wyatt Earp.

[MisterBishi]

Alcohol?

Alcohol doesn't make me sleep, it makes me stay awake for the next drink.

[Glompbot]

Midnight Tides - Stephen Erickson

[Steely]

Nation by Terry Pratchett :)

Steely

[kiki]

thus spake zarathustra - nietzsche

[and3w]

Satan! Satan! Satan! - Tony White

[ShinymetalASS]

Just finished The Highwayman by Salvatore.



Nothing compares to Drizzt.

[Lina]

Anna Karenina - Tolstoy

[bobdown]

Calumet City...Charlie Newton

[RedMaN]

Neddy: The Life and Crimes of Arthur Stanley Smith - Arthur Stanley Smith/Tom Noble

[Glompbot]

Still reading the monolith of a series known as Malazan Book of the fallen

[Enos]

Lady of the Lamp - the latest Caiseal Mor book in I found in Leura of all places

[and3w]

Just started the new Peter F. Hamilton, part 2 of the Void Trilogy, The Temporal Void

Just finished 'Places to Hide in England, Scotland & Wales' by Dixie Wills. subtitled 'You CAN run - and now you CAN hide!'
Really top book, funny, interesting & informative.

[ersatz]

i blame my ipod for me not reading/finishing any books for the last few months. I've started to read Handmaid's Tale and the first Flashman book, but always got sidetracked by listening to ABC Science Show podcasts etc on the way to work.

[bobdown]

Money Wanders...Eric Dezenhall

Takes the mob where its never gone before...Wiseguys and Websites...mobsters and misinformation

[Thyrd]

Wolves of the Calla

[excalibur]

Men and the Boys - Robert Connell.

[and3w]

Homicide - A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon.

It's an great book.

'A masterpiece...[Simon] has exceptional literary gifts of eye and ear. Few novelists have written so well about the corrosiveness of the modern American city.' - Martin Amis * 'The best book about homicide detectives by an American writer.' - Norman Mailer * 'Simon does an extraordinary job of getting under the skin and into the minds of the police officers.' - New York Times Book Review * 'Remarkable...A True Crime Classic...a journalistic masterpiece of a brutal, bloody, bewildering year in the Baltimore Police Department's homicide unit.' - Associated Press" (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Homicide-David-Simon/dp/1847673112/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1227173396&sr=1-1)

[Enos]

Hyperion - Dan Simmons

[dwarfthrower]

Common Ground (http://www.penguin.com.au/lookinside/spotlight.cfm?SBN=9780143000402) - Malcolm Fraser

[backscratcher]

Kim - Rudyard Kipling

[bobdown]

Flood...Stephen Baxter

[Fitty]

Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer.

[THE Steve]

The Gun Seller - Hugh Laurie

Bloody brilliant, that. The plot is a bit fuzzy in spots but the writing makes up for it in spades.

[bobdown]

Ninety East Ridge...Stephen Reilly

[Icky]

As strange as it may seem

Hamlet - William Shakespear

I doubt I will finish it but Im giving it a go.
I wanted to read the Oedipus Trilogy again by Sophocles but i couldnt find a decent copy.

[Hitchener]

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens. I'm a little bit obsessed with classic novels. Have read a few Dickens novels in the last few years, and this is definitely the best so far. I actually find his books to be piss-funny in an extremely intelligent and ironic fashion.

Icky - good luck with the Shakespeare. I've never really given him a crack, partly because I usually only read novels.

I'm still getting over the fact that I failed at reading Ulysses by James Joyce, after about 2 chapters. Bizarre piece of shit. I'll try again in 20 years.

[and3w]

Little Wilson and Big God: Being the first part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess. Great auto-biography, funny, touching and pretty rude in places. The writing is great.

and

An Act of Terror by Andre Brink

[LisaJ]

I've actually finished the Twighight series by Stephanie Meyer...the last one, Breaking Dawn, I didn't finish because I thought Bella's character just made the book redundant...but other than that, the first one was a good book..

[Serpent_Girl]

I'm reading a book called "Eye of Stone" by Fletcher Anthony. It's shit, not really enjoying it - only reading it because I have nothing else to read. The author completely fails at writing from a female perspective and the characters and novel is bland and uninteresting. Blergh. It was compared to Clan of the Cave bear, and that's just an insult to the brilliance of that book.

Oh, I did read the twilight series too. It's ok, but it's definitely for a younger audience/teenagers. I didn't find the story exceptionally captivating or intriguingly developed, but it's good for what it's intended to be.

[Dundasbro]

How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
The Dylan Thomas Omnibus