[Closed] What are you reading?

The 13th Valley by John Del Vecchio. Fantastic book

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

brilliant

Also read The Road. Excellent.

Now reading Child of God by the same author.

Just finished Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami - great book, really brought home the value of literature.

Now on Whoops! by John Lanchester - I think most of it has already been trailed in the LRB over the last year or, but even if so it'll easily bear re-reading.

Decoding Reality, by Vlatko Vedral who coincidentally also happens to be my old physics tutor.

The Condition of Postmodernity by David Harvey

The Greatest Show on Earth - Richard Dawkins. Excellent.

Just started:

Hanging by a Thread - Emmanuel Caunchy

The Cornish Trilogy - Robertson Davies.

Almost done.

Re-reading 'A short walk in the Hindu Kush' by Eric Newby. A gentleman adventurer of his time.

Panzer Commander, Biography of Col Hans von Luck.

Last - The Death of Grass - John Christopher
Now - Fear Nothing - Dean Koontz (My first Koontz book)
Next - Last Light - Alex Scarrow

I'm quite into morbid, apocalyptic type stuff at the moment.

the new edition of singletrack magazine..!

The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov,I'll be sad when I've finished reading it. Superb.

SaxonRider I bought What's Bred in the Bone many years ago purely on the fact that I liked the cover. One of the best decisions I've ever made as far as buying books go. I'd never heard of Robertson Davies before and I didn't really think after reading the blurb that it would interest me but i bought it anyway and then went out and bought everything else I could find by him.

"Can you tell me the time of the last complete show?"
"You have the wrong number"
"Eh? Isn't that the Odeon?"
I decide to give a Burtonian answer.
"No this is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free but the taxation is mortal.You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. good-night."

The last words of his last book. I read it just before he died and when I heard the news I thought about them again and realised that he must have known just how close the end was as he wrote them.

And to answer the question I'm currently reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and re reading Dava Sobel's The Planets.

Now, World without End. Ken Follett
Next, Hanging by a Thread. Emmanuell Cauchy

the man who cycled the world - Mark Beaumont

after seeing his presentation the other night, can't put it down!

Last: Afterglow of Creation - Markus Chown
Current: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintaininace - Robert Pirsig
Next: Maybe GEB, Maybe Zen and the art of archery, Maybe Critique of Pure Reason.

Big Bang - Simon Singh. I like the way he makes hard science stuff digestible. I try to get my head around big ideas, think I need a bigger head.

why does E-mc^2? (and why should we care?)

Kevevs - Marcus Chown manages much the same sort of thing.
Give "Quantum Theory Cannot hurt you" a go

This thread?

Last: The making of the atomic bomb - Richard Rhodes (superb history book)
Now: Surely you're joking Mr Feynman! - Richard Feynman
Next: Who knows...?

Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman

Last: American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Now: Grits - Niall Griffiths
Next: The Human Stain - Phillip Roth

Lance Armstrong - Not About the Bike

Truly inspiring read for anyone that hasn't done so yet.

just read; unseen academicals

now: world war z

birds without wings - Louis De Bernieres

yunki - great book. i bought it in hardback when it came out years ago.

currently reading the three musketeers by alexander dumas. just finished under the eagle by simon scarrow. next i quite fancy getting my hands on another flashman novel.

Last book - Mark Beaumont - The cyclist who rode round the world.

Now - Seven Pillars of Wisdom - T.E. Lawrence

Just bought Stephen Fry's Moab is my Washpot.

Re-reading 'A short walk in the Hindu Kush' by Eric Newby. A gentleman adventurer of his time.

Excellent book, a favourite of mine.

Last - Dougal Haston; The Philosophy of Risk.
Current - 9/10 Climbers make the same mistakes, Dave Mcleod.
Next - Was looking for a cycling non-friction so looks like Mark Beaumont - The cyclist who rode round the world.

Now: French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour De France

Next: might try A Short History of Nearly Everything again by Bill Bryson. Or something else space/physicsy as I've been inspired by Brian Cox's Wonders of the Solar System

Was looking for a cycling non-friction so looks like Mark Beaumont - The cyclist who rode round the world

Is that any good? I watched a bit of one of the TV programs and decided that, if those were anything to go by, the book most be very tedious.

I enjoy Josie Dew's books - she does set out to experience the areas she visits, not just get through them as quickly as possible.

Reading East of Eden by John Steinbeck because people recommended it on here.

Sublime.

Last - The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald

Now - The Cloudspotter's Guide (but if it doesn't grab me I'll go back to re-reading Walking on Glass by Iain Banks)

Also several books on Objective-C and C# but they don't count.

Crete - The Battle and the Resistance (Antony Beevor)
The Great War for Civilisation (Robert Fisk)
The Rash Adventurer (Imogen Grundon - biography of John Pendlebury, archaeologist, resistance fighter, athlete and much much more)

I just wish I could finish one book before starting another!

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Also several books on Objective-C and C# but they don't count.

Do you find those books in the history section of the bookshop now?

The name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss- most original fantasy book since LOTR, except maybe Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers

Just rest assured that I'm reading something so incredibly niche and utterly brilliant that none of you proles will have heard of it, nor ever will.

Superb.

Just rest assured that I'm reading something so incredibly niche and utterly brilliant that none of you proles will have heard of it, nor ever will.

iPad user manual.

Just finishing the Jacques Anquetil book, then i'm gonna start the latest James Ellroy that i got for xmas.

Do you find those books in the history section of the bookshop now?

So I should be reading what to be uber current?

uber current

Lordy. I only hope you're kidding.

sweepy - Member

The name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss- most original fantasy book since LOTR, except maybe Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers

Picked that up on a whim on a laoyver in Atlanta airport last year when I finished the book I'd taken out. BRILLIANT, couldn't put it down. I was half way through it before we got back to the UK

as for me

last: The Edge, Chris Simms (Crime. local author for me)
current: The Blade Itself, Joe Abercrombie (sweepy, pick this up if you like Rothfuss)
next: Fatal Revenant, Stephen R Donaldson

Just finished Swallows and Amazons - Arhtur Ransome

Reading now Homage to Caledonia - its about the scottish folk who went to fight in the Spanish Civil War

Then, I'll be reading either Phil Daniel's autobiog or the new number 1 Ladies Detective Agency one.

This ***** thread.

Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer.

Now - Imperium by Robert Harris ( for the 3rd time)
Before - The man who cycled the world.
Before again - Pandaemonium by Christopher Brookmyer
Before that - Dawdling by the Danube by Edward Enfield (Harry's dad on his bike)

Last=The Graveyard Book-Neil Gaiman
Current=Coldheart Canyon-Clive Barker
Next=Sign of the Cross-Chris Kuzneski

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Fascinating so far.

Not sure what's next. Might be the new Jasper Fforde.

Currently 'The Fire Engine That Disappeared'-one of the Martin Beck books
Och, and 'Zombo' in 2000ad

Last: [i]The Midnight Mayor[/i] by Kate Griffin, brilliant modern fantasy involving urban magic.
Current: [i]The Monk[/i] by Matthew Lewis, interesting ebook novel set in 18th C Europe.
Next: the new Horatio Lyle mystery by Catherine Webb, Kate Griffin's alter-ego and real name, steampunk style detective novel aimed at teens, but just as good a read for adults.

Go on, once more...

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The latest bit of morbid religious cretinicity courtesy of Joebones...

now: world war z

For me:

[b]Previous:[/b] Jim Crace - The Pesthouse. It was the culmination of a bit of a post-apocalypse reading spree for me and probably the weakest of the lot. Not a bad book, but not great.
[b]Current:[/b] Iain M Banks - Matter. Again, alright. It's quite an enjoyable book, but I can't help but feel it's sliding pretty well into hackneyed fantasy disguised as space opera.
[b]Next:[/b] Not sure yet. I've been reading a lot about The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe lately so I may have to reread that.

Psychovertical by Andy Kirkpatrick - best read for a while

Current: Iain M Banks - Matter. Again, alright.

It gets better towards the end. But not his best.

Psychovertical by Andy Kirkpatrick - best read for a while

That's been on the list for a while.

Just finished the Hyperion and Endymion chronicles by Dan Simmons. There is a quote from Ian M Banks on the cover, which I can't help feeling was taken out of context 😉 I enjoyed the books, but was halfway through the nth reading of East of Eden when I started so perhaps unfair references were made... Next I will either finish that again or read Breakfast at Tiffany's.

rusty, the new books good but I thought that cold 6000 and tabloid were better.

Picked up a Mob Hayder book months ago and quite enjoyed so I got The Treatment recently and have really enjoyed it, not a nice subject but great storytelling

ShoePolice - Member
Go on, once more...
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Prev: The Wheel of Time, book 4
Now: The Wheel of Time, 5
Next the Wheel of Time, 6

China Mieville - Perdido Street Station (not bad, bit baggy but I guess that's the price of the Geneva Convention relative to the Publishing of Fantasy Fiction and Minimum Page Numbers)

Nick Goodrick-Clarke - The Western Esoteric Traditions (well researched, nicely written but then his stuff usually is)

next:
David Mitchell - Ghost Writer
Alan Dundes - Parsing Through Customs: Essays by a Freudian Folklorist.

Gosh we're a high-brow lot...
Now I'm reading the Ender series, before I read the Dirk Pitt saga.
E-books and long train commutes are great.

The Tom Sawyer couple of books was one of the best set of recent months.

Reading The Hobbit to my 3 year old at the moment (suitably censored in places).

in no particular order - they're all dotted round the flat

Don quixote
The boys 1-5
Tim Key's book
'moving pictures' by Terry Pratchett
'Peat smoke and spirit' - Andrew Jefford
Fermat's last theorem - Simon Singh

In the process of writing my dissertation, so the bibliography goes as follows....

Elliot, Nills (2006). Mediating Nature. New York: Routledge. 284
Fromm, Harold. Glotfelty, Cheryll. (1996). The Ecocriticism Reader. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 415
Clarke, Graham (1997). The Photograph. New York: Oxford University Press. 247.
Foster, H. Krauss, R. Bois, Y. Buchloh, B. (1997). Art since 1900. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd. 704.
Company, David (2007). Art and Photography. 2nd ed. London: Phaidon Press Limited. 304.
Manghani, S. Piper, A. Simons, J. (2006). Images: A Reader. London: Sage Publications Ltd. 331.
Burke, Edmund (1998). A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press. 173
Cronon, William (1996). Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. New York: W.W Norton & Company, Inc. 560
Burtynski, Edward (2007). Quarries. Germany: Steidl. 190
Shaw, Philip (2006). The Sublime – The New Critical Idiom. Oxon: Routledge. 168
Lyotard, Jean Francois (1984). The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 144. Pp 24-7
Lyotard, Jean Francois (1989). The Lyotard Reader. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 425
Longinus, ed Russell (1965). Longinus on Sublimity. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 56
Marshal, Peter (1992). Nature’s Web: Rethinking Our Place On Earth. London: Cassell. 513
Murray, Christopher John (2004), Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850, London: Taylor & Francis.
Wordsworth, William (1936). The Poetical Works of Wordsworth. London: Oxford University Press
Koerner, Joseph (2009). Casper David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape. London: Reaktion Books Ltd. 327
Powell, Earl (1990). Thomas Cole. New York: Harry N. Abrams. 144
Bois, Catherine (2000). The Natural Sublime In Wordsworth’s Poetry and Romantic Landscape Paintings. Circles. 70
Connor, Steve (1997). Postmodernist Culture: An Introduction to the Theories of the Contemporary. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd. 327.
Lyon, David (1995). Postmodernity. 2nd ed. Buckingham: Open University Press. 104.
Henning, M. Holland, P. Lister, M, Price, D. Ramamurthy, A. Wells, L (2004) Third edition. Edited by Liz Wells. Photography: A Critical Introduction. New York: Routledge. 424.

Needless to say, can't wait til its over!

Just finished the Skylark series by EE Doc Smith. Again. For the umpteenth time. Stephen Baxter "The Flood" next I think.

[i]epicsteve - Member
Was looking for a cycling non-friction so looks like Mark Beaumont - The cyclist who rode round the world
Is that any good? I watched a bit of one of the TV programs and decided that, if those were anything to go by, the book most be very tedious.

I enjoy Josie Dew's books - she does set out to experience the areas she visits, not just get through them as quickly as possible.[/i]

epicsteve
Yes, I liked it alot, and read the whole book in a week (which is unusual for me), more interesting than the tv series.

Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell. Heard so many references to it of late that I thought I should give it a go. Only 50 or so pages in and not exactly gripped yet.

and

Memories, Dreams, Reflections - Carl Jung. Cos the mind is a fascinating thing to explore.

"The Google Story" by David Vice.

Currently The Outliers - very good so far.

Have now moved on from Stalingrad and D-Day to Anthony Beevor's 'Berlin'. Truly saddening the way that people are treated by soldiers in war. The Red Army seemed to rape and murder its way west once the Reich began to crumble. Depressing stuff.

I'm reading bloody STW aren't I? Obviously!

I was reading Cities in Flight by James Blix (?) but I got bored.

I read 'A Pirate of Exquisite Mind' which was good, about William Dampier

I also read 'Under the Dome' by Stephen King, which was alright. Kind of laboured but still somehow a pageturner.

Still in the middle of Schama's excellent History of Britain, now where'd I put that?

Just finished 'Kill Your Friends' by John Niven - a bit American Psycho but British, it make you squirm as you read.

Next read is 'Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons - Travels in Sicily on a vespa' By Matthew Fort - a book sure to make me hungry as I read.

Reading "One Day" by David Nicholls - typical airport book (or so I thought) that I didn't get round to reading on holiday.

Definitely the best character led novel I've read in years - absolutely unputdownable... Witty, clever and strikes so many chords. Brilliant.

The fiercely impressive Chris Hitchens.

http://www.slate.com/id/2248557/

Personally, I think when Ratzinger steps off the plane at Heathrow in September, we should have him arrested and tried before a court of law, and suitably sentenced.