what are you reading?

offyoutoddle · Post by **offyoutoddle** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:25 am 0

Just curious to see what books people are reading, assuming people are currently into a book, at the moment - I'll kick off - I'm reading Wish You Were Here, The Official Biography of Douglas Adams by Nick Webb. Its very good actually.

How about everyone else?

Stuart B · Post by **Stuart B** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:27 am 0

I usually keep a book handy for long, boring breaktimes or other similar gaps that would otherwise be tedious:

Current book: Re-reading Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett

Previous book: (not counting a re-read of Reaper Man) A Short History of Nearly Everything

PeeknPoke Lee · Post by **PeeknPoke Lee** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:29 am 0

Just read Day of the triffids

very good

Lee

Saint Sandy · Post by **Saint Sandy** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:30 am 0

looks next to monitor ~

Stalingrad by Antony Beevor

the complete novels and stories of Sherlock Holmes

The Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich - William L Shirer

A Guide to Chinese Martial Arts - Li Tianji and Du Xilian

Saint Sandy · Post by **Saint Sandy** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:32 am 0

PeeknPoke Lee wrote:Just read Day of the triffids

very good

Lee

did you read the Guardian's site today?

http://film.guardian.co.uk/adaptation/s ... 11,00.html

about the author / Village of the Damned etc.

BlackJedi · Post by **BlackJedi** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:36 am 0

"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami. Very good so far - I'm about a third of the way through it. Sometimes he seems like a more lucid Kafka or a less paranoid Philip K Dick, but most of the time he just seems like Haruki Murakami.

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:43 am 0

BlackJedi wrote:"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami. Very good so far - I'm about a third of the way through it. Sometimes he seems like a more lucid Kafka or a less paranoid Philip K Dick, but most of the time he just seems like Haruki Murakami.

I'm reading this too, haven't clicked with it yet but my mate who lent it to me insists I finish it. He told me it was like Raymond Carver, but I think he was lying.

Also reading Great White Wonders: A History Of Rock Bootlegs. This is more of an encyclopedia, I'm using it to track down Dylan bootlegs.

nyarla · Post by **nyarla** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:47 am 0

BlackJedi - cool! I once read Haruki Murakami's Dance! Dance! Dance!...that rocked (and it has the Sheep Man in it!). I'd forgotten all about it...I'll have to find more of his books.

I'm reading Moby Dick at the moment... :O

Post by **Jedburgh** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:50 am 0

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison.

Before that, both the Dirk Gently novels.

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:51 am 0

Just finished The Drawing Of The Three, the second in Stephen King's Dark Tower series.

Just ordered the third one The Waste Lands and the Concordance, which I hope explains the compass 'discrepancy' I spotted in The Three.

lightengine · Post by **lightengine** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:52 am 0

I'm reading 'Enlightenment' by Roy Porter - I'm well into non-fiction, history's my thing, along with poetry, biographys......not into modern fiction one bit.

Stevo · Post by **Stevo** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:53 am 0

YakYak

Orava · Post by **Orava** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:53 am 0

True Brits by J.R. Daeschner.

betamax · Post by **betamax** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:57 am 0

Dark Force Rising- Timothy Zahn. Star Wars fiction done correctly.

Snitch Culture- Jim Redden. You neighbor might be watching you and taking notes to pass to the FBI. Noes! Teh Pheeer!

The Emperor's New Mind- Roger Penrose. An argument about mind, conciousness and the difficulties of creating true AI with our limited understanding of how an actual mind works.

Ravenheart- David Gemmel. Bloody hell, his author photo looks weird.

Transmetropolitan- Gouge Away- Warren Ellis et al. The president's net is closing on Spider Jerusalem and he doesnt give a fuck. With added drugs!

Ely · Post by **Ely** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:11 am 0

I've just finished Phil Jackson - The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul which won't of much interest to people unless they like the NBA.

I do have Good Vibrations: Coast to Coast by Harley - Tom Cunliffe which looks like it'll be a good read.