What are you reading right now?

[Joe Hutch]

'Ancestral Voices' by James Lees-Milne; 'Postwar' by Tony Judt; 'Faust' by Goethe and 'Une Semaine de Bonte' by Max Ernst.

Soon I will immerse myself in 'Shelley: The Pursuit' by Richard Holmes.

 

[vuk]

joe.

do you read all that simultaneously on an al gore 9matthew r) monitor assembly?


i've just started ana karenina (on a kindle). embarrassing to admit, but my first time.




vuk.

 

[Joe Hutch]

joe.

do you read all that simultaneously on an al gore 9matthew r) monitor assembly?


i've just started ana karenina (on a kindle). embarrassing to admit, but my first time.




vuk.

No; I dip in and out of each. 'Postwar' has the tiniest print known to mankind, so I can't read too much at one go. 'Une Semaine de Bonte' is mostly pictures (the first graphic novel?).

I may succumb to the lure of the Kindle, as our house now has many more books than shelfspace.

 

[Anex]

Bukowski: Ham on Rye

 

[Guest432]

Colin Bateman - Dr Yes

 

[Wolfmancatsup]

Alison Littlewood - Path of Needles.

Mick

 

[rbrown]

Rachel Joyce - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Rich

 

[Michael J]

pink fish media > discussion > off topic
What are you reading right now?

 

[guey]

Simon Reynolds - Totally Wired, the companion piece to his excellent Rip It Up And Start Again.

 

[KC Cantiaci]

Peter and Jane with Pat the Dog - Ladybird Books

 

[steveledzep]

Nothing since GCE English Lit. in 1972.

 

[sean99]

My sister bought me Emile Zola's "The beast inside" which I'm wading through, rather slowly.

I recently read "The perfect storm", upon which the film was based ... the book was very good: I've not seen the film.

Next up I've ordered this

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/180066.Beautiful_Boy

Thanks to Ian for recommending "Endeavour" about the failed, but heroic Shackleton expedition to cross Antarctica. A tremendous read about a time when men were men.

 

[TheDecameron]

I recently read "The perfect storm", upon which the film was based ... the book was very good: I've not seen the film.

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That's nicely written in journalistic style, the film is a travesty though- skip it, for it will just annoy you.

 

[vuk]

Thanks to Ian for recommending "Endeavour" about the failed, but heroic Shackleton expedition to cross Antarctica. A tremendous read about a time when men were men.

which ian?

i'm also very suspicious of this "men were men" claim. what exactly do you mean? archie bunker sang that tun once upon a timee.


vuk.

 

[Mescalito]

Re-reading Kurt Vonnegut "God Bless You Mr. Rosewater". Always worth returning to.

Chris

 

[herb]

Mystery Cults in the Ancient World by Hugh Bowden. Thames and Hudson. Fascinating, academic and up-to-date.

 

[Cesare]

'The death and life of great american cities' by Jane Jacobs.

 

[irons1965]

'One Day In September' (Simon Reeve)

 

[Joe Hutch]

Mystery Cults in the Ancient World by Hugh Bowden. Thames and Hudson. Fascinating, academic and up-to-date.

Sounds like one to add to my reading list!

 

[cutting42]

Paradox - The nine greatest enigmas in Physics by Jim Al-Khalili