Question What are you reading?

[Napster]

Now reading Callling Out For You by Karin Fossum, which I am really enjoying. I'm only 100 or so pages in, but it's a good read.

I've ordered Faceless Killers which is the first Wallender book, so will let you know what I think of that.

Cheers

You'll love Wallender.

 

[Napster]

ps not reading anything now I'm working from home, and setting up new company.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Still reading the Portable Jack Kerouac but have now also started 'Black Hole' a graphic novel by Charles Burns.

 

[Eastblack]

Just finished Calling Out For You by Karin Fossum - great book, in many ways it's a proper whodunnit and a really quick read. I've just ordered another of her books, Don't Look Back.

Just about to start my first Wallender.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Life - Keith Richards.

Ha!First Napster,then me,now you.Clearly rock and rollers don't die young any more.:tease:

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Just finished Charles Burns' graphic novel 'Black Hole', excellent story of teenagers in middleclass US suburb that contract an STD that causes mutations (one develops an extra mouth, one has fur, one sheds her skin, one has a tail, others develop deformaties). It's basically a metaphor for the changes of adolescance and there's plenty of sex and violence, and reads like a 70s horror of the Carrie ilk. Splendid stuff.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

The Anatomy of a Moment
Javier Cercas.

The moment in question is Tejero's(and others) failed coup attempt in 1981.Fascinating account of what may/may not have happened by one of Spain's leading novelists.(Now available in an English translation).

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

Just ploughed through Mark Steyn's newest: 'After America: Get Ready for Armageddon'. A riveting, entertaining and downright frightening read.

 

[ibwiajwa]

Just finished Glencoe by John Prebble which documents the events around the massacre in 1692. It debunks the idea that this was just a local dispute between two clans where the hospitality of the MacDonalds was abused by the grasping Campbells. Letters prove that it was, in fact, a political action, sanctioned by King William himself, that related to the Act of Union itself. Heavy going at times with a lot of names to remember but fascinating.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Delete.
The Virtue of forgetting in the Digital Age by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger.

Google remembers everything we've searched for and when.Anyone interested in the privacy debate on the net should read this,especially Facebook users.
Schonbergers solution to the problem(a digital sell by or delete date for anything we post on the net)seems like a deceptively simple but essentially a good idea to me at least.

 

[MK Shrimper]

D
Schonbergers solution to the problem(a digital sell by or delete date for anything we post on the net)seems like a deceptively simple but essentially a good idea to me at least.

I quite like the fact that this post can be read in 6961 by my descendants whilst wearing shiny suits and driving flying cars before they hoiliday on Alpha Centuri.

Hello Great...............................................................................Grandson. :happy:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

I quite like the fact that this post can be read in 6961 by my descendants whilst wearing shiny suits and driving flying cars before they hoiliday on Alpha Centuri.

Hello Great...............................................................................Grandson. :happy:

You're quite sure that none of your offspring will be gay then?:raspberry:

 

[MK Shrimper]

You're quite sure that none of your offspring will be gay then?:raspberry:

And that stops them having children how exactly? Fascist!

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

And that stops them having children how exactly? Fascist!

Good point.

 

[canveyshrimper]

I quite like the fact that this post can be read in 6961 by my descendants whilst wearing shiny suits and driving flying cars before they hoiliday on Alpha Centuri.

Hello Great...............................................................................Grandson. :happy:

....and SUFC will still be in the 4th Division while Ron Martin XXV will be promising that Fossets Farm will soon come to fruition, once Prospects & the Pizza man have agreed a CPO at 558,000,000.00 each.

 

[Crabby Shrimper]

Just finished Glencoe by John Prebble which documents the events around the massacre in 1692. It debunks the idea that this was just a local dispute between two clans where the hospitality of the MacDonalds was abused by the grasping Campbells. Letters prove that it was, in fact, a political action, sanctioned by King William himself, that related to the Act of Union itself. Heavy going at times with a lot of names to remember but fascinating.

Cheers, that's going onto my wish list!

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Richard Eyre's Talking Theatre(Interviews with Theatre People).Not just interviews with luvvies but an interesting read throughout.If I have a criticism it's that Eyre seems stuck on the Royal Court,Littlewood,Brecht and Beckett at the expense of more modern theatre.Would have liked some of the people interviewed eg Bennett,Stoppard etc to have been given a chance to speak more about their own work though.

 

[loz]

Bad Vibes by Luke Haines - acerbic memoirs of the Britpop era from the former lead singer of the Auteurs. Entertainingly self-indulgent, and hilarious slagging off of most of the main bands/players of the time.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Julian Barnes.
The Sense of an Ending.
This is a much better book than Martin Amis's A Pregnant Widow.Personally I've always thought that Barnes was a far superior stylist.
(Having said that, I very much look forward to reading Amis's State of the Nation, not due to be published until the autumn, when he'll be safely in the US).:winking:

 

[Napster]

Bad Vibes by Luke Haines - acerbic memoirs of the Britpop era from the former lead singer of the Auteurs. Entertainingly self-indulgent, and hilarious slagging off of most of the main bands/players of the time.

I enjoyed that, despite not knowing who half the people were.