Question What are you reading?

[OldBlueLady]

Just read Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. was gonna wait until i'd seen the film before reading the last one, but I might just start it tonight.

Always read right through the series in the lead up to the films coming out, well, maybe not the first 2 every time but from the PoA on. Reviews aren't that great actually, so it'll be interesting to see.

 

[Pubey]

heard that the ending is quite short because they didn't want to spoil the Hogwarts battle in the final film... which is pretty lame. Still looking forward to it because the trailers look good for the 'important' bits with the memories... Slughorn is a great character too, so got high hopes for Jim Broadbent. Also got some good Quiddich games in this one

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Just ordered Bret Easton Ellis' Lunar Park (due to the reminders of A. Psycho) and waiting on Vernon God Little - hurry UP Amazon!

Recommend it highly. Very different to AP, but excellent nonetheless. Have you read 'Glamorama'?

I concur, Lunar Park is an excellent book.

Haven't read Glamorama though, must add to my 'to read' list. His new book 'Imperial Bedroom' is published next year, a sequel to Less Than Zero.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Well if you enjoyed Glamorama, I'm certain you'll enjoy Lunar Park.

And I am. Read 60 pages in one sitting.

Just got round to reading Vernon God Little, by DBC Pierre. It fu*ken rocks, as Vern would say. Highly recommended.

And I hated it. Read the first four chapters, realised I was scanning the words and not really taking the story in and moved onto Lunar Park.

 

[Uncle Leo]

In between books at the moment, having finished the excellent Brighton Rock last week. Back to the Graham Greene section in Uxbridge library this Saturday...

 

[Mad Cyril]

I love the 'wordy' Dilbert books, and have enjoyed The Dilbert Principle, The Dilbert Future, The Joy of Work, The Way of the Weasel and Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook immensely.

I'm currently reading 'Peace Kills' by P.J.O'Rourke - excellent as always.

Got a few Dilbert books in my desk at work.

Scott Adams is a pretty sharp guy.

That said I don't care much for his other work.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Just finished The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland.

Microserfs was my favourite by far.

 

[Bob Cratchitt]

Just looked on wiki and found it aired in the US last year but was cancelled due to poor viewing figures.

Not sure if this will interest you but VirginMedia have this on their VOD service.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Not sure if this will interest you but VirginMedia have this on their VOD service.

Oooh intriguing, I'll make a note of that.

Most of the way through 'A Wild Sheep Chase', brilliant read so far up there with the best Murakami books I've read so far (Norweigan Wood & Kafka on the Shore), highly reccomend it.

Next up will be 'The Rest Is Noise: Listening To The Twentieth Century' by Alex Ross, a book about 20th Century classical music and the jazz/rock/pop/dance music it inspired. Picked up in London in the Oxford St Borders closing down sale for half price!

 

[Napster]

Just finished Creed by James Herbert (annoyingly, I realised I'd already read it a few years ago, halfway through). Currently ploughing through "My father and other working class football heroes" by Gary Imlach about his father, Stuart Imlach - fascinating stuff.

 

[Sean 2]

Wassit got to do with you what i'm reading?




..er, Angling Times.

 

[ldnfatso]

Now reading
Penguins Stopped Play
by Harry Thompson

 

[MK Shrimper]

My reading material for upcoming holiday:

Starting Over - Tony Parsons.
Toyko Year Zero - David Peace
Nowegian Wood & Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
Slam - Nick Hornby

Should keep me ticking over :)

 

[CarrowRoad_Hero]

The diaries of John Rabe. Very interesting German fellow helping save the chinese during the Japanese occupation. Good book.

Recommend also City of Thieves by David Benioff

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Nowegian Wood & Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

Two absolute belters, you're in for a treat.


As 'The Rest is Noise' is too heavy to take to work I am also reading 'The Castle' by Franz Kafka.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

'The Rants' by Dennis Miller. Marvellous.

 

[Clarky_Blues]

Just about to start to read Baby Barista and The Art of War by Tim Kevan (barrister). Book about a pupil barrister which opens up the fascinating and secretive ways of the legal profession.

 

[AdamTheShrimper]

Not interesting at all but for my University course starting in September im reading Bioenergetics for exercise science.

 

[Napster]

Now on Handling the Undead, John Ajvide Lindqvist's second book. (he wrote let the right one in). Gripping stuff, a horror mixed with relationships. Next on the list is Clive Barker's Cabal.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Just finished The Quiet American by Graham Greene. Very enjoyable, but wish I hadn't seen the film a few years ago as i could only visualise Michael Caine and Brendan Fraser as the main characters.

Then a very quick read of Tintin in the Congo. I was a massive Tintin fan as a kid (still enjoy reading my old ones now whenever I am back at my Mum's) and having never read this one, picked it up the other day. Blimey. At the start it notes how modern readers may find some of the themes a little outmoded and it didn't disappoint.

All the African characters in the book were of the classic 'Bad mister white man, me am not liking you' variety, but far more shocking was Tintin's approach to hunting. At one point, he needs to disguise himself as a chimp, so shoots one, skins it and wears its pelt as a disguise!

All in all, a pretty dismal book - far more basic than the ones he wrote only a few years later. The Blue Lotus, for example based around the time of Japan's invasion of Manchuria, had a really interesting historical side to it.