Books - What are you reading?

Agreed. A quiet read, but utterly devastating towards the end.

Heading to grab this today. Even though I havn't finished 1Q84.

Doping books,

So far finished-
The Secret Race Tyler Hamilton
Racing through the dark David Millar

Next
Seven Deadly Sins David Walsh

Any other suggestions?

Bad Blood by Jeremy Whittle is worth a read. It is out of date, but the barely concealed contempt makes it a good read.

Just finished The Damned Utd. and Etape. Both very enjoyable.

I'm waiting for a pre- order of The Causal Angel by Hannu Rajaniemi - out this Sunday. It's the third and concluding part of the Jean le Flambeur trilogy. A post singularity, hard SF series that needs to be read in order - first two were excellent and have high hopes for the last part.

http://www.goodreads.com/series/57134-the-jean-le-flambeur-series

very late to the party and its been said before but All the Pretty Horses, what a beautiful book. don't want it to end

Oof...I envy anyone who is reading that for the first time...

Currently reading Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Nearing halfway through and it is superlative. Beautiful prose, and the way bends the English language around the local idiom and local myths is so simple and so wonderful. If it manages to sustain this quality it will rank amongst the best books I have read.

making my way slowly through this,

maybe its me, but finding it hard to get into.. possibly as the subject-matter of the first two chapters is so alien, being about Copper Canyons and the Tarahumara (running people);

Brothers Karamazov.
31 days
Page 750 of 770

Just started Nick Adams stories. Lately i've been reading less and less books, for some reason i feel all too damn adhd all the time :(

finished norwegian by night

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Norwegian-Night-Derek-B-Miller-ebook/dp/B00ALJGW66/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1408638045&sr=8-1&keywords=norwegian+by+night

which was good, if a little repetitive, but the main character and his struggle with the death of his son was interesting enough, as were the fish out of water elements of a New York Jew in Norway.

Currently much more entranced by this the Golem and the Djinni, which is delightful stuff and has an ease of prose which makes it tick over really quickly...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Golem-Djinni-Helene-Wecker-ebook/dp/B009QU9Z60/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1408638149&sr=8-1&keywords=golem+and+the+djinni

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov (Фёдор Достое́вский - Братья Карамазовы)

^ Good luck with that.

I finally put The Brothers Karamazov to bed after just over a month. I have to admit literally skimming over some of the courtroom scenes towards the end because I just wanted to get the fucking thing over with.

I've now just started reading I Am Pilgrim and, in contrast, I am 183 pages in after only several hours. With TBK I would be lucky to get 20 pages done in day.

Anyone read Pilgrim? It's pretty good so far.

Finished Things Fall Apart. Third act felt pretty rushed, and subsequently it sort of came off feeling a bit like the kind of book you'd read for a-levels. Don't know if that's necessarily a bad thing, or if I've just become a terrible cynical bastard over the years. Beautiful prose throughout though.

Have now moved on to reading The Vorrh, by Brian Catling, which I'm supposed to be reading for a book group. I say supposed to reading as I've managed to get to page 8 and the thought of another 490 pages of this turgid heavy-handed prose is filling me with despair so I've given up for the moment.

Currently reading Cavendish's autobiography. So far not as good a storyteller as Wiggins.

Just finished Domestique by Charly Wegelius. Well worth the read and the end matched my current motivational problems.

Finished Things Fall Apart. Third act felt pretty rushed, and subsequently it sort of came off feeling a bit like the kind of book you'd read for a-levels. Don't know if that's necessarily a bad thing, or if I've just become a terrible cynical bastard over the years. Beautiful prose throughout though.

Yes, sadly it doesn't end as well as it starts. That's a very common ailment.

The title did warn you...

Halfway through Eric newby's 'slowly down the ganges.'
beaut of a book

^^^^Cheers tibbly. both of those sound right up my street.

Fibished the Goldfinch recently. Started so strongly then fell of a cliff about 2/3 of the way though. Huge disappointment.

Currently reading H is for Hawk by helen Macdonald which I'm really enjoying. Darkly twisted and very personal nature memoir. More about grief and obsession than nature really. Dig.

Also dipping in and out of of a bio of Thomas Cromwell and the rather dated Songwriters on Songwriting (a collection of interviews based firmly in the late 80s).

So true. I know endings are tough to get right, but I do wonder if this alone accounts for the fact that so many people (across the board, not just in books) seem to get it wrong.

Hah! #rep

Currently reading Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti (I gave up on my bookgroup book - the vorrh - because the prose was giving me a headache). I don't think I agree with the comparisons to Lovecraft, but the comparisons to Poe stand up. Really excellent weirdness, and very funny with it.

Just joined our local library (recently moved) and taking the kids up there after work to grab some books (they are excited as fuck, and quite frankly so am I. It pleases me no end that they are keen on books already at their age). Not sure what to pick up for myself though, there isn't really much of a selection as its a small library but I did spot a couple of Murakamis: Norwegian Wood and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. I was thinking Norwegian Wood, I've heard good things about it. The only other Murakami I've read is Wild Sheep Chase.