Books - What are you reading?

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything

I have it on my to-read list but haven't got to it yet. It's been very well-received by the various hippies and socialists that make up my social circle so it does look like a very worthwhile read.

I'd like to thank those of you who recommended We by Yevgeny Zamyatin in this thread - I read it over the weekend and really enjoyed it. Dark and aesthetic.

Given that my degree was in American Literature (among other things), I am quite ashamed to admit I am only just getting round to reading Slaughterhouse 5.

Probably the best thing I've read in years.

Just finished it liked it but was strangely unsatisfying..

That's next in my to-read pile after I finish The Outsider (having just read The Meursault Investigation).

Im going to claim that though im probably wrong, its a great book... also @moocher the city and the city is one of my favourite books of all time. It even affected my academic work at uni, its a fascinating world Miellville has built.

My most recently read book was; The art of fielding, Chad Harbach. Fantastically written, has the feel of an american classic.

Bit late(2 months) to the party but I'm currently reading the first 2 1Q84 books and really enjoying it. It might help that I've read a few of his recently so know to expect lots of weirdness. I also didn't particularly enjoy my first Murakami (A Wild Sheep Chase) and found it very weird and slow but i might revisit it now that I've read a couple more.

They were the first Murakami I read, I haven't read book 3 yet, or any other, but I've been meaning too.

Interestingly I think the best book I've read in recent months was Stoner, which was the first book mentioned in my first unread post in this thread 7 months ago!

#csb

wild sheep chase one of my favourites. it left me disquieted as the theme chimed with a event chain in my life at the time.

Jus finished Roger Deakin's Wildwood.
Beautiful beautiful beautiful

Just started "The Girl in the Spider's Web" the fourth book in the Millenium Series...although written by Lagercrantz - supposedly with a slightly different style to Larsson. We'll see how it goes!

going to blast through some dodgy HG Wells steampunk thing this week en route to the next jack reacher and ancestor by Scot Sigler. Thank god for goodreads or I wouldnt be able to keep track of this stuff.

anyone on here read this? I have seen a couple of interviews with mr Luyendijk on Dutch telly and I like his approach

http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2015-09/17/joris-luyendijk-swimming-with-sharks-book-bankers

All his interviews are on the Guardian somewhere if you look - probably the bulk of that book...

I've finally got round to reading Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr. I got about halfway through yesterday. Fucking hellll, it's absolutely mental.

I just read something by Iain Rankin, and it was shit

only read two books this month. Riddley Walker was alright. not as good as i'd heard it was.

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Finally getting round to working through The Sandman epic by Neil Gaiman. So far so throughly brilliant.

Visited the secondhand bookstalls under Waterloo bridge the other night, not a bad selection but not super cheap. Any recommendations for good secondhand bookshops or bargain book filled charity shops?

currently working my way through The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton, writing is dense and archaic, and I wonder whether the differentiations that she makes between characters actually make sense, but once you get in it, it's actually quite enjoyable...

Still actually waiting for the mystery and the whodunnit to unfold...

also very happy I got the amazing adventures of kavalier and klay for small beer on kindle... Going to enjoy reading that again...

Odd John - Olaf Stapledon

Oh my days so good! The story of future man, or at least it's fledgling stages. Kind of works as the first part in the Odd John, First and Last Men, Star Maker trilogy, in terms of zoom level (one man, all humanity, the entire universe).

Got the Dune audiobook lined up too. I'm going in!

Read all these this month. No drinking, slim volumes and good authors proved to be the key.

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