Books - What are you reading?

I well chuffed to have got The Boys From Brazil in the post today! Don't know who sent it but I suspect @photoben - was it? If so, many thanks!

Went through this in one 10 hour flight. Everest sounds like a fucking grim place to spend a night.

Any one read Kevin Barry,,,Irish lad first book was City Of Bohane,a wonderful story set in a
very strange version of the west coast of Ireland,new one is Beatlebone a fictional account of time spent by John Lennon trying to find an island he really did buy at the end of the seventies....
highly recommended,Bohane in particular,,,,,a fantastic yarn.

Carrying on the mountains theme, currently reading Ghosts on K2. Surprisingly tense for a book where the endings known.

For a continuation of mountains.. Check out Touching My Fathers Soul. Brilliant read.

I saw this too late! Bookmarked for her birthday though. Shorelines looks right up her street.

re: Into thin Air also read Boukarev's The Climb - excellent

Read these in December making it a total of 50 books for last year. Starting on Infinite Jest, suspect this will take me a while...

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The green one is Dave Eggars

Just got Roald Dahl's short stories for Christmas. I'd forgotten how good they are, and hadn't read all of them before. I'm devouring them at a rate of knots.

Started reading a Dickens again. Our Mutual Friend. I always get a bit of a buzz going back to Dickens, like I'm reading some sort of original text which has since been translated. Pathetic really.

88% of the way the Game of Thrones volumes. Getting a bit bored tbh and cannot wait to finish.

@MrDrem

The Dahl autobiography was very readable. Minded me to read more of his adult works.

The Quiet American by Graham Greene is the next one for our book club, when it arrives...

Reading John Kay's book about banking which is much drier and tbh duller than his book about markets.

So breaking it up with Ellroy's American Tabloid which is immense fun.

Once those are done I'm going to have a stab at Javier Marías's Your Face Tomorrow trilogy, which I've been recommended by a couple of people but tbh I find the length a bit daunting because I've not read anything similarly long in Spanish before. Yeah, I could read it in English but I speak Spanish so I should really read more in it. We'll see how it goes.

I read The Quiet American recently and quite enjoyed it.

I'm feel pretty miserable of late. Can anyone recommend something uplifting or funny?

Reading Greg Taylor's Black Jack Justice. Brilliant. Not as good as the Red Panda novels but well worth 3 quid on kindle.

Douglas Adams?

Good shout I've read hitchhiker's but not the others.

Norwegian Wood (no, not that one). Chopping, stacking and drying wood the Scandinavian way. I'm loving it! (log burner next to me as I type).

Reading Franzen's Purity. Beautifully descriptive.

I love Infinte Jest. It can be difficult at the beginning with the ebonics but keep going. I guess most give up after 200 pages but if you make it past there it is a much smoother ride

I struggled through it never really enjoying it, hoping it would get better and then felt a bit cheated when i'd finished it.

Not finished the Roald Dahl books yet, but got my hands on a copy of Julian Sayarer's Messengers, which I've devoured (as I did with Life Cycles).