Books - What are you reading?

...or maybe starting the Song of Ice and Fire books, hmmmmm.....
This is the way forward. Great books.

^ start, you wont regret it.

Just finished: treasure island. Just started:South: The story of Shackleton's last expedition.

Hunger Games.
awaits flaming
read the first one. Very good. Started second, didntfeel the need. One is enough imho.

jJust read bike snob NYC. Anyone read it?

just finished hillary mantle's 2nd thomas cromwell novel - bring up the bodies - fucking dark, brutal power plays - couldn't put it down but unsettling.

My Forbidden Face, by Latifah.

Kavalier and Clay
It's fucking great, read it.

Bought a Sony E reader off Hobo, had to read 1984 as the inaugural book since it's my favourite. As good as ever.

Just getting into the first book of Game of Thrones.
Late to the party? Certainly.
Still, it's nicely written and pretty addictive. Annoyingly, having watched the telly program first I can't get Sharpe's stupid face and terrible acting out of my mind...

Sports Nutrition from Lab to Kitchen and resumed Tale of Two Cities on my phone.

Just finished: treasure island.

I read this last year. so so good.

Dogura Magura by Yumeno Kyusaku.

I've been meaning to read this for ages but never started as it's very long and I get distracted easily. The beginning feels a little cliché these days - a guy wakes up in a mental hospital with no memory of who he is - and probably was even when it was written, but it's incredibly effective in how it brings across the horror of the situation and uses it as a metaphor for the horror of human existence. Now though it is I think pulling the trick of being long winded and boring and no doubt ultimately pointless and irrelevant just to fuck with the reader, which I appreciate but am not currently in the mood to actually read... I might just go back to his short stories.

Yea, I know I'm fairly late to the party, my experience in doorstop epic fantasy is somewhat limited despite a fair love for the setting, I've got through Redemption of Althalus and the majority of the Lotr books, however I've found I much prefer gritty sci-fi and weird fiction.

Never really heard of Song of Ice and Fire till Game of Thrones, despite the majority of my friends having read them, no excuse for it really, just too busy reading Hitchhikers I suppose.

Only Revolutions: Amazon.co.uk: Mark Z. Danielewski: Books

Only Revolutions by Mark Danielewski

Not sure what to think yet. Interesting.........

I'm currently reading Walden by Thoreau, parts of it are absolutely amazing and eye opening. However a lot of it is rather dry and descriptive rather than mind blowing american philosophy.

Just Kids by Patti Smith.
Remarkable book, beautifully written too

I'm definitely enjoying salman rushdie's Midnight's Children. Not very far through yet either.

^^ I loved Just Kids, picked it up on a whim and raced through it. Would read again.

^ Always loved her work but this was special. Made me re-discover a lot that I'd forgotten. Also helped me look at Mapplethorpe's work in a different way. Always appreciated it, loved his shots of her, but didn't quite get him. Think I do now.
She's a proper hero.

Picked up Game of Thrones from Carlisle station at start of C2C.

Finished the ride now and a fair chunk of the book, it is very good indeed!

Reading 'Pedalling to Hawaii' by Stevie Smith.
It is such a good read. One of those easy to read and thoroughly enjoyable books.

I edited the reissue of that book back in my old days as an editor. Glad you like it!

I edited the reissue of that book back in my old days as an editor. Glad you like it!

Oh man I loved it. Thank you for doing an awesome job!!

Currently loving 'Arabian Nights and Days' by Naguib Mahfouz. Proper old-fashioned, mad mystical storytelling.

^ No worries. Good writing needs very little editing, to be honest. (By the way, I think we went to school together.)

Dave?

I got up to 1/4 of the way through Book 4 of the Song of Fire and Ice series, and gave up. Loved the first three books though.

Nearly finished 'Gridlock' by Ben Elton, which had me nearly laughing out loud on the train. I guess his humour isn't for everyone, but his dry and sarcastic observations on the car and petrol/oil industry were spot on.