Books - What are you reading?

Thanks to Mrs Glover's work discount, I've got the entire collection of Ian Flemings 007 books to go though. Easy, exciting reading.

You Only Live Twice and Dr. No are the standouts for me so far.

"Golden City". I've read the rest, so I needed a closure.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Golden-City-Fourth-Realm-Trilogy/dp/0385514301

^I do love a bit of Fleming.
Pot of tea, biccys and Bond.
It takes skill to write something so readable. I like.

I'm reading Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff.

I now want to be a 1960's astronaut.

I'm reading a translation of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Takes some concentration but definitely worth it.

I should be starting on my reading list for Uni MA, but haven't quite got around to it yet.

Beautiful.

^Listened to the Radio 4 series of that, also thoroughly enjoyed it.

Vernon God Little

Missed this gem first time around it seems. No idea where it's going, but it's a jolly good read.

About a 1/3 of the way through and enjoying it. Hinault doesn't seem the type to suffer fools gladly. Le Patron ruled the peleton, much like he rules the winners podium at the Tour, with an iron fist.

Going to start reading sniper one tonight - from the sample I read it looks great, I love with kindles you can get a preview.

I'm reading a translation of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Takes some concentration but definitely worth it.

I should be starting on my reading list for Uni MA, but haven't quite got around to it yet.

I've just finished Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Fucking hated it. He's a skillful writer, but he adds quirks to his characters on the slightest whim, adding utterly irrelevant and sometimes bizarre details just to create 'flavour'.
It's also blindingly obvious he's writing for a female audience, but I'm sure that any female reader that I know would see through his ham handed efforts to throw them a bone.
I find his characters are unlikeable and haphazard, not complex and contradictory as he seems to think they are.
Smug, self congratulatory twoddle.

Was going to order Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space but I've been tempted by the audiobook, so that only half counts as 'reading'.

It doesn't count as reading at all.

I'd class it as 100% listening.

:)

AudioBOOK, maufucker! BOOK!

Silly me.

Finally got around to reading this. A Brazilian punk covered in tattoos who I romanced briefly and who subsequently went and got herself a boob-job which I have to admit rather threw me, bought it for me. It's a series of quotes rather than continuous text, which put me off. It is though an extremely vivid account of a seminal moment in culture. Full of drugs, death and undesirables, qualities I greatly admire. I ripped through it.

I've also read Orwell's 'Coming Up For Air'. I love George but I don't think he's a natural author. His talents are elsewhere. It wasn't bad. I also re-read '1984', which makes me swallow my words. That's just all kinds of potent, and full of menace. The restrictiveness/absurdity of relations he forecasts is pretty much where we're at now. I don't care for novels but I make an exception here.

Vernon God Little

Missed this gem first time around it seems. No idea where it's going, but it's a jolly good read.

Great book! very funny

want Will Selfs new one.about walking, and much more

Currently reading Sir Keef's book simply entitled "Life."

Seriously amazed that he's actually still going.

Next up is "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" - want to read it before seeing the offering from Gary (The Don) Oldman.

yeah, good plan right there. you know which will be better already :/

Meant to borrow 'Life' from Murts. Can't wait to read that.

Some interesting bits where he describes Jagger hanging out the back of his missus whilst he's nodding on the brown, but it's made me listen to their music differently.

Amarillo slim in a world full of fat people...the guy certainly got about, an interesting biography

definitely worth a read, picked it up in the 3 for 2 at waterstones a while back as my free wildcard book...plesantly surprised.

Been doing a fair bit of travelling recently so have read/listened to a few books.

Never ending story.
Quirkology
The Psychopath Test
Submarine
The blood Chamber
The Colour Out of Space
The call of Ctulhu.

Currently making my way through the black swan, after giving up the first time. This time there will be no surrender!!

want Will Selfs new one.about walking, and much more

I went to a book reading by Will Self, mainly covering this book. Really interesting and fucking funny. I like that he was fascinated by the rapidly eroding East Yorkshire coastline, and wanted to walk about thirty miles along the cliff edge so that he would be the last ever human to walk that ground before it slipped into the sea.

At the Q&A afterwards I asked him if he was still riding fixed.
He said that he had regrettably flogged his Condor to buy his daughter a Dutch bike.
He did enthuse rather on the subject though, much to the bemusement of the rest of the audience.

I see.youre spurn head ride was a little like that.enjoyed running on crumbling coastal path here last sat too.
also just read 'the hour' by Michael Hutchinson which Im sure has been raved about somewhere on here before. he writes well with dry humour and you end up rooting for him.whens your book coming up Lucy? seeing as its reading season again.