Books - What are you reading?

I've been working long hours lately, not had any time to write or to even have much of a forum presence. I start scribbling again with a vengeance on Monday.
It's tempting to spread myself too thin, write like fuck and do the hours too, but the writing comes out shit and I make mistakes at work. I can't afford either. Better to prioritise.

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.
This is good to know, It's been on my mental "to read" list for ages and I finally bought it this week.
I'll make a start once I've finished The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron.

This is good to know, It's been on my mental "to read" list for ages and I finally bought it this week.
I'll make a start once I've finished The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron.

Ive been given that ^^^ the travel book of all travel books, let me know if its any good then I might give it a go

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

How was The Psychopath Test? I saw Jon Ronson do a reading of it at Latitude last year and I thought it sounded really interesting, but haven't got around to getting it out of the library yet.

I've recently read 'The medium is the massage' my Marshall McLuhan which was shite and full of pretentious waffling, I felt distinctly disappointed when I finished it, 'Ways of seeing' by John Berger which was excellent and full of thought-provoking ideas and made me want to wander around an art gallery and 'The importance of being idle' by Bertrand Russell of which I skipped the essays about socialism but the rest was pretty good.

Currently reading 'Citizen designer: perspectives on design responsibility' which is rather niche but well worth a read if you're in the design community...

Just starting on the only Ian Rankin book I haven't read - The Complaints.

I'm a bit of a collector, I've got every Terry Pratchet book, most books by Jeffrey Deaver, every book by Bernard Cornwell and every book by Ian Rankin. I have some Mankell books but I find that some of them do tend to drag on a bit.

Ive been given that ^^^ the travel book of all travel books, let me know if its any good then I might give it a go
Yeah I reckon you'd enjoy it. Pretty funny, just got to ignore the casual racism. He isn't actually too bad (relatively speaking, for the time it was written), even mocks others for their racism, but does slip up a few times. This might be meant as humor, I might just not get it... I'm not very good at reading comedy.

good book.
I'm currently trying to get through The Great Gatsby, The Undercover Economist, Blink, and The Disappearing Spoon.

Just finished Hemingway - Fiesta, really really liked it. Anyone got similar stuff to recommend?

Currently just over half way through Hemingway's Islands in the Stream

So far the best I've read by him, throughly enjoy it and dread the day it will end

Beautiful.

looks interesting, bought a copy

Had a power cut yesterday, and started reading Fiesta, as it's one that I haven't read, got a decent chunk in and thought it seemed pretty good.

Blink, and The Disappearing Spoon.

I've read the first two, but what are these like? I like the sound of the disappearing spoon, is it an easy goer?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5nyE7nvW2E

I've read the first two, but what are these like? I like the sound of the disappearing spoon, is it an easy goer?

I'm disappointed with the disappearing spoon so far- will give it a bit more of a chance and report back.

Blink I haven't started yet.

good book.
I'm currently trying to get through The Great Gatsby, The Undercover Economist, Blink, and The Disappearing Spoon.

Forget the others, read the Great Gatsby. It will fly by and you will remember it forever

Read the Great Gatsby, wasn't as impressed as I hoped to be. Gonna give it another shot I think

I really like the Great Gatsby.

It's just one of those fantastic stories, and so well written. of Mice and Men springs to mind too!

The Great Gatsby and To Kill a Mocking Bird. Books I had to read in high school with no expectation (well, expectation to them sucking, as all "books" did at that time), and books that have stuck with me forever. I'd read either of them again right now.

Currently just over half way through Hemingway's Islands in the Stream

So far the best I've read by him, throughly enjoy it and dread the day it will end

just went to look for this on amazon, listed as £7.99 on kindle store, 50p for a 2nd hand paperback..

i got mine on abebooks.com for something like that as well, few quid for the hardback

find it weird that kindle books are so expensive

I'm disappointed with the disappearing spoon so far- will give it a bit more of a chance and report back.

Blink I haven't started yet.

It's getting better.

The Great Gatsby and To Kill a Mocking Bird. Books I had to read in high school with no expectation (well, expectation to them sucking, as all "books" did at that time), and books that have stuck with me forever. I'd read either of them again right now.

I read it when i was younger and forgot the whole story.
Thought I'd pick it up again now- saving it for the plane flight.

Copped Keef's autobiography yesterday, down a shady alley. Covered my tracks. Safely scored. Ripped through 200 pages. Not much of a fan of the Stones personally, more interested in debauched tales/survivors. Waiting for the blackout years, not got there yet. Good so far though.

Ok, can definitely recommend The Disappearing Spoon. Totally approachable, and then develops well.
And The Undercover Economist.

Next on the list are some books by Silitoe.

This is next up for me. Been curious about Wilson ever since I heard the great MES bark "This is where C. Wilson wrote 'Ritual In The Dark'", in The Fall's superlative track, 'Deer Park'. Found that my dad has a few of his books in his study, and this one is right up my khyber. Fascinated that monsters are no less than men. Just mundane men. This is a study on what makes them so. Looking forward to getting stuck in.

I struggled with Wilson's The Outsider.

Just seemed an analysis of The Outsider in literature rather his/her manifestation in society. I think a lot of people see what they want to see in the book, rather than what is actually there.