Books - What are you reading?

Do you think he used this site for research so he could nail all the clichés?

nah, he doesn'y say htfu once

It was obviously velo libre.

halfway through new Terry Pratchett.
Wilikins ftw.

http://www.freewheelingfrance.com/books/shay-elliott.html

Just finished Into the remote places by Ian Hibell. The ending was a tad sentimental but his trips were so good I didn't want the book to end. pah.

"the road to Oxiana" by Robert Byron, exotic on every page, loved it, well worth checkingout

Got The Balloonist for crizzer, yet to start.

I'm on with Simon Armitage's Little Green Man at the moment. Really enjoying it! Can't remember who recommended it,but ta to whoever it was.

At the same time I'm reading his collection of Ted Hughes poems. It's good to read a Northern poet's choice of a fellow Northern poet's work.Makes it feel very relevant.

Roth's American Pastoral. stunning.

^I'm gonna get some Roth in the near future. I've read Everyman, Dying Animal, Exit Ghost, Indignation and Nemesis and really enjoyed them all. Time for something longer, I was thinking maybe The Human Stain.

Over Christmas I read

Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (how have I not read this until now?)

Valdez is Coming by Elmore Leonard

Roseanna by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö

and thoroughly enjoyed all of them.

I got the Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt out of the library on the way home from work tonight, I've heard very good things about it.

I also really fancy reading Fire Season by Philip Conners.

I got given a ton of books for xmas, and bought a couple myself:

The Wavewatcher's Companion- Pretor-Pinney
The Heart of a Dog- Bulgakov
Checklist- Gawande
Parasite Rex- Zimmer
Farthest North- Nansen
Stiff- Roach
Alex's Adventure's in Numberland- Bellos
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks- Skloot
I need to break your other leg- Gautam
Phantoms in the Brain- Ramachandaran
Lifelines- Rose
Drunkard's Walk- Mlodinow
Relativity- Einstein
Annapurna- Herzog

And I've still to finish Blink- Gladwell
That should keep me entertained for a little while at least

^^ Fire Season = Excellent

But it makes you a bit depressed at not having his job.

^ +1

anyone using http://readmill.com/ ? not really sure what it does, but it looks fantastic

I found "Sisters Brothers" contrived, could've been set in any era; basically a costume drama. Now that being said, I didn't read it, I heard the talking book. That may have coloured my view.
Do comic books count? I'm reading Ben Katchor's latest, "The Cardboard Valise". Convoluted and painfully hilarious. I've loved his work since first picking up Metropolis in the 90s.

^^^^Annapurna by Herzog is one of my favorite books ever, awesome

also just read Boomerang by Michael Lewis which id recommend to anyone. Its about the financial crisis and explains exactly what the fuck is going on at the moment but is funny and easy to read and understand even if you understand very little of all that world like me.

^^ re Sisters Brothers I'm about 50 pages in and am really enjoying the tone of it, very funny but kind of touching as well. Not a lot has happened thus far plot-wise so can't really comment on much else at this point.

Reading the White Spider. In terms of HTFU: climbers > cyclists.

Just finsihing up the Le le Carré's Karla trilogy.

Tinker, Tailor was excellent

The Honourable Schoolboy was a bit disappointing.

Smiley's people is so far excellent

Halfway though Fulgrim, the 5th book of the Horus Heresy series, with Descent of Angels up next, and Legion in the post. There are 21 of these books and counting.

Horus Rising
False Gods
Galaxy in Flames
The Flight of the Eisenstein
Fulgrim
Descent of Angels
Legion

^^ Le Carre is on my "should read more of" list, I read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold last year and thoroughly enjoyed it.

^^ Le Carre is on my "should read more of" list, I read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold last year and thoroughly enjoyed it.

I loaned my dad my beautiful edition of this, a print I've never seen before in such mint condition.

He lost it, then promptly denied ever having borrowed it, true to fucking form.

A great book.

Reading the White Spider. In terms of HTFU: climbers > cyclists.

I'm interested in reading a book on climbing at some point. Any well written story of endurance is usually a good read.

Recommend White Spider, or something better?

I don't know why I was such a book snob about le Carre.. Prolly just the pretension of intellectual youth..

Spy who came in from the Cold is on the list to read..

However, as a massive Beckett fan I've neglected his work for too long so will delve into Murphy again after Smileys People.

^^ Le Carre is on my "should read more of" list, I read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold last year and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Same! Was gonna read Tinker... but then saw (and enjoyed) the film at the cinema so I might wait a little longer before picking it up...

I'm currently reading London Belongs to Me by Norman Collins. It's a novel that is principally about the tenants of a lodging house in 1930s London but also manages to be as sprawling, strange and savage as the city itself...

I've never read Beckett. A good starter?^