Books - What are you reading?

Was tongue in cheek. I have caught the tube past two days.

Ha got started on Dickens last year and was smit by a third of the way through The Pickwick Papers. Am working though the entire catalogue in order now.

Still lovin' your work Lucifer btw. Me and the lady sat and read a few random entries the other day puntuated with apalled laughter. I got a bit hysterical recalling the story about the compulsive liar claiming to have given directions to a passing airliner.

Ha! Good to know it's still getting some traffic.

I'm still writing, more than ever in fact, but just not the Lucifer stuff. there's only so much grim that can occur in one bloke's life!

I loved Great Expectations, partly because most of it is set in a collection of villages that surround London- like Walworth. Obv. everyone knows that London used to be villages that got absorbed by urban sprawl, but it's quite a different perspective to read something that was written when that was the reality, not from the point of view of looking back on it.

Coming Up For Air by Orwell is very much like that - you really get this sense of the main character losing his identity as the town he grew up in is swallowed by the sprawl of London. Well worth a bash.

guy de maupassant
assorted short stories

excellent read for those rainy mornings on the tube

+1 - first read his work on a speed reading course (part of it included speed reading some of his short stories then answerign loads of questions - very odd just how much you take in at that speed).

Les Miserables. Not bad but a lot less singing than the stage show.

Being Wrong by Kathryn Schultz
We are all wrong about most things most of the time.
Right!

Reading The Picture of Dorian Gray and I'm honestly not sure what I think of it yet.
Reading a non-fiction called Chavs on the side about the demonisation of the working classes through the use of the word chav which is surprisingly interesting

Chavs is by one of my best mates. Cool story bro, etc.

I loved The Corrections so, so much. I'm jealous of someone reading it for the first time.

Chavs is by one of my best mates. Cool story bro, etc.

That is pretty cool I'm liking it so far

I loved The Corrections so, so much. I'm jealous of someone reading it for the first time.

coming to the end of it now and wish I wasnt. loved freedom but this might be even better

Last few things I read. Just started Pure. Really enjoying it. Gave up on Linbergh after the transatlantic flight as I was only reading it for research.

Les Miserables. Not bad but a lot less singing than the stage show.

Unabridged? Read it while I was travelling, one of my favourite books ever

Started this last night, looks interesting but I can't see if being a casual read. Seems like a book you can't trust, it stinks of postmodernism and I've only read past the 'Editors Note'.

coming to the end of it now and wish I wasnt. loved freedom but this might be even better

I preferred The Corrections, but I thought that was partly because I read it first so had higher expectations of Freedom

Started this last night, looks interesting but I can't see if being a casual read. Seems like a book you can't trust, it stinks of postmodernism and I've only read past the 'Editors Note'.

Well predated postmodernism. More a hippy acid influenced book. I read this in 1979, A genius mad book which I enjoyed so much when a teenager as I did his Tom-Jonesque satire The Sot Weed Factor. he remained my favourite author for years.

Just finished the Song Of Ice And Fire books, fucking epic endeavour, I wasn't even enjoying it by the end. I checked how long they are (read 'em on the kindle so hard to guage) and it turns out that even without the last (as yet unwritten) book, they're the length of three Lord Of The Rings put together. Epic. I'm going to read The Old Man And The Sea as a palate cleanser.

I did the same thing not that long ago. It's going to be seven books altogether though so it'll probably end up closer to the length of four Lord of The Rings.

Well predated postmodernism. More a hippy acid influenced book. I read this in 1979, A genius mad book which I enjoyed so much when a teenager as I did his Tom-Jonesque satire The Sot Weed Factor. he remained my favourite author for years.

I meant more 'postmodern' in the metafictive aspects of what I've read so far (although that is less than ten pages...) I am looking forward to getting properly started on it, just finished Infinite Jest again. As soon as I finished the first time, I started again and read it cover to cover. I need to buy shorter texts.

I'm also reading Barthelme's 60 Stories on the train each morning , nice to have something you can dip in and out of when you don't have hours to spare.

coming to the end of it now and wish I wasnt. loved freedom but this might be even better

don't say that. I just started Freedom.

^^ Loads here..

http://www.taschen.com/

I got this for Mrs. Brave..

http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/photography/all/00392/facts.helmut_newton_sumo_revised_by_june_newton.htm

^^ Loads here..

http://www.taschen.com/

I got this for Mrs. Brave..

http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/photography/all/00392/facts.helmut_newton_sumo_revised_by_june_newton.htm

Great links, saved for future use. Ended up getting "The Art Museum" from Phaidon. Looks really impressive!

don't say that. I just started Freedom.

i said i loved Freedom - is that not a good enough recommendation

*downloads "freedom"

Tomorrow we ride