Ayn Rand? Eeeewwwww ;)

The Pursuit of the Millennium is a book I've wanted to read for a while. You may want to check out Eric Voegelin (The New Science of Politics is the best starting point) if you're interested (and haven't already) in that kind of stuff.

I'm reading back issues of The Spectator. 1711-1712.

Volsunga Saga

kafka on the shore by murakami
and moby dick dick dick my melville

Ayn Rand? Eeeewwwww ;)

The Pursuit of the Millennium is a book I've wanted to read for a while. You may want to check out Eric Voegelin (The New Science of Politics is the best starting point) if you're interested (and haven't already) in that kind of stuff.

I'm reading back issues of The Spectator. 1711-1712.

Thanks. I'm sifting through authors like Rand at the moment as I feel I should have read it all before now. I'll be sure to get hold of some Voegelin.

Anthem - Ayn Rand

Neo-fascist inspiration for Rush. :-(

Neo-fascist inspiration for Rush. :-(
That's just how I roll.

i have just started to re read the count of monte cristo again after 12 or so years. the unabridged super long tiny writing version. then i got flu and couldnt understand it in my sick addled brain. so now ii am reading nightwatch by terry pratchett till i get my faculties back. i appreciate that its worthy of a cuss so i'll not retaliate if people feel the need to dish it out...

i started to read the rules of attraction by bret easton ellis, i have got american psycho waiting for me and then when im finished with those im going to buy all the other book and read them, i have also got trainspotting and porno waiting to read.

Currently reading lots of receipts. I bloody hate doing my tax returns. It's taken me all day.

That's just how I roll.

Have a picture...

First order that wasn't cycling-related..

1 of: I Never Knew That About London

Sold by: Amazon EU S.a.r.L.

1 of: London: The Biography

Sold by: Amazon EU S.a.r.L.

1 of: The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Standard Edition

reading Michael Cain's "Accident Man" a freebie from Mal's old work

Just read Joseph O'Neill's Netherland which I would recommend. Well written and at about 250 pages long, none too daunting if your looking for a good holiday read

http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307377043

Park Tools!

Blink-Malcolm Gladwell

british cycling's level 2 coaching manuals
the local free paper
the inside of my eyelids

Lush Life, Richard Price.

I LOVE Richard Price - read em all except Lush Life and Ladies' Man. I think I like Freedomland best...Samaritan was great too.

Have a picture...

Uh? Timothy McVeigh? I'm not really a neo-nazi. That was just a joke.

The Oxford History of Britain

just about up to the bit with the Norman conquest. no spoilers, please.

Harald Hardrada FTW!

What I Talk about when I Talk about Running, by Haruki Murakami. Two bicycle mentions so far.

I just got The London Biography.. someone on here suggested it.
Also "I never knew that about London" and "Beedle the Bard" - Harry Potter ftw! :)

I have just finished reading "Ghosts of Manilla" by James Hamilton-Paterson which is a thriller but reads like a documentary and dissects the past and Manilla itself through the stories of the four main characters. Hard work but very good.

I am currently reading "We Need to Talk About Kevin" by Nigel Shriver which is about Kevin, who sets about killing his classmates and a teacher one day in school. The story is told via letters from Kevins mother to his absent father whilst she visits him in prison - mostly concerning his upbringing.

Next in line, I have "Sex Lies and Handlebar Tape" the story of Jacques Anquetil. You know him..... He used drugs, used money as his main motivation for cycling, trained on champagne and langoustines then set about seducing the wife of his doctor, had a child with his stepdaughter (a threesome he kept going for twelve years) then managed to have a child with his stepsons wife. Should be interesting.

Heroes, Villains and Velodromes

Recently finished Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts which was incredible.
Currently on Norwegian Wood by Murakami.

I enjoyed Norwegian Wood a lot as it was the second Murakami I read. In fact I got into it to the point that I got a bit distracted reading it and accidently included it in a load of washing. The pages pulped and shredded all over some sheets and a jumper. The jumper looked interesting with bits of pulped novel in its fibres so I wore it for a bit.

One of the few novels I've bought two copies of for myself.

Vernon God Little is a great book that I would highly recomend. For the moment though it is Flashman FTW!!