Books - What are you reading?

IQ of 84 would be kind of borderline retardation. Poor attempt at being witty.

Haven't read 1Q84 btw.

Just read Walking Home by Simon Armitage.

It's shit.

I'm reading The Men Who Stare At Goats and can't make my mind up whether it is real or not. I picked it up at the library only, because I had heard of the movie with the same name.

Straphanger by Taras Grescoe (recommended to me by j.m.f)
This book together with Traffic by Tom Vanderbuilt are the crucial texts for understanding the future of transport and urban spaces.

On the same topic Lynne Sloman's Car Sick works also as an accessible exploration of how we could move around better

Re reading Beckett's Watt in preparation for a theatre production of it at the Barbican in March..

i have only read 1Murakami book (DanceDanceDance i think it was called)
very odd, but wholey enjoyable.

Is there any recommeded order to his stuff, or just grab what ever i see and read that?

my favourites are Norwegian Wood and Kafka on the Shore

my favourites are Norwegian Wood and Kafka on the Shore

Norwegian Wood is an excellent book.

Hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world was probably my favourite Murakami.

I've currently got the following on the go.

Michael Marshall Smith - Only Forward; Old favourite, re-reading because the Lady bought a new copy as she was bored of waiting for mine to resurface from whom ever I lent it to.
Marcuy Du Sautoy - Finding Moonshine: Bought for me by a forum member, I read through relatively quickly for an overview then went back to try and really grasp the nth dimension symmetry.
Marcuy Du Sautoy - The Music of the Primes: Again I've read it before but I have a soft spot for Riemann and the book was looking unloved on a shelf when I was killing time waiting for a train in Kings Cross. The name authors name was fresh in my mind from the first reading of Finding Moonshine.
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest: Given to me by a friend some years back, I've played with it once but didn't really get that far, figured it deserved a real go.

I should learn to read fewer books at once.

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, a must have!

Taking what I think I've learned from this book I'm convinced I've just finished it, but less certain my hands are or ever were real.

Just your hands?
Was the book even real?
Can you ever finish anything? Or start anything?
(Can I doubt even the existence of doubt?)

Now I see the origins of the Oxbridge philosophy interviewing tactic of asking candidates whether the chair in the room exists. Of course it does, but logic will try hard to persuade us otherwise. How about when you close your eyes? Yes, it's still there. Now give me my gown, first class degree and the key to the future Captain of Industry cabinet you pretentious wanker.

You're not really member #2 though. There's no kidding these eyes.

You're not really member #2 though.

I certainly doubt this^ is false

Currently re-reading Kafka's novels, The Trial and The Castle. Beautifully dark undertones of doubt over whether anything is real, whether the world we inhabit has any meaning beyond that which we give it. He spins intricate and heartbreaking webs of intruige, passion and justification around a void, a nothingness. Genius.

Just finished.

Just finishing this. Wonderfully written account of day to day life in a Mumbai slum.

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Has anyone read this? I'm tempted but kind of worried that it might be coffee table fodder.

no but I read The Bicycle Diaries and was disappointed by the disorganised self-indulgence

Going to Sea in a Sieve - Danny Baker

Is great

off to buy that now, been meaning to get it for ages. looking forward to starting it.

Recently finished Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, a satirical novel set in the Jazz Age which points a finger at the emptiness and hypocrisy underlying the American Dream. Really, really enjoyed it.

Currently about 150 pages into The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen and I love it so far.

With regards to Murakami, I gather it's considered somewhat lightweight in relation to some of his other work but I found South of the Border, West of the Sun very moving.

What are you really reading?

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

actually a well written thriller (ish?). not my usual choice but actually pretty good.
Makes you wonder how well you really know anyone.

peter pan

serious

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