Books - What are you reading?

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.

i read that recently too. lovely book. am reading kafka on the shore at the moment as it happens.

just started moby dick as well.

The jumper looked interesting with bits of pulped novel in its fibres so I wore it for a bit.

No interesting pajama results in the same wash?

There is a short in this book which i think perfectly sums up Kafka called 'the bridge'. I have an older edition than this but I'm presuming it has all the same stories in it. Plus this edition has bike related kudos due to the cover art!

i read that recently too. lovely book. am reading kafka on the shore at the moment as it happens.

just started moby dick as well.

Spoiler: Kafka on the Shore - who knew that killing kittens could be so scary? Think about that next time tempted to RLJ? Or is it when Hippy posts?

Can't beat a bit of Flashy over the Christmas season, though.

I'm reading McSweeney's 29 and reckon it's one of the best.

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.

Lionel Shriver.

Yesterday I read 'Disgrace' by J M Coetzee, which rather suited my mood. It's about a University Professor in Cape Town who shags one of his students, is disgraced, goes to live with his daughter in the country for a bit, with whom he suffers further, whilst achieving some kind of moral balance by helping to kill dogs humanely. It struck me as a literary response to Kafka's The Trial.

Anyway, it's very good. Today, I'm going to start on Ackroyd's biography of Blake.

Quantum Enigma, Physics Encounters Consciousness....

the most interesting book Ive read in a while, got it for xmas and cant put it down

Quantum Enigma, Physics Encounters Consciousness....

the most interesting book Ive read in a while, got it for xmas and cant put it down

Probably physics getting the better of your consciousness. ;)

As Billy Bragg sang: 'The rules of gravitsy are very, very, strwicts ...'

That line cracks me up every time. :)

Probably physics getting the better of your consciousness. ;)

haha, very funny Oliver :]

For fun I'm reading "Moab is My Washpot" by Stephen Fry.

For reference purposes I'm reading January and February's issues of "Pilot".

For learning purposes I am reading, "Helicopter Flight Dynamics" by Gareth Padfield and "Operations Management" by N. Slack, S. Chambers, and R. Johnston.

For fun I'm reading "Moab is My Washpot" by Stephen Fry.

For reference purposes I'm reading January and February's issues of "Pilot".

For learning purposes I am reading, "Helicopter Flight Dynamics" by Gareth Padfield and "Operations Management" by N. Slack, S. Chambers, and R. Johnston.

busy book worm....

for fun Im reading auto italia ;]

I know, I'm trying to actually pass my degree. I've failed 2 years of it... I am a retard.

I know, I'm trying to actually pass my degree. I've failed 2 years of it... I am a retard.

aahh good work! you'll get your degree ..:]

For learning purposes I am reading, "Helicopter Flight Dynamics" by Gareth Padfield and "Operations Management" by N. Slack, S. Chambers, and R. Johnston.

The first two have got to be joke names, right?

I am reading 'The Google Story' a light light reading around my business degree - that Quantum Engima looks good - I love physics books - I guess that makes me a geek

The first two have got to be joke names, right?

I can guarantee that Padfield isn't a joke name because not only is he a leading authority in the field of Rotorcraft, he's also my Head of Department at University of Liverpool, my lecturer in my module entitled, "Rotorcraft Flight", he get's funding from NASA, and he also was my interviewer when I applied to go to that university.

That doesn't stop him being a cunt though.

N. Slack I can't comment on though, sounds like a fake name to me too.

I am reading 'The Google Story' a light light reading around my business degree - that Quantum Engima looks good - I love physics books - I guess that makes me a geek

Im a geek too Charlie :] proud of it

Judge Dredd Case Files 9, Bad Boy by Moore and Bisley, The Watchmen, Lobo: Portrait of a Bastich

I gotta have pics

Im a geek too Charlie :] proud of it

I think that the world has become so complex that you kinda have to be these days - I used to hide it - now I am happy to be a geek

Current reading projects:

Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre (As good as is suggested upthread. Handy man with a swerve)
The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson (As good as the math-fi baroque cycle, if a little lighter. Good Gibsonesque handle on Sci-fi)
DMZ - Brian Wood (When the comic shop finally gets in #5)
Air - G. Willow Wilson (Slow but engaging)

Following recent events I may have a quick re-read of Palestine - Joe Sacco.

murakami has been mentioned a few times but this book of his, even though not cycling related, got me really motivated to train for an ultra. it is great.

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul/27/books/bk-murakami27

also if you like murakami, this guy is far represents far more 'raw' japanese writing . far better in my mind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sailor_Who_Fell_from_Grace_with_the_Sea

another murakami (not the same one) is also good but a lot less tame

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_Locker_Babies

Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre

+1 this book is ace.

White Heat by Dominic Sandbrook - a very readable social history of Britain in the 1960s.