Books - What are you reading?

really? I've been stuck on page 537 or something for about a month. Must try and pick it up again...

Yeah, I thought it'd be a bit of a struggle to get through but it's actually finding to be easy reading, quite enjoyable.

Picked up Master and Margarita and Cancer Ward up from the library as well. Lots of lovely Russian/Soviet literature.

The Wasp Factory immediately followed by Crow Road by Iain Banks. Loved every single page of both books, for quite different reasons, obv

Really loved The Wasp Factory! But didn't get on with another of his books, Walking on Glass I think? Anyway, RIP.

This: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/13/escape-camp-14-korea-harden-review

Utterly incredible that people exist in such a bubble. And such a sadistic, cruel, soulless little bubble it is, too.

Yeah, I thought it'd be a bit of a struggle to get through but it's actually finding to be easy reading, quite enjoyable.

Picked up Master and Margarita and Cancer Ward up from the library as well. Lots of lovely Russian/Soviet literature.

Both brilliant books !

Both brilliant books !

Really looking forward to Margarita, sounds a bit like a Soviet Good Omens.

the Ascent of Rum Doodle. Lots of champagne!

Philip Larkin, Collected poems.

I really am a changed man. As a teenager I baulked at his work. Now it touches me so deeply I'm often on the verge of tears.

Just started reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace on insistence of the BF.

Wish me luck...
How're you getting on with it?

I'm still here:

I've got part way through that book a couple of times. It is currently sat on a shelf taunting me.

^it's OK. #ancientforumreference

Just finished reading *World War Z. *I liked the way you just started to get drawn into one story and then it jumped to another, but I did dream of zombies the other day...

How're you getting on with it?

I'm still here:

Pretty similar trajectory to your good self unsurprisingly. I did ok to begin with, then was struck down by one of his less comprehensible passages, and I've been conveniently distracted the past couple of weeks or so with other things.

Saying that I picked it back up this afternoon and have resolved to try a bit harder...

Saying that I picked it back up this afternoon and have resolved to try a bit harder...

How's the trying harder going? I've managed to heed my own advice about perseverance and have made it to page 800. I can only recommend that you stick in there - some of the best writing I've read for a long time has been in those 800 pages.

The latest instalment of the Rivers of London series just dropped through my letterbox.

Sweet!

Started 11/22/63 by Stephen king after finishing The Hellbound Heart
Novella to epic

I've started reading The Rider by Tim Krabbé. Feel like I'm the last one to the party here but it really is excellent.

David Millar's book is 1.49 on kindle. Not sure if it's on sale or what

The dog stars - peter heller. 7.5 / 10

Recently finished Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson, which was great!

Previous was Michel Strogoff by Jules Verne (which was btw one of the best books i've ever read), now reading The Sixth Man by David Baldacci.

Moon walking with einstein by Joshua Foer

Its transformed I the way I memorise my cycle routes.
I only have to pull out my gps when the bloody street names aren't signed.

Teaches you to how to use interesting mental imagery to remember boring abstract stuff like words and numbers.

For instance a random gym locker 283 I will think of two pregnant ladies because the figure 83 sort of looks like one.

Interestingly discovered that dyslexia effects memory of mental images just as it does numbers.. tried to open up lock 238.

Probably need to read the book to understand any of what i just said.

I recommend a game of Risk instead.

I've just finished reading the new, fourth instalment of the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch titled Broken Homes. I think it's the best by far - recommended for easy, entertaining summer reading.

Not that Amazon needs the traffic, but the reviews will give you a flavour of the book / series if you've not read any yet.

Broken Homes (Rivers of London 4): Amazon.co.uk: Ben Aaronovitch, Stephen Walter: Books

I recommend a game of Risk instead.

Never played it.. whats it got to do with memory?
thought it was a game about gaining world domination through owning iceland.

reference to to another thread, I don't actually know how to play

epic strata in here

Finished Infinite Jest. Need to read something a little less intense to cool off, so started the Earthsea trilogy by Ursula K. Le Guin this morning. Not read any of her stuff before.

Infinite Jest is amazing. If you can stomach reading a thousand odd pages of anything I wholeheartedly recommend it.