Books - What are you reading?

In recent years I haven't found much that's had that kind of impact. Maybe I'm getting tough, or am becoming cynical in my old age, but I need something to get me angry.

Any suggestions?

Juliet Gellatley, 'The Silent Ark'
Peter Singer and Jim Mason, 'Animal Factories'

... will do for starters.

you and your militant vegan evangelism.....

you and your militant vegan evangelism.....

Oh, I'm not an evangelist--the people who wrote these books certainly are, though. He said he wanted something to make him angry, too.

of human bondage.

I'll be honest, I can't read.

u twat lol

oh and yes im reading at the moment a book called Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.
A good alternative philosophy book. really good so far. I'll let you know when im finished.

'Gunsmoke and Mirrors' by Henry McDonald. Good, short book on the NI 'troubles' and peace process.
'Byzantium' by Judith Herrin, just finished.
'A History of the Arab Peoples' by Albert Hourani, just started, think it'll take a while.

Reading history is a new thing for me, I can't get enough of it now. Seems to me that the best way to understand what is happening in the world at the moment is to find out what went on in the past.

Ooh get me and my profundity.

Seems to me that the best way to understand what is happening in the world at the moment is to find out what went on in the past.

Nope - you're spot on. People always get arsey at me when I say that I completely understand why 9/11 and the 7/7 bombings happened - 'Oh so you agree with what they did do you?'. Thing is, we're paying for decades of aggressive foreign policy - it didn't just happen overnight.

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Has anyone else read Faulkner's The Sound and The Fury? I had to google it just for advice on how to make sense of the first part. I have already re-read a portion of it to better understand the timeframe.

Tips/sparknotes, anyone?

my only tip would be just enjoy it vic...

you read "As I Lay Dying"?

Just finished "Heroes, Villians and Velodromes" by Richard Moore about Hoy and the GB cycling team. Very interesting look behind the scenes the the current force in track cycling.

Now finally onto reading Friel's "Cyclist's Training Bible" properly.

been reading all the chronicles of Narnia. yes they are kids books but they are awesome stories!

a quality read if you like distopian nightmares is "Oryx and Crake" By Margaret Atwood

After a frank discussion with the girlfriend, I am now making an effort to read the unread books in the house before going out and buying anymore.

This means that I am now trying to read The Sun Also Rises - Hemmingway.

Can't remember why I stopped reading it in the first place. A top read, if a little tough.

my only tip would be just enjoy it vic...

you read "As I Lay Dying"?

Nah, my first Faulkner - I are newb. Familiar with Mrs Dalloway and the like so it's not totally alien to me, but,man, it's not bedtime reading for sleepy brains!

a quality read if you like distopian nightmares is "Oryx and Crake" By Margaret Atwood

I second that, it's brilliant!

I'm now reading The Discovery of France by Graham Robb. It's fascinating.

I wanted to bump this thread back up again but change it a little.

I've recently read Blazing Saddles, a book about the Tour de France and I am currently reading Lance Armstrong's Autobiog. I find reading about cycling related things quite enjoyable.

Has anybody got any good suggestions for bike/cycle related books?

Tim Krabbe's The Rider
In Search of Robert Millar
The Death of Marco Pantani
One more kilometer and we're in the showers
Bikie

All good cycling reads

Just finished Crash, by JG Ballard (about people sexually aroused by cars, crashes and car crash victims). One for the car thread folks, perhaps? Apparently Ballard wanted to "rub the human face in its own vomit" - though its more sad than shocking, I reckon. Its well written, kind of hypnotic. He uses the same words and phrases over and over again. Now looking to read the Concrete Island and High Rise.

Sorry Lurker, that doesn't have much to do with cycling, I admit.

Cheers Aroogah, I'll have a look out for some of those.

I've just ordered a couple from my local library, including a 'book ok tape' version of French revolutions: cycling the Tour de France and a normal book version of *Heroes, villains & velodromes : Chris Hoy and Britain's track cycling revolution.

*I'll give them a try and see what they're like. That's the great thing about the library system!

Talking of JG Ballard, his Super-Cannes and Cocaine Nights are worth reading, as, of course, is Empire of the Sun.

^+1 to Cocaine Nights.
Drowned World is good too. The images stay in your mind for a long time.
Recently finished Krabbe's *The Rider *- I agree it's a good read.
Not bike related, but currently reading another Cormac McCarthy book: All The Pretty Horses.
He really is a fantastic writer.
The Road and *Blood Meridian *have got me loving fiction again.

The Road is the first time since Terrance Dick's Dr Who adaptions that I have been genuinely scared while reading a book! (The leaving the cellar bit, for those who are interested). And Blood Meridian is fantastically written, one of his best.

Anyone into Don DeLillo? Really liked Underworld, but only Libra has grabbed me the same way. White Noise and Mao II were a bit "meh" and I'm struggling to finish Falling Man.

Cheers for the Ballard recommendations, Platini and nankatsu...

Dante Alighieri - The Inferno {the early sonnets }