Books - What are you reading?

You didn't borrow it from Kate Lines did you?

No. I bought it from Amazon (2nd hand)

I'm buying all books that way nowadays. It's my bit for the world.

I saw Kate last week in Spain though!

Currently reading this. Bit crazy but I'm hooked.

I know (fb) and I lent her a copy ages ago, and just realised I forgot to ask for it back before they left

I finished the first 2 books of 1Q84. It's a bit silly no?

I got so bored reading it.

I struggled through to the end but felt like slapping Murakami around the face with it afterwards. It was my first Murakami book too, and I doubt I'll bother with any more of his books.

Swallows and Amazons is just as amazing every time I read it

only 3 books this month, my one a week target is hard. more reading, less tv.

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Just downloaded the free sample of 1Q84 for kindle... somewhat less excited now.

Also got in a flap on Audible and randomly picked Sapiens... 15hours...

Reading...The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills and the John Carter series by Edgar Rice Buroughs.

Napoleon the Great. A true epic in all senses.

In my current pile to read:-

• Born To Run - Christopher McDougall - Thanks Ardicus
  
• The Cuckoo's Egg - Clifford Stoll
  
• The Meursault Investigation - Kamel Daoud (for our book club)
  
• The Outsider - Albert Camus (may as well given the above)
  

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, for the second time in a year. So, so well written

Yeah I couldn't finish it

@c0gsucker

doubt I'll bother with any more of his books.

All are better, annoyingly.

All are better, annoyingly

I've heard this but I'm apprehensive about spending money on more of his books just to be disappointed.

Just started Manufacturing consent: the political economy of the mass media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky.

5 this month
2312 was pretty good - would read more
im done with train journey writings for now
Stoner was excellent - one of the best books ive read in ages apart from:
The Music of Chance - probably the best auster ive read
Graham greene - always entertaining

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And storming my way through Reamde by Neal Stephenson at the moment. its a proper page turner, which at >1000 pages is a good thing

Read these in August. All good.

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Reamde is brilliant. Just finished Seveneve. Great story and a rattling good tale but some of the science didn't quite ring true to me. Well worth a read though and whilst not Stephenson's finest, not nearly as disastrous as some of the reviews would have you believe.

Currently reading A Scanner Darkly for the first time. Enjoying it a lot more than the film.

Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything - good? Worth reading?

(I've never been in here before, I don't exactly read much... )

Ready Player One.

only just started but enjoying the concept and this kind of SciFi is my kind of thing.