Books - What are you reading?

just ordered brief history of time by stephen hawkings. wish me luck

You'll probably be surprised how easy it is to read which, considering how alien some of the concepts are, is a huge credit to Mr Hawkings.

I'm just about to start reading The Autumn of the Patriarch by Marquez.

Finished with Make room! Make room! by Harry Harrison and about to start Fever by JMG Le Clezio on the train back to London tomorrow.
Should be good, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008.

Well it's hardly going to be a bit of a giggle, is it?

Not really...a mixture of sadness and anger....I put off reading the final chapter for a few days.....needed to prepare for it.....He should still be alive today!

will self - cock and bull

Excellent stuff, especially if you're a fan of the Wire:

Started on Put Me Back On My Bike this week, very good so far. Would definately recommend.

a few John Le Carres, working my way through Lord Jim, and reading this veeeery slowly in Spanish:

All about famous postwar writers in Paris, except for some reason they are all cartoon dogs who draw comics.

a few John Le Carres, working my way through Lord Jim, and reading this veeeery slowly in Spanish:

All about famous postwar writers in Paris, except for some reason they are all cartoon dogs who draw comics.

Pretentious cunt.

Pretentious cunt.

Self-hating bourgeoisie.

^ I'm scarred by Lord Jim. How you getting on Seeds?

Just finished Tony and Susan by Austin Wright
I'm now reading A Dog With No Tail by Hamdi Aby Gollayel.

Enjoying it so far, really involving and rewarding. It just feels like slow going after a couple of weeks of binging on spy thrillers and books about Scandinavian journalists and computer hackers who bring wife beaters / serial killers /motorcycle gangs / Soviet defectors / secret policemen to justice.

I'm now reading for a living :)

Just finished The Art of Fielding, a dreadful as-yet-unpublished baseball novel.
About to start Cities of Refuge by Michael Helm.

Scouting?

I'm reading JG Ballard. All of it.

Scouting?

I'm reading JG Ballard. All of it.

Excellent decision. Where are you starting?

Cats Cradle by Vonnegut

Passespartout: I'm not starting, rather filling in the gaps (which are more numerous than I thought, annoyingly) – and re-reading the ones I knew already. I am doing a bit of work on JGB at the moment, so need to get on top of him, figuratively speaking... On *The Drowned World *at the moment.

I like the Ballard one about the funny singing plants. The one about the City of Time is pretty good too. He was pretty out there

Just finished It's Only a Movie by Mark Kermode. Excellent read if you like the film reviews on BBC 5 Live. Now starting on a load of books for work...Strategy Maps...not looking like it is going to be a riveting read.

Scouting?

Not scouting - I don't have to seek out the books myself. I'm reading for 3 dutch publishers. They give me the books in English and I read and recommend whether they should translate into Dutch.

Just writing my report for:

Cities of Refuge by Michael Helm.

...and noticed the sweet baby blue fixie skidder on the Canadian cover

The one reference to a bike is when the protagonist 'coasts' back from work, so the cover is a bit of a fail. But the writing is both subtle and exquisite.

Enjoy Cat's Cradle Mike :)

Bad Science by Ben Goldacre.

How do you find it ^ Eightball?

I am with 'Where have all intellectuals gone?' by Frank Furedi.
The next one will be 'How to talk about books you haven't read' by Pierre Bayard ;)

The next one will be 'How to talk about books you haven't read' by Pierre Bayard ;)

It's really good. I particularly enjoyed the part where he fights a dinosaur.

Just finishing part 2 of the Michael Palin diaries and starting Anna Karenina

Just finished Lovely bones and am 1/2 way though Billy about Billy Conolly written by his missus.