I've got reader's block

I haven't bought a new book (or borrowed a book from the library) for ages; problem is I can't find one book that I actually want to read.

I don't particularly like fiction, don't want any more cycling books, etc. Have tried writing down a list of my interests and then choosing a book that relates to them, but that doesn't seem to be working...

I think the problem is that I'm not interested in anything deeply enough to spend any time reading about it in detail... Or perhaps that I don't like anyone enough to want to listen to what they have to say...

Have you ever experienced this kind of thing before?

book a coach trip to Scotland, that'll force you to read any books, even if it a history about staple.

Get Ed to write for you. You'll spend more time trying to figure out what the fuck he's trying to say...

Hah.

http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/search

A collection of short stories could be the answer...

Good idea. Sherlock Holmes short stories. Just what every growing boy needs.

Dickens and HTFU

(Actually Dickens was meant to be read in installments - so perhaps buy Martin Chuzzlewit and rip the book into packages of 3 chapters and read it that way?)

surely if you aren't down for anyone elses book you should write your own.....

surely if you aren't down for anyone elses book you should write your own.....

I started to write a book about a messenger who gets sick of being run over by idiot drivers so goes on a violence spree, which leads to him getting sacked, and begins to ruin his only potentially successful relationship with a girl, etc. but my writing skills are poo. I even got a 'novel-writing tips' book out of the library! I still have all my notes and all that but I struggle to make a story believable.

Good idea. Sherlock Holmes short stories. Just what every growing boy needs.

bang on. just about to get into all of these. read baskervilles last year and have been hankering after the complete works evere since.

just as soon as i've finished dawkins (god delusion), shakey (neil young biog) and errr... something else. can't rememmber. pissed right now.

my advice; get obsessed with umberto ecco. you'll never be stuck for something to read again. start with name of the rose and go from there.

if baudolino, foucault and island don't make you vibrate with happiness and fear then you're dead inside.

the mysterious flame of queen doo dah is self indulgent, boring and shit tho...

so says i

I like Joe Simpson books. Start with Touching the Void. I find them fascinating.

you know how sometimes people post something along the lines of that so-and-so comment was so funny they spat (drink of choice) all over their screen?

well,

for no reason at al, i just posted what i posted, sta down with a nice fresh cup of sober-me-up midnight english breakfast, raised it to my lips and did a sort of involuntary spasm/cough thing and totally fucking soaked my laptop with tea.

bummer.

and my pizza burned while i was mopping it up.

bummer squared.

hic

whatever you do, don't read the mosque thread!

Autobiographies work for me. Oscar Peterson the Jazz pianist's was good.

Porn.
Good pictures. Short stories. Folds up to travel size. Sometimes some posters. Occasional DVD's.

Amazing value for money.

Elegant Universe - Brain Greene

david peace
james ellroy

Are you Dave Gorman? By Dave Gorman
An oldie but a goodie!

whatever you do, don't read the mosque thread!

i started with that yesterday. it was still quite sweet when i got bored with it somewhere on the second page. i'm guessing it decends into a theological/cultural bunfight yes? i may pass on that. i'm not big on arguing about religion on the internet.

having said that, i finished the god delusion this morning. i enjoyed it overall. but then i am an atheist/humanist/rationalist anyway so it was... ummm...the opposite of preaching to the converted. what would that be? questioning the skeptic? i enjoyed his boldness and unapologetic stance in defence of science, but i think he's ultimately not likeable enough as writer, speaker or debater (is that a word?) to reach out to a wider majority. shame really.

watched heart of gold on friday night to get warmed up for reading shaky.

but i think he's ultimately not likeable enough as writer, speaker or debater (is that a word?) to reach out to a wider majority. shame really.

I agree, he has the charisma of a lettuce and really comes across as a crackpot labcoat.

watched heart of gold on friday night to get warmed up for reading shaky.
Love that film, love Neil Young. Will have to look that book out..

I started to write a book about a messenger who gets sick of being run over by idiot drivers so goes on a violence spree, which leads to him getting sacked, and begins to ruin his only potentially successful relationship with a girl, etc. but my writing skills are poo. I even got a 'novel-writing tips' book out of the library! I still have all my notes and all that but I struggle to make a story believable.

I don't believe it.

Read a book about the manhatten project. That's something I've been wanting to read about for a while.

I agree, he has the charisma of a lettuce and really comes across as a crackpot labcoat.

actually i agree with 99% of what he says and i don't think he's a crackpot at all. he's the polar opposite in fact. he might seem vaguely nutty because he's just passionate about his cause of promoting, reason, informed choice and scientific skepticism etc. i just don't think he's very likable as a personality.

Read a book about the manhatten project. That's something I've been wanting to read about for a while.

They were great.
"Tuxedo Junction"