What Book Did You Read Last Night??? (6 Viewers)

[Mitchum]

Friends Of My Youth/Alice Munro

Just brilliant. Wistful, melancholic, pared-down prose a la Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolfe, Richard Ford.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

just finished sacks' musicophilia. excellent book, but not the one i was expecting. more about brain injuries and effect on music, rather than explaining the attraction.

I have this one called "This Is Your Brain On Music" or something like that, I picked up in a US airport. I've half-read it. It's interesting but a bit irritating. I must pick up musicophilia. I've had it recommended by at least one other Thumpeder.

 

[nEiLo]

Reading "The Illuminatus Trilogy" by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. It's very amusing.

 

[Cryptid]

The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake

Just started this.

By day (coffee break) I'm reading:

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

 

[rettucs]

By day (coffee break) I'm reading:

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

I read that on a plane last year in practically a single sitting (long plane ride). Its quite easy going. Pretty well written. Theres worse things you could read. I enjoyed it anyway.

 

[nEiLo]

The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake

I read the first one. have been meanin to read the rest. Took me a while to get into it, but I loved it.

 

[Cryptid]

I read that on a plane last year in practically a single sitting (long plane ride). Its quite easy going. Pretty well written. Theres worse things you could read. I enjoyed it anyway.

Cool. It's going good, cheers. It seems to be in the vein of Matheson, which is good.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

i just got my christmas reading sorted. purhcased the following

 

[Cryptid]

I read the first one. have been meanin to read the rest. Took me a while to get into it, but I loved it.

Yeah, I find I have to read it slowly (maybe that's just me). It's quite descriptive. By the sounds of it the last one could be tough going.

Hoping to get a good bit of reading and movies in over the Christmas. As well as prayer and contemplation about the birth of our Lord.

 

[pete]

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307339262/?tag=thumpedcom-20

deadly

 

[rettucs]

i just got my christmas reading sorted. purhcased the following

this is hard enough going. But my advice is to persist. It seems like its going nowhere for a while, but the last third or so of the book makes it worth the effort.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

disturbing but beautifully executed

 

[David Kronenbourg]

my fourth go. previous attempts have seen me giving up at around the halfway mark. determined it to finish it this time. seeing as i currently have no job it might be feasible

 

[Jim Daniels]

He's kind of mad isn't he? I read the "Forty" version. Twenty more might send me over the edge. A good edge all the same...

 

[David Kronenbourg]

He's kind of mad isn't he? I read the "Forty" version. Twenty more might send me over the edge. A good edge all the same...

yeah i know what you mean. he's like a mad scientist. his use of language is like deadly.

 

[Ltbt]

Reading "The Illuminatus Trilogy" by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. It's very amusing.

That book is far out.|..| I took it from my bro's room one night befgore a long haul flight

 

[Ltbt]

 

[Unicron]

 

[hermie]

Just finished:

excellent. Alex Garland has just finished an adapted screenplay apparently. I'm sceptical

 

[sarah]

Just finished:

excellent. Alex Garland has just finished an adapted screenplay apparently. I'm sceptical

ooh good to hear it's worth the read have had that lying around for a while might hit that next... just finishing:

About the founding of New York very very enjoyable... lots of interesting little facts as in the origin of the phrase mad as a Hatter etc