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I've started reading Black Swan. It's interesting thus far. Pop philosophy book about unpredictability of major events.

Not a book but I read The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button last night.

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.

"Moorcock, moorock, michael moorcock, you fervently moan"

It's a very short book, the usual readable Roth style. Variously comical and sad. The way he writes families is brilliant. It also seems to be a not very subtle satire on GW Bush-era America.

I liked The Road but I know what ya mean.

The last week and a bit I've read Fastfood Nation, a much much better book than I would have thought. I recommend it to anyone interested in American culture and the like. It came out at around the same time as No Logo but I reckon it's the stronger of the two. Certain chapters cover similar...

I am currently reading PD James' Children of Men. I saw the film and then later found the book on the shelf here at home so thought I would give it a look. The film is rather different from the book. I found it kind of depressing. It deals in depth with what a world would be like where no...

Currently reading Old Bones & Shallow Graves: The Untold Story of The Irish-American Gangster by T.J. English. It's quite interesting in parts.

Rereading Ravelstein by Saul Bellow.

White Teeth's pretty good but it goes a bit bocketty towards the end.