What Book Did You Read Last Night??? (12 Viewers)

[Duncan_Thaw]

^Yes! Purchase it at once. Man, I'd love to have not read it just so I could experience for the first time... his next book Only Revolutions looks like one to avoid though.

At the minute I'm reading What A Carve Up by Jonathan Coe.

 

[cyclotron]

"Black Elk Speaks" - conversations with the Sioux Medicine man...incredible. Eloquent and totally fearless. And neurosis free.

 

[Super Dexta]

I've been thinking of reading that Danielewski book.. we have it on work and it looks good. Friend of mine just spent thirty quid on it like an eejit when I could've taken it out of work for six weeks for him for free.
Finally finished my FC Ware and John Carey books the other night, started into HP Lovecraft- Call of Cthulu and Other Stories (surprise acquisition through work, lovely)
After that I have two Arthur C Clarkes and the latest Don DeLillo to get through, and then I'll think about the Danielewski book..

 

[travispickle]

Finished The Rotter's Club by Jonathon Coe a short while ago; now onto Atonement by Ian McEwan. After that I've got Specimen Days lined up. After that I'm washing my hair.

 

[david jatt]

Finished "The Handmaids Tale" by Margaret Atwood. It left me very cold.

 

[MDR]

Am reading Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy

 

[pete]

Finally finished The God Delusion today. Good book that.

 

[MDR]

I've just finished two collections of the short stories of Jorge Louis Borges; a slightly pervy book by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas LLosa called In Praise of the Stepmother; and am now reading The Tango Singer by Tomas Eloy Martinez.

 

[david jatt]

"Miss Wyoming" by Douglas Coupland. Very entertaining.

 

[magicbastarder]

finished the end of oil by paul roberts recently. he needs to hire a good proofreader.

 

[Mitchum]

The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles. It's a classic.

Going to start on Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell tonight. Ah I might just watch Big Brother instead.

 

[david jatt]

Read a good bit of "Pulp" by Charles Bukowski. Much funnier then I thought it would be. Expected something exclusively hardboiled from it.

 

[MDR]

I have just started Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. I'm about a hundred pages into it and so far the plot has good momentum, characters very well drawn and it is peppered with plenty of morality - it's quite a long book but I think it will be worth the effort.

 

[david jatt]

several pages of "Until I find you" by John Irving and several chapters of "The killing Kind" by John Connolly.

 

[Daisy's Dukes]

Currently 3/4 way into Digging to America by Anne Tyler. Enjoyable enough

 

[Super Dexta]

the new don delillo is very tedious. reading 'the long tail' instead.

 

[pete]

started reading The Road on the bus home from work this evening & finished it there about 10 minutes ago. Fucking incredible.

 

[Mitchum]

started reading The Road on the bus home from work this evening & finished it there about 10 minutes ago. Fucking incredible.

Yup...thoroughly enjoyed it myself. Ditto No Country For Old Men.

I struggled with the Border Trilogy but got there in the end. worth the perseverence once I got used to his sparse, muscular prose style.

An American giant.

 

[david jatt]

struggled with the Border Trilogy but got there in the end. worth the perseverence once I got used to his sparse, muscular prose style.

An American giant.

Found the Border Trilogy very hard work so didnt finish it, I equally lost interest in Blood Meridian towards the end. I think that classifies me as not being especially partial to Cormac McCarthy, though I did enjoy The Road.

 

[IFF]

i'm nearly finished "house of the spirits" by isabel allende

i'm just really enjoying it. very good so far