Books - What are you reading?

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Why hadn't I read this before it's compelling

I started the most recent Matt Reilly Scarecrow book (army of thieves) same toss, but quite compelling.
It's a no-brain action film, in literary form.
Surprised they haven't been made into an action film vehicle for Jeremy Renner yet

I just read this:

The Art of Fielding: Amazon.co.uk: Chad Harbach: Books

Disclosure that it is published by my employers, but it is a really excellent novel. Well worth a read.

Just finished dances with dragons and the hunger games, now on to treasure island.......
should be reading boring manuals. Boring manuals? gtfo

Now starting this:

Pedalare! Pedalare! A History of Italian Cycling: Amazon.co.uk: John Foot: Books

It seems authors of cycling books are never great prose stylists, but it is interesting nonetheless.

Alfonsina Strada would be an awesome username for a woman.

I'm reading Last Exit To Brooklyn. I do really like it, very well-written and captures that kind of Tom Waits Romeo is Bleeding atmosphere of street fights and late night diners really well, but there's only so much domestic abuse, rape and senseless violence you can take in one sitting.

I just read this:

The Art of Fielding: Amazon.co.uk: Chad Harbach: Books

Disclosure that it is published by my employers, but it is a really excellent novel. Well worth a read.

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I just read that too. It's decent for a first go, and one needs to have serious love for baseball to really sink into it. I think he took on a little too much and found that it all couldn't be quite reigned in. I also think that the character chosen to be central gets lost, and the point of view kind of changes, away from personal to social/societal.

Asimovs foundation
Why hadn't I read this before it's compelling

I am so jealous. If you need any more in the (eleven?) had trilogy, then let me know, I have them all somewhere.

Incredible stuff.

Thanks mate
Will be in touch. Finished first book and on second
epic stuff
as good as dune
11 books in the trilogy??

i'm reading the secret history by donna tart and would definitely recommend it

Thanks mate
Will be in touch. Finished first book and on second
epic stuff
as good as dune
11 books in the trilogy??

If you include the robot books that are set in the same universe and have cross overs: caves of steel, robots of dawn etc. Also the prelude to foundation and the finale, forward the foundation.

Great stuff.

Ah yes I read the robot books... didn't realise they were linked to foundation.

Just read The Tigers Wife, definitely recommend it. Now reading Goodbye to Berlin by Chris Isherwood. Enjoyable tho nothing is really happening.

rumpole -the first omnibus

Hunger Games.
awaits flaming

Just got a copy of a friends first book - looking forward to reading it!

Here's a strange article regarding a book that has been recommended here;

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/24/mountaineer-joe-simpson-twitter-row

"I've never had children; I made it specifically impossible to have children

Crevasse wanker

Reading 'Pedalling to Hawaii' by Stevie Smith.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pedalling-To-Hawaii-Powered-Adventure/dp/1840244461

It is such a good read. One of those easy to read and thoroughly enjoyable books.

Finally getting round to finishing Embassytown by China Mieville, great book, it's damn hard to decide whether I like it more than the Bas-Lag books he did, but I'm very tempted by his King Rat and City & the City books which I'll probably read next.

Finally getting round to finishing Embassytown by China Mieville, great book, it's damn hard to decide whether I like it more than the Bas-Lag books he did, but I'm very tempted by his King Rat and City & the City books which I'll probably read next.

I've just discovered China Mieville in terms of his fiction work - I only really knew of his academic work before seeing his books in Waterstones. I read The City & The City and have just started on the first Bas Lag book. The City & The City is very good although it took some time to get to grips with the concept. Well worth a read.

I've just discovered China Mieville in terms of his fiction work - I only really knew of his academic work before seeing his books in Waterstones. I read The City & The City and have just started on the first Bas Lag book. The City & The City is very good although it took some time to get to grips with the concept. Well worth a read.

The concepts in Embassytown were a bit weighty to get into, you do find out that the 'immer' has next to no bearing on the book in the detail it goes into, just a nice little theoretical diversion.

I found Perdido Street Station to be fairly easy to get into though, much less grand unthinkable concepts in it, but the difficult concepts were fairly easy to understand in two pages or so, the Bas Lag books are excellent.

Agreed about Perdido Street Station - it has proven to be very easy to get into and a very good read. Still got a long way to go though.

Goodbye to all that, Robert Graves
God is not great, Christopher Hitchins
Neoaddix, Jon Courtney Grimwood
The Mint, T E Lawrence
and aloud to the girlfriend...
Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
The Pirates! in an adventure with whaling, Gideon Dafoe
William, Richmal Crompton

Just finished Embassytown and read through A Monster Calls, both of which are exceedingly good. Now moving onto a quick graphic novel and then probably trying out The City & The City, or maybe starting the Song of Ice and Fire books, hmmmmm.....