What book are you currently reading?

[Laetca]

Shtove, Hastings is in the books most of the time

I'll write down your suggestions for me 'some day' reading.

Apparantly I'll be reading:
Peter Childs, 'Modernism' (series: 'The New Critical Idiom').
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
W. B. Yeats, 'Sailing to Byzantium'; 'Easter, 1916'; 'The Second Coming'
T. S. Eliot, Prufrock; Tradition and the Individual Talent
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
James Joyce, from: Dubliners: The Dead
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons
John Millington Synge, The Playboy of the Western World
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
Samuel Beckett, Murphy
Jonathan Coe, What A Carve Up!
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
Toni Morrison, Beloved
Don DeLillo, White Noise

 

[Sir Speedy]

I'm currently reading Time Enough For Love by Robert Heinlein; a story about the oldest* man to have lived.

*23 centuries via rejuvenation and a healthy genetic background.

 

[Sarwan13]

rugby league week haha...harry potter and the halfblood prince i spose

 

[Axl_Rose]

Tokyo Year Zero. Luv a good crime Novel.

 

[melon]

Going to read The Third Policeman.

After that I'll get in to the Tom Clancy books...I've recently acquired several of the books, which I've never had the pleasure of reading.

First on the agenda: Rainbow Six.

 

[Harpy106]

Going to read The Third Policeman.

After that I'll get in to the Tom Clancy books...I've recently acquired several of the books, which I've never had the pleasure of reading.

First on the agenda: Rainbow Six.
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Melon, a bit of advice - read Without Remorse first, as an intro to the lead character.

Currently re-reading Jeffery Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme series.

 

[Sir Speedy]

Reading Dune by Frank Herbert (judging by what the critics on the back cover say, 'nuff said.)

 

[alexrugby]

Hello guys I recommend you to read Saul Bellow

was an acclaimed Canadian-born American writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 and the National Medal of Arts in 1988.

Bellow is best known for writing novels that investigate isolation, spiritual dissociation, and the possibilities of human awakening. Bellow drew inspiration from Chicago, his hometown, and he set much of his fiction there. His works exhibit a mix of high and low culture, and his fictional characters are also a potent mix of intellectual dreamers and street-smart confidence men.


Amazing man amazing works

 

[Laetca]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (LeksoRugby @ Sep 5 2008, 09:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

Hello guys I recommend you to read Saul Bellow

was an acclaimed Canadian-born American writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 and the National Medal of Arts in 1988.

Bellow is best known for writing novels that investigate isolation, spiritual dissociation, and the possibilities of human awakening. Bellow drew inspiration from Chicago, his hometown, and he set much of his fiction there. His works exhibit a mix of high and low culture, and his fictional characters are also a potent mix of intellectual dreamers and street-smart confidence men.


Amazing man amazing works

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We read his "Seize the Day" last year for Nobel Prize Winners, and I have to admit I never quite got all of it.
Going to read "The Kite Runner" one of these days, my cousin told me to read it as he thought I'd like it (I'm one of the more boring people in the family, I'm actually known for reading, how bad can it get?)

 

[Sir Speedy]

Well, I took English for my AS/A2 studies and now I have been bombarded with three books in a week. Yay! Bram Stoker's Dracula, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Kindertransport (a play, rather than a story) by Diane Samuels. Should keep me entertained for a week then. ^__^

 

[shtove]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Sir. Speedy @ Sep 24 2008, 08:02 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

Well, I took English for my AS/A2 studies and now I have been bombarded with three books in a week. Yay! Bram Stoker's Dracula, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Kindertransport (a play, rather than a story) by Diane Samuels. Should keep me entertained for a week then. ^__^[/b]

Dracula is weirder than you might expect - better than Frankenstein - and Witjeromg Jeogjts (looks strangely Dutch if you get the right-hand typing out by one space) is weird as well. Kindertransport is probably even weirder, because those farking weirdos cnat spel thees daies.

 

[Woldog]

Just finished all of Lee Child's books.

To the person who is going to read Rainbow Six; It will bore the hell out of you while Tom Clancy writes in detail about whats in some guys drinks cabinet.

 

[melon]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Woldog @ Sep 24 2008, 09:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

Just finished all of Lee Child's books.

To the person who is going to read Rainbow Six; It will bore the hell out of you while Tom Clancy writes in detail about whats in some guys drinks cabinet.[/b]

Perhaps some people enjoy the contents of drinks cabinets and all the small intricacies involved with the contents which are appreciated by these same people.

Do you suggest any other Tom Clancy books? I have almost all of them just haven't read them apart from the first couple of chapters of Hunt for Red October (I think thats what its called anyway).

 

[bates]

In no specific order i'm reading this week:

The introduction to Cubase SX ( just to refresh it )
Pitface by Herman Brusselmans ( Belgian writer)
Damn forgot the ***le but it's a book by Milan Kundera

And I'm also going through a book of the architectural masterpeices of Gaudi.

 

[Laetca]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Sir. Speedy @ Sep 23 2008, 10:02 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

Well, I took English for my AS/A2 studies and now I have been bombarded with three books in a week. Yay! Bram Stoker's Dracula, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Kindertransport (a play, rather than a story) by Diane Samuels. Should keep me entertained for a week then. ^__^[/b]

I liked Brönte's book the best of all the ones we had to read last year, and I'm glad I didn't take the Frankenstein class

I once started reading Dracula, never read on after the first chapter or so ^o)

 

[Woldog]

Hrmm, Hunt for Red October was alright, Patriot Games is good, Rainbow six should be left to near the end, though its alright, just has some VERY boring parts.

 

[Sir Speedy]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Laetca @ Sep 29 2008, 10:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

I once started reading Dracula, never read on after the first chapter or so ^o)[/b]

But it gets so much better after Chapter 1!

 

[Prestwick]

Currently reading volume five or six of the Flasman series.

Currently Flashman is in the Far East at the time of the Taiping Rebellion, good ol' Flashy!

 

[Charles]

Just finished the Mars series by Kim S Robinson...not bad but the plot somehow disappears halfway through the books, too bad.

Also strongly recommend the Riverworld seris, by P J Farmer...

 

[shtove]

Manias, Panics and Crashes by Charles P. Kindleberger - written in the '70s, updated in 2000.

Want to figure out what's about to happen over the next ten years? Read it here.

Oh, how our grandchildren will laugh about how their grandparents were so poor they had to wipe their arses with old copies of the Financial Times.