What are you reading?

[kay]

Un_lun_dun is really dope though in a enjoyable kids book way

Ah good to know, have been thinking of picking that up at some point!

[firky]

One of my favourite authors, read it a hundred times but I get a lot out of his stuff.

[AnalGangstaHo]

'Hey Nostradamus' by Douglas Coupland. Read about him in some magazine I found on the train and have since bought a load of his books. Great stuff

[Uncle Mike]

"Templates upon neurotic dysfunctional irregularites within the slip-stream (open eye dream)"

by John. J. Jumping Jack Quality Jizz Material

[symmetricalsounds]

[grimesceneinvestigation]

writings on drawings



a book that is a compilation of requested essays by different people about drawing

[slothrop]

Oh, and I'm not currently reading it and have already mentioned it upthread, but everyone should read

because it's brilliant.

Sounds shit, isn't it just another "magical negro" tale?

Er, no.

It's about a fat nerdy New York dominican kid and his ongoing failure to get his end away, with a lot of backstory about his family's life in the Dominican Republic under the Trujillo regime...

[slothrop]

For me, China Mieville's Perdido St Station series wasn't amazing from the point of view of the story, but his style/prose. The atmosphere was present from the very first page, which isn't something that's that common in sci-fi/fantasy. The other two books might be slightly better from the story perspective. But again, I think it was more possibly more a case of reading for his writing than the stories which did it for me.

The City & The City's sitting in my to-read pile. Read King Rat recently, the style's quite different. I'd be curious if anyone into DnB back in the day has read it as it makes a fair bit of reference to the music in its earlier days (which was when it was written), and what they think of his portrayal of it.

i think anything succesful inevitably becomes a victim of it's own PR. I read for pleasure though and am not going to over-think it too much, it's just as satisafying sometimes to read a trashy trashy terry pratchet novel as it is to read a balletic Alastair Reynolds...

Yeah, true, although I basically didn't find Perdido Street Station to be that much fun to read. (And I enjoy Pratchett a lot...)

Kay - thanks, I kind of see what you mean there. I do remember some really good scenes, now you mention it - the bit in the slaughterhouse, the various descriptions of neighbourhoods in the city, the opening bit on the barge, all that stuff. I guess I'd let my expectations get rather over the top based on the number of people who get excited about it...I'd love to read his short stories, actually.

[hayze99]

aaaand



Both are amazing.

[hayze99]

I went a big ahead of myself and bought:



Good peice of art on the cover, even if i don't understand it.

Started reading that a while ago, and I'm sure this is going to bring a lot of criticism, but after reading the first quarter and being very patient, I just thought he was too much of a smug tnuc to be able to bear it. I just can't stand the way he writes - as if he's the smartest most insightful motherfucker on Earth. Which overall is the main reason why I stopped bothering reading philosophy and turned to science-with-a-pinch-of-philosophy writers. Last thing I read is suggestions about how the human mind might work according to quantum physics and the unity of the two spectrums of physics theory:



Badness

[jazzamataz]

For Class:
Ann Rule - The stranger beside me.
It's a biography of Ted Bundy - pretty decent too might I add.

For Fun:
Michele Giuttari - A Florentine death.
The first book of three, that's suppsoedly "The Godfather," for the Noughties generation. Only just started it, so will let you know how it goes.

Lined up:
Zadie Smith - On Beauty.
Having read "White teeth," and "The autograph man," though I may as well read this one too.

[deadly_habit]

[dutty_switch]

I'm (trying) to read Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell but its really hard going. Anyone else read this and found it a struggle or am I just dense?

[nr]

dope! dark humour and an easy read.

[Coppola]

The Watchmen

[BNanni]

[tr0tsky]

The Origins of the Second World War by A J P Taylor.

One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject accessible to millions, A.J.P. Taylor caused a storm of outrage with this scandalous bestseller. Debunking what were accepted truths about the Second World War, he argued provocatively that Hitler did not set out to cause the war as part of an evil master plan, but blundered into it partly by accident, aided by the shortcomings of others. Fiercely attacked for vindicating Hitler, A.J.P. Taylor stringent re-examination of the events preceding the izan invasion of Poland on 1st September 1939 opened up new debate, and is now recognized as a brilliant and classic piece of scholarly research.Highly original and penetrating; No one who has digested this enthralling work will ever be able to look at the period again in quite the same way

Fantastic historian and excellent book.

Anyone interested in reading historiography from a whole different perspective needs to pick this shit up.

[bandshell]

Used to read this when I was a kid. Still great.

[paolo]

William Faulkner - The Sound And The Fury

Lovecraft

[dreamizm]

100 yEARS oF sOLITUDE IS good but keeping up with the characters/family is loooong