What are you reading?

fou chien · Post by **fou chien** » Fri May 16, 2008 5:38 am

Prefer to gravitate to something with an historical bent with at least one foot in non-fiction.....Josh Slocum auto, Forrester's 'The Gun',Xavier Herbert's 'Capricornia', La Pierre's 'Freedom At Midnight'.It's interesting seeing so many old school texts coming up for mention-Camus,Huxley,etc.Weren't ready for them in senior school/simply forced to consume it?Was there a text that you were given at school that you couldn't put down?Is a good teacher essentially someone who knows when to shut up and let you discover and not necessarily over-analyse it to death?

dali · Post by **dali** » Fri May 16, 2008 6:07 pm

triky wrote:
datura wrote: the first film was pretty horrible
noted... thanx

I disagree... I haven't read the book/s yet but the film got me going... but I am a sucker for fantasy.

ajantis_art · Post by **ajantis_art** » Mon May 19, 2008 6:10 pm

"the second angel" - phillip kerr. well good so far

AFL · Post by **AFL** » Mon May 19, 2008 9:41 pm

Just finished the first of the Word & the Void series called Running With The Demon by Terry Brooks. Great story, well written and keeps you guessing. I'm looking forward to getting into the rest.

About to start The Mist and the I Am Legend as I want to see how they differ from the movies.

diss04 · Post by **diss04** » Tue May 20, 2008 4:58 pm

can anyone recommend me some good crime novels in the style of writers like elmore leonard (my favourite) and james ellroy (second favourite)? cheers in advance fellas and females.

daisydukes · Post by **daisydukes** » Tue May 20, 2008 5:18 pm

castle of otranto- horace walpole, one of the founding gothic horror novels

Jubz · Post by **Jubz** » Tue May 20, 2008 5:32 pm

The Man In the High Castle - Philip K. Dick

datura · Post by **datura** » Tue May 20, 2008 6:09 pm

Jubscarz wrote:The Man In the High Castle - Philip K. Dick

Brilliant book prob my favourite PKD book so far.

I just finished Flowers For Algernon which was excellent, prob the best book I've read in a long time, would recommend it to anyone.

Just started The Fight by Norman Mailer about the Ali vs Foreman fight in Zaire.

charlie_g · Post by **charlie_g** » Wed May 21, 2008 9:44 am

I'm currently reading 'Kafka On The Shore' by Haruki Murakami. Great author, great book. Another favourite of his that he's written, is 'The Wild Sheep Chase'. They're both quite strange, but very compulsive.
'Flowers For Algernon' is suberb. Definitely in my top 10 of all time.

ands · Post by **ands** » Wed May 21, 2008 8:45 pm

Charlie_G wrote:I'm currently reading 'Kafka On The Shore' by Haruki Murakami. Great author, great book. Another favourite of his that he's written, is 'The Wild Sheep Chase'. They're both quite strange, but very compulsive.

I'd like to read both of these. The last I read of his was Hardboiled Wonderland and The End of the World, and it was like pulling teeth to get through to the end. I've only read this and After Dark, which was pleasant, though I hear it's not really a classic of his.

dali · Post by **dali** » Thu May 22, 2008 2:38 pm

Diss04 wrote:can anyone recommend me some good crime novels in the style of writers like elmore leonard (my favourite) and james ellroy (second favourite)? cheers in advance fellas and females.

don't know either of those authors... sorry...

But for true crime I read Devil in the White City this year... covers the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago in the late 1800's with the juxtaposition of America's first "serial killer" H.H. Holmes.

Very cool book as it reads like a novel but it as true to fact as it can be from the records. Also delves into the history of Architecture in Chicago as well as other cites.

I read the more fabricated (IMHO) book covering just the H.H. Holmes thing called Depraved too... more of a trashy version... felt like the the only real facts in it came from Devil in the White City... but you may enjoy it too.

smutek · Post by **smutek** » Thu May 22, 2008 5:14 pm

Pity the Nation, The Abduction of Lebanon - - - Robert Fisk

Fantastic read, if your into this sort of stuff.

peace

dilatedjunkie · Post by **dilatedjunkie** » Fri May 23, 2008 8:08 am

just finished "Choke" by Palahniuk
currently rereading "Confessions of an Economic Hitman"

safety* · Post by safety* » Fri May 23, 2008 10:08 am

i'm all about the crime fiction. reading down on ponce by fred willard. it's one of your better crime reads. very funny book.

safety* · Post by safety* » Fri May 23, 2008 10:13 am

anyone a chuck palahniuk fan. i fuckin' loved survivor so much i read it twice a row and haunted was one of the most entertaining books i've read, i think.

dali · Post by **dali** » Fri May 23, 2008 6:55 pm

safety* wrote:anyone a chuck palahniuk fan. i fuckin' loved survivor so much i read it twice a row and haunted was one of the most entertaining books i've read, i think.

Been working through his stuff... Choke movie, out later this year...

Read Survivor, Choke, Fight Club... now Lullaby then Haunted

His writing is quirky... reminds me of Brett Easton mixed with David Sedaris.

trap · Post by **trap** » Sat May 24, 2008 8:53 am

Nice to sit and chill with in five minute bursts. There's some quite motivational stuff in there.

paolo · Post by **paolo** » Sun May 25, 2008 1:58 pm

Diss04 wrote:can anyone recommend me some good crime novels in the style of writers like elmore leonard (my favourite) and james ellroy (second favourite)? cheers in advance fellas and females.

George Pelecanos and James Lee Burke are very good

concept_ · Post by **concept_** » Tue May 27, 2008 10:30 am

im reading Vernon God Little atm. It is a bit of a wierd book- not sure I like or can relate to the writing or narrative style, or the humour which is derived entirely from (debatable) teenage angst. I was an angsty teenager just some years ago, but cannot relate with a lot of the humour or its route cause. Maybe its jut me as it won the booker prize, and I've heard a lot of good about it

diss04 · Post by **diss04** » Tue May 27, 2008 11:47 am

paolo wrote:
Diss04 wrote:can anyone recommend me some good crime novels in the style of writers like elmore leonard (my favourite) and james ellroy (second favourite)? cheers in advance fellas and females.
George Pelecanos and James Lee Burke are very good

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