What are you reading?

dubluke · Post by **dubluke** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 10:19 am

Just started The Great Gatsby again, have read part of it before and didn't get into it that much, but thought i'd see if it clicked a bit more on a second go

ttam · Post by **ttam** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 12:13 pm

just finished a book called Salmon Fishing in The Yemen by Paul Torday, comedy political satire highlighting the stupidity of out spin-doctor political society, recomend it very much!

pdomino · Post by **pdomino** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 12:52 pm

'Improve your life in 7 steps' written by the Big Issue founder John Bird.

datura · Post by **datura** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:18 pm

dubluke wrote:Just started The Great Gatsby again, have read part of it before and didn't get into it that much, but thought i'd see if it clicked a bit more on a second go

I really enjoyed it, Tender is The Night was hard going though.

jah know · Post by **jah know** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 2:52 am

Our Many Selves - Sri Aurobindo

onelouder · Post by **onelouder** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 4:03 am

ttam wrote:just finished a book called Salmon Fishing in The Yemen by Paul Torday, comedy political satire highlighting the stupidity of out spin-doctor political society, recomend it very much!

Its a good 'un, this un. Just finished 'Chicago' by Alaa Al Aswany. Excellent read.

kruptah · Post by **kruptah** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 11:22 am

dubstep_warrior · Post by **dubstep_warrior** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 3:01 pm

Just starting 9/11 and American Empire/Intellectual speak out.
Anyone read it?

trap · Post by **trap** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:15 pm

I'm miles behind.

I started Phillip Pullman's The Subtle Knife just after Christmas and still have to finish it off.

Hopefully then I'll move onto The Amber Spyglass - never got round to it on my first venture into the trilogy.

My brother got me Mein Kampf for Christmas, so I guess that'll be the conquest after. Can't wait

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hornblas · Post by **hornblas** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:40 pm

USER: Infotechnodemo - Peter Lunenfeld

Dancehall - Beth Lesser

Capital and Language - Christian Marazzi

ajantis_art · Post by **ajantis_art** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 11:22 pm

this thread

cogidubnus · Post by **cogidubnus** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 7:55 pm

I've started on Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, although I'm thinking it might have been a mistake...

Nearly finished the first of three 1000-page volumes, and I must have been reading it since October which is a ridiculously long time. It's a great novel, no doubt, but the time it's taking to get through is starting to get to me.

Anyone here read the whole cycle?

Coppola · Post by **Coppola** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 7:58 pm

The Business by Iain Banks

aim · Post by **aim** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:55 pm

The rum diary by the late hunter s thompson for the second time.

Their in the middle of making the film

slothrop · Post by **slothrop** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:33 pm

I'm reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, and on the strength of the first third I can't recommend it enough. It's about an overweight latino nerd from Da Hood and the fuku curse on him and his family. It's brilliantly written with randoms bits of slangy spanish and uber geek references. Very funny, very cool, very readable.

missedthebus · Post by **missedthebus** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 2:33 pm

Pippa Norris - The Democratic Pheonix ..... riveting read

bandshell · Post by **bandshell** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 1:45 am

Trap wrote:

My brother got me Mein Kampf for Christmas, so I guess that'll be the conquest after. Can't wait !

Mein Kampf is tedious beyond belief, writing wasn't Hitler's strong point, I think he found his niche in the end (dick'ed)

DZA · Post by **DZA** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 2:02 am

nousd · Post by **nousd** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 7:25 am

Nixon's memoirs:
Why I am a self-deceiving tnuc.

legend4ry · Post by **legend4ry** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 8:55 am

Can anyone recommend any good music biography books? Rock/Blues stuff? Not really a fiction person, kinda like reading about peoples lifes when its not in a tabloid way..

, ive got Kurt Cobains journals and the Ian Curtis book "Torn Apart" anything along them lines would be fab.

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