What book is everyone reading at the moment?

[Mr Clingford]

I think it's more so that when people ask me if I've read it, I can say, "Yes. Yes, I have." So far, it's not too bad. Mediocre to poor writing style, but fast-paced enough to maintain interest. What I keep wondering is how many of the interesting trivia items in it are real vs made up?

Fair enough - I hope you were able to borrow a copy! I have imagined it would be as you describe; I would probably be hooked on knowing how things worked out but would be driven nuts by the poor, boring style and its copious inaccuracies in everything. Someone said it was a page-turner in the sense that there is so little to a page that you pass through so quickly.

 

[Rip Van Woofer]

Just finished "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy. A sad family tale set in southern India. Won the Booker Prize.

 

[Aristides]

I have Viriconium by M. John Harrison opened up before me. After that, it's onto a biography of H.L. Mencken and then back to some dead Romans and Greeks.

 

[ZirconBlue]

Fair enough - I hope you were able to borrow a copy! I have imagined it would be as you describe; I would probably be hooked on knowing how things worked out but would be driven nuts by the poor, boring style and its copious inaccuracies in everything. Someone said it was a page-turner in the sense that there is so little to a page that you pass through so quickly.

My brother and his wife loaned it to me. I had said to them that I wasn't willing to pay hardcover price, so they loaned it to me. Now, I have to read it....

 

[Jon.]

Just finished Life Of Pi (see my other thread if you've read it and can help me with the ending!) and now starting on Sagan: A Life by Keay Davidson.

 

[Terry]

Breaking the spell, Daniel Dennett.

 

[Donks]

The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks.

And one day i will go back to Tono Bungay

 

[Dcdrac]

Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim's Journey to Guantanamo and Back
Moazzam Begg, Victoria Brittain

 

[Jmasley1]

Now I am reading Breaking the Spell by Daniel Dennett. Great book.

 

[Dcdrac]

I am rereading To Kill A Mocking Bird

 

[Piscivore]

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

 

[The Whether Man]

Timequake - Kurt Vonnegut

 

[TriangleMan]

Now reading AIDS in the Twenty-First Century: Disease and Globalization. The impact of AIDS in many African countries is astounding and it looks like without some serious prevention efforts both India and China are going to see infection rates skyrocket over the next decade.

 

[Jorghnassen]

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

Obsessive Lost fan, aren't we?

 

[Forty-Two]

On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins

 

[Piscivore]

Obsessive Lost fan, aren't we?

Not quite obsessive, but yes. A darn good read, regardless.

 

[Jon.]

Just finished Life Of Pi (see my other thread if you've read it and can help me with the ending!) and now starting on Sagan: A Life by Keay Davidson.

Finished the Sagan book. Not bad, certainly not a hagiography of Sagan (perhaps of Ann Druyan) and it has certainly pointed me in some interesting directions for future reading.

Now re-reading Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins, which I read years ago for a college course. Lightweight, quirky fun with reasonably good sex scenes.

 

[IllegalArgument]

The Mating Mind by Geoffrey Miller.

Very well written.

 

[Jeff Corey]

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett.
Pedictably funny.

 

[Mr Clingford]

Now re-reading Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins, which I read years ago for a college course. Lightweight, quirky fun with reasonably good sex scenes.

I hope that the book is good because the film was really awful - it just didn't work at all. I could see that behind it all the book might be good but it didn't translate well to the screen. I couldn't wait for it to be over.