What book are you reading now?

Scroll to see replies

Finished Atonement by Ian McEwan. I thought it was OK and can see why there's so much hype about it, but it personally wasn't to my taste. Whatever, maybe I just don't understand high literature :p:

Reply 3921

ukebert

High Literature? :p:

I have loads of stuff to read but none that I really want to :frown:

I'll probably read a pratchett again.

Reply 3922

~ Purple Rose ~

PS Reviewer

Wife in the Fast Lane - Karen Quinn.

Reply 3923

Excalibur

ukebert

High Literature? :p:

I have loads of stuff to read but none that I really want to :frown:

I'll probably read a pratchett again.

Haha, well, all the reviews rave about its imagery/writing style whatever, but I just don't really get it. Good thing I dropped English Lit at the first opportunity then :wink:

I think I'll read A Thousand Splendid Turns next - I read The Kite Runner yonks ago but I remember enjoying it.

Reply 3924

abc101

Just finished 'Innocent Traitor' - really good! Nearly cried reading the last page. Such a sad tale...argh I hate Mary I! Very well-written, and really interesting to see history laid out in novel form.

Reply 3925

m i l o

Just started 'Amazing Grace' by Danielle Steel. Hope it's worth the buy. :smile:

Reply 3926

LDLibra

Now reading Martina Cole - The Ladykiller. Is quite a graphic novel actually, and judging by the first 100 pages, might be quite hard to read, but we shall see :smile:

Reply 3927

WaW™

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khalid Hosseini.

Great book, cultural and different not to say the least it was saddening too.

Reply 3928

Catsmeat

Last night I finished;

Umberto Eco - the Name of the Rose

And started;

Frank Herbert - Dune Messiah

Reply 3929

the_alba

Vol.II.i of Walter Benjamin's Selected Writings

Against the Day - Thomas Pynchon

The Informer - Liam O'Flaherty (much over-looked Irish writer (1896 - 1984); the opening page is one of the most gripping and tension-building I've read).

Reply 3930

Magickal_Faerie

I just finished 'The Lovely Bones' by Alice Sebold for the third time. I keep finding new things in it!

Reply 3931

affinity89

A Factory Of Cunning by Philippa Stockley =D

Reply 3932

rottcodd

On the Genealogy of Morals, by Nietzsche.

Reply 3933

forpolarbears

Ghostwritten & Black Swan Green- David Mitchell

so far I've read 6 books this week. i love break! :smile:

Reply 3934

ukebert

Thomas the Tank Engine :redface:

Hey, I'm ill :p:

Reply 3935

Grape190190

'Ludmilla's Broken English' -- 'tis by D.B.C. Pierre, the guy who wrote Vernon God Little (which is why I'm reading it, I suppose). It's alright, not as good as VGL.

Last few weeks: I read The Old Man and the Sea -- Hemmingway, oh god, I love Hemmingway. And, er, before that it may have been Fahrenheit 451 --Ray Bradbury -- which was okay-ish, but a bit dissapointing when it came down to it. I thought it was gonna blow me away like Orwell, but naaaaaaah. Still good, though.

Oh, and I'm theoretically reading Emma for school, but it's s-s-s-**** and dull and wordy as hell and yawn-inducing and-! shut up!

Reply 3936

ukebert

Read "Night Watch" last night, finishing it at 02:30 :redface:

I still think it's one of his best.

Reply 3937

~ Purple Rose ~

PS Reviewer

The Street Lawyer by John Grisham.

Reply 3938

Mr. Orange

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson

It's great!

Bryson.jpg3.4KB

Reply 3939

BigScouser

Still on Boys From The Mersey by Nicky Allt and Tales From The Travelling Kop. Will be starting on Kevin Sampson's Awaydays and the highly-acclaimed Here We Go Gathering Cups In May