What are you all reading at the moment

[Bollo]

The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon (and I haven't even seen an episode of The Wire)

 

[Bollo]

Confederacy of Dunces is superb. I read it 15 years ago and loved it.

+1 I've re-read it a few times and it always cracks me up

 

[jassy-x]

...CycleChat....

Comedian eh!

...not trying to be funny....honest!!!...I don't read books, magazines or newspapers....so it really just comes down to surfing the net (hence CycleChat) while I'm supposed to be working....
....I don't have the imagination or attention span to read....(started reading 'Papillon' once and it would probably have taken me longer to finish it than it took for Ms.Charriere to escape from the island...)...I'll always opt for the lazy option of TV and movies...

Kitchener's Last Volunteer - the semi autobiography of Henry Allingham, the oldest surviving person to fight in the First World War - he's 112.

Oh, and on his 100th birthday he went for a bike ride!

...now if I was into reading this is the type of book I would go for....

 

[Shaun]

Recent reads:
Blaze - Stephen King
Along Came a Spider [Alex Cross] - James Patterson

Just started on:
Duma Key - Stephen King

 

[marinyork]

Don Quixote
Castle Dor (Daphne Du Maurier)

 

[dan_bo]

Do you think so? I enjoyed selfish gene, blind watchmaker etc. years ago but had to stick GD in the bin after a hundred pages as it was so dire.

It's the first of his i've read-Very clear, concise, fair and intelligent writing. what was it you dint like?

 

[rich p]

It was ok but it repeated the same argument ad nauseam.

 

[LLB]

Harry Potter

 

[marinyork]

It's the first of his i've read-Very clear, concise, fair and intelligent writing. what was it you dint like?

Not read GD, read all of his (some quite a while back) and his later offerings that were more essay based, he's a pretty good essay writer (e.g. Son of Moore's Law), can't really imagine it being scaled up to several hundred pages!

 

[Tetedelacourse]

John The Monkey's brand spanking copy of a cycling book which I'll not name in case folk start asking for it, cos he wants it back probably about 2 months ago (sorry, I had a backlog too and I read at glacial pace).

Anyway John I'm about a 1/3rd of the way through and hope to get it finished in the next few weeks. So far it's not bad.

 

[swee'pea99]

I've probably averaged a book a week throughout my adult life and Don Quixote's one of no more than half a dozen books I've given up on in that time. So boring....and so loooooooooooooooooooooooooong......

(Mind you, I read Dostoevsky's The Idiot right to the end, and I wish I'd never bothered. Crime & Punishment's great, but The Idiot's worse than Don Quixote.)

 

[marinyork]

Did you not find it funny swee'pea99?

 

[Llama]

Currently I'm reading the new Jonathan Coe book - The Rain Before It Falls pretty good too.

 

[derall]

Just finished: Stanislaw Lem ~ The Chain of Chance
Just Started: Neal Stphenson ~ Anathem

 

[billyous]

Don Quixote
Castle Dor (Daphne Du Maurier)

The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon (and I haven't even seen an episode of The Wire)

I'm reading Homicide, too. Excellent so far, and I have watched all of The Wire. Brilliant.

The Retreat Of Reason - Anthony Browne.