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What are you reading at the moment
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I know this has been done before (I think by me) but i think its always a good thread to have.
So what are you reading at the moment?
I am reading Martina Cole - Two Women.
Just started it so can't really comment on it, been good so far. :thumb:
So what are you reading at the moment?
I am reading Martina Cole - Two Women.
Just started it so can't really comment on it, been good so far. :thumb:
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Then I have Vikram Seth - Two Lives, The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenger and The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafron.
Now I'm re-reading Leonard Cohen's 'Beautiful Losers', and am getting a lot more out of it this time around.
After that I've got 'The Penelopiad' by Margaret Atwood and 'That Old Ace in the Hole' by Annie Proulx lined up. The former shouldn't take me long, it looks like an extremely quick read. But both were Xmas presents, I can't wait to get stuck in!
At the moment, i'm finishing the final volume of great expectations, then it's straight into oroonoko by Aphra Behn.
but i'll prob finish that tonight then i'll need another trip to book shop. buy a load to last me to end of month. I normally read a book per week. two if its a big one.
Not recreationally - have to review the book.
Clive Cussler - Pacific Vortex.
The latter I highly recommend. It is one of the most fascinating novels I have ever read. Very well written, high standard of english and very mysterious.
Second part of the Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorson series. Sabriel was awesome, Lirael is proving to be just as good
I recomend them. Especially if you've read Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy :yes:
Read those 4 years ago. Really stimulating as I was 10 then.
Somehow my English is awful on these boards. I'm probably not good in writing in first person perhaps - or my terrible social skills. I try so hard though.
Good it doesn't happen outside the boards.
The other Pullman books are crap though.
:no: Not true (though he's a friend of my Mummy's so I'm biased )
Fear and Loathing was just too good so I had to get another one his works, this one is good so far too. This man is or was a brilliant author.
Was, and I agree. :yes:
Supposedly a film's being made of The Rum Diary, fingers crossed.
The Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War Vol 1 by Robert Alexander
The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton
Drugs and Addictive Behaviour by Hamid Ghodse
Hmmmm...maybe I need a novel for light relief...
Quite enjoying it so far.
I think it might be my favourite book of all-time, must read it again soon (thanks for the reminder there)!
Watership Down
Catch 22 (STILL)
Hamlet
Haha! My Mum got it me for Christmas. I'm not one for self-help books but its sooo good and not at all cheesy
I'm also re-reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
the safe handling and disposal of asbestos by the health and safety executive.
signing of vehicles carrying hazardous waste by the ministry of sodding transport.
realy gripping stuff.
Yeah ...I loved those books, dark materials and abhorsen etc...
Reading one called 'the ragwitch' atm (also by garth nix) ... nothing like a bit of escapism ;p
I'm reading:
Julian May-Ironcrown Moon
Julian May-The Many Coloured Land
Aldous Huxley-Brave New World
George Orwell - Essays. Fantastic, fantastic, fantastic. Orwell has a mastery of common english unrivalled by any other 20th century author. His essays are funny, relevant and brilliant to dip in and out of.
Timothy Garton Ash - Free World. A passionate defence of free trade, enviromentalism and close relations between the US and Europe.
Jim Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath. My current novel. Not read that much of it yet but Steinbecks writing style is fantastic.
I think I need some lighter reading now though, so I'm hoping to buy The Undomestic Goddess from ASDA later, using my EMA (if it's come through...)