So...What you reading?

[Dylan]

Just finished up Ender's Game for the second time (first was back in 2000). Superb book, and I understand it so much more now I am older and have some life experience.

 

[ChicagoToffee]

Just finished "The Executioner's Song" by Norman Mailer. Outstanding read - Pulitzer Prize winning book.

She's a chore though - just a little over 1,000 pages but well freaking worth it.

Need any fuel for the capital punishment debate, check that. Very subtle but direct at the same time.

 

[Nordecke]

Based of a popular PC game I've played for the past 5 years

 

[atrottel]

Looking forward to The Given Day by Dennis Lehane.

Great book, by the way. Also finished the first of the Kenzie/Gennaro private detective series he wrote. (A Drink Before The War)

Now reading Patrick Leigh Fermor's first book: A Time of Gifts

At 18 he left home to walk the length of Europe; at 25, as an SOE agent, he kidnapped the German commander of Crete; now at 93, Patrick Leigh Fermor, arguably the greatest living travel writer, is publishing the nearest he may come to an autobiography.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3559958/Patrick-Leigh-Fermor-The-man-who-walked.html

 

[Tubey]

I'm reading Bram Stoker's Dracula for the first time. Very well written, hasn't aged much thanks to it's style which is in the form of diary extracts from various people. I actually think this book would have been the inspiration for the Blair Witch Project as it gives the same sort of intense build up in atmosphere in a subtle way.

Deserves it's reputation as a literary classic for sure.

 

[Sharpys top lip]

Noel 'Razor' Smith.

Utter nut case an a great read.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

Good shouts on Bill Bryson. Recently finished 'Troublesome Words' Superb reference book if you're into language and entertaining at the same time. Like.

 

[Clint Planet]

Absolutely enthralling. You'd think it might be slightly boring subject matter but Deutscher is both brilliant and humorous and the book is full of "You're kidding me!" moments.

 

[Oxon]

For an essay on religion and the French revolution, I look forward to summer when I can just read for fun once again.

 

[Silas]

Tom Holt's "You don't have to be evil to work here but it helps". Imagine The Office crossed with Harry Potter.

 

[Jib in lad]

Just finished re-reading Eric Newbys , A short walk in the hindu kush .

Great shout on Patrick leigh Fermor what a writer that man is also what a man , he has lived some life like .