What are you currently reading?

[Balthazar]

My friend keeps telling me to try fantasy stuff, so I eventually said I'd read The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. It's been much better than I ever imagined. A great story, but what really steals the show is how beautifully written it is.

 

[mrs the esk]

Well worth reading, just finished.

Good night!

Good night, sleep well xx

 

[McBain]

The Greatest Piece of British Literature Ever Wrote.

 

[SailorBlue]

"Bombs over Berlin" by Burt LANCASTER & Roberta FLACK

"They shall not pass" by Barry Cade

 

[sank]

''Heap House''

Is a treasure of a trash tale by Edward Carey...


It's an intelligent, thoughtful, compassionate book, unflinching in its depictions of casual cruelty and systematic exploitation.

Once I recovered, however, I resolved to read everything Carey's ever written, because Heap House is, its heart of trash notwithstanding, an absolute treasure…


Read it guys!

 

[Fuleco]

Nueromancer by William Gibson, not read much sci-fi.

S'alright.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

I'm near the end of 2666 by Roberto Bolano. Been reading a lot of light stuff recently and wanted to get back into something heavy - by Christ they don't come much heavier than this. Hard to discuss it without gushing superlatives, but it's an extremely intense and involving work - takes you into deep waters. Bolano is always full on, but here he uses the 'femicide' multiple murders of women in Cuidad Juarez as the centrepiece of the book - it packs an emotional wallop.

 

[RAFUH]

Wild by Cheryl Strayed
So far so good

 

[obc]

Tomb of the Inflatable Pig - tales of travels in Paraguay by a Briton that was here both for the Stroessner reign as well as early 2000's, after his demise.

Pretty funny all in ll. Unique perspective of a country that seems largely ignored.

 

[RaleighBlue]

Just finished up Kraken by China Mieville, before that was The City and The City.

I like New Weird.

Now - American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

 

[atrottel]

Just finished Under The Skin by Michel Faber (definitely worthwhile - made into the film where Scarlett Johansson drives around Scotland picking up hitchhikers) and started A River In May by Edward Wilson (set in Vietnam War, good so far).

 

[atrottel]

Now - American Gods by Neil Gaiman

You should enjoy that one. Have you tried any Jeff VanderMeer? I have his Southern Reach trilogy down on the list to pick up - apparently China Mieville rates him.

 

[strummer]

Tommy atkins.not a book but a poem.very apt for today. 1st came across it a couple of years ago when reading a book by Richard Holmes about the british tommy's in ww1.Its where the nickname originally came from and its a brilliant poem