What are you reading?

Bosse de Nage

Zellulärer Automat

Culture

19 Jun 09 09:47

dk3nny

Out there somewhere

Joined: 16 Mar 04
Moves: 7717

14 May 10 06:58

Originally posted by elhanko
I'm just beginning Ulysses. Wish me luck!

Haha, good luck! I've gotten well into that book quite a few times but always ended up giving up as I just wasn't enjoying large parts of it, it's a struggle a lot of the time even when you know Dublin city well. Admittedly very good in parts and I appreciate what he was doing but I much prefer his other books.

Now reading Spares by Michael Marshall Smith, a nice bit of near future sci fi.

davaniel

1.Nf3

The Hague

Joined: 13 Feb 05
Moves: 82376

14 May 10 13:46

Dostoyevsky - Karamazov brothers.
Very very Russian drama. But brilliant.

lovebonovox

Chasing the moon

Right out of the sky

Joined: 03 Aug 08
Moves: 3771

14 May 10 19:26

Forever ~ Pete Hamill
Circus of the Damned ~ Laurell K Hamilton
Life ~ Paulo Coelho

Nordlys

The sky

Joined: 05 Apr 05
Moves: 10385

14 May 10 19:56

Originally posted by davaniel
Dostoyevsky - Karamazov brothers.
Very very Russian drama. But brilliant.

Excellent choice. It's my favourite book by Dostoyevsky, and one of my favourite books altogether.

I am not reading any fiction at the moment, but just bought a book about music and altered states which looks interesting. I have several other non-fiction books on my bedside cabinet, probably too many because it's hard to decide which one to read, so I end up not reading anything...

avalanchethecat

Not actually a cat

The Flat Earth

Joined: 09 Apr 10
Moves: 14988

14 May 10 21:07

Originally posted by Nordlys
... just bought a book about music and altered states which looks interesting...

Sounds interesting too - what who please?

Nordlys

The sky

Joined: 05 Apr 05
Moves: 10385

14 May 10 21:18

Originally posted by avalanchethecat
Sounds interesting too - what who please?

http://www.jkp.com/catalogue/book/9781843103738

Not sure how interesting it is if you aren't a music therapist or musicologist.

avalanchethecat

Not actually a cat

The Flat Earth

Joined: 09 Apr 10
Moves: 14988

14 May 10 22:12

Originally posted by Nordlys
http://www.jkp.com/catalogue/book/9781843103738

Not sure how interesting it is if you aren't a music therapist or musicologist.

I see what you mean - I've just been browsing the Googlebooks preview. Some of it sounds pretty fascinating, still.

Palynka

Upward Spiral

Halfway

Joined: 02 Aug 04
Moves: 8702

17 May 10 15:09

Yevgeny Zamyatin's We.

I'm loving it so far. Straight entry into my top dystopian books.

Green Paladin

Pale Blue Dot

Joined: 22 Jul 07
Moves: 21637

28 May 10 12:38

Deep Vegetarianism - Michael Allen Fox

Bosse de Nage

Zellulärer Automat

Spiel des Lebens

Joined: 27 Jan 05
Moves: 90892

28 May 10 12:47

The Ghost Map -- Steven Johnson.

An interesting account of how cholera was fought by a doctor and a clergyman in Victorian London.

badmoon

lazy boy derivative

Joined: 11 Mar 06
Moves: 71817

28 May 10 16:17

Finished Matterhorn - Karl Marlantes.

Similar in style and quality to Tim O' Brien.

Sicilian Smaug

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Moves: 96595

30 May 10 18:20

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Bosse de Nage

Zellulärer Automat

Spiel des Lebens

Joined: 27 Jan 05
Moves: 90892

30 May 10 19:04

William Gibson -- Pattern Recognition.

So far so very good.

Green Paladin

Pale Blue Dot

Joined: 22 Jul 07
Moves: 21637

30 May 10 19:42

A History of South Africa - Leonard Thompson

Dan St John

Lawrence, Ks

Joined: 15 Mar 09
Moves: 1903

03 Jun 10 03:51

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Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), by Philip K. Dick

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, by Stephen W. Hawking

All's Well That Ends Well, by William Shakespeare

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned, by Michael J. Fox