whats everyone reading?

[spanner7853]

I'd like to know what everyone is reading at the moment, bookwise not magazines.

[WoWo]

A book about Linguistics, one about Marx and a third about the spanish revolution.

[Morticiah]

Alternating between 2 at the moment - depending on how much gore I can cope with, and how close it is to Dinner time!

first one: Death Du Jour by Kathy Reichs (foresensic anthropologist digging up dead bodies)

second: Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

What are you reading?

[spanner7853]

im reading Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Nifffenegger and im engrossed. Very clever. The starts a bit confusing but after that it's fab.
WoWo- a bit of light reading then I see. ;).

I like Kathy Reichs and Dean Koontz but gave him a rest for a year or so as they got a bit samey.

[dot.hawkes]

The last Templar - Raymond Khoury to finish and then I have James Patterson 4th of July

[naz_nomad]

A Drink With Shane MacGowan, and this months Mojo

[shammydodger]

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
The History of Mr Polly by H.G. Wells (a revisit of my O' Levels)

[spanner7853]

Naz- I bet that Shane McGowan is an eye opener, what's it like?

[shaneystar2]

Just finished Pegasus Descending by James Lee Burke which was brilliant and am now started on Scared to Live by Stephen Booth.

[whiffey]

Eric Sykes' autobiography.

James The Brother of Jesus by Robert Eisenmann (quite disturbing).

The Book of Exodus.

The Shell Book of English Villages (loo book)

[spanner7853]

whiffey why is the James one disturbing. Tell me a bit about it. I love to know all about books and what there about. Although the title sounds obvious it may not be.

[whiffey]

spanner, it's a huge book, 960 pages, and it is disturbing to me at least because it strikes at the foundations of conventional Christian belief. Eisenman particularly acknowledges the assistance of Michael Baigent, a co-author of The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail, so you can get an idea of his sympathies. I think it is probably a great book, but I don't think I will finish it.

This is the very last line of the book: "Who and whatever James was, so was Jesus", so I might skip the middle bit !

[mccfluff]

i'm having a bit of a terry brooks fest, just finished the high druid of shannara triliogy and angel fire east. not sure what to start on next

[DaSwede]

Blink, The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell. (It was the subtitle that got me...) It's about what he does not like to call intuition, but 'rapid cognition', 'snap judgments' and 'snap decisions.' So far I haven't found anything in it that I didn't already know - or 'know' - but it's very well written and most enjoyable.
More info here.

[saxy_jag]

Grumpy Old Women: The Official Handbook.

I have four waiting:

The Boy and the Sea - Kirsty Gunn
Just in Case - Meg Rosoff
Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
L-L-L-Loser by Katherine Forde

[WoWo]

"WoWo- a bit of light reading then I see. ;). "

I just can't stand fiction. Since I left school (16 odd years ago) I have read maybe 10 fiction books. They just don't interest me, there are so many things in this world to know I'd rather try and do that than read something which doesn't hold my interest.

To be honest they are pretty easy going, introduction type books, I'll read those and if the subject grabs me I'll dig deeper and read more.

[crete]

our wullie and the broons

[andy-hughes]

I'm reading "I-Pod Therefore I Am" by Dylan Jones which is a fascinating book combining both the evolution of the i-pod, and the cultural and musical history of Dylan Jones which is utterly fascinating. I've checked the indexes at the back, and i reckond I'll be downloading from tonight until around 12 December 2019!

[devilwoman]

twilight children by tory hayden, love her books, before that i read my best friends girl, it was one of richard and judy's summer reads.

[naz_nomad]

andy .. isn't a third of that ipod book just indexes?...

[naz_nomad]

spanner ...the Shane MacGowan book is a must.,,

He's a pretty fascinating guy, despite being a p***head