What book(s) are you reading at the moment?

[Silhouette]

Flatland. Very short book, should have finished it today but I got distracted. The misogyny is probably satirical.

[Reasonable Doubt]

Not sure what to read next. Might get into this one seeing as it's lying around.

[Memory]

All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doerr.

[Pink*Lady]

Damaged by Cathy Glass.

[spaceface]

Overcoming low self-esteem by Melanie Fennell

[Appear]

Because I want to challenge some of my ideas a little, but can't be arsed to read Atlas Shrugged. Really quite liking it so far though, interestingly.



Because it's recommended prep reading for my next OU module and I managed to get hold of a copy without having to pay the sickening £30 RRP.

[Reasonable Doubt]

[ghost.of.an.englishman]

^ great book!

The Brown book wasn't nearly as good. Let yourself down there Ludwig mate.

this



It's quite good. I like how she riffs on these old English folk tales and bits of mythology. She's an imaginative lady.

[Custard_cream]

These Things Hidden - Heather Gudenkauf.

[Memory]

Beginners by Raymond Carver

[timmyb]

The fall and rise of Reginald Perrin - David Nobbs

I've read it a few times before. It's such an easy enjoyable read, sad and funny at the same time.

I like his Henry Pratt books too.

[Appear]

Originally Posted by Johnny88

I'm currently reading:

Hunter S Thompson-Rum Diary
Byron Katie- Loving What Is

and on the verge of starting Franz Kafka- Metamorphosis and other stories.

You won't regret that. Them be stories that stick with ya, as if inscribed in the skin (particularly In the Penal Colony).


I'm dipping in and out of Manufacturing Consent at the minute.

[Sphinx]

Just finished reading this, really good, brings the history to life.

[Amplexor]

I started reading this ages ago but didn't finish it. It was good so I've decided to give it another try.

[Reasonable Doubt]

[Merritt]

Finished this yesterday. I liked it, though it was pretty frustrating in its scatteredness, with all the brief random insights into the main character that are picked at and often never even mentioned again.



Now on to this. I think I need to buy a copy of every book about lonely outcasts and I'll be set for the rest of my life.

[Appear]

For the tenth time.

[Jam]

Originally Posted by biscuits

Whoops, sorry if that's too small.

That's what I said to my gf when we first met.

[Reasonable Doubt]

Started this today. Really enjoying it so far. Grindrod's approach is lighter than other architecture critics like Owen Hatherley or Ian Nairn but he's worth reading for anyone who likes those two.

[cutepuffins]

Just finished You by Caroline Kepnes, good, but Girl on a Train still my favourite.

[Z.]

[Unnecessarily Long Username_1]

"My mate Rennie shags his granda."

[Merritt]

I had no idea that existed! I must have it immediately.

I remember one of his stories years ago on Twitter (I think) about a naked man on top of a building who'd gone a bit mad, and the TV coverage having to pixelate his arse because he 'had a shite hangin' oot'.

Or maybe I imagined it.

[LonelyBoy]

Command and Control by Eric Tosser. He also wrote Fast Food Nation. It's about terrorists "inevitably" nuking New York or London and necessarily ending modern civilisation. The Russian foreign minister (or attack secretary?) at one point commented that his country "did not know the current location" of 100 suitcase-size nukes that it had made. To put this into some kind of perspective, the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in New York killed approximately 3,500 people. One of these nukes, which are all many times more powerful that those used against Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, would kill an estimated 10,000,000 (ten million) people and destroy that country's economy at once.

[Unnecessarily Long Username_1]

Originally Posted by Merritt

I had no idea that existed! I must have it immediately.

I remember one of his stories years ago on Twitter (I think) about a naked man on top of a building who'd gone a bit mad, and the TV coverage having to pixelate his arse because he 'had a shite hangin' oot'.

Or maybe I imagined it.

There's a story in it, called "Arnold's Arse" - about a guy called Arnold, who went to the doctor because he was having "trouble passing solids". Turns out his arse is just one big bum cheek and no hole... "like a big thumb".

[Reasonable Doubt]

[LonelyBoy]

Originally Posted by Mark09

This is my current toilet book:

The problem with the world is that there are so many good things (architecture and geographical features) which are in truly crappy countries. Places like the Middle East and Africa. And rather than looking in awe at how 'magnificent' the Taj Mahal is, for example, it would probably be better to consider that its cost (according to Wikipedia) was the equivalent of nearly $1 trillion today. I think it should be demolished and its materials repatriated to India's poor, from whom it was stolen. India's British masters should have done this.

[Z.]

[Z.]

Bakunin is my bae <3

[kirbycrackle]

The motorcycle diaries of ernesto ' che ' guevara.