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CatMonkeyPig · 2012-02-11, 15:07:31

...nothing.

I was reading Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran-Foer, but lost interest after 50 pages.

What are you reading? And, do you have recommendations?

Micky045 · 2012-02-11, 15:28:32

Just finished reading 'The Making of The Dark Side of the Moon', a quite brilliant and interesting read. Just about to start The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. I've no doubt reading this will be a test!

Attack Yourself! · 2012-02-11, 15:41:16

Recently read Nile Rodgers autobiography "Le Freak". Brilliant read, some great music biz anecdotes in there!

R0B0 · 2012-02-11, 16:17:15

Reading Fahrenheit 451 and the Steve Jobs Biography.

Recently read the Hitchhikers Guid to the Galaxy quadrilogy (Douglas Adams is just a sci-fi comedy genius) & Siddhartha http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhartha_(novel)

Previously read Future-shock. Quite a difficult read - took me a while to finish it - but gives a great view on how society is changing, sometimes for the worse, and how we should be approaching community and sociological problems.

Hubee · 2012-02-11, 17:08:49

Before this turns into "who's reading the most hipster biography" lets talk about some fiction!

Just finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman, really great book. Weird and pretty haunting in parts, would recommend checking it out

Roland Daggett · 2012-02-11, 17:53:44

(2012-02-11 17:08:49)Hubee Wrote: Just finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman, really great book. Weird and pretty haunting in parts, would recommend checking it out

One of my favorite books of all time.

Completed The Imperfectionists, loved it, and not too heavy.

(2012-02-11 15:41:16)Attack Yourself! Wrote: Recently read Nile Rodgers autobiography "Le Freak". Brilliant read, some great music biz anecdotes in there!

Also brilliant.

Bela · 2012-02-11, 18:10:35

http://erolalkan.co.uk/forum/showthread....light=book

randomg17 · 2012-02-11, 18:13:48

(2012-02-11 15:41:16)Attack Yourself! Wrote: Recently read Nile Rodgers autobiography "Le Freak". Brilliant read, some great music biz anecdotes in there!

Definitely want to read that.

Currently reading 'This is Your Brain on Music' by Daniel Levitin, a scientific look at how our brain interprets music. I'm no scientist, much less a neuroscientist, but the author makes it relatively easy to understand. It's a very interesting read, learning how much memory and emotion impacts on how we perceive music. I thoroughly recommend it to any music-lovers.

After that, I'm going to dig in to 'Wind-Up Bird Chronicle'. I've only read 'A Wild Sheep Chase' by Murakami, which I loved.

rickman · 2012-02-11, 18:14:51

I've ordered American Gods because of you two, thanks :)

Just finished Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut for the 3rd time, big favourite of mine. I've just started Murakami's IQ84, I hope it's up to his usual standard.

Santero · 2012-02-11, 18:20:53

Just getting towards the end of Nemesis by Max Hastings, about the war in the Pacific. I was very ignorant of a lot of what went on, and just how ridiculously dominant the US military was as well. Some of the scenes were so stomach-churning I had to put the book down, some pretty horrendous stuff got done by the Japanese 1931-1945.

And really interesting to read more background on the use of the atomic bomb.

TempestDisco · 2012-02-11, 18:54:37

This thread reminds me, i've not had some proper leisure reading time in a while. Kafka on the Shore again? Oh, go on then.

Evangelink · 2012-02-11, 20:48:04

Finished reading Dune a couple weeks back. Amazing sci fi, really graand and ambitious.

Currently readin the Hunger Games on the reccomendation of a few people. Pretty gripping for a younng adults book aimed at girls.

Oh, and much love for Kafka on the Shore, great book.

CatMonkeyPig · 2012-02-12, 01:03:27

I bought Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton-Ellis. It's a sequel (dunno if right term in literature) to Less Than Zero. Follows same people just 20 years later. Should be fun.

Roland Daggett · 2012-02-12, 07:18:28

(2012-02-11 18:14:51)rickman Wrote: I've ordered American Gods because of you two, thanks :)

Just finished Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut for the 3rd time, big favourite of mine. I've just started Murakami's IQ84, I hope it's up to his usual standard.

In my humble opinion, Sirens of Titan is Vonnegut's best.

aidan_h · 2012-02-12, 19:15:26

the marriage plot by jeffrey eugenides. really loving it.

next up is any of the following: richard wright - native son; peter guralnick - dream boogie; gay talese - the kingdom and the power; gerbrand bakker - the twin; jeanette winterson - why be happy when you could be normal...

who knows

Keon · 2012-02-12, 20:25:57

(2012-02-12 01:03:27)CatMonkeyPig Wrote: I bought Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton-Ellis. It's a sequel (dunno if right term in literature) to Less Than Zero. Follows same people just 20 years later. Should be fun.

Im going to get involved with that, didn't realise there was a sequel, should be interesting. Enjoyed less than zero, very disturbing!!

Just finished no country for old men, think I'm going to finally read on the road next

Jesse · 2012-02-13, 08:52:54

Just finished Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse and The Rum Diary; in Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail now. Rum Diary got kind of slow towards the middle but it was still a nice read. Hesse is fun to read and the book was only ~100 pages or so.
A book I read last year that really amazed me was Chrome Yellow by Aldous Huxley that you can find for free as an Amazon eBook-- the language he uses always makes me feel like I write like a 4-year-old. Definitely worth checking out

PaoloTramezzani · 2012-02-13, 09:11:47

(2012-02-13 08:52:54)Jesse Wrote: Just finished Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse and The Rum Diary; in Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail now. Rum Diary got kind of slow towards the middle but it was still a nice read. Hesse is fun to read and the book was only ~100 pages or so.
A book I read last year that really amazed me was Chrome Yellow by Aldous Huxley that you can find for free as an Amazon eBook-- the language he uses always makes me feel like I write like a 4-year-old. Definitely worth checking out

nice, i'm halfway through fear and loathing in america - the brutal odyssey of an outlaw journalist, a collection of hunter s thompson's letters from 68-76

it's pretty exhaustive, if you threw this book at someone you'd probably kill them, and an odd format initially but you get used to the stop start nature pretty quick

as i say only half way but it's really fascinating and inspiring

murray888 · 2012-02-13, 14:01:00

I really really need to get back into the habit of reading. Miss it.

Jesse · 2012-02-13, 18:41:50

(2012-02-13 09:11:47)PaoloTramezzani Wrote: ... if you threw this book at someone you'd probably kill them...

I didn't believe you until I looked it up-- good god, man.

Is it a collection of all his work through those years? Does he talk about the writings within it at all?

PaoloTramezzani · 2012-02-13, 22:24:52

(2012-02-13 18:41:50)Jesse Wrote:
(2012-02-13 09:11:47)PaoloTramezzani Wrote: ... if you threw this book at someone you'd probably kill them...

I didn't believe you until I looked it up-- good god, man.

Is it a collection of all his work through those years? Does he talk about the writings within it at all?

it's the second of three editions and it's all just letters but he's constantly talking about what he's writing as a lot of the correspondence is with publishers that have paid money for a book/article that has yet to materialise

everything he writes at this time points in the same direction and will all go into what became 'fear and loathing in las vegas' but there's loads in here, riots, drugs, guns, bikes, booze and of course a run for mayor of aspen :)

byebyebadman · 2012-02-13, 23:37:24

We by Zamyatin. The inspiration for 1984 and most probably a Brave New World. And in my opinion better than the latter. I'm yet to read 1984. Might try it next.

aidan_h · 2012-02-14, 10:27:36

better than brave new world?! i'll have to check that out so.

bloody_friend · 2012-02-14, 10:39:15

I play the drums in a band called okay - Toby Litt

dc-sux · 2012-02-14, 16:50:10

Half way through The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis, have Imperial Bedrooms and After Dark by Murakami lined up next. Norwegian Wood was the last thing I read, and bloody loved it.