Current Reading, (favourite Books)!!

[Ernest]

Well ive searched but didn't didn't find a topic on books, basically just post what your currently reading and your views on books etc. I though it would be good to get a discussion going about books although i hardly ever read myself but i have just started redin Michael Moores books, so i'm currently reading Stupid White Men. I have to say i find this book very interesting on the certain theories and insites on the American government and AMerican people in general, i especially found the letter Michael Moore wrote to Geoge.W extremely amusing.

Anyway what are you readin and what do you think of it?

 

[Mark]

Not reading anything at the minute, although I'm a big fan of Mr Moore's books (esp. Stupid White Men) and George Orwell of course.

 

[spray]

i'm re-reading harry potter number 5 (go me) rushed it last time, finished it within three days odd of buying it, taking my time now.

i'm also browsing over bill bryson's short history of everything, very good science book for people like me with gcse level science knowledge.

i've also got some beginners philosophy books that i'll get through over the next few weeks.

re: moore.

i've become rather bored by his books now. they repeat themselves over and over, i swear theres less and less original content with each book he releases.
also his style of argument grates against me as he makes tenuous links between irrelevant subjects and fails to ever really clarify what hes talking about.

 

[loz_the_guru]

Michael Moore is an idiot. Stupid White Men was the worst book I ever read. Its full of conspiracy theories he wants you to believe, opposed to the ones the US government want you to believe. They are as bad as each other. Anyway, moving on, Irvine Welsh is the greatest author of our times, Porno is a masterpiece, as is every other novel he has done.

 

[kidrdbz]

I am currently trying to read the entire Xanth series by Piers Anthony, I'm on "The Color of Her Panties".

 

[mattmagoo]

just finished Googlewhack by Dave Gorman

B4 that I read Are you Dave Groman by Dave Gornman and Danny Wallace

And B4 that I read Join me by Danny Wallace

it is perfectly feasable that these 2 are the finniest writers ever

also Murphys Law by Spike Milligan is very good (SM Headstone read "I told you I was ill" genius)

EDIT: PROSPECTUS too

 

[skysnapper]

Just started Benedict Allen 'Into the Crocodiles nest'

Probably the last great british explorer, about his experiences in depest Papua new Guinea trying to get initiated into tribes who are lost to our civilastion. Read his previous book 'Mad White Giant' about his solo trip into the amazon, with only the help of indigenous tribes people to learn the art of surival, he got lost for weeks and ended up eating his pet dog to survive top stuff

Last book i finished was Forget your yo had a daughter' by Sandra Gregory British girl whom was caught carrying heroin at Bangkok airport, her years in the Bangkok Hilton and thenin one of Britains top penal institutions where she meet the likes of Rose West.. rivetting book.

Generally i read autobigraphys and true stories find real life far more engrossing than fiction.

 

[craigix]

Richard bransons autobiography is a really good fun read, he was a right chancer.

I read it in 2 days.

Also 'Too good to be true' by Jan Harold Brunvand, which is a huge book of urban legends which people believe to be true, but arn't. I was taught a few unexpected things by that book.

-Craig

www.gbax.com

 

[Twimfy]

I'm currently reading The lost continent by Bill Bryson, after reading a sort history of nearly everything I've decided to make my way through his entire catalogue (only 2 more to go) Prior to that I was reading Dave Gorman's googlewhack but then half way through realised my copy was an extensive 300 page preview edition and stopped about 200 pages in.

 

[LHC]

I've just finished reading Atlas Shrugged and enjoyed it, although I generally don't read for some reason.

 

[Ernest]

Richard bransons autobiography is a really good fun read, he was a right chancer.

I read it in 2 days.

Also 'Too good to be true' by Jan Harold Brunvand, which is a huge book of urban legends which people believe to be true, but arn't. I was taught a few unexpected things by that book.

-Craig

www.gbax.com

I'll have to have a look for that too good to be true book somewhere sounds pretty good.

On another note i saw loadsa transformers books/graphic novels today which are just collections of issues of transfromers comics put into a book, but fifteen-quid was a bit too much really might get some another day.

 

[Skop]

I'm reading through the Science-fiction Masterwork's series.

last book I read was Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre.

Before that was Stupid White Men by Michael Moore.

Before that I read The Sirens of Titan.

Before that I read Revelation Space.

In the space of two weeks. I was on holiday see, and y'know, there isn't thta much to do at a beach...

 

[finty]

Beginers guide to C - forget.

 

[thebluenewt]

The Illiad, it's a right bitch to read but I've sworn to finish it!

 

[dr_other]

I am currently reading The Screwtape Letters, a classic C.S. Lewis story (Even though I am not much for C.S. Lewis . . .)

In the past month I have read a crazy novel called Electric Jesus Corpse, about Jesus if he was a disco dancer, and the apostles if they were a variety of punks, greasers, and other crazy stereotypes. Oh, and the land is full of zombies.

The Celestine Prophecies
The Great Gatsby
Satan Burger
And a few more good books.

 

[Crocomire]

Backwards - Rob Grant
red dwarf. need i say more

 

[finty]

I have read none of the harry potters. I might though.

 

[Kop_007]

Currently reading: THE TELEGRAPH by Alan Hansen. It's a bestseller everyweek.

 

[MegatronUK]

I'm 4 books (The Magical Labyrinth) into the Riverworld saga by Philip Jose Farmer, just started book 2 of the Rama series (Rama II) by sir Arthur C Clarke, last night. Once I've finished Rama I've got his Space Odyssey series to start.

I'm also going back through a couple of anthologies of HP Lovecrafts stories ('The Thing On The Doorstep', and the 'Call of Cthulhu' and other wierd stories collections). I'm really getting into the whole Cthulhu mythos thing; it really is quite sinister.

Since I haven't done much reading since I finished university several years ago I'd forgotten just how fast I actually read, .... I got through the first 4 Riverworld novels in just over a week!

 

[mattmagoo]

Thought id revive this thread as I recently started reading Battle Royale and it is a very good book

even if you've seen the film the plot differences are enough to make it worth while