What are you reading?

[freemonkey]

About 130 pages into Oryx and Crake and I was getting really annoyed with it, so I've dropped it for the time being and started Beatrice and Virgil: A Novel, by Yann Martel.

[Watser?]

Reading a Dutch book about Sudan called Dwars door Soedan, Vriendelijke Schurkenstaat aan de Nijl (Straight through Sudan, Friendly Rogue State on the Nile) for work


It's pretty good, gives all kinds of insights I never got out of the newspapers. As usual things are a lot more complicated than they seem.

[Adam]

What about Oryx and Crake annoyed you, freemonkey?

[freemonkey]

Originally Posted by Adamus Prime

What about Oryx and Crake annoyed you, freemonkey?

It's just getting tedious mostly. I get it, and I really want to like it, but it's starting to lose me. Plus, some of the new developed "products" seem unlikely.

I'll probably pick it up again because I do want to know how it ends.

[Caligulette]

I read about half of Oryx and Crake and stopped. I will admit this, though: It was not just the tedious what got me. Atwood came to the book store I was working in at the time and took great umbrage at this book being shelved in science fiction. She did not actually refer to it as a "literary ghetto" but she might as well have. The head of the section did not note - though she should have - that that shelf was the only one from which we were selling any copies after the first week.

I think Atwood is going some special brand of Canadian Crazy in any event - but that's a rant for a different day.

---I have got a copy of The Disappearing Spoon and am very excited. I've been reading reviews for months and it's finally available here. I can't decide whether to start it right now or to save it for vacation. The real trick is to keep Joe6 from starting it first, or we'll have Anthony Bourdain all over again.

[Caligulette]

twice. sorry

[Adam]

I don't remember it being all that tedious, but it served its purpose in getting me from Indiana to California without clawing out my own eyes or those of the guy seated next to me, so I wasn't asking much of it. I do remember thinking that the extinction game thing they played was weird and implausible, as were a number of the vague details given about the political and economic background of the setting. I liked the actual story, though.

[teasasue]

I have finally finished the hobbit, it was not so bad one I got in to it is it is just a little slower than I am used to but it turned out to be good.

Now I am reading Laurell K Hamilton's Divine Misdmeanors

[teasasue]

I have started re reading the Anit Blake series so I am on book 1, Guilty Pleasures by Laureall K Hamilton

[Brimshack]

Amazon.com: The Firecracker Boys: H-bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, and the Roots of the…

[Deadlokd]

Amazon.com: Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change from 1970 (9780195179521): R. F. Foster: Books

What could and should be an awesome book is mired in crappy writing, too many jumps from year to the future to the past to the not so near present back to the past and then back past 1970. He makes it very hard to read.

Bastard.

I'm also reading Weaveworld by Clive Barker. I love his work.

[SharonDee]

Airport by Arthur Hailey.

It was a loaner.

After this, more Douglas Preston but without sidekick Lincoln Child.
Jennie
Mount Dragon


ETA: My bad. That last one thar was written with Child.

[Doctor X]

Looks interesting, please start a thread or something on it.

Whereas I finally found a reprint of:

When Prophecy Fails

Classic study of a UFO cult that "fails" and what happens to it.

Coming soon: Barefaced Messiah--if Xenu wills it.

--J.D.

[Janet]

Blood and Roses: One Family's Struggle and Triumph During the Tumultuous Wars of the Roses. It's based on the Paston letters, one of the best primary sources on the times. Best part is I found a hardcover copy at The Strand for $6.95 on my trip to New York last weekend. Woo and hoo!

[Brimshack]

Amazon.com: The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk and the…

[freemonkey]

Originally Posted by Doctor X

Coming soon: Barefaced Messiah--if Xenu wills it.

I enjoyed that one.


I went back to, and finished, Oryx and Crake. Still annoying, but I found out what happened. Haven't decided what to read next.

[Qingdai]

"The Hotel Under the Sand" by Kage Baker. The last new book by her I'll ever read. She died this year. I cried after I read it, not that it was that good, it's a children's book. I just will miss her.

[wildernesse]

Life Sentences by Laura Lippman

[ceptimus]

Originally Posted by teasasue

I have finally finished the hobbit, it was not so bad one I got in to it is it is just a little slower than I am used to but it turned out to be good.

You should probably give Lord of the Rings a miss then. It's like The Hobbit, but about ten times as long and even slower.

[Brimshack]

http://www.amazon.com/Ada-BlackJack-...1182089&sr=1-1

[Watser?]

I think I see a pattern here.

[teasasue]

Laurell K Hamilton The Laughing Corpse

[Brimshack]

Originally Posted by Watser?

I think I see a pattern here.

Wrangle Island haunts me. It keps pulling me back...

[irukandji]

Civilization Before Greece and Rome
H.W.F. Saggs
incredibly readable!!

American Gods
Neil Gaiman
weird and wonderful!

[ceptimus]

(the click to look inside thing might work, if I've got the tags right)

Interesting book. It's a bit like a collection of short stories, each one written in the first person, but the stories are all interconnected. Starts out with a Japanese underground bomber, then there is a Japanese kid working in a Tokyo music shop, then an English ex-pat working as a dodgy finance dealer in Hong Kong, ...

I think I shall be reading this author's other works, when I've finished this one.