What book are you reading at the moment?

Finished A Scanner Darkly.

I loved the bit near the end when Donna tells Arctor about a guy she know who saw God whilst on drugs. I was like "ohhh autobiographical".

Started Shutter Island. I am already in love with Lehane's way of conjuring imagery.

My brain can't handle the amount of brilliance Hitchhikers is.

bluekatrock wrote:My brain can't handle the amount of brilliance Hitchhikers is.

few minds can. that is the joy of it.
expand your mind!!

I have recently come across 9 Goosebumps book. Time to relive my childhood. But i should also read my growing Stephen King collection.

But at the moment RL Stine's Monster Blood.

Penguins Stopped Play by Harry Thompson.

A cool and funny book on cricket with penguins.

andrews wrote:Penguins Stopped Play by Harry Thompson.

A cool and funny book on cricket with penguins.

i own that book! oh god i own that book, the guy who wrote it is an absolute legend. i dont know how far you got but *spolier, spoiler!* there are actually only penguins in that opening prologue bit. id call that a rip-off, myself.

also i am currently reading Eoin Colfer's "And Another Thing...". thus far i have concluded the following:

Things "And Another Thing..." is:
a well-written, witty fan-fic of the hitchhikers series

Things "And Another Thing..." is not:
the 6th hitchhikers book

after reading plenty of murakami, i am on the brink of dipping my toes into Larsson's Millenium trilogy. starting with the girl with the dragon tattoo.

but i am aware that the trilogy will take up a lot of my time. time that i dont really have right now.

but the lure is hard to resist none-the-less.

Leonard Cohen wrote:

andrews wrote:Penguins Stopped Play by Harry Thompson.

A cool and funny book on cricket with penguins.

i own that book! oh god i own that book, the guy who wrote it is an absolute legend. i dont know how far you got but *spolier, spoiler!* there are actually only penguins in that opening prologue bit. id call that a rip-off, myself.

also i am currently reading Eoin Colfer's "And Another Thing...". thus far i have concluded the following:

Things "And Another Thing..." is:
a well-written, witty fan-fic of the hitchhikers series

Things "And Another Thing..." is not:
the 6th hitchhikers book

I know that the book is not much to do with penguins. Its just the first chapter really. But it is cool.

@Tom: I should read The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. But i really should read Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.

andrews wrote:
@Tom: I should read The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. But i really should read Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.

wind-up bird chronicle is one of the strangest books i have ever read.
seriously though, it is amazing.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Emperors-New-Mind-Concerning-Computers/dp/0192861980/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256920106&sr=8-1

Im wondering if i should read this. Im sure it will be heavy going but damn interesting. Well i only paid 50p for it if i dont finish it.

Was gonna read Mystic River by Dennis Lehane but today i saw Battle Royale by Koushun Takami so im gonna read that instead.

I am so totally reading Hitchhikers again!... And in turn, sketching scenes from it.

I would like to see these sketches sometime.

I only have Ford crouching at the moment, but soon enough there will be a bulldozer and an Arthur Dent.

Ok- I have just finished The Road.

My conclusion is that it was alright. I was gripped during the first half, then the second half I honestly was beginning to loose interest. You might all shout at me for that, but I am being honest.
I was striving to finish it not because I was particularly enjoying it but I was curious to see how it ended and I was a little underwhelmed by the entire book.

I love his writing style, his imagery is stunning and I was disturbed by various bits in the book. But overall I wasn't blown away by it.

Now I have that out of the way I can fully concentrate on the Sherlock Holmes series. I am about half way through A Study in Scarlet, the first, and it is fantastic so far.

I understand your views on The Road. Even if i must disagree with them.

I'm reading Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. Its kinda boring. Which makes me sad considering how mesmerizing The Virgin Suicides is. But either way im gonna finish Middlesex because i feel that i should. It may pick up eventually.

I finished A Study In Scarlet, and what a delightful read it was!
I am now onto The Sign of Four and have read only the first chapter, but by jove, was a chapter it was! Holmes does cocaine, whilst Watson tries to outsmart him. What fun!

I saw tons of Holmes books yesterday at WHSmiths. And by tons i mean 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.

In Waterstones yesterday I purchased The Complete Series. It's a huge book, for only 10 pounds and using my trusty loyalty card I got it for £7.25! I thought 'all that book for 7 pounds and 25 pence pieces?!'

Could not resist that.
I am going to read now in fact, until Capu gets here. You're going to Lakeside, right?

Just got texts about it. Need to get summat to eat quickly and then go.

I am really tempted by the Complete Sherlock Holmes on amazon for £6.49 especially when i can get the complete Poe for the same price and in an equally sexy cover.

Will be buying em both on Tuesday i think.

This Sherlock Holmes book is so worth the cheapness I paid for it. I mean, like, it's full of short stories and I'm like "Hey, I got time, let's read a short Holmes story" and I do and I finish it and it's all good. Yeah, I like it.

bluekatrock wrote:This Sherlock Holmes book is so worth the cheapness I paid for it. I mean, like, it's full of short stories and I'm like "Hey, I got time, let's read a short Holmes story" and I do and I finish it and it's all good. Yeah, I like it.

Cannot wait for it to arrive. I wanna delve into some Holmes and some Poe.

The books have arrived.

They arrived at about 5 yesterday. During Up In The Air infact luckily my mum was at home to sign for them.

the pornographer's poem by Michael Turner.

Picked this up for £2 yesterday.
I'm only like 230pages in, but it is exactly as good as i remember it to be when i read it at palmers.

Hey lee, you remember this book right?
soooo much sex. lol