What Book Are You Currently Reading?

Posted by: u5227470736789439 on 22 October 2005

Among all the diversions of modern life, I reckon that print still provides something unique, and also free of pressure from others...

Currently I am half way through the first volume (of six) of Churchill's 'The Second World War.' And for fun I am also reading Geoffrey Trease's 'Poppinjay Staires.'

Sincerely, Fredrik
Posted on: 10 July 2006 by erik scothron
I can't say I am reading this exactly as there are no words just over 1,000 pages of chess problems (5,334 diagrams of positions to solve). It is the ultimate nerd book perhaps?

Posted on: 19 July 2006 by u5227470736789439
Next up the book of Job I think! Fredrik [Bewildered Smiley].
Posted on: 20 July 2006 by Rasher
Posted on: 20 July 2006 by erik scothron
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Brilliant. Is this the new autobiography of one of our esteemed members?
Posted on: 20 July 2006 by Beano
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Brilliant. Is this the new autobiography of one of our esteemed members?



Kerching! they do say everyone has at least one book in themBig Grin

Beano
Posted on: 20 July 2006 by Stephen Tate
Bruce lee "fighting spirit" by Bruce Thomas.

Exellent read.
Posted on: 20 July 2006 by HR
Posted on: 21 July 2006 by Alan Paterson
Darkhouse - Alex Barclay
Posted on: 21 July 2006 by Stuart M


Totaly Mad but fun
Posted on: 24 July 2006 by JoeH
Currently I'm working my way through the 'Notable British Trials' series. At the moment I'm reading about the Bentley/Craig trial.
Posted on: 25 July 2006 by Chalshus
Just started on this one:

Posted on: 26 July 2006 by SteveGa
Posted on: 26 July 2006 by Chris Kelly
"The First Casualty" Ben Elton. Murder on the Western Front
Posted on: 26 July 2006 by Earwicker
Orkneyinga Saga, trans. A. B. Taylor
Posted on: 26 July 2006 by Jay
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"The First Casualty" Ben Elton. Murder on the Western Front


Likewise.

How bizarre. I've never looked in this thread before and what do I find....
Posted on: 14 August 2006 by Alan Paterson
Ian Rankin - Knots and Crosses
Posted on: 14 August 2006 by Diccus62
Excellent, pretty gothicy, not usually my bag but it's good to stretch the imagination



Diccus Smile
Posted on: 16 August 2006 by Wolf
Last book was The Unknown Matisse by Hillary Spurling

current
Skinny dip by Carl Hiaasen about outrageous events around a supposed murder in Florida.
Duveen by Meryle Secrest about the most famous art dealer of the early century who manipulated the art market for the wealthy American industrialists. Quite good if you're interested in art and/or history.
Posted on: 17 August 2006 by Willy
"The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene. Again. Reckon a couple more times through it and I might even understand it!

Willy.
Posted on: 17 August 2006 by Rasher

Holiday reading
Posted on: 19 August 2006 by Alan Paterson
Cosa Nostra - John Dickie

A history of the Sicilian mafia.
Posted on: 22 August 2006 by Richard S
This is a good holiday read. It's 1905; Jim Stringer works for the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway as a fireman and gets mixed up in a plot to wreck trains.

regards
Richard S
Posted on: 22 August 2006 by BigH47
Shockwave - Clive Cussler
Posted on: 23 August 2006 by SteveGa


Doing a Rankin re-read.
Posted on: 26 August 2006 by Rubio
I finished two books yeasterday. The first one is is journalistic travel writing at its best. It describes two journeys, one hundred years apart. The Trouser People recounts the story of George Scott, the eccentric British explorer, photographer, adventurer, and later Colonial Administrator of Burma, who introduced the Empire's best game (soccer!) to Burmese natives and to the forbidden Wa state of headhunters, who were similarly enthusiastic about it. The second, contrasting journey is Marshall's own, taking the same dangerous path one hundred years later in a country now devastated by colonial incompetence, war, and totalitarianism. I'm now really tempted by going to the mystic and closed country called Burma!



Then, Haruki Murakami, my favourite writer and his short stories inspired by the Kobe earthquake. Well, what can I say. He is excellent as always and I recommend it warmly!!