What Book Are You Currently Reading?

Over Xmas,

Alan Bennett 'Untold Stories'. Witty, poignant and occasionally wise, but I can always hear his voice (which I find whiny and irritating) when reading the book. Have to dip and read in small sections!

Graham Swift 'Waterland'. Discovered this previously unread on a shelf. Absolutely brilliant evocation of the Fens landscape.

Philip Roth 'The Human Stain'. Complex, dense and subtle, no wonder the film was such a dog.

Vinland, GMB. Inspirational as ever.

The Innocent ~Harlan Coben. Totally unputdownable.
I've been so lucky recently with a good run on books that have turned out to be excellent.

This.

Next will be this.

This is one of those i take out when i don't know what to read.
It makes me happy every time.

"Citadel" The Battle of Kursk - Robin Cross

"Chronicles Volume 1" Bob Dylan

quote:

Robin Cross

The Seducer, Jan Kjaerstad. 'Norwegian Literature' Brilliant!
Stephenjohn

Dated.

Milton's Paradise Lost - Philip Pullman's unannotated version for the words and the Norton edition for the notes - schoolboy memory doesn't seem to be what it once was

Something by the master of the flat earth....

Going Postal.

Terry Pratchet.

I need to be kept amused at the moment.

I am alive and you are dead: A journey into the mind of Philip K. Dick. Emmanuel Carrere.
Bit of a strange character old Phil, but he couldn't half spin a good headf****** yarn.

Piers Morgan's The Insider which is hilarious, and gripping. Highly recommended.

Classic!
Is there something about hi fi as well?

Re-reading both the "Lymond" and "Niccolo" series from Dorothy Dunnett.

Both sets very evocative in their intimate connection to real historic events.

The first Lymond book

The first Niccolo book

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Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
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.'

Hi Fredrik,

Yes the 6 vols are on my (long) list of books to read one day. The story I told on the other forum thread I read in a book by Correli Barnet called 'The audit of war' which I recommend.

Regards,

Erik

Dear Erik,

I think I read the review of that in the Telegraph years ago. I thought I should get it, but inevitably forgot it in time. Perhaps it maybe found on my planned trip to Hay in the Spring. Hay is a placed stacked full of second-hand bookshops!

All the best from Fredrik

I'm reading Shoeless Joe, the book that spawned the film Field Of Dreams.
I can't decide if it's badly written or just plain quirky, almost as mad as Richard Braughtigan's novels. It's crazier than the film and there is no long drawn out agonising and justification like the film. The field was built by page 5, so it's another trip entirely. Closest comparison is going back to Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenence because it's about spiritual development and little to do with the actual goings on.

The Broker by John Grisham

Best of recent Bunch

The time travellers wife: Audrey Niffeneger
Number9dream: David Mitchell
Complete short rhories: JG Ballard
Palestine (graphic novel): Joe Sacco

Enjoy

Simon

'Arthur and George' by Julian Barnes
'Slaughterhouse V' Kurt Vonnegut (spelling?)
'In Milton Lumky Territory', a non-SF Phillip K Dick novel which I really enjoyed, first of his I've read. Where would you start if you wanted to explore his SF collection anyone?

Bruce