OT: What book are you reading at the moment?

Well?

just reading a bunch of magazines....

Night Of The Long Knives, Hans Hellmut Kirst.

Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy.

Exodus, Leon Uris

Playboy.

Nothing. I can't afford any of the books I want. I tend to go through dry spells with reading. For half the year I'll read three books a week - and I mean 400 pages worth. That's how serious a reader I can be. Then at other times I won't read a single book. I don't understand it. I really want to read 'Last Argument of Kings' to finish that trilogy off, but it's £12 at Waterstone's and I can't be bothered with Amazon at the mo' (the post always comes while I'm out which means I've got to go and fetch the fecker).

[This is Rachel]

Labels, Evelyn Waugh.
Mark Steele's latest.
A biography of the Mitford sisters.

Augustus,

Library?

I know this Pakistani girl who some times reads a 500 pages long book in ONE sitting.


....another fact about her is that she doesn't like me.

It takes them forever to get new books in so I tend not to bother. I am nevertheless a regular visitor to my local (incredibly old, crap, dilapidated and disturbingly homosexual-oriented) library.

[This is still Rachel]

Augustus,

Do you have an ordering service? That can help. Mine has a searchable online database of all the books in the borough that I can order from whilst sitting at home, just like Amazon.

Argonautica (Apollonius Rhodius)

tac wrote:Argonautica (Apollonius Rhodius)

Is Jason in it?

Demelza wrote:

tac wrote:Argonautica (Apollonius Rhodius)

Is Jason in it?

Yes . . . why the fark wouldn't he be?

Calm down grumpy arse. You should've had more sleep.

Just started Words by Jean-Paul Sartre, blame Furry.....

Words? Don't come easy . . . isn't that FR David?

Augustus wrote:It takes them forever to get new books in so I tend not to bother. I am nevertheless a regular visitor to my local (incredibly old, crap, dilapidated and disturbingly homosexual-oriented) library.

That's North Notts for you. Move to the enlightened end of the County, old son.

eowyn wrote:Just started Words by Jean-Paul Sartre, blame Furry.....

Tried to read some Sartre a few years back.

Was warned not to bother...and the warnee should have heeded the warner.

Impenetrable old bollox.

Big_Bad_Bob wrote:

eowyn wrote:Just started Words by Jean-Paul Sartre, blame Furry.....

Tried to read some Sartre a few years back.

Was warned not to bother...and the warnee should have heeded the warner.

Impenetrable old bollox.

Iron in the Soul was a decent read . . .

"Consider the Lobster" by David Foster Wallace. Wallace killed himself last year and pretty much every obituary said he was a god amongst writers. A sort of writers writer.

'Reaching Judgment at Nuremberg' (again).

Bradman wrote:'Reaching Judgment at Nuremberg' (again).

I don't think the verdiuct is going to change second time around...

No. But I still find interesting shit in the footnotes.

Stalin questioning the legality of the International Military Tribunal is still my favourite.

PlanetPakistan wrote:I know this Pakistani girl who some times reads a 500 pages long book in ONE sitting.


....another fact about her is that she doesn't like me.

Did you ever consider that she might be pretending to read.

tac wrote:Words? Don't come easy . . . isn't that FR David?

Deary me today.............