Thread: What book are you reading right now?

Dark Star Safari - by Paul Thereaux (or Mr Thorax as he is once called in the book)

I've become thick and given up reading.
i just play on the computer and watch tv all day.

^ That's what not drinking alcohol will do to you.

I have just started Straight Man by Richard Russo.

so far so good.
I have read most of his books. He has a knack of making you want to be in his smalltown America, eventhough by the time you have finished the book not much has happened

I hate divulging what I'm reading for some reason, probably because I am reading 3 or 4 obscure books at the same time.
Anyway, I have this hankering to pick up the combined works of Rudyard Kipling and read them again.
I did that with CS Forrester recently and well enjoyed it.

But do read all of Le Carre's stuff. He just keeps getting better.

I’m currently reading ‘An Inconvenient Truth” by a certain Al Gore. When buying this book, I had thought this would be an expose of life in the White House. I guess you can imagine my surprise that it has nothing to do with this!

White Line Fever by Lemmy out of Motorhead.
Makes Shane McGowen of The Pouges look like a tea totaler.
A quick read and amusing.

High Voltage (Aussie release) - AC/DC

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

High Voltage (Aussie release) - AC/DC

Eh? Dickhead! What's this thread about?

Err... I was reading the album cover...?

Just finished "A History of Thailand" by Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit. This brief history concentrates on the Bangkok era and avoids the succession-of-kings style that is so common (and which still seems to be taught in Thai schools). The authors, in a very short space, do a pretty good job of describing the economic, political and social conflicts that so dramatically changed Siam over the past two centuries.

Published by the Cambridge University Press.

^ That looks interesting (more so than an album cover).

Did you buy it in Thailand or the US?

Yes, sounds very interesting, but I never seem to have the enthusiasm to read non-fiction. Maybe I should get a copy and read it at the beach instead of "Digital Fortress" by Dan Brown, which is what I'm reading now.

Give up the Dan Brown mate for sure.
Don't you think they were all written for the big screen? All a bit James Bond.Do you think this one will become a movie?

Reading the complete works of Mikhail Bakunin myself.

Anyone know who he is without doing a google?

Its hard going .

Originally Posted by Scooter

Its hard going

sound like a good reason not to bother.

Reading the details of my flight to the UK

Boo Hoo

I have given up on 'Fugitive Pieces' and have started a crime thriller - Little Scarlet by Walter Moseley. I've decided that from now on I am only going to read books that I enjoy; no longer will I force my way through books that I think I should read because a man wearing a turtle-neck sweater tells me I should.

I haven't quite fallen into the pit of daytime television like our good friend CMN; but I fear that it is not not long before we two find ourselves sharing a bed of entertainment through degradation....next Tuesday if I read his SMS correctly.

Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle by Manda Scott



A very fine book and this one is the first of a 4 part series. I pinched this from Amazon.

This book is amazing. Manda Scott is a very skilled writer, she rivals the ancient European mythologies. Through her writing you almost feel like you're there. So many people talk about this book not being historically accurate but they are wrong!. Historians know very little of the Celtic tribal world and indeed of Boudica. Through archaeology and the myths of the biggest Celtic survivor (Ireland) Manda pieces together a great story. We know Boudica existed, we know she fought Rome and sacked London etc and we know she was never caught, all of which takes place in these books, but history can't tell us what she ate, who she loved and what the high priests ordered, but Manda Scott makes an educated guess in line with Celtic myth.

Unusual name, Manda. I can't say it without sounding like an oik saying Amanda.

Originally Posted by danbo

Unusual name, Manda. I can't say it without sounding like an oik saying Amanda.

I had enough trouble taking a book written by a bird seriously, but it really is very good so far. Same goes for music; women just don't rock like guys do.

An elder American friend gave me The Journey Home by Edward Abbey.

In the introduction:
Human society, is like a stew-if you don't keep it stirred up you get a lot of scum on top.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by danbo

Unusual name, Manda. I can't say it without sounding like an oik saying Amanda.

I had enough trouble taking a book written by a bird seriously, but it really is very good so far. Same goes for music; women just don't rock like guys do.

Isabelle Allende? House of Spirits to start.
Virginia Woolf.
Bangladeshi bird - Satjayit Ray or somethinmg.
And Ernest Hemingway was a bit of a fag.