What are you reading tonight?

[thebish]

I finished David Mitchell's number9dream.

It is seriously good. Complex, gripping, multi-faceted. A 19 year old Japanese man, from the countryside, travels to Tokyo in an effort to find the father he has never known. This is a novel of desire and loss, inhabiting dreamscapes, telling stories that may or may not be real, where everything is insecure, most things are dangerous, and, frequently, bizarre. It combines mystery, thriller, fantasy and video gaming, and makes excursions into romance and history.

It's hard to describe, but held me page after page. He is an excellent, excellent writer.

according to my kindle I am currently 82% of the way through that... I have enjoyed it all except the weird "goatwriter" sections - maybe they will make sense as I read further!!

[William the White]

I finished David Mitchell's number9dream.

It is seriously good. Complex, gripping, multi-faceted. A 19 year old Japanese man, from the countryside, travels to Tokyo in an effort to find the father he has never known. This is a novel of desire and loss, inhabiting dreamscapes, telling stories that may or may not be real, where everything is insecure, most things are dangerous, and, frequently, bizarre. It combines mystery, thriller, fantasy and video gaming, and makes excursions into romance and history.

It's hard to describe, but held me page after page. He is an excellent, excellent writer.

according to my kindle I am currently 82% of the way through that... I have enjoyed it all except the weird "goatwriter" sections - maybe they will make sense as I read further!!

Yes - they irritated me a little... But the conclusion of that strand is good, I think... Not sure if you've reached, suspect not, and don't want to spoil.

[William the White]

I started Carol Birch's Jamrach's Menagerie today. IF I manage yo complete it I will, at last, have read all six of the Booker 2011 shortlist.

Only taken me two years...

[Prufrock]

The George RR Martin bullshit simile generator has just churned out 'swift as sorrow'. Vomit.

[LeverEnd]

The George RR Martin bullshit simile generator has just churned out 'swift as sorrow'. Vomit.

haha! This is why I'm just going to stick to watching the GoT series. I imagine it's not that well written and it would spoil the suspense of the TV series which is superb.
My mate just read one of his earlier novels on our holiday, some sex drugs and rock n roll affair. Might have a look at that.

[Prufrock]

A few pages back we had from the first book, ""The sun shone off the mountains, clear and bright, like truth".

They're good fun though. Watching first series of the TV programme through Lovefilm at the mo.

[General Mannerheim]

I made a start on Jon Ronson's The Psychopath Test, but i dont half struggle to find the time to read these days...

[Prufrock]

It's worth sticking with GM! Fab, but unsettling. I don't think anyone has finished that book and not thought, 'I'm a psychopath!'

I do most of my reading on trains and buses now.

[LeverEnd]

Atomised by Michel Houellebecq. Very interesting, very perverted. Read Lanzarote a few years back, this is much better.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Atomised by Michel Houellebecq. Very interesting, very perverted. Read Lanzarote a few years back, this is much better.

You have my attention. What is the basic plotline?

[LeverEnd]

Atomised by Michel Houellebecq. Very interesting, very perverted. Read Lanzarote a few years back, this is much better.

You have my attention. What is the basic plotline?

Follows two brothers, one a repressed scientist, one a sex-obsessed teacher and their attempts to find meaning in the world. One attempts this via the study of molecular biology, the other by trying to shag as many women as possible, but with little success.
The overall theme of the book is that religion is being replaced in the Western world by a new kind of spirituality, but that as a society we are still trying to work out what that is. And these guys are both trailblazers and victims of this process.

I think that's what it's about, not finished it yet.

PS Had an interesting poolside chat about it with a very attractive blonde from Southampton while on holiday last week, went for a few drinks with her and ended up as frustrated as Bruno, the perve in the book.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I may well order it from t'Amazon.

[LeverEnd]

Was described in one of the reviews on the cover as 'extravagantly filthy'. All you need to know really, worked for me!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Was described in one of the reviews on the cover as 'extravagantly filthy'. All you need to know really, worked for me!

It's what sold me on Tropic of Capricorn.

[Jugs]

I don't think that's what sold me on Tropic of Cancer, but it was a great read nevertheless.

I've just started reading William S. Burrough's Junky.

[bwfcdan94]

Just finished Among the thugs probably the best book I have ever read.

[Annoyed Grunt]

Holiday reading:

Miles Jupp - Fibber in the Heat
Mark Cavendish - Boy Racer
Rob Brydon - Small Man in a Book
Jonathan Mayberry - King of Plagues
Jeffery Deaver - Kill Room

Oh, and I did start to read the Fifty Shades trilogy........so racy!

[mrkint]

I'm reading a book called Fermat's Last Theorem which is about...Fermat's Last Theorem. I tried reading it ages ago but forgot about it and left it, half read, on shelf of shame.

Fun book.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I'm reading a book called Fermat's Last Theorem which is about...Fermat's Last Theorem. I tried reading it ages ago but forgot about it and left it, half read, on shelf of shame.

Fun book.

Yeh. I read that. It made me think I had a hole in my life, something I should be striving to accomplish, but not obviously Fermat's Last Theorum. By the way, I don't like the solution - tis cumbersome beyond belief, an ugly answer.

[mrkint]

Tbf it seems impossible that it was the proof Fermat had (judging from where the book seems to be going).

Either there was some mistake in Fermat's calculation, we're all idiots or it's impossible to prove. It's a nice little read, though.