What are you reading at the moment?

DarnWeight

Finally got around to hunting down a used copy of Stephen King's The Stand, and I'm currently reading it all over again for the first time in about 25 or 30 years.  Had to find a first edition with the original '80s setting, rather than the updated version transplanted to the '90s with hundreds of pages of extra material added in...bloody expanded editions, my arse.

jellyroll

Portrait of a Lady by Henry James....only because it was referenced (several times) in Letting Go by Philip Roth which I've just finished. I've read several of Roth's novels...thin on plot, heavy on analysing the human condition...like 'em a lot. 

Nitefly

jellyroll said:

Portrait of a Lady by Henry James....only because it was referenced (several times) in Letting Go by Philip Roth which I've just finished. I've read several of Roth's novels...thin on plot, heavy on analysing the human condition...like 'em a lot. 

Yes, I still suffer occasionally from Portnoy's Complaint....

jellyroll

Nitefly said:

jellyroll said:

Portrait of a Lady by Henry James....only because it was referenced (several times) in Letting Go by Philip Roth which I've just finished. I've read several of Roth's novels...thin on plot, heavy on analysing the human condition...like 'em a lot. 

Yes, I still suffer occasionally from Portnoy's Complaint....

Ba boom! Actually, I haven't read it, despite it being probably his most infamous work. 

d8m

Just started this:

CloudNine

Just finished the First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie. Brilliant !! Now bought a few of his standalone novels to see if they are as good.

Might read Magician (Raymond E Feist) in between,  as somehow missed that one over the years.

Just hoping it is better than 'Magicians' (Lev Grossman), as I thought that was a bit rubbish...

lloyd

Just bought my books for my upcoming holiday:

I'm With The Band-Pamela Des Barres

The Heroin Diaries-Nikki Sixx

And a couple recommended in this thread:

Post Office-Charles Bukowski

More Than This-Patrick Ness

HAL9000

Just started Rock Stars Stole My Life by Mark Ellen. Very readable and funny (though I've only read three chapters at the mo).

boogieman

Roland;684410" said:

The Twang Dynasty by Deke Leonard. All guitarists should read this book

Correct, great book. Deke's out touring soon with George Jones' band Son of Man too. Deke is not the player he used to be but he's a great character and a superb writer.

Currently reading CJ Sansom's Lamentation, the latest Shardlake book. Not bad, bit slow though.

Sibelius

''Becoming the Ice man'' by Wim hof and Justin Rosales

lloyd

Amazon's just reminded me:

Burmese Days-George Orwell

d8m

HAL9000 said:

Just started Rock Stars Stole My Life by Mark Ellen. Very readable and funny (though I've only read three chapters at the mo).

That looks  like a good read.

I've got 5 hours of train journeys lined up Friday so Ill get that for the journey

Philly_Q

boogieman said:

Currently reading CJ Sansom's Lamentation, the latest Shardlake book. Not bad, bit slow though.

I like the Shardlake books, but I'm two or three behind and I honestly haven't a clue which was the last one I read.

I'm still slowly working my way through the complete works of J Sheridan Le Fanu.  He was a lot more prolific than I realised...

xSkarloey

Thomas Hardy's poems. There are lots of them so I go through the book picking out stuff at random. 

boogieman

Philly_Q;720616" said:

boogieman said:

Currently reading CJ Sansom's Lamentation, the latest Shardlake book. Not bad, bit slow though.





I like the Shardlake books, but I'm two or three behind and I honestly haven't a clue which was the last one I read.

He's a good writer, but the earlier ones are definitely better IMO. Almost as if he's writing by numbers with the latest one: I'm 120 pages in and not much has happened yet.

ThorpyFX

I'm listening to a game of thrones on audible. It's a bit creepy if I'm honest. Do enjoy the general story but the incest etc is a bit much especially in Roy datrice dulcet tones.

Philly_Q

thorpy6 said:

I'm listening to a game of thrones on audible. It's a bit creepy if I'm honest. Do enjoy the general story but the incest etc is a bit much especially in Roy datrice dulcet tones.

Gosh, I thought Roy Dotrice had died years ago!  I've never listened to an audio book but that sounds interesting.

Alnico

Good news, Bad news by David Wolstencroft.

Spy thriller which is bloody brilliant !

JezWynd

Just started The Way of the Cross (The Cathar Wars) by Rob Lange. Visited the area recently and I'm interested in its gruesome past.

Grunfeld

Leaf Fielding, "To Live Outside the Law"

Pretty cool.  The story of the Operation Julie drugs bust on a massive LSD factory and the supply chain.  Just from a personal point of view I remember the pre-Julie acid that presumably must've come from this place was incredible.  After Julie it was so shit that I didn't bother any more.  But that aside, it's an interesting story from someone who was at the centre of it.