Quick poll thingy: last book read

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Thought this might take our minds off it.

I just finished "Jemima Jones" by Jane Green. Utter cack. This chick lit thing following Bridget Jones's diary is surely burning itself out.

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2002

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Just reread Iain Banks's "Espedair Street" - not sure what prompted it but glad of the impulse.

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2002

Cryptonomicon - Neil Stephenson. Very heavy going.

The Surgeon of Crowthorne - Simon Winchester

Got the later as a gift and turned out to be a cracking read

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2002


'Band of Brothers' - reet rivetin read, if you're into that sort of thing. Puts "current local disappointments" into their full perspective.

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2002

Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne. I thought I'd get used to children's books before the baby arrives.

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2002

Years late, but have finally read Bridget Jones' Diary, and currently half-way through the sequel. It helped that I found the boxed set for 4.99GBP at WHSmith while I was over. ;-)

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2002


Finished 'Amsterdam' by Ian McEwan

In the middle of "To the Last Man - Spring 1918" Lyn MacDonald (factual accounts of the effort to keep the Hun's Spring offensive from winning the war...they nearly did, y'know)
In the middle of "Mother Tongue" Bill Bryson (it's average so far)
About to start "The Battle for God" Karen Armstrong (author of History of God - good stuff about fundamentalism)
About to start "Atonement" Ian McEwan (wor lass recommends)

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2002


Enduring love - Ian McEwan.

Recently re-read Catcher In The Rye for the millionth time - still gets me.

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2002


The Famous 5 - Enid Blyton (It's some time since I read a book) :-)

Seriously, my last read was "The Star's Tennis Balls" by Stephen Fry. Gripping stuff. Faint echoes of The Shawshank Redemption if that's your kind of thing.



-- Anonymous, March 07, 2002

Fiction: David Foster Wallace, 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men'
Non-fiction: Eric Scholsser, 'Fast Food Nation'
Current reading: Eric Jameson, 'The Natural History of Quackery'

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2002

ditto on The Star's tennis balls' jonno - loved it, bit disappointed in the ending mind. Currently giving Ian Rankin a go for the first time, quite good, not really my kind of thing.

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2002


Walter Laqueur: 'Fascism: Past, Present, Future'. Work related.

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2002

I am glad I don't work in the same place as you Mika if fascism is work related! My last was "Thinks" by David Lodge - all his books are worth reading. He does lots of BBC screenplays adapted from classic novels. And he has had his novels Small World and Nice Work both TV serialised. All excellent

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2002

Good book, Softie. Never a big Iain Banks fan but that's a very good book. Complicity is a ghood 'un as well....

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2002

Currently reading "The Longest War" by Marc Mulholland - book on Irish History (for work).

Have just been given "McCarthy's Bar" which will be next - anyone read it? Is it any good?

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2002


Bio of Maradonna. Ian Banks's best stuff is his sci-fi.

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2002


Ooh, don't get me started on Iain Banks. I interviewed him a few years ago. Lovely geek. In order of preference:

The Crow Road
The Wasp Factory
Espedair Street
Walking on Glass
Complicity
The Bridge
Whit
Song of Stone
Canal Dreams
The Business

The last two really are dreadful.

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2002

Jacko, McCarthy's Bar is part of my haul from my last visit. Haven't read it yet, though.

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2002

started to read it but enver finished it. quite funny but wasn't in the right frame of mind.

Best thing about it was the premise: Never walk past a bar with your name on it. Which is useful if you're in Ireland and your name's McCarthy. [But less use when you're name is Delap] obviously....

;-)

-- Anonymous, March 09, 2002


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