On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan. It's rubbish.

the neglected process in evolution!
by odling-smee, laland and feldman.
pretty rad. will this be the first book thread where anyone else talks about science books? please?

it's intense and it made me go insane in Primark. All those crowds of idiots and all these Rollins thoughts coupled with the Process of Weeding Out on my iPod. ARGH!

next up either the Book of Dave by Will Self or Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea.

for about 4 months now. I do love Heller's books, but this one seems a bit hard to get involved in.

its really good.

unless you read it at night before you're about to go to bed it isn't scary at all. So I mostly do that. His descriptions are really over the top. I don't know an author that uses the word 'hideous' more than HP.

Classic ennit.

The Collected Stories of. It's fantastic. Wish I'd discovered her earlier.

And Beyond Ugly.
Didn't enjoy Ugly one single bit, but I already bought the damn follow-up.
Mao's pretty well written but is so factoidy that it takes some concentration. Probably more concentration than I actually have.

by herman melville.

salman rushdie.
i started it ages ago and then for some reason gave up after getting a good chunk of the way in and decided to read something else instead. so now i've had to start all over again because i can't remember much of what happened. it's annoying. i don't even know why i stopped the first time because it's really quite good.

its taken me about 2 mins to read but is vaguely fun i guess

hubris

for around the tenth time. I really want to see the film again too.

It's supposed to be 'amazing'. I'm only about 50 pages in though, and am still not sure what's going on. I've heard so much hype though that right now I kinda just want to know what happens.

I also bought these in the bookshop today, so they are on my 'to read' list:
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
The Informers - Bret Easton Ellis
The Collector - John Fowles
Good purchases?

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again. because i only skim read it the first time round and thought i might have missed the greatness suggested by various broadsheets and lauren laverne on the inside cover. i don't think i have.

overrated.

for my course. Not nearly as exciting/scary as I thought it would be. And I'm supposed to do a presentation on it on Thursday, I'm gonna go for the whole feminist perspective.

Don't Stop Me Now.

HAHA :P

I don't have a novel on the revolving cultural counter currently.

but they are so very boring (they relate in turn to visual literacy and models of behavioural self-regulation).

Outside of that, for pleasure, Time's Arrow by Martin Amis (genuinely great so far, surprising as I hated Money) and Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim (the film was incredible). The first "gay fiction" book I have read, I feel so enlightened.

it's the new Stephen King. Enjoying it far more than the fucking atrocity that was Lisey's Story. Return to form?

monstrous regiment by terry Pratchett. he never ceases to amaze me with every book he writes. amazing

by Yehuda Berg. Religion & beliefs fascinate me. Although I consider myself an atheist.

(currently Asia: East Med)

I, The Supreme - Augusto Roa Bastos
Death Note Vol.6
A few travel guides for various places I'll never go to

The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hesse

A Guide for the Perplexed - E. F. Schumacher

after 2 years of it gathering dust on my shelf.

It's astoundingly well written.

By Mark Oliver Everett (aka E from the Eels)

It was rather good. Sparse, but good.

I am also reading lots of (Philip K) Dick

by Matthew De Abaitua- if anyone wants to feel disillusioned with the future, read said book.

by the late Mr David Gemmell.

Nearing 50% completion, I would say. It's quite good, drenched in mirth and dark humour.