[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[crabface]

Completely addicted to a book called "Marching Powder" at the moment, a real life story of an English smuggler being imprisoned in La Paz in Bolivia.

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Started on the Karl Ove Knausgaard's marathon... really good.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

The Mighty Dead, Why Homer Matters. Adam Nicholson.

 

[KZNSeagull]

John Lydon's Anger is an Energy and Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. Both quite hard work but in different ways. Interesting, none the less.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

The bit about Davey the Dwarf genuinely scared the living daylights out of me. Great book, the man is a legend.

That part of London after hours was genuinely scary in those days ......... let alone meeting Davey the Dwarf.

The bit where he connects with Kenneth Williams - incredible.

 

[BBassic]

Right Hand, Left Hand by Chris McManus.

Interesting; about our handedness. Why most poeple are right handed, how our brains are wired etc etc.

 

[mune ni kamome]

The Secret History-Donna Tartt

Third of the way through and quite gripping

 

[Bombadier Botty]

Starter for Ten - David Nicholls. I never had any desire to read this book, but the other half thrust it my way after she'd finished with it and I can honestly say that, of the 253 books I've read in my lifetime, this is right up there near the very top of the pile. Very amusing read. Highly recommended.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Just finished reading Michael Lewis 'Flash Boys'. Lewis is the DOYEN of documenting the scumbags and (relatively) good guys on Wall Street in recent times. Slightly over-rated IMHO. Think he generally tends to over-egg anybody who he interviews as the good guys and dismisses the generic guys he doesn't interview as the bad guys.Very good read nonetheless

 

[Phat Baz 68]

The Oxford Handbook Of Criminology

 

[Tarpon]

Just re-read this anti war classic after 30 years. More powerful than I remembered.

 

[Hugh'sDad]

The Oxford Handbook Of Criminology

Someone nicked my copy....Am reading 100 years of soltitude at the mo Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 

[Don Quixote]

Song of Kali by Dan Simmons

 

[El Sid]

Guide To League 1 Grounds

 

[mune ni kamome]

Anathem - Neal Stephenson

 

[Gwylan]

Just finished reading Michael Lewis 'Flash Boys'. Lewis is the DOYEN of documenting the scumbags and (relatively) good guys on Wall Street in recent times. Slightly over-rated IMHO. Think he generally tends to over-egg anybody who he interviews as the good guys and dismisses the generic guys he doesn't interview as the bad guys.Very good read nonetheless

He's a good writer though: all his books are excellent.

His best book however is his first, Liar's Poker, it doesn't rely on any interviews and just relates his experience working for Salomon Brothers. It's funny but very informative at the same time

 

[Barry Izbak]

King & Maxwell by David Baldacci.
I'm racing through it. Some of Baldacci's books are excellent

 

[Tarpon]

Half way through this and rather impressed. Had not read anything by him but Stoner before (which I love) and someone on here suggested this was better. It might well be...

 

[m20gull]

The Strategic Air Offensive, vol 1. As with many academic types of read it is not very engaging but it is informative.

So, as usual, I am reading another book (OK two books) on a the same subject. Bomber Barons by Chaz Bowyer and Bomber Commander by Francis Roy Chappell.

 

[Saint Lennard]

An introduction to Counselling by John McLeod. I would have thought it would've been more appropriate as an audio!