What Book Are You Currently Reading?

simpledumbpilot · Post by **simpledumbpilot** » Mon May 09, 2005 1:04 am

I had a really long overdue lazy day today so gave Inside Out another read whilst having a big Floyd session, started this morning and finished about an hour ago then started cracking on with tribute stuff.

blueeyes · Post by **blueeyes** » Thu May 12, 2005 4:33 am

Star Wars Revenge of the Sith

mister_knobbs · Post by **mister_knobbs** » Thu May 12, 2005 7:27 am

'Naked Lunch' by William S. Burroughs

Creeeepy

David Smith · Post by **David Smith** » Thu May 12, 2005 11:04 am

Read Shakespeare's The Tempest, now reading Garcia Marquez's Love In The Time Of Cholera

mister_knobbs, gotta recommend you read Junky bu Burroughs after Naked Lunch if you haven't already. It's a much more straight forward book with a linear narrative and shows the other realist nside of Burrroughs. Of course its not as good as Naked Lunch, but then IMHO few books are

jonesy · Post by **jonesy** » Wed May 18, 2005 2:16 pm

fear and loathing in las vegas, and manchester united the untold story (ned kelly)

mister_knobbs · Post by **mister_knobbs** » Fri May 20, 2005 11:33 am

mister_knobbs wrote:'Naked Lunch' by William S. Burroughs

Creeeepy

Just finished it.

Boooooooooring, bad book, the appendix is much better than the book itself. I'm gonna read Irvine Welsh if I ever would like to read about drugs again.

Massed Gadgets · Post by **Massed Gadgets** » Fri May 20, 2005 3:38 pm

After not having read fiction for a bit, I found my old copy of The Cornelius Chronicles by Michael Moorcock. When I was about 16 I'd read The Final Programme, but got lost somewhere in the second novel. Guess I just wasn't ready for the surrealism of it all. But I think I'm sufficiently surrealistic enough now to handle it.

So I'm re-reading The Final Programme, and then will dig into A Cure For Cancer, The English Assassin, and The Condition of Muzak.

Elyuk · Post by **Elyuk** » Fri May 20, 2005 9:49 pm

Just finished the Dark Tower VII...
intresting end to the series
now starting Cold Mountian ... only thing left to read in the house

#1sydlover · Post by **#1sydlover** » Mon May 23, 2005 11:25 am

[quote="David Smith"]Recently read books (as from new year)

On The Road- Jack Kerouac
The Catcher In The Rye- J. D Salinger
The Trial - Franz Kafka
Naked Lunch- William S Burroughs
Junky- William S Burroughs

great picks! i love on the road and naked lunch. i have yet to read junky...

right now i am reading textbooks for school-no time to read for enjoyment.

Jangus · Post by **Jangus** » Mon May 23, 2005 7:28 pm

Electric Cool-Aid Acid Test

David Smith · Post by **David Smith** » Tue May 24, 2005 11:28 am

And now David's reading list for 2005

On the road- Jack Kerouac ****
The Catcher in the rye- JD Salinger ***
Raw Spirit- iain Banks (missed it last time) ***
The Trial- Franz Kafka ***
Naked Lunch- William Burroughs *****
Junky- William Burroughs ****
Big Sur- Jack Kerouac **
Ulysses- James Joyce *****
Morvern Callar- Tom Warner ***
The Turn Of The Screw- Henry James ***
The Plague- Alber Camus ****
Great Expectations- Charles Dickens *****
The Tempest- William Shakespeare ***
Love In The Time Of Cholera- Gabriel Garcia Marquez ****

Now reading- A Room With A View- E.M Forster

a glazed look · Post by **a glazed look** » Tue May 24, 2005 9:55 pm

the talisman by stephen king

hungryhungryhomer · Post by **hungryhungryhomer** » Fri May 27, 2005 10:03 am

The Da-vinci code , & good luck with the Talisman Hannan i read it years ago and if i remember right it was somewhere between a struggle an mind-numbingly dull !

David Smith · Post by **David Smith** » Fri May 27, 2005 11:22 am

Finished A Room With A View, now going on to Twelth Night by our boy Will

a glazed look · Post by **a glazed look** » Fri May 27, 2005 5:24 pm

good choice geordi the da vinci code is great.