What Are You Currently Reading?

Oppida by John Collis

 

Got two on the go at the moment:
Wilbur Smith - The Quest
Stephen King - The Waste Lands

 

Yellow Dog - Martin Amis

His recent controversy in the news has shown him to be politically moronic, but he does write exceedingly good books, apparently....

 

Hocus Pocus-Vonnegut

 

Grendel by John Gardner. (I'm still reading Porius too, but it's too unweildy to read on the way to work.)

 

The Steel Bonnets - George MacDonald Fraser.

 

Life and times of the thunderbolt kid by Bill Bryson

 

Merlin by Stephen Lawhead. part of the Pendragon Cycle. it's pretty good, not particularly memorable but interesting historically.

 

The Aeneid - Virgil

 

That's funny, I just picked the same book for 75p at a second-hand shop. I read the first volume Taliesin and has a similar lukewarm reaction, also I got put off a little by all the preachifying.

 

hey that's how i got mine too. strange, people just don't want to hold onto this book obviously. i got arthur as well.

as for preachy, do you mean all of christian 'true Light' stuff?

 

Lawhead is a Christian author guys. I did always like his books though, but then again I read him mainly between the ages of 12-17 when I was also full indoctrinated in the church.

I still wish I could remember what the book was called that he wrote about the guys at Oxford (i think it was) that find a vortex to another time. Really can't remember though.

I've read all 6 of the books in that series (the last 3 some 10 years after I'd read the first 3) and really liked them. However, I've always been a big King Arthur geek as well.

welcome to the forum, nerthus.

 

well yesterday consisted of me reading Notes on a scandel (and i finished it too) The books upstairs so i couldnt be bothered to get it so i thought google it and it turns out

its a movie!!!! i am soo watching that. as soon as i can. lol

The book is by Zoe Heller.

 

thankyou! =) happy to be here.

and i guessed as much. i don't think it matters though, i think (so far) that the book is fairly successful in showing the turmoil that a change in religion creates for those involved. it's something none of us will ever actually encounter, but it must be really difficult having everything you believe as truth wrenched away from you. i don't feel preached to either

i'm an arthur geek too! or at least used to be.

i'm also reading 'the handmaid's tale' for english lit which is looking much more interesting than expected, and 'un sac de billes' for french which is a really sweet book. plus finishing hamlet, and a book or two on the russian revolution.

 

Go Ask Alice.

 

I'm currently reading 'Last Orders' by Graham Swift.

 

Follyfoot Farm!

 

A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut (omg i know how to read non-fiction :tongue: )

 

"Golden Arches East: Mcdonalds in East Asia" - Watkins