What Are You Currently Reading?

The Book of the Dead - by Patricia Cornwell

 

Hood by Stephen Lawhead (again) - a reimagining of the Robin Hood story.

Lawhead can certainly serve up a page-turner but is no great stylist and despite having lived in Oxford for several years can't quite shake off his Americanisms - he has an 11th-century Welsh king shouting "Get your sorry tail out here!" to his wayward son.

 

Haha! That's quite funny. I couldn't imagine anyone saying that over here. That is a bit bizarre that he doesn't write more like an 'Englishman' considering he has lived here in England. I mean it doesn't take that long to pick up on some of the subtle differences in vernacular between the UK and the US.

Roffa, do you recall the Lawhead book I mentioned before about the college students that fall through some sort of time portal or vortex?


Now reading: The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs by Irvine Welsh

 

Since I have nothing to rad... Woman's weekly!! But I'm also reading The Merrybegot in my free lessons at school, which is about witchcraft and pagans and that, so interesting. I might actually have to buy an new library card so I can read it at home!

 

Coming towards the end of Hemingway's A Moveable Feast. I'm really enjoying it because I've recently read For Whom the Bell Tolls and the Great Gatsby so it puts a new perspective on them.

 

The Lovely Bones. What a book.

 

Yeah, he really doesn't have much of an ear for dialogue.

In this book he's decided to relocate the Robin Hood legend to Wales, which allows him to re-cycle all the Celtic lore he put into the Arhurian novels - it turns out that Robin is a corruption of Rhi Bran, "King Raven". I think there may be some shamanic journeying coming up.

And yes I recall you mentioning that book but can't place it.

 

I'm reading Aldous Huxley - Between heaven and hell ... well good book ^^

 

i finished the handmaid's tale by margaret atwood and i highly recommend it. it's really rather good. i reckon anyone who liked 1984 and that kind of thing will like it.

 

Iain M Banks - Feersum Endjinn.
Bloody awesome. All sci-fi people should check it out

 

See, now I saw someone say one time that Iain Banks only wrote pretensious sci-fi under the name Iain M Banks. So, so far, I haven't gone out of my way to attempt to read any of his sci-fi books, but love his fiction (except for when it gets a wee bit too pretentious). What's this one about that you are reading?

 

Wedding of the Waters by Peter Bernstein

the story of the Erie Canal.

24 Rail Trails of New Jersey.....not literature but some nice ideas for biking
on abandoned railway paths.

 

The Hermetica by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy

 

Re-reading On the road by Jack Kerouac

 

Kinda hard to explain.. his sci-fi is a bit bizarre.
basically.. nope, can't even define it.
I'll copy one from amazon:
Amazon.co.uk Review
In a future where the ancients have long since departed Earth for the stars, those left behind live complacent lives filled with technological marvels they no longer understand. Then a cosmic threat known as the Encroachment begins a devastating ice age on Earth, and it sets in motion a series of events that will bring together a cast of original characters who must struggle through war, political intrigues and age-old mysteries to save the world. (B 4worned, 1 oph Banx' carrokters theenx en funetic inglish, which makes for some tough reading but also some innovative prose.)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Feersum-End...bs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199894357&sr=8-1

 

just recieved a copy of Cosmic Bandidtos by A.C. Weisbecker

 

The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid....

 

The Merrybegot by Julie Hearn. S'bout pagans.

 

the saga of the volsungs good old dragon slaying.

 

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov....