What Are You Currently Reading?

The Millennium: a comedy of the year 2000, by Upton Sinclair. Published in 1924, based on a play from 1907, it may well be the first nuclear holocaust novel: the scenario is that all but 11 of the world's population perish when a scientific experiment with "radiumite" gopes wrong.

 

I am rereading "The Hobbit" by Tolkien

 

Gather Together in my Name - May Angelou
Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
Master and Man and other stories - Leo Tolstoy
and The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer

 

Lord of the Flies!!

I LOVE PIGGY!!! (he rocks)

 

The Death of a Joyce Scholar by Bartholomew Gill.

 

Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie

 

The diary of Samuel Pepys

 

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd

 

The Soddit

 

The Business - by Iain Banks

 

Ulysses. But then I suppose I'm always reading Ulysses - it's not a book you just read straight through and put down.

 

Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie....

 

Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut

 

ooh excellent!

 

oh yeah! im loving it....its really interesting for me because my grandmother was in dresden when they were bombed in WWII.

..........................Plus, I love Vonnegut's writing

 

Here's an interesting fact. My ancient copy of Slaughterhouse 5 starts with an excerpt from a history of the bombing of Dresden by the notorious Holocaust-denier David Irving. However, this seems to have been removed from the latest Penguin edition. Least, I couldn't find it when flipping through a copy in Borders recently.

 

Cracking read! very funny! its cracking open a few eggs inside my head.

vikingchap

 

I have a copy from 1972, and it's not in there....maybe its just that edition?? Maybe its a collector item??? you might have a rarity on your hands! Id look into that........is your copy from Dell publishing?? Mine is....it is the second printing June 1972. It says the first was Oct. 1971

 

krishnamurti - commentaries on living;

tolstoy - war and peace (as an experiment);

bridget wood - the lost prince;
a.a. milne - the house at pooh corner;
a biography of e e cummings
tony parsons - all there is

(yes, all at the same time).

 

Let me guess, 'War and Peace' has been on your all at the same time list for a good few years? :tongue: