What Book Are You Currently Reading ?

[JakobM]

I'm always juggling around 4-5 books at a time. Usually martial arts books.

Anyway an EXCELLENT book I recently finished is called "King of the Gypsies: Memoirs of the Undefeated Bareknuckle Champion of Great Britain and Ireland" A.K.A.: "Bareknuckle: Memoirs of the undefeated champion"

Unfortunately I don't have enough posts to add a link yet, but you can easily find it on Amazon, or just go to Half Price books which is where I got my copy for only 5 bucks!

This book kicks ass! It tells the story of Bartley Gorman (the man who was the inspiration for Brad Pitts character Mickey in the movie Snatch.

If you're into fighting and practicing bare knuckle boxing as it was done in the pre MoQ daze.... then this book is for you.

Check it out!

[Beanz]

I have just started reading this at the moment.




I have finally after the recommendation of @Nameless got around to it. I have great respect for Eco the great polymath and am often disappointed to see him topped in the worlds great intellectual lists, by the dreary and dull Emperor with no clothes, Noam Chomsky. He is certainly a better writer but whatever, it is probably high time for me to rise above such churlishness, obviously for many he is a top floater of boats, so, horses for courses and all that.


The first few pages are a blast, like a bicycle with mud encrusted tires speeding down hill, picking up more and more debris as it quickens, the layers of vitriol and ire handed out to all races is magnificent and so beautifully sandwiched between character embellishment and prose, that one finds a great joy in such mean spiritedness.

By page 17 he has already rattled through the Jews,Germans,Spanish,Croats,Maltese,Gypsys,English ,
Prussians,French,Italian,Arabs,Ostrogoths,Saracens ,Swabians,Greeks,Christians,Muslims,Freemasons,
Jesuits,The Negroes of Africa,and has started the new paragraph on page 17 with the sentence

"I hate Women,from what little I know of them"

[Nameless]

OH and you will see, the aventures of "Capiston Simonini" are just about to begin. The most fascinating thing in this book is how his main character does all that... so smoothly, without over exagerating the story. This is has definitely been one of the best novels I've read this past year, glad you'Re already in this book up your elbows

[VictorCharlie]

I'm reading a book on American foreign policy misadventures in Latin America for a class. Not a very good read but I'm looking forward to starting "The Generals" by Thomas E Ricks.

[OumaFan]

I rarely read mysteries/police procedurals anymore but this one's off to a pretty good start. At this point I only have time for reading right before I go to bed so I didn't feel like anything too heavy.

[VictorCharlie]

I'd been reading a few pages of 100 Years of Texas Waterfowl Hunting on the crapper since Christmas and finished it yesterday. If you aren't a Texas duck/goose hunter it isn't that interesting but it also chronicles a lot my family's historic role in hunting on the coast.

[Dia bando]

A kindel and when I manege, to switch it on I'm going to read that book.

[boozeboxer]

I am reading Jack Kerouac's On the Road. All in all a pretty fun book.

I have checked out Tristam Shandy. Has anyone ever read that one?

I also have Jeckyl and Hyde, which interstingly, Miles said in a previous post he was reading.

[Gandalf]

Jeckyll and Hyde is a great book indeed. My only gripe with it is that it is too short. It really pulls you in, but it all ends pretty quickly. It's the kind of book you can read in an afternoon with 3 cups of tea. It stays with you a lot longer though.