What Book Are You Currently Reading ?

[killersheep]

Between silk and cyanide is a brilliant book by an actual allied codebreaker during WW2. Haven't had time to read a book for ages but I'd love to read that one again. Martin Cruz Smith books are brilliant too if you haven't read any. Start with Gorky Park. I'm sure they're all free on the internet somewhere.

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check those out.

[Andre]

Dangerous Days
A Diggers Great escape.
Ernest Brough.

Wonderful read, sort of book you wish didnt finish and makes you want go and meet the Author and shake his hand and thank him for his life.

Factual story about Earnests time fighting on the beaches and in Syria then their capture and the following escape by three, two Aussie and a New Zealander trooper from a Nazi camp with all their pre plans then their experiences on foot through Austria over snow covered mountains into Serbia and Croatia eventually over to Italy just as it was freed into allies hands.

Makes you appreciate the grit and good hearts these old time heroes naturally had.

[Beanz]

Well I finally finished it




And I do not mind admitting that it was a bit of a struggle at times. It is magnificently written but very data intense. The lists of events and names is integral to the plot and the clever interweaving is necessary, but I did find it hard work. This is not just a fictitious wedge of escapism or merely an historical thriller either, it does a great job in throwing light on the machinations of hate and envy that continue to shape modern Europe and the wider world. Conspiracy theories and the general distrust of Jews, Masons and those who are different from "US" are brilliantly dismantled. Thanks @Nameless for the recommendation.

[boozeboxer]

Friends, Enemies, and Lovers is my new book. Civil war book. So far, so good.

[Nameless]

Well I finally finished it




And I do not mind admitting that it was a bit of a struggle at times. It is magnificently written but very data intense. The lists of events and names is integral to the plot and the clever interweaving is necessary, but I did find it hard work. This is not just a fictitious wedge of escapism or merely an historical thriller either, it does a great job in throwing light on the machinations of hate and envy that continue to shape modern Europe and the wider world. Conspiracy theories and the general distrust of Jews, Masons and those who are different from "US" are brilliantly dismantled. Thanks @Nameless for the recommendation.

All my pleasure. With good ol'Umberto, it's always the same; it takes "dediction" to read the whole book as there are so may informations but in the end, once you get the "courag" to get through it, it's just pure ecstasy.

At the moment, I am mainly finishing reading for the philosophy classes that I give (end of semester oblige) but soon enough, I should find some more time to read books for myself.

[Beanz]

I have just finished



@Andre you would love it mate and I am assuming @killersheep and many others here have already read it because it's at least a year old which is quite a long time for fast moving sciences about slow moving subjects like cosmology. Here is a Quote that gives the gist of it



A nice quick read after Eco

[Beanz]

I have now started this huge omnibus which I bought, like many of my books from a charity shop for a £1.




I must have got it a year ago and have finally now got around to reading my first John Updike. I don't know if the American guys here would see him as one of the quintessential modern American novelists but I have been bowled over by the quality of the prose. By page 8 my mouth was almost hanging open with the succinctness and beauty of his phrasing. It is really good stuff, so much so that it has inspired me to design some original artwork on which I will shortly be working. I hope to travel to the States one day but would like to do so with enough spare money and free time to create and exhibit some art over there and this just whets the appetite. It is full of little dramas lived out in front of epic backdrops.

[walrus]

I was recently on a Cormac McCarthy kick. Great reading. I plan on getting back to Kafka next. I like all my music and literature as depressing as possible.

[Beanz]

I have now started this huge omnibus which I bought, like many of my books from a charity shop for a £1.




I must have got it a year ago and have finally now got around to reading my first John Updike. I don't know if the American guys here would see him as one of the quintessential modern American novelists but I have been bowled over by the quality of the prose. By page 8 my mouth was almost hanging open with the succinctness and beauty of his phrasing. It is really good stuff, so much so that it has inspired me to design some original artwork on which I will shortly be working. I hope to travel to the States one day but would like to do so with enough spare money and free time to create and exhibit some art over there and this just whets the appetite. It is full of little dramas lived out in front of epic backdrops.

I am now just starting the third book in the omnibus "Rabbit is Rich" and have to say I am still blown away. The characters are presented with none of the rough corners knocked off, and the plot is pretty incidental, but the eye and descriptive power of Updike just never wanes. Quality Read.