Books - What do you recommend? / What are you reading?

[Funky Dave 10]

I'm about 80 pages into Great Expectations. I'm in a Dickens phase at the minute, having just finished Hard Times, and I've got Bleak House lined up for next.

[Sam Miguel 10]

I love Dickens. It 's the hidden humour. So much ahead of his time he was.

 

I am not reading anything at the moment, but two good books I read lately - I just love Ben Elton - were This Other Eden and Dead Famous, which is p*** take of Big Brother. One of the contestants gets murdered, and in spite of all the cameras, they don't know who did it!

 

It's mint!

 

Really beast!

[Phanerothyme 12]

Originally posted by Yodameister

Just started re-reading How The Dead Live by Will Self.

Really quite thought provoking and funny and freaky as well.

 

He's a great author, and writer of short stories.

 

Have you read Great Apes? Stunning.

 

As for Dickens, three words:

 

Dombie And Son

 

Possibly the dullest tome in the english language, almost guaranteed to induce narcoleptic fits even in speed-freaks.

[segasonic 11]

Last book I read was Loving the Alien, a biography of David Bowie.

I've run out of books, I really need to get some more.

[Rich 12]

I started reading H.G.Wells's War of the Worlds recently.... I love the Jeff Wayne musical so I decided to look up the book, good story.

[Babooshka 10]

I am reading my first trash novel ever! It is called The Ghost, by Danielle Steel and may I say.........it is GREAT!

[Jamie 10]

I'm reading a few books at the mo ... including 'The way of the Wizard' by Dr Deepak Chopra ... which is cool.

[*Twinkle* 10]

I'm reading:

 

* Antony and Cleopatra ~ Shakespeare

* Enduring Love ~ Ian McEwan

*Some poems by Christina Rossetti

 

(All of which are for my AS English literature, but we nit pick about them so much I don't have time to read any others!!! hehe)

[rain 10]

just finished rereading Dostoyevskys The Idiot. Its THE BEST

[spook 10]

Currently reading Tess Gerritsen's 'The Surgeon' but have resolved after seeing 'The Return of the King' to revisit The Lord of the Rings as haven't read it since I was about 14.

[fuzzy 10]

Have just read the first Kathy Reichs book Deja dead, very like the Patricia Cornwell ones.

Am now reading Evening Class by Maeve Binchy which is interesting to see how peoples lives entwine.

And have the next Kathy Reichs ready to start.

[MichaelTravis 10]

Originally posted by rain

just finished rereading Dostoyevskys The Idiot. Its THE BEST

 

Quality!