i <3 gabriel garcia marquez

Simon Candy

is where he burns the cakes.

(i haven't read it)

a literary comedy of 'The Angry Young Men'. I obtained it from book swap a couple of weeks back, but have been saving it, and what better time to get stuck into a book than on a flight? So I shall start it tomorrow. The first chapter:
"All women are stupid beings".
This will be a good read.

God comes to earth to experience human life. He descends as a Sudanese woman and dies in Darfur. Should be a laugh...

It's taking me a fucking age to get though, just can't seem to find the time to sit down and get stuck in properly.

by Aldous Huxley. I only have two pages left. I read the first 390 pages in a few days, however it has taken me a week to read the last ten pages. I liked the way that it was more of an open discussion through most of the book - it had philosophical content but you didn't know quite what conclusion to draw from it. And the actual narrative would have been a great read on it's own. The last bit has gone all preachy on me, though. Gah.

I have a couple of Graham Greene novels to read after that.

Great, but Yuu Watase central male characters have a habit of being incredibly interchangable. Before I'd read any of her work, I thought the leads from four of five different series was the same character. Toya isn't interchangable though. He's special.

And I don't like it as much as Ceres generally, but it's still better than most of these shojo types. I don't know why it took me so long to read given it's popularity though... I think I did Watase in the wrong order.

I <3 oscar wilde.He rocked

The heard of a dog last weekend, and i'm now nearly finished the master and margarita. After that i've got Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn's cancer ward waiting.

I also picked up a sweet second hand book called 'The emperor of the united stated of america and other magnificent british eccentrics' by Catherine Caufield that was published back in the 70's. It has lovely little stories about hundreds of interesting people with loveley drawings <3

and i've started A history of western philosophy by Betrand Russell because i couldn't wait to finish Lanark.

by Martin Meredith. Depressing, but really well written and interesting...now I finally get exactly how Zimbabwe has got to the fucked up state it's in today.

Also, One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich. So yeah, cheerful stuff just now...

by Michio Kaku. parallel universes, time travel. A bit heavy but worth sticking with.

but I keep forgetting to take it to work, so I'm re-reading old warhammer novels. NEEEEERRRRDDDDDDDDDDDD

Energy Rush by Simon Reynolds, who wrote Rip it up and start again. Its his frist book aout rave culture.

can anyone recommend any really good American literature? Maybe Fitzgerald-style or era, but not anything by him because I've read every word he ever committed to paper... I'm going on a book hunt tomorrow (inspired by this very thread, no less) and need some more great American lit.

by Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson

by Steven Hall. It has a conceptual shark in it.

everyone else seems to be reading intellectual things. its my summer holiday maaaaan.

not that i read intellectual things in term time by choice, ofcourse.

still. been on it for ages. I tend to read a lot in short bursts then stop for a while then have another burst and on and on and on.

It's a great book though (so far)

About Japan after WWII. And on a similar Japan related vein, a book called Saving The Sun, about the financial collapse in Japan during the 90s.

the road by cormac mccarthy, which was possibly the most moving book i have read in a long long time. every couple of paragraphs it gave me goosebumps. i am now half way through borges' fictions.

by Anna Funder. its pretty good so far....

Werewolves in their Youth by Michael Chabon

Naked Lunch by William Burroughs

It's good.

to finish :(
so today i bought the Private memoirs and confesssions of a justified sinner by James Hogg. The guy in the shop smiled and said it was a good choice :D i'm trying to get a job in a bookshop.

love it

and a Long Long Way
for contractual reasons
and The Bell Jar for personal.

of 4 books

Stephen King's IT
A piece of cake- Cupcake rown
Labyrinthe- Kate Mosse
Chronicles- Bob Dylan

Someone bump it for the office workers on Monday, please. Please please please more books please.

I am currently reading 'choosing death: the improbable history of death metal and grindcore" by Albert mudrian.
Currently o nthe bit about crust in Birmingham.

9tail fox by jon courteny grimwood I will have to start that again..its been ages since i started it i forgot where i was.

Read tawacores for the third time this week too.

And I've orded 'Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking' by eugene robinson

by Jeffrey Eugenides, which I borrowed off a friend after watching the film.

Nick Cave's And The Ass Saw The Angel

'Tis amayzing

by John Irving.

It's not as good as A Prayer for Owen Meany.

a disappointing read, havign thoroughly enjoyed ham on rye.

now im reading heart of darkness by joseph conrad