What is East Dulwich reading today?

[Brendan]

Tank Girl ? The Odyssey

I?m being highly intellectual at the moment.

[mockney piers]

Nowt wrong with pictures. I'm reading Cerebus the Aardvark - Church & State Volume 1

[Jah Lush]

Just started The Magus by John Fowles, can't seem to put it down. Excellent.

[capt_birdseye]

(shivers) I read that about 10 years ago and really couldn't get on with it. Tried another Fowles book (A maggot?) and didn't like that either. Maybe I was too young to appreciate. SHould I give him another go?

[missd]

Reading Half of a Yellow Sun. One of the best books I've read in a LONG time. would highly recommend.

[Michael Palaeologus]

I got entranced by The Magus - read it on a hot island beach. Havent read it since because it wouldnt be as good the second time around.

[Rolo Tomasi]

Re-reading The Rum Diary. Going through his entire collection (again)

[Jah Lush]

Ah! Hunter S Thompson...always good, always entertaining and hysterically funny. Well done Android17 I applaud your good taste.

[mockney piers]

Aah the wonderful Hunter S. Usually have The Great Shark Hunt on the bedside locker, comfort reading you understand.

If he'd topped himself a bit earlier I like to think he's have usurped Kurt's place on this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns8YeNKPjAA

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Just finished "The Farm" by Richard Benson. Fortunately I didn't notice the Richard & Judy sticker on it - it always makes me put a book back! It charts the life of his dad as a farmer in Yorkshire.

Absolutely wonderful read, especially as I'd recently read "Lark Rise to Candleford". Both books highlight the changes in farming and community about a 100 years apart.

"The Farm" is a very poignant look at how ignorance and greed and things like CAP have changed the way we farm in Britain.

Highly recommended, Richard & Judy notwithstanding.

[david_carnell]

For football fans, I've just finished "Just as long as you don't kiss me" which is a fascinating biogrpahy of the late Brian Clough.

It charts his rise, fall, rise again and finally his alcohol wraught demise. Beautifully written and tragi-comic scenes. Emotional towards the end.

Heartily recommended. It also won the William hIll Sportsbook of the Year.

[Michael Palaeologus]

Reading "A Chemical Prison" by Barbara Nadell - an Inspector Icman murder mystery set in Istanbul.

[Jah Lush]

The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

[BJL]

Here are a couple from the bedside reading pile:

Halsman On The Creation of Photographic Ideas by the wonderful photographer Philippe Halsman;

River Horse by William Least Heat-Moon, an account of his East-West journey across the USA in a small boat.

[snorky]

A biog of Chas Bukowski.

and guess what ?

Seems he was free and easy with the truth regarding hsi years as a barfly.

Oh well.

[Jah Lush]

Snorky, I read most of Charles Bukowski's stuff a long long time ago and obviously there had to be an element of fiction to his writing for it to have been creditable. Obviously he wrote what he knew about and exagerrated other parts.

Here's my take on a typical Bukowski paragraph - "Woke up, scratched my balls, staggered to the John, threw up and took a shit. Went to the fridge, grabbed a beer, got in the car and went to the racetrack. Met a woman, took her back, got drunk , we fu*ked, drank more and crashed."

[KalamityKel]

C.S.Lewis, Voyage of the Dawn Treader - something I missed out on as a child

[Cassius]

KalamityKel Wrote:

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> C.S.Lewis, Voyage of the Dawn Treader - something

> I missed out on as a child

I love the Narnia books - although when reading them as an adult the Christian sentiment came over a bit strong!

[KalamityKel]

Yes I have had the whole religious thing explained to me b4 picking up the book and it has ruined it slightly for me... :(

[SteveT]

Part way through Pickwick Papers, Sam Weller has just joined the story as Pickwicks man servant so the best is yet to come. According to master Dickens the periodic pickwick writings became more popular once Sam appeared.

My last good read was 'I claudius' and 'Claudius the God'. I say good read in the loosest possible sense, as I use audio books. Since needing reading glasses I find more than 10 minutes a strain, so now I listen, and if I miss some I rewind it. They are brill but V pricey although without them I am sure I would not tackle nearly so many classics.

'A classic is a book everyone wants to have read, and nobody wants to read'. Mark Twain

[mightyroar]

I just read:

what was lost by Catherine O'Flynn

http://www.tindalstreet.co.uk/catalogue/item_detail.php?id=236

and it was really great. I loved it. laughed out loud. and it was very moving too.

and it was very funny about the crappy old consumer society that we all live in.

I also really loved Black Swan Green by David Mitchell. Brilliant 80s nostalgia and a lovely novel about growing up.

[spadetownboy]

im presently halfway through "auschwitz, the nazis and the final solution" by laurence rees. probably a bit of an understatement, but they were one bunch of bad bastards.

[wee quinnie]

I am re-reading David Sedaris "dress your children in corduroy" which is totally HILARIOUS

[Keef]

Reading "Terrorist" by John Updike. Very well written.

Waiting in line are "Guns, Cash and Rock 'n' roll" by Dulwich's own Steve Overbury, and "Slash" by Slash and some biographer.

[Ant]

Just finished rereading The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. Am about to start In Defence of Food by Michael Pollan.