What book are you reading now?

[marshlander]

I clearly have far too much time on my hands. I've just finished Graham Swift's amazing novel, "Waterland" and before that the equally amazing Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things". Now I've read two books with too much drowning going on I think I could do with something cheerier. Reading a Graham Chapman biography isn't doing it for me and I'm pretty certain it won't have a happy ending either!

It's fascinating seeing the process from the other side. I've had a curious couple of weeks corresponding with a British author now living in the USA who was given my name by someone in Berlin whilst researching for something like his hundred-and-somethingth book ... if I'm to believe what Wiki says about him. I know of at least two works of fiction containing very minor characters based on me, but I've never knowingly been caught up in the facts before

[joseph]

marslander i have to tell you something your faverite book is same as my sister waterland.

[marshlander]

marslander i have to tell you something your faverite book is same as my sister waterland.

Hey, Joseph, that is amazing Some of the places mentioned in the book are real. Since I live close to where the story happens it was fun trying to work out where the other places might be.

[joseph]

i got a funny feeling about it becuse my sister loves that book aswel

[princealbertofb]

It's been some time now, but I remember really enjoying "The world according to Garp" (John Irving) and "East of Eden" (John Steinbeck).

[sweetlad86]

Well I'm reading a book three of my mates have told me about and its called "The Game" by Neil Strauss so far I've only read three charters but I think its a really good read for people who are shy, as its about well I will refer to Dr. Tom Milholland off of amazon.co.uk as his review says it all:

"This is one of the most intriguing books I have ever read! The main character is fascinating and I envied him at least 4 times. The idea itself for the existence of a secret society of pick up artists is quite intriguing. I think that Neil has presented as a true master story teller all those ups and downs he went through till "the happy end".

This book will show to the average guy the "picking up" of girls from a completely different perspective. It is neither that difficult nor it is easy, if you know certain "lines, affirmations, etc. I would love to see this great story as a movie. Additional bestseller which wowed me is Alan Ritz' "Scientifically guaranteed male multiple orgasms and ultimate sex". If you want to pick up girls you must be good in bed as well!
Dr. Tom Milholland (Amazon.co.uk: Customer Reviews: The Game)".

[marshlander]

"Saturday" by Ian McEwan - an extraordinary trip

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[COLOR="Purple"]The Joy Of Gay Sex (Fully Revised and Expanded Third Edition :tongue: ).

The intro is amazing... first published in 1977 *only four years after the American Psychiatric Association had removed homosexuality as a mental disorder... with heavy editing from the publishers and then even heavier editing from many other countries publishers and governments...

The Japanese allowed the full text but removed all illustrations. This has not changed in Japan as even today all pubic hair is pixilated.

The reading is interesting but I kinda have an issue with so many "categorization" but that is me
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[Lilmy87]

also part way through Stephen Fry's 'Moab is my Washpot' - his autobiography. Its good and I'm enjoying it but you have to be in a certain frame of mind to read it.

Hope you enjoyed it! I'm currently reading The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry; very very funny! Who doesn't love Stephen Fry? mile:

Hey, Joseph, that is amazing Some of the places mentioned in the book are real. Since I live close to where the story happens it was fun trying to work out where the other places might be.

That's true, I do! What a wonderful book. Though I can imagine it held even greater appeal for you, as a water/fen/marsh lander. It must have been fun to try to recognise the real life locations; I really felt that the author's love of the place shines through the text.

[marshlander]

...That's true, I do! What a wonderful book. Though I can imagine it held even greater appeal for you, as a water/fen/marsh lander. It must have been fun to try to recognise the real life locations; I really felt that the author's love of the place shines through the text.

More in the form of a state of mind than in some of the locations though. Some of it did not ring true. He seemed to be describing some locations in Norfolk, but placing them much closer to Cambridge. I found that a bit unsettling.

Just finished
Amsterdam - Ian McEwan (another one on loan from Belle Mère)
Johnnie Walker's Autobiography (nice to have an inside view of the pirate radio years)

Just started
The Olivetti Chronicles - John Peel

Lined up
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula LeGuin

ps You should be here more often, Hannah!