What book are we reading at the moment?

[Rikki]

A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.. i've only just started it, so have only got as far as the creation of our solar system, but already it's amazing how much stuff i thought i knew and i was just plainly wrong..

I really liked that book. I've also recently read his At Home which I would suggest if you enjoyed A Short History.

 

[John Marwood]

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

 

[Mikinton]

Just finished "Soccernomics" and just started this .....

From ancient Babylon to the last great unsolved problems, an acclaimed mathematician and popular science writer brings us his witty, engaging, and definitive history of mathematics.

(Actually, between the two books, I finished off "PT 109 : John F. Kennedy in WWII". I'm afraid I'd left him and his crew shipwrecked on one of the Soloman Islands for the last 6 months.)

 

[Withnail]

A biography of Edward the Confessor.

It's actually as boring as it sounds so far.

 

[littleme]

The more you ignore me, by Jo Brand. Not the sort of thing I would normally read, it was a birthday gift from the husband. But I like Jo Brand as a comedian and the book is quite good

 

[mimbee]

I've just finished reading "Perfect People" by Peter James. Absolutely fantastic book! I would definitely recommend it

 

[Trumpet]

I've been working my way through Lee Child's Jack Reacher books - I'm on the last one, then I'll finally get round to reading the Lord of the Rings books that my lovely blokey lent me AGES ago

Done the Reacher books.
Just started Parallel World by Nick Sanders, 55,000 miles, six continents, 120 days, by Yamaha R1, not the usual choice for such shenanigans.

 

[Withnail]

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

'Things are what they are, and whatever will be will be.'

It is rare that i read fiction these days, rarer still that i should read 250+ pages of anything in three days. This is the most enjoyable book i have read (or rather am in the process of reading) for many, many years.

It might be expected that i should feel this way when comparing it to an analysis of the extent of Edward the Confessor's land-holding in the 1050's, but this is story telling from the very top drawer.

I must get some vodka...

 

[John Marwood]

'Things are what they are, and whatever will be will be.'

It is rare that i read fiction these days, rarer still that i should read 250+ pages of anything in three days. This is the most enjoyable book i have read (or rather am in the process of reading) for many, many years.

It might be expected that i should feel this way when comparing it to an analysis of the extent of Edward the Confessor's land-holding in the 1050's, but this is story telling from the very top drawer.

I must get some vodka...

I fully expect to see this "in quotes" on the back page of the third edition

 

[Scoot Doggy Dogg]

Skagboys - and I am so happy to be reading a Sick Boy chapter once again. If ever there was a radge it is he.

You can't beat a bit of the Welsh felly

 

[John Marwood]

Skagboys - and I am so happy to be reading a Sick Boy chapter once again. If ever there was a radge it is he.

You can't beat a bit of the Welsh felly

Are you speaking Welsh?

 

[Gramaisc]

Are you speaking Welsh?

Well spotted..

 

[Withnail]

I fully expect to see this "in quotes" on the back page of the third edition

They will have to judiciously cut this bit then - "The Epilogue was superfluous, i would have preferred it to end as it should have." - minor quibble really.

Lol? I did, and often.

(they can put that bit in if they like)

 

[Scoot Doggy Dogg]

I love Irvine Welsh and I haven't been disappointed so far reading Skagboys. After finishing this I shall be reading Trainspotting, Porno and Glue for the third time each.

 

[Withnail]

Back to the boring stuff -

A history of power, love and greed in 11th-century England

 

[Gramaisc]

Back to the boring stuff -

A history of power, love and greed in 11th-century England

Very similar set-up, but 20th Century - and with two queens...

 

[Withnail]

I may have been a little premature with the bit about 'boring'.

Have just been enlightened to the existence of a poem, written by a Monk, no less, in the 1020's about the escapades of an Irish cleric (no less) named Moriuht, which includes the lines -

"In addition, his anus... constantly gaped so openly when he bent his head and looked down on the ground, that a cat could enter into it and rest (there) for an entire year."

- which rather reminds me of something slightly more contemporary.

 

[Mikinton]

Taming the Infinite : Ian Stewart

From ancient Babylon to the last great unsolved problems, an acclaimed mathematician and popular science writer brings us his witty, engaging, and definitive history of mathematics.

After finishing the above just before Christmas, I'm just about to start this, having just borrowed the eBook from the library.

 

[Withnail]

Just finished mine as well, and looking forward to starting

this.

Have had the odd dip into it, and it certainly would seem that, far from being the Messiah, Lance was a very naughty boy.

 

[Withnail]

this.

Half-way in, a corking read it is too.

On reflection it may have subconsciously fed in to this post here.

Quite a culture. Worth a read.