Books

[ravenhair]

What book are you reading at the moment, Answerbankers? Just looking for some ideas for some authors I may not have tried before.

[larabell]

I just finished Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss. It's a novel based on the lives of the original "Siamese twins". It was brilliant. The facts and dates are accurate but Strauss did a brilliant job at interpreting the emotional stuggles they went through. It was absolutley heartbreaking, I didn't want the book to end.

[mother]

Who Are You? by Anna Kavan. Claustrophobia, paranoia and domestic violence in an unspecified Colonial backwater in the 1930s. V. short and completely bonkers, but compelling.

[andy hughes]

I'm reading Katherine Ramsland's biography of the horror writer Dean Koontz. I can advise that Dean Koontz's good books are really good, notwithstanding occasional shmaltzy and / or moralising passages, but his bad ones are awful, and rush the endings. If you want to try him out, give 'Dark Rivers Of The Heart' a go - excellent. I'm also reading the new Bee Gees biography at the same time, well, interchanging really - music and horror novels are twin passions of mine.

[good2skull]

Just finished "French Revolutions" a pleasant bit of non-fiction by Tim Moore (a journalist I think). Basically he cycled the Tour de France 2000 route (about 2000 miles) a month before the real guys did it and has written about his experience. It is very English and very funny. Also wrestling with Dante's "Inferno". Some b"ll"cks about furthering myself. I am enjoying it though. Nice to see some old popes burn and it gives a nice insight into the society Dante lived in through reading about what was considered a terrible sin back then. For example, fraud is much higher on the list than murder.

[TaraLynn]

I'm reading an amazing book right now called Holocaust by Gerald Green. I'm sure a lot of you have heard of it because it was a t.v special at one time. It gives an inside look into two men and their families during WW2 and the Holocaust. One man, Erik Dorf is an SS officer and the other, Rudi Weiss, is a German Jew who is trying to survive during this time. This book gives you the opportunity to view both sides on a more personal level.

[incitatus]

Coming up for air (george orwell), Les Miserables (V. hugo) Double whammy (Carl Hiaasen) and Bridget Jones diary (Helen Fielding). Sounds like a lot, but it breaks down into tube on way to work, tube on way back from work, evening and bedtime. Stops you getting bored.

[Thoth]

I am reading Lord Brocktree from the Redwall series by Brian Jacques and We didn't mean to go to sea, from the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome. I am also reading Watership Down by Richard Adams for a school novel study.

[cynthia dyke]

I'm pleased to see Inky is reading Orwell's Coming Up for Air. I'd be interested to know his opinion of it. I believe it's Orwell's best novel. Anybody else?

[ravenhair]

Brilliant! What an eclectic bunch of readers you are . . . thanks all.

[mrsrobinson]

"Shocking History of Phosphorus" by John Emsley. A superb non-fiction read!

[manutdstott]

I have nearly finished roy keanes autobiography, its no wonder he has an aggressive streak when where ever he goes people want to fight him, so they can grab the headlines, he lives like a recluse outside of fooball & just stays indoors with his wife & kids, i actually feel sorry for the guy. an intrigueing read.