What are you reading now... II!

[SiHart]

I very much enjoyed the Paul Magrs and have now moved on to Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller.

[Rob McCow]

Slan by AE Van Vogt. It's sci-fi.

[Stuart Wallis]

Northern Lights by Philip Pullman. Or The Golden Compass if you prefer.

[Rob McCow]

Slan was OK, but let down a bit because Van Vogt isn't a brilliant writer. He's great at the sci-fi concepts and the basic stories, but the dialogue and plotting is somewhat off-kilter.

Fans are Slans!

I'm now reading The Fourth Hand by John Irving.

[Jon Masters]

Having a bit of a fantasy resurgence - just ordered a load of Forgotten Realms novels from Amazion and some online secondhand dealers, and have started re-reading the Riftwar books of Raymond E Feist (with the odd Pratchett thrown in here and there).

As an the Radio 4 Afternoon Play on Friday 29th is currently scheduled as a radio adaptation of The State of the Art (Ian M Banks), adapted by a certain Paul Cornell.......

[Paul Clement]

I'm reading The Rainbow by DH Lawrence.

[stuartdg]

The novelisation of Dark Season by Russell T Davies and Death of A Gossip(the first in the Hamish Macbeth series) by M C Beaton

[stuartdg]

Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet

The first of the Crossroads novels by Malcolm Hulke A New Beginning,it's essential in that it fills in many of the gaps as so much of the early years is missing from the archives

[Stuart Wallis]

Persevering with His Dark Materials; now onto The Subtle Knife.

[SiHart]

I've recently finished Making Money by Terry Pratchett and have moved on to Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood.

[stuartdg]

I keep dipping into Running Through Corridors Vol 1,which is fascinating reading!

[Rob McCow]

Running Through Corridors might be on my reading list too, soon.

Pulp SF time - Philip K Dick - Vulcan's Hammer and JG Ballard - The Drought this week. The Drought was later renamed 'The Burned World'.

[Stuart Wallis]

Running Through Corridors

Haven't you run down here before though?

[Alex]

I'm reading The Rainbow by DH Lawrence.

You poor thing! I like a lot of classic literature, but never got on with Lawrence...There's wonderful moments, but they're hidden away amongst so much guff (imho!).

[SiHart]

Yesterday I read Doctor Who- Hunter's Moon (thought it was pretty decent) and today I'm starting Doctor Who- Coming of the Terraphiles.

[Paul Clement]

You poor thing! I like a lot of classic literature, but never got on with Lawrence...There's wonderful moments, but they're hidden away amongst so much guff (imho!).

I'm enjoying it, actually. D H Lawrence is one of my more preferred authors of the considered classic literature.

[SiHart]

I remember studying his Three Novellas for a-level English Lit and finding them a little odd. Not difficult, just rather strange really. I've never gone back and read anything else by him which may be an oversight on my part.

[Paul Clement]

He had very strange ideas about relationships and sexual power within relationships with couples often trying to dominate each other on emotional & physical levels.

[Paul Monk]

Accidentally I've started reading Black Butterfly by Mark Gatiss (at long last)

[Alex]

I'm enjoying it, actually. D H Lawrence is one of my more preferred authors of the considered classic literature.

I know I'm in the minority, obviously, but all that flowery imagery goes on for far too long in Sons and Lovers. I know it represents his views on sex, love, etc, but I found it a slog to get through. And I don't normally have a problem with 19th / early 20th Century authors.

I've just finished A History of the World In 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes, it wasn't quite what I was expecting, and I prefer his novels to this collection of short stories, but some of it is great stuff.

Now I'm on Jonathan Coe's latest novel The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, which I picked up for a quid in a charity shop today, and really enjoying it (far more than the previous owner, I'm guessing). But then I've always had a soft spot for Coe.

[SiHart]

I really enjoyed The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, Alex. Lovely novel.

[Stuart Wallis]

Now got round to The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman.

[Paul Clement]

i've just finished The Rainbow and am moving on to rereading Game of Thrones by George R R Martin.

[Philipnet]

I am reading the RedHat Enterperise Liux System Administration course notes
But I am taking that course this week so I have a good excuse

[Alex]

I really enjoyed The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, Alex. Lovely novel.

Me too, though I'm slightly bemused by the epilogue...Only just finished it, but it's something I imagine I'll mull over for a fair while...