I do a lot of reading, its fucking great. Anyone else?

I love the Discworld series and have also been reading as many books as I can about Arthurian legend. I'm trying to read some 'classic' books too like The Dice Man, 1984 and Catch 22 etc.

The book I'm reading at the moment is The God Delusion and if you haven't read it or aren't reading it at the moment I suggest you pick up a copy now! Its by Richard Dawkins and its a book that pretty much proves god doesn't exist. Wicked!

Go!

I've been wanting to read The God Delusion for a while...

Try Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. Great book.

I'd love to have time to read but I have to read SO MUCH for Uni. I've got copies of Jihad vs. McWorld, Doctor Zhivago and War and Peace lined up for when I'm done with Uni this term.

Jon recently read BNW and it has been the topic of conversations along with 1984.

My life is basically reading, typing shit on the thrash ad metalbrew forums and cooking (oh and going to school/work and being told to fuck off...). I like a good mix of fiction and non-fiction. Currently I am reading The Eoclogy of Freedom by Murray Bookchin. At first I struggled to get into it but am really feeling it now. Quite heavy going but he makes quite a lot of significant points and there seems to be an enjoyment to his writing that other theorists (if that's the right term) can sometimes lack. Besides my Anarchist literature, I like the typical political analysis of John Pilger, Mark Curtis, Chomsky, Greg Palast etc etc.

In terms of non-fiction is a lot more vast. Camus is good. I prefered The Plague to The Outsider but wholre-heartedly rcommend both. Catch 22 is great but Slaughterhouse 5 probably equals it in a third of the words. Joe Haldeman's Forever War is another great anti-war novel. The Diceman is awesome. Voltaire Candide is short and lovely. Could go on but yeah, I love reading.

STD_Caps wrote:Jon recently read BNW and it has been the topic of conversations along with 1984.

You better bloody believe it. 1984 is my favourite book in the world at the moment, although BNW is arguably better. But 1984 was the first amazing book I read that got me back into reading basically, and it also inspired me to write that concept album for my uni project that I've written about in that other thread. Since then I've been on a little reading spree that includes Brave New World (obviously), Frankenstein (brilliant indeed), erm, 1984 again, and at the moment I'm doing The Man In The High Castle by Philip K Dick. I'd quite like to read P.D. James' The Children of Men actually, because I thought the film was so amazing. I want to read some other stuff first though. I'll take some recommendations from Caps I think! I do like my dystopian novels I have to say, stories about the end of the world and war and humanity in chaos, and all that stuff, it really strikes a chord with me for some reason, and I really get into that kind of wonder.

The God Delusion sounds great indeed and right up my alley, being an Atheist Jew (if such a thing exists... I personally prefer to be called a human being). I'll definitely check that one out in the near future!

I only read Andy McNab and Uni books at the moment.

Andy McNab's booked are a bit like the Rocky series, you know whats going to happen every time, but you still watch (read) !

I used to read all the time when I was younger, but like Iain I have to read so much for uni, so I'd rather do something else in the free time I don't have. The last book I read was The Great Gatsby in the summer, which I thought was pretty good. One of my favourite books is in french, La Cle sur la Porte by Marie Cardinal, which is about young people in society, and it really made me question things when I was reading it. I used to study ancient history, so the Odyssey is also a good one. Agatha Christie novels. The occasional Jilly Cooper At least no-one's said porn yet!

I'll have to read this God Delusion thing - it's always helpful to have facts to back up your atheist beliefs!

Whenever I think of Dawkins now, I'm going to be thinking of South Park. Those episodes are funny and wrong. God Delusion looks a bit long to prove a very basic fact. There is a lot of historical analysis to it, isn't there? I read parts of Jihad/McWorld at Uni. Not bad at all. It's amazing how many books you 'read' but don't read at Uni...

charlotte wrote:Try Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. Great book.

yeah, years ahead of it's time! 1984 is good, but for me it will always be a poor mans brave new world!

Well, tonight my good uni friends got me War and Peace as part of my birthday present. Shit... there goes the next few years of my life!

Reading is gay. I have to have read Moll Flanders by Monday. Gay.

I don't really read as many recreational books as I'd like to... for no good reason, other than I'm usually sleeping, watching South Park and the American Office, or attempting to do uni reading.

I'm quite partial to fantasy type books (geek haha), and I really recommend the Empire trilogy by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurst:

Daughter of the Empire
Servant of the Empire
Mistress of the Empire

They rule!

The American Office makes me angry. GRAAAAAAAGH! There's no reason for it to exist!

It's not that bad! Not exactly the british office, but still.

Oh yeah I saw Pam from the programme on a bus in London a few months ago!