What are you reading now?

[Dirko]

Finished these few lately;









Reading;



About to start once finished the above;







I usually on average read a book in a week, so the Library is my friend

[Gingernuts]

Good fun isn't it Ginger. William McInnes is a very witty and clever writer.

Yep, love the way he captures what's best about cricket and sport in general at grass roots level.

He just has a way of reminding you of what's good about life, sport, mates etc. John Harms is another author who does that.

And SJABC - good to hear the library is your friend (I actually manage one of those friendly institutions!).

This thread is particularly handy for finding out what people are reading at the moment, I can legitimately say that I check SA footy for 'market research' purposes.

[whufc]

Snowtown.

Obviously about the Bodies in the Barrell covers all the details from the early 90's right through to the end of the trial, very good read goes into a fair bit of detail, interestingly names exacts address and so forth where the murders took place.

I found it so astonishing that the two names John Bunting and Robert Wagner were know to police as associatiets or suspects in about 5 different missing person files yet they couldn't ping them for anything until the bodies were actually found.

[Dogwatcher]

It's crazy that all of that could happen isn't it WHUFC.
And to read it all and know the very streets and places where all of this was happening and even some of the people was quite eerie.
I was living in the Riverland by the time it was discovered but I lived in Elizabeth for much of the time the murders were taking place and to think I could've walked past any of the people (victims/perps) was weird.
They lived in houses around the corner, were married in churches down the road and shopped at the same places as us.
Scary.

[whufc]

Yeah so true i use to live on Currawong Cres in Craigmore at the time, John Bunting was arrested at a house on Bundarra Court which was less than a 5 minute walk away. I don't ever recall seeing the bloke or anything like that but on numerous times in the book it mentions a couple of the victims were killed purely on that they looked like 'rock spiders' no other reason, kind of scary isn't it.

[Il Duce]

after watching the movies and loving them I thought I would read the books that they where based on so at the moment I am making my way though these books

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[Mr66]

'The Six Sacred Stones' - Matt Reilly

[Dogwatcher]

Nearly finished:

[Q.]

Just finished 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole, a hilarious and colourful piece of fiction - read it! Swapped the book at hostel for a very, very tattered edition of Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'Notes from Underground' and feel like I´m being verbally abused as I read it, interesting though.

Still have 'On the Road' buried deep in the backpack, just in case of sheer desperation...

[Dogwatcher]

[Dogwatcher]

[Magpiespower]

'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole

One of many sitting on my shelf marked 'To read'.

Poor b@sta@rd topped himself before it was published.

His mum shopped it around and in 1980 - 21 years after his death - it went into print.

And won a Pulitzer.

[Strawb]

The Twilight Saga. i am finding them an interesting read . I will admit i am enjoying reading them the movie was good but i am finding the books alot better.

[Interceptor]

About to start:



The "definitive" version of The Forever War

A Ridley Scott film version is in development.

[brod]

Have recently read

Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh

and the follow up

Porno - Irvine Welsh

[godoubleblues]

reading Generation Kill by Evan Wright
what the TV series was based on

[Dogwatcher]

[Dogwatcher]

Have recently read

Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh

and the follow up

Porno - Irvine Welsh

Does your head in a bit reading his stuff doesn't it?

[southee]

[brod]

Have recently read

Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh

and the follow up

Porno - Irvine Welsh

Does your head in a bit reading his stuff doesn't it?

Makes you concentrate and so is much slower to read