What are you reading?

Originally posted by elhanko
I'm just beginning Ulysses. Wish me luck!

Haha, good luck! I've gotten well into that book quite a few times but always ended up giving up as I just wasn't enjoying large parts of it, it's a struggle a lot of the time even when you know Dublin city well. Admittedly very good in parts and I appreciate what he was doing but I much prefer his other books.

Now reading Spares by Michael Marshall Smith, a nice bit of near future sci fi.

Dostoyevsky - Karamazov brothers.
Very very Russian drama. But brilliant.

Forever ~ Pete Hamill
Circus of the Damned ~ Laurell K Hamilton
Life ~ Paulo Coelho

Originally posted by davaniel
Dostoyevsky - Karamazov brothers.
Very very Russian drama. But brilliant.

Excellent choice. It's my favourite book by Dostoyevsky, and one of my favourite books altogether.

I am not reading any fiction at the moment, but just bought a book about music and altered states which looks interesting. I have several other non-fiction books on my bedside cabinet, probably too many because it's hard to decide which one to read, so I end up not reading anything...

Originally posted by Nordlys
... just bought a book about music and altered states which looks interesting...

Sounds interesting too - what who please?

Originally posted by avalanchethecat
Sounds interesting too - what who please?

http://www.jkp.com/catalogue/book/9781843103738

Not sure how interesting it is if you aren't a music therapist or musicologist.

Originally posted by Nordlys
http://www.jkp.com/catalogue/book/9781843103738

Not sure how interesting it is if you aren't a music therapist or musicologist.

I see what you mean - I've just been browsing the Googlebooks preview. Some of it sounds pretty fascinating, still.

Yevgeny Zamyatin's We.

I'm loving it so far. Straight entry into my top dystopian books.

Deep Vegetarianism - Michael Allen Fox

The Ghost Map -- Steven Johnson.

An interesting account of how cholera was fought by a doctor and a clergyman in Victorian London.

Finished Matterhorn - Karl Marlantes.

Similar in style and quality to Tim O' Brien.

William Gibson -- Pattern Recognition.

So far so very good.

A History of South Africa - Leonard Thompson

Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), by Philip K. Dick

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, by Stephen W. Hawking

All's Well That Ends Well, by William Shakespeare

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned, by Michael J. Fox