Reading this, then moving on to the new Murakami.
“Mes rendezvous avec la morte” by Jose Meiffret In French / or translated in English.
If anyone has this or sees one, I’d be keen to talk.
It’s very good. Unbelievably only started reading Murakami’s work in the last couple of months, it’s been a good couple of months.
Okay - flying to London next week. Need a book for the flight, want something vaguely to do/based in/about with the place.
I’ve already read Down and Out in Paris and London, and while I’ve never read any Dickens, I’ve decided I don’t like him, for no good reason. so, recommendations please…
The Trial by Kafka.
does bill bryson have a London based book? notes from a small island is probably getting a little dated…
You’re the second person this week to tell me to read that.
Fifty Shades of Grey.
you might score some in - flight action!
it’s short, it’s easy (literally rather than thematically) to read, and might suit the weirdness of a plane trip.
Nice one. Then again - who am I kidding, I’ll probably just end up buying a copy of Monocle at the airport.
I haven’t read this but put it on my to-read list last night - London Orbital by Iain Sinclair. If urban nerdery is on the agenda anyway.
Another great japanese author is Yukio Mishima, his writing is of a different genre and isn’t as riveting and easy to read as Murakami fantasy but i feel like it is quite a bit more advanced and beautiful in its own right. I usually feel like i’m way out of my depth when reading his stuff.
reading this atm, there’s an old film adaptation but i haven’t seen it
novellas are great plane books. The trial by Kafka and cannery row by John Steinbeck have been my favourite airport purchases
heart of darkness.
row down the thames and pretend someone is telling it to you.
just bought a book about Russell Mockridge, by Martin Curtis.
i’ve read a few comments about the guy and figure i owe it to myself to find out a bit more.
last book i read was by J. Randy Tarborelli about Michael Jackson. good read, esp. if you’re a fan.
haven’t read a novel for a while. must do that.
Nearly finished book 4 of Game of Thrones…faaaark it’s boring (but book 2 was worse). I’ve found my cure for insomnia, but it’s probably spoiled the TV show for me. I’m still reading it only because I refuse to let it beat me.
Bit of a thread dig. I’ve decided I want to try and read 52 books this year. (I usually read about 4 or 5, only only ever 3 quarters of them, and I’ve realised I need to reteach myself to read for longer than the length of an online article) - So far it’s been pretty good, have far exceeded the usual average, however I’m discovering that in order to get some larger books in, I need to nail some smaller sub 200 page books to stay on track.
Read so far:
Relativity: a very short introduction - Russell Stannard
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 - Anne Applebaum
Why We Build - Rowan Moore
Keep the Aspidistra Flying: - George Orwell
Mythologies - Roland Barthes
Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
A Russian Journal - Steinbeck
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter Benjamin
try Labrynths by Borges…fantastic book.
Also, Dublinesque bu Vila Matas.
Train Dreams by Dennis Johnson.
Try the New York Trilogy by Paul Auster. Good stuff, three short novels. So you’ll read three books in the time it’d normally take to read one.
i take your three and raise you to 9.
nine stories by j d salinger. i read the book twice in two weeks 8 months ago. the last story still gives me chills.