What are you reading now - and then

[Ecstatic]

I'm currently reading To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis, a fun time travel romp. Been on an SF jag lately, reading or re-reading classic 40s and 50s short SF by Asimov, Heinlein and others. Fascinating to see what they got right and what they got wrong 50-60 years ago.

[Prospero]

If time travel really worked you could visit tour future self and find out what books and films etc were a waste of time and then not read or watch them. (Except of course......)

[CORVETTEDUDE]

Shadow Warriors by Tom Clancy

[Stavros]

Just back from the bookshop with my copy of Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai...

[Wendy Summers]

Started on the Hunger Games - I'm about 1/4 of the way through so far... digging it.

[Wendy Summers]

If time travel really worked you could visit tour future self and find out what books and films etc were a waste of time and then not read or watch them. (Except of course......)

Um... paradox much?

[MdR Dave]

I've been reading crime/noir lately. Jim Thompson, Richard Stark (Westlake), Elroy, Leonard . . .light stuff to help me get to sleep at night.

Any suggestions?

[Stavros]

Satantango, by Laszlo Krasznahorkai.
First published in 1984 this has just been translated into English. I have seen the film of the book by Bela Tarr (twice), and the author collaborated with Tarr on the 7 hour film and in the process there are some changes, for example in the book the charismatic figure Irimiaz wears yellow shoes, but not in the film. The book is concentrated and an easy read, taking less than 7 hours, whereas the film employs the static camera and long takes associated with Tarr (and directors like Antonioni, Angelopoulos and Tarkovsky); but I prefer the film which succeeds in displaying the mind-numbing experience of living on a remote communal farm in the extended and deeply miserable winters that Hungary seems to experience. This is neither light nor popular entertainment, but worth the effort.

Sátántango: Amazon.co.uk: László Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes: Books@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vedjrcy%2BL.@@AMEPARAM@@51vedjrcy%2BL

[robertlouis]

Two very different things.

Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse (the intelligent one, not the model). It's a ghost story novella about her primary subject, southern France in the time of the Cathars. The pace is breathless and I read it in a sitting.

Jubilee Lines, a poetry anthology edited by Carole Anne Duffy, the poet Laureate, featuring specially commissioned poems by different British and Commonwealth poets for each year of the present Queen's reign. It's thankfully free of any knee-bending royal crap, and if you've lived your life while Liz has been on the throne, it's an entertaining and occasionally provocative as well as sideways look at her reign. And of course, as with most poetry, each poem is worth reading again and again.

[south ov da border]

What I usually read crime novels and mysteries. Jonathan Kellerman, Donald Goines, Stuart Woods, Tim Dorsey.

Lately been catching up on music history mostly hip hop. The Big Payback, The Anthology of Rap, The plot against hip hop...