What are you reading?

[Smellyoldgit]

Kinich Ahau wrote

That's what years of oppressive catholicism will do to you.

[required]

Are those rubber gloves?

[Smellyoldgit]

Indeed, obviously the height of bathing chic.

[Eternal]

If his beard gets any bushier then they will have matching head gear.

[Kate]

required wrote

Are those rubber gloves?

Sadly, no. They are very expensive satin.

[Stargazer]

Kate wrote

Sadly, no. They are very expensive satin.

They look like hazmat gloves.

[ubs]

Daniel Suarez has a new book being released this summer called Kill Decision.

If you like techno-thrillers, Suarez is the new hot thing. His first book, Daemon, starts a little cliche-ish, but it after he warms up it's quite good.

[Kate]

Kate wrote

I am 23 out of 23 requests/holds from the library for "GOD'S JURY : the Inquisition and the making of the modern world" by Cullen Murphy.

Sigh.

Well. After not getting anywhere on the list, I cried, "Oh, my God! How long do I have to wait on this list???"

And lo, my Lord heard my cry and unto my mailbox appeared The Angel of Amazon with the desired tome inside.

Thanks be to God!


(It was more likely The Book Fairy, though. I like fairies betterer. )

[nkb]

I just finished "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson. Very good and captivating book.

I had always avoided it, because I was under the assumption that it was a chick book. My wife and all her friends raved about it, and I assumed it was along the lines of all the other crap my wife reads (like Janet Evanovich).

It's a cold case murder mystery set in Sweden, with plenty of glimpses of the warts of Swedish society.
Probably the most shocking thing about it is the extent of the prevalent abuse of women and gender inequality that still exists in a society as progressive as Sweden's.

[Professor Chaos]

I'm about halfway through Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by John Lee Anderson

Very well written and exhaustively researched.

[ubs]

nkb wrote

I just finished "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson. Very good and captivating book.

The second book is even better - faster paced. The first one is more of a who-done-it. The second one is a thriller, and the third one is a spy book.

I liked them so much, I ended up reading them twice. Since then I've been picking up translated Swedish best sellers. Swedish fiction is a lot more violent than UK/US fiction.

[psychodiva]

nkb wrote

I just finished "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson. Very good and captivating book.

I had always avoided it, because I was under the assumption that it was a chick book. My wife and all her friends raved about it, and I assumed it was along the lines of all the other crap my wife reads (like Janet Evanovich).

It's a cold case murder mystery set in Sweden, with plenty of glimpses of the warts of Swedish society.
Probably the most shocking thing about it is the extent of the prevalent abuse of women and gender inequality that still exists in a society as progressive as Sweden's.

the other two books are also awesome!! and if you want some good Scandinavian fiction read Hening mansell's Wallander books

[psychodiva]

ubs wrote

The second book is even better - faster paced. The first one is more of a who-done-it. The second one is a thriller, and the third one is a spy book.

I liked them so much, I ended up reading them twice. Since then I've been picking up translated Swedish best sellers. Swedish fiction is a lot more violent than UK/US fiction.

same here! although it was Wallander that first turned me onto it- now I have progressed to a lot of other Swedish, and danish authors - also the TV is great- Forbrydelsen was so much better than the USA version 'The Killing'

also- Wallander is so much better in the original Swedish version despite my love of kenneth branagh lol

[muse]

Waddlie wrote

I like this book and have started to read it. I never
got his level of anger or his love for GW Bush.

[West491]

I finished Blind Watchmaker by Dawkins around New Year's. Good stuff if you're into evolutionary biology. I read Selfish Gene before this but I think I should have read it after.