What are you reading at the moment??

[Lisa]

"False Impression" by Jeffrey Archer --  ho-hum
"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak --  I knew I'd love a book narrated by Death.
"The Keep" by Jennifer Egan --  just starting it. 

[davej]

I'm reading " The battle for Budapest , 100 days in WWII "by Krisztian Ungvary .
Proving to be a hard read .
Still working my way through Johns works . Almost finished "the White Road " .
Dave .

[norby]

I'm reading The Murder Exchange by Simon Kernick and The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

[Jayne]

I've just started reading Anne Tyler's  "The Tin Can Tree".

[susiesue]

I'm still reading Meridian by Alice Walker. I'm only half way through it and am wondering whether to finish it at all. I've never been disappointed by her before and I'm wondering if it's me or the book. If anyone out there has read Meridian, tell me whether to continue or just move on.

[lucy]

Well, I finally finished "The Traveller" by John Twelve Hawks and I have to say that I didn't love it - it definitely perked up towards the end but probably not enough so that I'd bother reading the next two in the trilogy.  The story itself is set in a vaguely interesting world but I just felt like I'd seen it before (Minority Report, The Matrix with nods to Terminator and, even, Highlander).  Although my main gripe would be the writing style's lack of, well, style.  In that regard, it is, indeed, "The New Da Vinci" code, as is claimed on the front cover - I really should've known.

Although I could just be being grumpy ...

On the other hand, I've also just finished "Dream a Little Dream" - a veeeery interesting biography of Cass Elliot - and "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace (who could resist that title?!) - both of which I highly recommend.

[lucy]

Oh and Jason - I read "Incompetence" a while back and thought it was very funny although it did get a bit wearing towards the end.

You see, I am being grumpy today!

I thought the Red Dwarf novels were hysterical and they inspired me to start watching the tv series which I'd totally managed to miss up to that point.

[verve]

Lucy,

During the day when we're really bored - I mean, hard at work - my friend and I send each emails of Red Dwarf quotes. One memorable subject line read: "What's dead, dead and dead all over? Give in, Dr Fruitloop, do tell. Yoooouuuuuu...."

We were so exhausted/nerdy/stressed out with everything that one day that we recounted the entire "What's that you're smoking, Lister?" conversation, one line per email. Hours of amusement

[lucy]

Brilliant! 

[Slickevil]

I'm trying to get into Swords of Heaven by Simon Green . I love Green's Deathstalker and Nightside novels but I'm having trouble with his Hawk & Fisher series .

[JoshSchrank]

Currently I'm reading the forums on John Connolly's website 

[norby]

Currently I'm reading the forums on John Connolly's website 

As my father says, "Nobody likes a smartass." (Personally, I think people love them!!!)

[harry_hitch]

I have currently picked up the collected short stories of Roald Dahl. An excellent selection of well realized, shocking, horrid and macarbe, um, short stories. 

These stories were turned into the t.v. series "Tales of the un-expected"

Well worth a read if you dont want to read anything too heavy.

[SammyK]

The Last Templar - Raymond Khoury.  It's pretty good so far.

Have just read Break No Bones - Kathy Reichs.  Much better than her last one.

[susiesue]

Ice Road by Gillian Slovo

So far so good. Takes place in Leningrad in the 30s. I've read one other book by G Slovo - Ties of Blood - about her family. She's the daughter of Joe and Ruth Slovo, anti-apartheid activists from South Africa. Her mother was murdered by the South African government. It is also well worth reading.