Metamatic Forums Socialising The Green Room What are you reading?

With apologies to Chris C for nicking his idea!

So you probably got some books for xmas, it's miserable outside - time to stay indoors for a month and hibernate...

I'm currently reading;

Iain Sinclair - 'Lights Out For The Territory' and

JG Ballard - 'Collected Short Stories, vol.2'

"The Complete David Bowie"

Future Noir:The Making of Blade Runner

As recommended by Cerise & Rob

A damn good read so far 250 pages in

Book titles always make me smile.

He's not finished yet so how can it be complete?

You have to admit "Just over half of David Bowie" wouldn't quite work...

...mind you, I'd probably still buy it!

Currently reading someting like fire - remembering peter cook. Got a few cook books on the go at the mo this one arriving today.

Why bother reading stuff you wrote yourself? ... Yeah, I recognise you from your picture.

Currently reading 'Little Dorrit' by Charles Dickens. Last book I finished was one of Garry's - 'The Unlimited Dream Company' - which was nothing short of superb. Thinking of moving to Shepperton...

Well-spotted Scott! And you're right - 'The Unlimited Dream Company' is superb!

My missus reads a lot of Charles Dickens, I confess I've read none his works - which is really unforgivable. She's read 'Oliver Twist' so many times that when she first moved to London from Sheffield, she could work her way round quite easily without a map as she remembered how the streets linked together!

Just fixed the quote.

Oops! Apologies Cerise - I'll get the hang of that one day, honest!

If I'm trying to impress people by how literary I am, I'm currently reading Nabokov's "Laughter In The Dark" and will shortly commence having another attempt at finishing a Dostoyevsky novel.

In reality the last book I read was a compilation of articles by Jeremy Clarkson......

My email, and 'Man without a country' - Kurt Vonnegut.

On tenth anniversary of previous post, cheers...



Now it can be told. -ha! -ha! -ha!

I recently read Thomas Di Leva's biography ("Vi måste prata om allt" = We must speak of everything). He's one of Sweden's most popular artist since the 1980's, but little known abroad. A big Bowie fan.

Currently reading two books simultaneously. The first books I've read in at least three years. Depressing, but there's no time for anything it seems.

• The Clash: The Clash
• The Complete David Bowie [2016 edition]: Nicholas Pegg

We can agree a decade later that he's finished. Ironically, I posted this before I read the early portions of the thread and had to edit this last part into it! Do we read anything else around here? Birdsong! Where's that Foxx tome?