Now reading...

[Brad]

Just started reading the White Tiger, for my book club

That's a good one, though I actually thought Between the Assassinations (by the same author) was better. Something to look for later perhaps.

It almost reminds me of the picaresque type of books that I read back in college. Kind of like Lazarillo de Tormes. Regardless it paints a less than flattering portrait of modern India.

[B. Goren.]

[BruceH]

Returning to this one after about 40 years! Yes, it's true what they say - it's a classic!

It's a real classic for sure!

And remarkably prescient about the advertisement industry culture!

And the Supreme Court is trying it's best to make the book come completely true.

I must say, though, when it comes to SF, Penguin has a real thing for dull, drab, rather ugly, and utterly boring covers.

[BillF]

Returning to this one after about 40 years! Yes, it's true what they say - it's a classic!

It's a real classic for sure!

And remarkably prescient about the advertisement industry culture!

And the Supreme Court is trying it's best to make the book come completely true.

I must say, though, when it comes to SF, Penguin has a real thing for dull, drab, rather ugly, and utterly boring covers.

I couldn't find an image of the cover of the 1984 Penguin which I have. It's somewhere between Giorgio De Chirico and a Maidenform bra ad!

[Jazzmoose]

I must say, though, when it comes to SF, Penguin has a real thing for dull, drab, rather ugly, and utterly boring covers.

British SF books in general seem to have incredibly boring covers, at least from what I've seen.

[BruceH]

I must say, though, when it comes to SF, Penguin has a real thing for dull, drab, rather ugly, and utterly boring covers.

British SF books in general seem to have incredibly boring covers, at least from what I've seen.

I wonder why that is?

[Jazzmoose]

Probably the food...

[BillF]

Boring culture?

EDIT: With the exception of Tubby Hayes and Victor Feldman, of course!

Edited June 8, 2010 by BillF

[Jazzmoose]

Boring culture?

Nah, can't be that; what about Aldiss, Brunner, Ballard....okay, maybe depressing culture.

[BillF]

Boring culture?

Nah, can't be that; what about Aldiss, Brunner, Ballard....okay, maybe depressing culture.

It's the rain, you know.

[BruceH]

Clarke isn't particularly depressing.

(And then there's P.G. Wodehouse.)

[jlhoots]

the girl who kiscked the hornets' nest

Just started it too!!

[Dave James]

the girl who kiscked the hornets' nest

I didn't realize there was a Yiddish version.

[Jazzmoose]

Clarke isn't particularly depressing.

(And then there's P.G. Wodehouse.)

Yes, and I believe it was someone from England who came up with my all time favorite television line, "Golf's not very popular around here".

[Teasing the Korean]

"Kon-Tiki" by Thor Heyerdahl

A fascinating expedition, even if Heyerdahl's theories have been disproved by the genome project.

[ghost of miles]

Jonathan Lethem, THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE.

[jlhoots]

Jonathan Lethem, THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE.

Great book.

Also try Motherless Brooklyn.

[BruceH]

the girl who kiscked the hornets' nest

Just started it too!!

Also reading that now.

[B. Goren.]

[paul secor]

Jonathan Lethem, THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE.

Great book.

Also try Motherless Brooklyn.

I enjoyed Motherless Brooklyn a lot. Haven't read anything else of his since then, but I probably should.

Edited June 19, 2010 by paul secor

[jlhoots]

Nick Stone: Mr. Clarinet

[jazzbo]

I had started this and then set it aside as it seemed to heavy in several senses to take with me on my 3500 cycle trip. . . .

I have resumed readking this and must say tis pretty fascinating and well done. Temple is a really good historian, this is no "Chariots of the Gods" stuff. . . .

Edited June 19, 2010 by jazzbo

[BillF]

[Matthew]

The Sign of the Four. It's my favorite Sherlock Holmes novel. Is the BBC TV movie with Jeremy Brett any good?

[BillF]

The Sign of the Four. It's my favorite Sherlock Holmes novel. Is the BBC TV movie with Jeremy Brett any good?

I'm back on Sherlock Holmes myself. Just started His last Bow. Don't know that movie