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What book would you be reading if you weren't too lazy/shallow/thick?

Another vote for Tristam Shandy -- managed about a third of it before giving up in disgust. I can't do James Joyce or DH Lawrence either. And Underworld by Don DeLillo and Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie have been on my bookshelf for years. The latter has been on holiday with me twice. :o
 
Another one for Neal Stephenson's trilogy or whatever it is. It's just too much of a commitment to plough through them. And they're a bit bulky to carry around for the train....
 
RenegadeDog said:
Am currently struggling through Soul Mountain, which I've been picking up and putting down again for months. It's actually quite easy to read, but extremely disjointed.
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Did you ever finish it?

I found a copy of 'Soul Mountain' for sale at my son's school fair a few months ago and finally started reading it today - and you're right, it's easy to read and so far so good (not disjointed yet). But I'm still only on chapter 2. I'll see if I can get to the end of it. :)
 
Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco. I've got a mental block there tbh. I've read loads of his other works but that one ....

... Maybe I should go back to it.
 
Von clauswitz on war its heavy going by all accounts and exspensive.
The way of the samurai .just lazy


:o this make me sound like a loon
 
rubbershoes said:
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. It's been looking at me from my bookshelf for more than 10 years.

If it carries on like that it's on a fast track to Oxfam
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I gave up when it became clear that the incoherent style was pissing me off

Read Vineland by him, which was hard going but rewarding
 
Brainaddict said:
If you don't mind take a long period of time to read a book (a couple of months at least) and you don't mind not having any identifiable plot, Gravity's Rainbow is a very cool book. Didn't understand more than half of it, but it had some great moments and some great sections of prose. I'd say give it a go.
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that was the fucker for me. I want story time ennit.

Vineland had at least some sort of plot
 
Brainaddict said:
It's about the v2 rockets. are you sure you're not getting confused with slaughterhouse 5 by vonnegut?
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I read this the week he died, excited by the idea that there was a great scifi author I knew nothing of, looking forward to reading his stuff.


I was dissapointed.
 
Jambooboo said:
Never been able to get more than about five chapters into Brave New World, despite five or six attempts. Otherwise I've read every book in my little collection. I didn't get any further when I took it with me on a 2 month holiday, with no English language alternatives to tempt me away. Too lazy to see if it actually gets interesting.
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oh its a good'un. Not my favorite brand of dystopia but very good nonetheless
 
Psychonaut said:
the bible.
book of exercises to develop a photographic memory
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Revelations in the King James version is very cool.

As are the old testament stories. I'd skip the gospels, but Acts is worth a look. And to see paul of Tarsus in full bigoted flow check out the Epistles
 
It's high time I tackled Anna Karenina, it's been sitting around in all its mahoosiveness and distorting the space-time continuum in the vicinity of my bookshelf for ages now. No, I'm reading Ben Elton instead. His stories are good but I know in my heart of hearts that he's a fairly shit writer. Still, it's handy for taking mental notes on hackneyed, obvious prose so that I can avoid using it in my own book.

I'm fucked if I'm ever going to read 'Finnegan's Wake', life's to short.

I need to read more Hermann Hesse though, having read Steppenwolf and Siddartha and adored both.
 
SpookyFrank said:
It's high time I tackled Anna Karenina, it's been sitting around in all its mahoosiveness and distorting the space-time continuum in the vicinity of my bookshelf for ages now. No, I'm reading Ben Elton instead. His stories are good but I know in my heart of hearts that he's a fairly shit writer. Still, it's handy for taking mental notes on hackneyed, obvious prose so that I can avoid using it in my own book.

I'm fucked if I'm ever going to read 'Finnegan's Wake', life's to short.

I need to read more Hermann Hesse though, having read Steppenwolf and Siddartha and adored both.
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ha ha ha, the cunt turns up on charity shop bookshelves with alarming regularity.

Stark was quite fuuny though. What crap of his are you enjoying?
 
DotCommunist said:
ha ha ha, the cunt turns up on charity shop bookshelves with alarming regularity.

Stark was quite fuuny though. What crap of his are you enjoying?
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The latest one, it's about the first world war. It's quite a lot like all his other books. I liked 'this other eden' though, it's actually based on a fairly original concept and is all the better for it. As for charity shops, this book was given to me by my sister. From the state of the spine it looks like she read about a third of it :)
 
SpookyFrank said:
The latest one, it's about the first world war. It's quite a lot like all his other books. I liked 'this other eden' though, it's actually based on a fairly original concept and is all the better for it. As for charity shops, this book was given to me by my sister. From the state of the spine it looks like she read about a third of it :)
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The First Casualty? it has its heartstring tugging passages, and is crafted well. Bens crap but hes a good no-brainer entertainment read. I drew the line at Inconcievable though. I've no wish to here the cunts fictionalised take on that particular subject:)
 
I don't feel the need to read anything other than those i do already........


i read what i enjoy and that's all really !
 
There's a book called _Edison's Eve_ about the history of automata that I got ages ago, and is not only supposed to be excellent by all accounts, but is also just the sort of thing I'm interested in. It gets put in my bag, carted about and somehow never opened, then put back on the shelf, then taken out and put in the bag again guiltily.

There's also Stephenson's _Quicksilver_ that I really should read, only that never gets put in the bag because it's too bloody enormous. It weighs about as much as my laptop.
 
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