CUK Book Club: Currently reading...

[DS23]

A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

The story of several generations of some Colombian family living in the village founded by their forefather and all the weird things that happen to them and their community over the years. It's ok, but not a book with a traditional storyline as such. Seems quite repetitive really, I've still got 100 pages to go and I know the sort of things that are going to happen before I get to the end; hopefully I'll be proved wrong. Definitely one for the Guardian readers amongst us!

i absolutely loved that book the second time i read it. the first time i thought the same as you commented. i know i am going to read it again.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I read a book once. It was green.

Wasn't that a line from the popular tv series Porridge?

[Xenophon]

Wasn't that a line from the popular tv series Porridge?

Go to the top of the CUK class, PSB.

[moorfield]

The Secret History - Donna Tartt (re-reading) and a CISSP primer (for the commute)

[The Lone Gunman]

Go to the top of the CUK class, PSB.

Wot no geek points?

[tay]

The Generals by Simon Scarrow

I like Napoleonic war novels.

[cailin maith]

I read "The Island" while I was on holiday - it was really good!! It's about a leper colony off the coast of Crete.

[darmstadt]

Feuchtgebiete - Charlotte Roche

'Ever since I could think, I've had hemorrhoids.'

The heroine of Wetlands is Helen Memel, an opinionated, outspoken 18-year-old who is as articulate as she is sexually confident. After a failed attempt to shave her intimate parts, Helen ends up in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Maria Hilf Hospital. She remains in the ward for the rest of the novel, surrounded by surgical instruments and machines, mentally exploring her body and those of other women.

'A denunciation of the fetishism of beauty and the obsession with hygiene ... or a satirical novel with little content, except to demonstrate that the media functions by searching for scandal?'
Die Welt

'Phlegmatic, self-satisfied, taboo tearing ...'
Stern

'A masturbation pamphlet ... '
Die tageszeitung

'A protest at the Heidi Klum world ...'
Süddeutsche Zeitung

[BrilloPad]

I am reading John Grisham - the last juror.

I do like John Grisham.

[cailin maith]

I am reading John Grisham - the last juror.

I do like John Grisham.

Me too, usually - but I read The Appeal on holiday and it was a bit heavy going!