Book Club..

[Wagga_Tiger]

Am happy to be called a nerd in regards to reading

Me too, but I consider myself a cool nerd lol

Count me in, nothing better than a good book

 

[Geo]

What do you like reading..?

What would you recommend ..?

Favourite Authors ..?

You get the drift..!

I liked the Dune series by Frank Herbert also like Matthew Riley and Dan Brown..

Sports Biography's Steve Waugh 'Out of my Comfort Zone'...great read

 

[Chicken_Faced_Killa]

I’m a massive fan of the works of Haruki Murakami. Great writing and interesting stories with supernatural elements set in modern day japan. Would highly recommend anyone giving his works a go.

 

[mike]

Asimov - Foundation series

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Don't really read fiction, but I do read a bit of non-fiction and biographical stuff.

I'll read anything by Stephen Hawking. There's a few books I've got to get my hands on by Brian Cox and Neil deGrasse Tyson. The Cosmos book by Carl Sagan was brilliant. If anyone is into spaceflight, Failure is not an Option by Gene Kranz is a great read into one of the men who was instrumental in the early and peak period of US spaceflight when it was still exciting for the public.

Philip Carlo's books on the Richard Kuklinski and Tommy Pitera were good reads.

I've enjoyed Steve Waugh's and Tim Ross' biographies especially as well.

Would also like to read the personal accounts of Paul Keating, JWH, Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull as well when I have a spare few months.

 

[happy_tiger]

Massive James A Michener fan

The Bridge at Andau and Centennial are my favourite books from his collection

These days I fall asleep after about 10 pages .....could read hundreds of pages a night

 

[tigger]

Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series is worth a look. Not a heavy read - but should be read in order.
It's a series about a specialist UK police department that is called in when a crime appears to have an element of magic. A lot of subtle humour comes out of the contrast between the magic, "weird bollocks", and the routine requirements, necessary paperwork etc that goes along with policing.

 

[trentrunciman]

Don't really read fiction, but I do read a bit of non-fiction and biographical stuff.

**I'll read anything by Stephen Hawking. There's a few books I've got to get my hands on by Brian Cox and Neil deGrasse Tyson. The Cosmos book by Carl Sagan was brilliant. If anyone is into spaceflight, Failure is not an Option by Gene Kranz is a great read into one of the men who was instrumental in the early and peak period of US spaceflight when it was still exciting for the public.**

Philip Carlo's books on the Richard Kuklinski and Tommy Pitera were good reads.

I've enjoyed Steve Waugh's and Tim Ross' biographies especially as well.

Would also like to read the personal accounts of Paul Keating, JWH, Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull as well when I have a spare few months.

Great list right there.

Been reading a lot of Kafka recently and sending his works to my cousin who is in prison. Cousin's had father issues since he was a kid like Franz.

 

[trentrunciman]

Anything from PG Wodhouse is great.

 

[trentrunciman]

I’m a massive fan of the works of Haruki Murakami. Great writing and interesting stories with supernatural elements set in modern day japan. Would highly recommend anyone giving his works a go.

some of Murakami's earlier works are pretty good.

I finished pachinko last year which was pretty good

Chinese writer Mo Yan is a fantastic writer too. Met him @ Western Sydney Uni 5-6 years ago...

 

[tigger]

Don't really read fiction, but I do read a bit of non-fiction and biographical stuff.

**I'll read anything by Stephen Hawking. There's a few books I've got to get my hands on by Brian Cox and Neil deGrasse Tyson. The Cosmos book by Carl Sagan was brilliant. If anyone is into spaceflight, Failure is not an Option by Gene Kranz is a great read into one of the men who was instrumental in the early and peak period of US spaceflight when it was still exciting for the public.**

Philip Carlo's books on the Richard Kuklinski and Tommy Pitera were good reads.

I've enjoyed Steve Waugh's and Tim Ross' biographies especially as well.

Would also like to read the personal accounts of Paul Keating, JWH, Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull as well when I have a spare few months.

Great list right there.

Been reading a lot of Kafka recently and sending his works to my cousin who is in prison. Cousin's had father issues since he was a kid like Franz.

Kafka is superb but can occasionally be heavy going.
Before he died he asked for all of his work to be destroyed, but the executor of his estate chose to ignore that instruction. Most of his work has been published posthumously. A lot of it was scattered around and had to be smuggled out under the noses of the Nazis. (Kafka was a Czechoslovakian Jew, who lived in Austria. Although he died in the mid 1920's not all of his work had been published by the time the Nazis came to power). The publishers had to make a best guess as to the order of some of the chapters. If you read The Trial, there is a suggested alternative to read the chapters in the following order - 1, 4, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 7, 8, 10.
I prefer the alternative order to the published order.

 

[trentrunciman]

Don't really read fiction, but I do read a bit of non-fiction and biographical stuff.

**I'll read anything by Stephen Hawking. There's a few books I've got to get my hands on by Brian Cox and Neil deGrasse Tyson. The Cosmos book by Carl Sagan was brilliant. If anyone is into spaceflight, Failure is not an Option by Gene Kranz is a great read into one of the men who was instrumental in the early and peak period of US spaceflight when it was still exciting for the public.**

Philip Carlo's books on the Richard Kuklinski and Tommy Pitera were good reads.

I've enjoyed Steve Waugh's and Tim Ross' biographies especially as well.

Would also like to read the personal accounts of Paul Keating, JWH, Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull as well when I have a spare few months.

Great list right there.

Been reading a lot of Kafka recently and sending his works to my cousin who is in prison. Cousin's had father issues since he was a kid like Franz.

Kafka is superb but can occasionally be heavy going.
Before he died he asked for all of his work to be destroyed, but the executor of his estate chose to ignore that instruction. Most of his work has been published posthumously. A lot of it was scattered around and had to be smuggled out under the noses of the Nazis. (Kafka was a Czechoslovakian Jew, who lived in Austria. Although he died in the mid 1920's not all of his work had been published by the time the Nazis came to power). The publishers had to make a best guess as to the order of some of the chapters. If you read The Trial, there is a suggested alternative to read the chapters in the following order - 1, 4, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 7, 8, 10.
I prefer the alternative order to the published order.

Wasn't the Trial like an autobigraphy of his own personal life? The protagonists were Mr K and Franz? Something to that effect? I read the trial a little while ago but he's an amazing writer. Apparently he was so hard on himself he didnt want his work published? There's a little bit of Kafka (insecurity) in all of us...

reminds me of Marcus Aurelius (meditations) who told to get rid of all his works and was released posthumously.

 

[tigger]

I have a copy of the complete works of Franz Kafka. It's quite a hefty tome. I have to admit that it's currently being used to raise the level of my computer screen to help improve my posture.
Sorry Franz.

 

[Geo]

Massive James A Michener fan

The Bridge at Andau and Centennial are my favourite books from his collection

These days I fall asleep after about 10 pages .....could read hundreds of pages a night

Maybe stick to these..


 

[tigger]

The Trial reflects a recurring theme in Kafka's work, that none of us have any control over our lives and that we merely respond to circumstances. I'm not sure that the book is auto biographical. You'll find similar themes running through The Castle.
Kafka was deeply paranoid I suspect, and eventually took his own life.

 

[trentrunciman]

The Trial reflects a recurring theme in Kafka's work, that none of us have any control over our lives and that we merely respond to circumstances. I'm not sure that the book is auto biographical. You'll find similar themes running through The Castle.
Kafka was deeply paranoid I suspect, and eventually took his own life.

agreed. Metamorphosis was :call_me_hand: :call_me_hand: :call_me_hand: :call_me_hand: :dancer:

 

[happy_tiger]

Massive James A Michener fan

The Bridge at Andau and Centennial are my favourite books from his collection

These days I fall asleep after about 10 pages .....could read hundreds of pages a night

Maybe stick to these..


I tried but it seems you have cleaned every library out as well as all the Dr Seuss

 

[trentrunciman]

pretty sure kinokuniya and dymocks are still open (for people in Sydney)

 

[trentrunciman]

I have a copy of the complete works of Franz Kafka. It's quite a hefty tome. I have to admit that it's currently being used to raise the level of my computer screen to help improve my posture.
Sorry Franz.

Is "**Letter to my father"** included in the complete works?

 

[Chicken_Faced_Killa]

I’m a massive fan of the works of Haruki Murakami. Great writing and interesting stories with supernatural elements set in modern day japan. Would highly recommend anyone giving his works a go.

some of Murakami's earlier works are pretty good.

I finished pachinko last year which was pretty good

Chinese writer Mo Yan is a fantastic writer too. Met him @ Western Sydney Uni 5-6 years ago...

Cool will check it out.

Agree that Murakami’s best works are his older books but he is still realizing some quality work now.