Currently reading?

[Poisoned_Apathy]

I'm reading Goethe's 'The sorrows of young Werther' I love 19th century classics.

lastgoldstar...happy you're reading 'Dorian Grey'.Oscar Wilde is one my favourite writers, without a doubt.

[lastgoldstar]

lastgoldstar...happy you're reading 'Dorian Grey'.Oscar Wilde is one my favourite writers, without a doubt.

It's something I've wanted to read for a very long time! Though I've finally gotten some free time. I really like it so far.

[godisinthesilences]

Poisoned.... 19th century classics are my favourites as well. The bronte's being my all time favourite authors

[heartofdavid]

"Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell, the guy who wrote "Cloud Atlas." A blurb describes it as "....an English "Catcher in the Rye"...". I never liked Salinger's book but this one is very good, about a 13 year old boy and his world in a small English town in 1982. Reads almost like a diary, lots of interesting musical mentions (Duran, Roxy Music, Talking Heads, ELO, etc.).

[traiskin]

Well.. after many years of teaching Beowulf.. I now have a new career which allows me to read what I like, so Im reading a huge collection of Icelandic Sagas. These make Beowulf look like a pussy.

[godisinthesilences]

how very cool traiskin... what are you doing now that lets you read what you like?? or are you just reading in your free time??

[Poisoned_Apathy]

so Im reading a huge collection of Icelandic Sagas.

That's cool.

I'm reading a lot of Greek Mythology right now to prepare my I Iconography exam [the last one, at least!!]. So i'm reading extracts of Ovidius' The Metamorphoses, The Theogony of Hesiod and Homer's Iliad and Oddyssey. I'm having a lot of fun, actually, though I've already read two of them.

I finished 'Werther' last night. Just loved it.

[Silver Moon]

I just finished "The Body of Christopher Creed" It was pretty good! I'm just a sap for those murder mysteries!!!

-K-

[lastgoldstar]

I'm reading a lot of Greek Mythology right now to prepare my I Iconography exam [the last one, at least!!]. So i'm reading extracts of Ovidius' The Metamorphoses, The Theogony of Hesiod and Homer's Iliad and Oddyssey. I'm having a lot of fun, actually, though I've already read two of them.

I love The Odyssey! It's been a long time since I've read it, though. I don't know if I've ever read The Iliad but I need to read it soon.

I just finished "The Body of Christopher Creed" It was pretty good! I'm just a sap for those murder mysteries!!!

-K-

Who wrote that one? Sounds awfully familiar. I haven't read a good murder mystery in a long time, but I've read a ton of Mary Higgins Clark.

I'm reading three books at the same time right now. I'd stop but I always keep them straight so no problems there. Alongside Dorian Grey, I'm reading some Charles Dickens- Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two Cities.

[Poisoned_Apathy]

I don't know if I've ever read The Iliad but I need to read it soon.

The Iliad is great, though the writting style is very different from Odyssey. I know most of philologists think they were written by two different authors actually.

Alongside Dorian Grey, I'm reading some Charles Dickens- Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two Cities.

Love Dickens too

[godisinthesilences]

I'm half way through the Dalai Lama's "An Open Heart:Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life"

Been a bit too tired lately to read as quickly as I normally do....

[Bap De La Bap]

Watchmen - Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons

Myths of the near Future - JG Ballard

[jenny taylia]

Zoo Magazine.....

[Bap De La Bap]

Zoo Magazine.....

Your s/n freaked me out at 1st, because this girl thats fallen out with me
called Jenni used to call herself the same thing and I thought you were her.

I used to D.J on a pirate Radio Station in Langley in the early 90's, if its the same place thats near Slough?

[jenny taylia]

Yes, it is, indeed, that small village near Slough. It's a small world isn't it. Why were you pirate DJ-ing in Langley - have you a connection with the place? The Harrow Market is still there!

I'm afraid i'm not your female friend though as I am actually a bloke (see photo in gallery, although the makeup at the time might suggest otherwise!!)

Got to sign off to go home now but will look for your reply in the morning...

David