What book are you reading...

[Amanda P]

I'd like to read The Third Policeman.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Re-reading Lights Out For The Territory by Ian Sinclair.

That's a surprising choice of author for you given your vocal antipathy to everything London! I like Sinclair a lot - I got into him when I was a teenager when he was still only known as a poet. I'd read Ackroyd's Hawksmoor and wanted to track down the poem on which is had drawn, Lud Heat, so I wrote to the publisher to get a copy and it turned out to be Sinclair himself - he wrote me a very nice letter in response, and gave me a free copy of some of his previous poems (the brilliant Suicide Bridge) as well - both signed. I think his writing has got a bit less interesting recently though - his best prose is contained in Downriver and his most readable book, White Chapel, Scarlet Tracings. Psychogeography has just become a bit overhyped too...

I've just finished re-reading Ian McDonald's superb Brasyl, and have now got Murakami Haruki's latest, After Dark.

 

[simon l& and a half]

Tropic of Cancer. A birthday present.

I've never read it. I love the Rosy Crucifixion, which are not highly regarded, but, thus far, ToC is proving dull.