What is your current "read"?

I came quite late to PG Wodehouse, but I'm working my way through quite a few. While I enjoy "heavy" literature, it's good to intersperse the hard stuff with something light.

In many ways, Wodehouse novels tend to be quite formulaic, but even when you've got a pretty fair idea of what calamity is about to happen next, it's still funny. Mostly, I've been reading Jeeves and Wooster stories, along with the Blandings novels. I've also read the Psmith stories - he pops up at Blandings, too - as well as Piccadilly Jim. I've run out now, so I'll have to hunt down some others.
 
Duck59 said:
I came quite late to PG Wodehouse, but I'm working my way through quite a few. While I enjoy "heavy" literature, it's good to intersperse the hard stuff with something light.

In many ways, Wodehouse novels tend to be quite formulaic, but even when you've got a pretty fair idea of what calamity is about to happen next, it's still funny. Mostly, I've been reading Jeeves and Wooster stories, along with the Blandings novels. I've also read the Psmith stories - he pops up at Blandings, too - as well as Piccadilly Jim. I've run out now, so I'll have to hunt down some others.
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They would probably all represent heavy reading to me now. My era for heavy stuff was aged 12-18, when Shakespeare was light reading, Milton and Chaucer a little more demanding and Sweets Anglo Saxon Chronicles and Greek Tragedies were proper brain flexing stuff. Most enjoyable were things like Orwell, Greene, Wolfe, and Huxley. Now, my attention span runs to Lee Child and Clive Cussler.
 
epicuric said:
Now, my attention span runs to Lee Child and Clive Cussler.
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I'm a bit the same - for me it has to be a murder mystery. Audio is different - I can listen to all kinds of books. Not that I do - but if there is something on the radio and I'm driving I will. Or more lately, if I'm sitting in the garden. Yesterday I listened to: Cane by Jean Toomer something I would not have read as. A brilliant adaptation: BBC Radio 4 - Electric Decade, Cane
 
Backroom Boys: Personal Stories of Britain's Air War 1939-45 By Edward Smithes.

Very interesting, if a little dry.
 
Inspired by reading Bill Bryson's book about life, universe and everything, I bought a copy of Richard Fortey's Life: an Unauthorised Biography. Fortey is a British palaeontologist, whom Bryson consulted among the many experts he spoke to.

In some ways, Fortey's book acts as something of a forerunner to Bryson's, one might even say a more scientific version. Naturally enough, Fortey makes extensive use of his own specialist knowledge. It isn't, though, a dull academic tome, even if some of the terminology can get a bit bewildering to the outsider. He intersperses his text with amusing and informative personal anecdotes, noting rather wryly that if you want to spend your life visiting exotic and beautiful places, being a palaeontologist isn't the occupation you'd choose. The best fossils tend to turn up in the most inhospitable parts of the Earth.
 
Duck59 P.G.Wodehouse is one of my favorite authors and no one knows him here in Portugal, never met anyone who has read anything by him. He can be wittiest than Oscar Wilde and that's saying a lot.

Currently I'm reading this book. I just love murder mysteries.
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LissaC said:
Duck59 P.G.Wodehouse is one of my favorite authors and no one knows him here in Portugal, never met anyone who has read anything by him. He can be wittiest than Oscar Wilde and that's saying a lot.

Currently I'm reading this book. I just love murder mysteries.
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I grew up reading Wodehouse (and Christie, and Sayers, and Chesterton...).
 
TastyReuben I love G K Chesterton and Agatha Christie is my favorite author. I read almost everything by her, translated to portuguese, I think there's 10 of her books I didn't read yet. My plan is to read all of her books in portuguese, then in english, and re-read everything again when I'm older and no longer remember the plots :D
 
I have a small library. My faves are someone that none of you guys would have heard of. Books by Barry crump. A legend here as a bushman and writer with a great sense of humour. I have every book of his. About 20? His most popular is bastards I have met.
I also have a collection of serial murders as well.

Russ
 
I've also been reading this these last months, slowly. I really like poetry.
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And I got this gem last week. A portuguese guy who couldn't speak english wrote a portuguese-english phrase book, he used a french dictionary to translate from the portuguese and then into english. It's hysterical, every single translation is wrong :D
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