Reading Lists

[Tycoon]

Just to add a new topic, a bit off the wall and certainly not political (I hope since it seems that even discussing a cava sangria at Sa Trinxa at 18h30 turns into a political thread!), what is/was your reading list for your Ibiza trip (other than the newspaper (Diario de Ibiza and the other local one are hilarious fun) and the Ibiza feebie magazines - of which I am quite a big fan).

I am leaving for the White Isle tonight for two and a half weeks. This is my (ambitious?) reading list:
- 'The Last Temptation' by Nikos Kazantsakis (I already started)
- 'Spain's Road to Empire: The Making of a World Power 1492-1763' (already started)
- 'Da Vinci Code' (sorry, but feel out of conversations because haven't read simply because no desire)
- 'Culture and Imperialism' by Edward Said
- 'The Algeria Hotel: France, Memory and the Second World War'
- 'The Book of Saladin' by Tariq Ali

So, if you see some helplessly square guy whose face is buried in one of these books, come up and say 'Hi'!

 

[Mark Sun]

You do that much reading in Ibiza?? I have enough trouble remembering my own name let alone reading!

...Although I did read 'Choke' by Chuck Palahnuik on my 2003 trip. Great book

 

[Red]

Good topic Tycoon, for us book worms anyways... i always read about 5 or 6 books when i'm on holiday! This year: Nabokov - Lolita, Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart, Frank Cottrell Boyce - Millions

Last year i read - Nelson Mandela's autobiography: Long Walk to Freedom - big book but very good... also The Handmaid's Tale and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

The other year i tried getting thorugh Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment - but was far too heavy for beach reading!!!!!

 

[Red]

...Although I did read 'Choke' by Chuck Palahnuik on my 2003 trip. Great book

that books sounds very bizarre - is it written by the same guy as Fight Club?

Is it worth getting?

 

[Robbie G]

...Although I did read 'Choke' by Chuck Palahnuik on my 2003 trip. Great book

that books sounds very bizarre - is it written by the same guy as Fight Club?

Is it worth getting?

It is written by the same guy as Fight Club. Its is a bit strange, its about a sex addict who chokes on food in resteraunts to earn some extra money!

 

[Robbie G]

You do that much reading in Ibiza?? I have enough trouble remembering my own name let alone reading!

I like reading after a heavy night out it helps my brain get back together and I usually sleep better for it!

 

[Mark Sun]

...Although I did read 'Choke' by Chuck Palahnuik on my 2003 trip. Great book

that books sounds very bizarre - is it written by the same guy as Fight Club?

Is it worth getting?

It is written by the same guy as Fight Club. Its is a bit strange, its about a sex addict who chokes on food in resteraunts to earn some extra money!

Yep super-bizarre but very funny. His new one 'Diary' sounds even wierder!

 

[Mark Sun]

Actually now I think on it I also read 'All tomorrow's parties' by William Gibson in Ibiza, think it was 2002..

 

[Bella B]

I LOVE reading! On holiday though I like to go for less heavy going books than other people it would seem So far the only books I've bought so far are:
Hotel Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones and The Coma by Alex Garland

 

[Red]

The Coma is really good, have used it to help pupils to write stories for coursework - the opening chapter is excellent.

 

[MARKB]

Books I have recently read( I bought them for my forthcoming travels but haven't waited:

Diceman (Free with Times)
1984 - George Orwell

Currently reading Atlas Moon

And have "The Road To Wigan Pier" (Another Orwell) to start when I've finished!!

I read about 2.5 books a month -
I'm such a geek.

 

[bripmon]

I had a hard enough time preventing me from putting my shirt on backwards in Ibiza. But, I did bring "A Game of Thrones" to bide my time on the long flights to and from London.