What books are you into?

[Tomsdouble]

A few of you mention a love of sci-fi and me too, especially the Culture novels of Iain M Banks. Very very good. Still not made much headway with the unofficial history of MI5 but getting there very slowly! Also reading a book called the Hot Zone, which, despite its occasional hack journo-style prose, is a very good - and chilling - account of the history of the ebola virus, a dose of which you absolutely do not want to get.

Also just bought John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces, which I've read before. It's brilliant and the central character is like none you've ever met before....also by my bedside is Robert Fisk's massive history of the middle-east. Great read so far.