Books - What are you reading?

[Dr Jekyll]

An officer and a spy, by Robert Harris.

A dramatised but very well researched and basically accurate account of the Dreyfus spying case. Not only a very good read but in interesting example of the perils of groupthink.

[coppice]

The Goldfinch - a big book , superbly written and unputdownable I found . I have rarely read a book whose opening pages were so easy to visualise- all the qualities of a good film script .

[Twin2]

The Utopia Experiment - Dylan Evans

A story about how the author gave up a successful career in robotics, sold his house and started a small settlement to mimic post apocalyptic life. 1 year later he's in a mental hospital with severe depression...

So far I have struggled to put it down, truly fascinating.

[LordGrover]

Ace-T said:

Pratchett, from the beginning, in order.

I have pretty much every Pratchett book in boxes in the loft.
I felt like re-reading some of my favourites which I've not read for many years but can't be arsed to dig through boxes and boxes of paperbacks (I really ought to sort and label them one day) so currently reading Guards! Guards! on Kindle.
I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed them... I thought maybe I'd grown out of Discworld but finding it as entertaining and funny as ever.

Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi!
RIP

[RizzoTheRat]

In a similar vein, I was going to start at the beginning but not sure where I've put the Colour of Magic. So I've decided to follow themes instead and started on the Death ones with Mort which I've not read in years.

Soul Reaver said:

I just started reading Stephen Donaldsons "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever" for the 3rd time!

Having read the first chronicle probably 20 years ago, I found the first and second chronicles in a charity shop a while back. To be honest the first one wasn't as good as I remembered, and the second one's not as good as the first.

Edited by RizzoTheRat on Monday 16th March 09:43

[Soul Reaver]

I read them when I was much younger and wanted to try them again now I'm much older I guess they are a bit like marmite huh!

Currently finishing off all Neil Ashers Owner series and then ill make a start.

[55palfers]

Re-reading Steam by Terry Pratchett.

[downthepub]

Finished "No Highway" by Nevil Shute in about two days. Highly readable, and whilst written in 1946/7 the book is oddly prophetic about the fatigue problems of the later Comet passenger aircraft. Off to find more books by Shute.

[Dr Jekyll]

downthepub said:

Finished "No Highway" by Nevil Shute in about two days. Highly readable, and whilst written in 1946/7 the book is oddly prophetic about the fatigue problems of the later Comet passenger aircraft. Off to find more books by Shute.

Hopefully 'on the beach' isn't quite as prophetic.

[downthepub]

Dr Jekyll said:

Hopefully 'on the beach' isn't quite as prophetic.

Quite. Although, despite, or in spite of, the forthcoming doomsday scenario, there's plenty of motor racing in On The Beach. Which sounds very PH.

[E24man]

Happy Odyssey, autobiography of Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart.

Epic man with an understated writing style describing his brief observations and military events through his career.

[jesusbuiltmycar]

Tha Malazan Book of the Fallen - book 5 midnight tides

[RizzoTheRat]

Dr Jekyll said:

downthepub said:

Finished "No Highway" by Nevil Shute in about two days. Highly readable, and whilst written in 1946/7 the book is oddly prophetic about the fatigue problems of the later Comet passenger aircraft. Off to find more books by Shute.

Hopefully 'on the beach' isn't quite as prophetic.

Not read No Highway, I'll keep an eye out for it. Recently read A Town Like Alice, which turned out to be quite different than I was expecting, but very enjoyable. On the Beach is one of my favorite books, but last time I reread it I discovered a load of pages have fallen out of the back of the book

[Welshbeef]

Just finished Charity Normans "The Son in Law" very much out of my comfort zone and its been sat on the bookshelf for the last 18 months.

I have to say this is a very good book - highly emotional to read.

Well worth it - know its normally a book ladies would read but give it a try 4+ out of 5 IMHO.

[grumbledoak]

I've just finished "Revelation Space", following mention on here. Very good.

And "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", which I found completely by accident at the same time. Also very good, though obviously I was somewhat late to the party.

[Asterix]

Wills2 said:

Asterix said:

Boris' Churchill thingy.

Only on Chapter Four but it's highly enjoyable to read.

I'm about to start that.

How are yoiu getting on?

I'm about half way through now. Very interesting and still a delight to read.

[bint]

grumbledoak said:

I've just finished "Revelation Space", following mention on here. Very good.

And "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", which I found completely by accident at the same time. Also very good, though obviously I was somewhat late to the party.

It's never too late to enjoy classics!! (Both IMHO)

[soad]

Don't recall when I picked up a book, must have been a good 6 months...any desire to read left me.

Got this yesterday, and those 393-plus pages do look formidable. Managed to get through 44 pages, it's pretty good.

[AClownsPocket]

soad said:

Don't recall when I picked up a book, must have been a good 6 months...any desire to read left me.

Got this yesterday, and those 393-plus pages do look formidable. Managed to get through 44 pages, it's pretty good.

Its alright, I got it on release day as I like Lee Child books. The earlier stuff is better. I'm hoping the next one in September is a step up otherwise I may walk away from Jack, which I never thought I would do

[King Herald]

coppice said:

Narrow Road to The Deep North- Booker prize winning but I was underwhelmed.......

I just finished this, but I nearly dropped it after the first few dozen pages. The writing style was a bit odd, though I got used to it after a while.

Some haunting coverage of the railway camps and suffering, and the years after returning to civilization. I'm assuming the authors father played some part on the information in the book, as a survivor of the railway.