Books - What are you reading?
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ascayman said:
ali_kat said:
LordGrover said:
blindswelledrat said:
I am Pilgrim.
Best thriller I have read in ages. Thoroughly recommend it.
£1.49 on kindle. Best thriller I have read in ages. Thoroughly recommend it.
blindswelledrat said:
FiF said:
John Steinbeck - Travels with Charley
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He's my favourite author and I have read all of his books except that one. I own it and I keep looking at it, and can never muster the enthusiasm to read it. Is it any good?.
But seeing as he's interacting with 'normal' Americans and seeing if the America he writes about is anything like the reality it's an antidote to the film and
television fantasy.
Seeing as you're a fan it should be interesting at a min. You may of course not enjoy it.
Not much help, sorry about that, but books are personal.
King Herald said:
Just finished Ken Follets 'Century trilogy', a massive read, but well worth it.
I've never been a history buff but these books make it an interesting way to catch up on a lot of stuff I never quite absorbed at school.
Wading through Fall of Giants at the moment. Studied the Russian Revolution at school so interesting to refresh my memory of interesting events. I've never been a history buff but these books make it an interesting way to catch up on a lot of stuff I never quite absorbed at school.
It's a decent book but I do find he shoe-horns his historical facts into the narrative with very little subtlety. This wasn't so evident in Pillars of the Earth.
Legend83 said:
King Herald said:
Just finished Ken Follets 'Century trilogy', a massive read, but well worth it.
I've never been a history buff but these books make it an interesting way to catch up on a lot of stuff I never quite absorbed at school.
Wading through Fall of Giants at the moment. Studied the Russian Revolution at school so interesting to refresh my memory of interesting events. I've never been a history buff but these books make it an interesting way to catch up on a lot of stuff I never quite absorbed at school.
It's a decent book but I do find he shoe-horns his historical facts into the narrative with very little subtlety. This wasn't so evident in Pillars of the Earth.
Amazon is crap for that. You can easily buy a random book without even knowing it is part of a series, but even when you do, like this one, it does not say anywhere in the description which part of the trilogy is. I noticed the same reading the Wilbur Smith series
blindswelledrat said:
Which order is the trilogy in?
Amazon is crap for that. You can easily buy a random book without even knowing it is part of a series, but even when you do, like this one, it does not say anywhere in the description which part of the trilogy is. I noticed the same reading the Wilbur Smith series
Fall of GiantsAmazon is crap for that. You can easily buy a random book without even knowing it is part of a series, but even when you do, like this one, it does not say anywhere in the description which part of the trilogy is. I noticed the same reading the Wilbur Smith series
Winter of the World
Edge of Eternity
I would recommend Fall of Giants, it gives a really interesting "grass-roots" perspective of various societies in the early 1900s.
Follett also likes to give the impression people were fking left, right and centre!
P.s. don't read the synopsis of the second or third book as they include character spoilers from the first book!
blindswelledrat said:
ascayman said:
ali_kat said:
LordGrover said:
blindswelledrat said:
I am Pilgrim.
Best thriller I have read in ages. Thoroughly recommend it.
£1.49 on kindle. Best thriller I have read in ages. Thoroughly recommend it.
blindswelledrat said:
ascayman said:
ali_kat said:
LordGrover said:
blindswelledrat said:
I am Pilgrim.
Best thriller I have read in ages. Thoroughly recommend it.
£1.49 on kindle. Best thriller I have read in ages. Thoroughly recommend it.
Legend83 said:
Wading through Fall of Giants at the moment. Studied the Russian Revolution at school so interesting to refresh my memory of interesting events.
It's a decent book but I do find he shoe-horns his historical facts into the narrative with very little subtlety. This wasn't so evident in Pillars of the Earth.
Yes, the politics did take some following, relentless minor details, names, dates etc. I struggled, but it was worth it.It's a decent book but I do find he shoe-horns his historical facts into the narrative with very little subtlety. This wasn't so evident in Pillars of the Earth.
g3org3y said:
blindswelledrat said:
I hated that book an indescribable amount. Just a.n.other in a series of attention seeking "Oooo, look at me. I was a drug addict and now I'm not" books.
Hated him, hated his story, hated the amount of times he repeated the mantra that he didn't expect sympathy (as if anyone might give him any?) and hated anyone I knew who liked it.
Hated him, hated his story, hated the amount of times he repeated the mantra that he didn't expect sympathy (as if anyone might give him any?) and hated anyone I knew who liked it.
We'll see how it goes. I quite enjoy drug related literature.
Such a dislikeable protagonist. Moan. Moan. Moan.
I don't think the author could have included any more clichés in the dialogue between the protagonist and his beloved Lily. You could skip pages of st chat and miss nothing.
Oh, and the ending was bks too.
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