Books - What are you reading?
Discussion
Dundee university, concentrated on Wittgenstein in fourth year and Marx and feminism for my dissertation, the rest was a whistle stop tour of the usual suspects. There are some whackpot philosophers about for sure. I did write extensively on Virginia Woolf , and see Woad is quoted in her Three Guineas essay which I am familiar with so perhaps this was an 'unknown known'...and now we are back to the Greeks!!
biggbn said:
Dundee university, concentrated on Wittgenstein in fourth year and Marx and feminism for my dissertation, the rest was a whistle stop tour of the usual suspects. There are some whackpot philosophers about for sure. I did write extensively on Virginia Woolf , and see Woad is quoted in her Three Guineas essay which I am familiar with so perhaps this was an 'unknown known'...and now we are back to the Greeks!!
Aye, I can just see CEMJ, woad painted swimming in VW's streams of consciousness. What larks, as someone else said :-)
PS: Never could get on with VW.
IanA2 said:
Aye, I can just see CEMJ, woad painted swimming in VW's streams of consciousness.
What larks, as someone else said :-)
PS: Never could get on with VW.
I really liked her anti war essays, very brave at the time, and her novel Jacobs room, which again struck me as an elegy for the fallen. What larks, as someone else said :-)
PS: Never could get on with VW.
biggbn said:
IanA2 said:
Aye, I can just see CEMJ, woad painted swimming in VW's streams of consciousness.
What larks, as someone else said :-)
PS: Never could get on with VW.
I really liked her anti war essays, very brave at the time, and her novel Jacobs room, which again struck me as an elegy for the fallen. What larks, as someone else said :-)
PS: Never could get on with VW.
I've just finished "A line of blood" by Ben McPherson. Starts off with a guy finding his neighbour dead in the bath, then finding that his young son is beside him, also seeing the dead body. Doesn't really go in the way I expected it to, in a way the ending was a bit predictable, but a decent read all the same.
Just finished 'Burning Chrome' by William Gibson, the collection of short stories that ties into the Neuromancer trilogy - brilliant, can't get enough of that cyberpunk universe.
About to start 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, birthday gift from my sister, comes highly recommended so looking forward to that .
About to start 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, birthday gift from my sister, comes highly recommended so looking forward to that .
Vanordinaire said:
smithyithy said:
About to start 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, birthday gift from my sister, comes highly recommended so looking forward to that .
Not bad, but IMHO not his best. I preferred the Border Trilogy and Blood Meridian. I thought The Road dragged on a bit.
I’m currently 1400 pages into The Count of Monte Cristo, so that’s about two thirds of the way through.
It’s a big old book but well worth reading. The story is very engaging and it’s as enjoyable as anything written today. It’s also quite an easy read, though I struggle to remember the relationships and histories between all of the various characters sometimes.
I just wish I had more time to read. I started on it back in early March!
It’s a big old book but well worth reading. The story is very engaging and it’s as enjoyable as anything written today. It’s also quite an easy read, though I struggle to remember the relationships and histories between all of the various characters sometimes.
I just wish I had more time to read. I started on it back in early March!
Dick Dastardly said:
I’m currently 1400 pages into The Count of Monte Cristo, so that’s about two thirds of the way through.
It’s a big old book but well worth reading. The story is very engaging and it’s as enjoyable as anything written today. It’s also quite an easy read, though I struggle to remember the relationships and histories between all of the various characters sometimes.
I just wish I had more time to read. I started on it back in early March!
Love this book. It builds, and builds, and builds, and builds. Then Wham! Great book. Snobs call it a children's book, but they are tIt’s a big old book but well worth reading. The story is very engaging and it’s as enjoyable as anything written today. It’s also quite an easy read, though I struggle to remember the relationships and histories between all of the various characters sometimes.
I just wish I had more time to read. I started on it back in early March!
ts.Busy reading Unfinished Business by Paul Ferris, Stuart Wheatman & Steve Wraith. I'm mates with Stuart so I got a signed copy for Xmas. I've read a few of his true crime books before I met him. Trouble is I'm a terrible reader. I get bored easily so tend to read a couple of chapters at a time on a flight then put the book away until the next trip. It's taken me about 3 months of work travel to get 2 thirds of the way through (but that's not because it's badly written!)
Scabutz said:
Dick Dastardly said:
I’m currently 1400 pages into The Count of Monte Cristo, so that’s about two thirds of the way through.
It’s a big old book but well worth reading. The story is very engaging and it’s as enjoyable as anything written today. It’s also quite an easy read, though I struggle to remember the relationships and histories between all of the various characters sometimes.
I just wish I had more time to read. I started on it back in early March!
Love this book. It builds, and builds, and builds, and builds. Then Wham! Great book. Snobs call it a children's book, but they are tIt’s a big old book but well worth reading. The story is very engaging and it’s as enjoyable as anything written today. It’s also quite an easy read, though I struggle to remember the relationships and histories between all of the various characters sometimes.
I just wish I had more time to read. I started on it back in early March!
ts.andy_s said:
Scabutz said:
Dick Dastardly said:
I’m currently 1400 pages into The Count of Monte Cristo, so that’s about two thirds of the way through.
It’s a big old book but well worth reading. The story is very engaging and it’s as enjoyable as anything written today. It’s also quite an easy read, though I struggle to remember the relationships and histories between all of the various characters sometimes.
I just wish I had more time to read. I started on it back in early March!
Love this book. It builds, and builds, and builds, and builds. Then Wham! Great book. Snobs call it a children's book, but they are tIt’s a big old book but well worth reading. The story is very engaging and it’s as enjoyable as anything written today. It’s also quite an easy read, though I struggle to remember the relationships and histories between all of the various characters sometimes.
I just wish I had more time to read. I started on it back in early March!
ts.Just read Count of Monte Christo, started well, rambled on a bit too long in the middle trying to be too clever with itself but did enjoy Old M.Villeforte’s conversations, everything ties up quite nicely at the end, which I don’t really like.
Followed it with Catcher in the Rye, read it in one sitting, couldn’t put it down which is unusual for me, cracking read, not in an “exciting” or “what’s going to happen next” way but more worryingly in as “ where on earth are we going “.
Most enjoyable recent books have been those by Louis de Bernieres, Captain Corelli really quite good despite the low esteem I feel it is held in ( Nicholas Cage ? ) , The War of Don Emmanuel’s nether parts is every bit as intriguing as it’s title suggests and Birds without Wings quite thought provoking.
Followed it with Catcher in the Rye, read it in one sitting, couldn’t put it down which is unusual for me, cracking read, not in an “exciting” or “what’s going to happen next” way but more worryingly in as “ where on earth are we going “.
Most enjoyable recent books have been those by Louis de Bernieres, Captain Corelli really quite good despite the low esteem I feel it is held in ( Nicholas Cage ? ) , The War of Don Emmanuel’s nether parts is every bit as intriguing as it’s title suggests and Birds without Wings quite thought provoking.
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