Books - What are you reading?
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Legend83 said:
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
100 pages in and not much has actually happened but the writing has taken me like a big wave and there is sufficient intrigue to make me want to read just one more chapter before bed. Great characters too.
Great summary. Beautifully written. Might have to revisit one day soon!100 pages in and not much has actually happened but the writing has taken me like a big wave and there is sufficient intrigue to make me want to read just one more chapter before bed. Great characters too.
toasty said:
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.
Just got hold of James Ellroys new one 'This Storm', the second in his second LA Quartet. I didn't enjoy Perfidia quite so much as his other work, partly down to wanting him to move past the early seventies while this quartet goes back to the immediate post-war again. Still, I like his dense style and contemporary language so still enjoyable. Let's see.
Recently finished 55 by James Delargy. Set in Australia.
Well worth a read. Basic premise its about working out who is the serial killer from 2 suspects both of whom seem likely and blame each other.
Well worth a read
Finished Scrublands by Chris Hammer agian based in rural Oz.
Again an enjoyable read. Messed up journalist sent to a small down in NW Oz to write a story on a priest who killed 5 people before being killed himself a year ago. Uncovers a lot of skullduggery
Well worth a read. Basic premise its about working out who is the serial killer from 2 suspects both of whom seem likely and blame each other.
Well worth a read
Finished Scrublands by Chris Hammer agian based in rural Oz.
Again an enjoyable read. Messed up journalist sent to a small down in NW Oz to write a story on a priest who killed 5 people before being killed himself a year ago. Uncovers a lot of skullduggery
Vanordinaire said:
toasty said:
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.
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 wrote myself an idiots guide to the 20 or so main characters and stuck it in the book 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.
Adam B 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 wrote myself an idiots guide to the 20 or so main characters and stuck it in the book 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.
"Good Night and Good Riddance" - A book about John Peel's influence on British Music (and life) via analysis of hundreds of his radio shows.
It sounds dreadfully dry, but actually it's very illuminating, about him, some of the artists he promoted and the accepted morals of the various times.
I'm at the tipping point of the '70s so far, mention of 'Punk Rock' (from the US in the early 70s!) and 'Pub Rock' have crept in here and there, but it's not really formulated yet.
M.
It sounds dreadfully dry, but actually it's very illuminating, about him, some of the artists he promoted and the accepted morals of the various times.
I'm at the tipping point of the '70s so far, mention of 'Punk Rock' (from the US in the early 70s!) and 'Pub Rock' have crept in here and there, but it's not really formulated yet.
M.
) different worlds!!!marcosgt said:
"Good Night and Good Riddance" - A book about John Peel's influence on British Music (and life) via analysis of hundreds of his radio shows.
It sounds dreadfully dry, but actually it's very illuminating, about him, some of the artists he promoted and the accepted morals of the various times.
I'm at the tipping point of the '70s so far, mention of 'Punk Rock' (from the US in the early 70s!) and 'Pub Rock' have crept in here and there, but it's not really formulated yet.
M.
I will look that out, and if you like this genre I'd hugely recommend David Hepworth's books, especially 1971 . Also Nick Coleman's beautifully written Train in the Night . It sounds dreadfully dry, but actually it's very illuminating, about him, some of the artists he promoted and the accepted morals of the various times.
I'm at the tipping point of the '70s so far, mention of 'Punk Rock' (from the US in the early 70s!) and 'Pub Rock' have crept in here and there, but it's not really formulated yet.
M.
Re Peel - of course I adored him , and who of my fellow baby boomers didn't ? But his legendary reputation for breaking new acts didn't mean he had an unerring eye for new bands - actually he just liked nearly everything, and enthused about and fell for every new trend , good and bad ....
g3org3y said:
About 100 pages into this at the moment. Rather interesting. Certainly holding my attention so far.
Have been in two minds about that one since seeing some reviews a few weeks back, so will be interested what people say as it’s hovering on my next read horizon at the moment.....I enjoyed Sapiens, less so the sequel but still thought provoking. 1984 is very prescient isn’t it, there was an Adam Curtis documentary (The Century of Self) which may still be available on YouTube which goes through the history of state control in the US from the perspective of Freud, the first PR company (Freuds nephew) and subsequent ‘engineered consent’ of population, interesting...
Just read “Player of Games” from Ian (M) Banks’ Culture series - I’ve never read any of his books before, struggles initially to get into it but once I’d got my head around the “Culture” and he(?)’d gone off to the Empire it picked up a bit.
I quite enjoy the ‘far away Sci-fi’ genre and found a lot of Harry Harrison’s works in the same vein, especially the Stainless Steel Rat series.
Now moved on to Heinlein’s “Moon is a Harsh Mistress” and will try to make some inroads into it this weekend..
I quite enjoy the ‘far away Sci-fi’ genre and found a lot of Harry Harrison’s works in the same vein, especially the Stainless Steel Rat series.
Now moved on to Heinlein’s “Moon is a Harsh Mistress” and will try to make some inroads into it this weekend..
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