This week, I are mostly reading....

Mick86

I finished Ireland Awakening, one of Edward Rutherford's epics, just before Charlie's War. It was much more interesting than his previous Irish novel- Dublin, which I could not finish. It just died around the time of the Viking settlement.:( I do have one complaint about Awakening though and that is the last chapter which dealt with the Parnell Crisis, through the 1916 Rising and on to the War of Independence and the Civil War in all of 25 pages or so. One of Rutherford's 18th century gentlemen got more space than that arranging a marriage for his son. The Famine, admittedly a major event in Irish history, covered about a hundred pages. It's as if Mr Rutherford ran into a publishing deadline or something.

Still a worthwhile read.

Mick86

dusf wrote:

Finished Tuesday's War yesterday and highly recommend it. I didn't know there was a sequel so thanks for the info. Parts of the former I didn't get so perhaps we could discuss it when you're finished...

What didn't you get? Put me wise now so I can look out for them?:D

Fiddimore seems to like alluding to things that haven't been invented yet. Like the freelance medical outfit in Charlie's War is Medecins sans Frontieres only he doesn't call them that. He did admit in an interview to mistakenly having Charlie reading Jennings books (remember them?) years before they were actually written. A bit like Julian Rathbone really. Have you read Kings of Albion?

theCzar

The Fourth Hand by John Irving, the first of his I've tried. On page 2, so not in a position to comment yet!

John

D.O. Hebb The Organization of Behavior

A book on the classic neuroscience theory of "neurons that fire together, wire together" (among other things) that I picked up a few months ago. Great to read a book that's nearly 60 years old and then looking at the research that took 30 years to back it up. Well, great if you're into that sort of thing anyway.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

reading wilmot robertson - the disposessed majority

basic theme of the book seems to be that the majority in america (white europeans ... he actually goes through a list of european countries before he decides which are white enough to be part of the majority) are losing power to the minority races (he also has a nice little list of all the minority races, just how negroid or mongoloid they may be) . far from being equal, he believes that the white race is far superior intellectualy, culturally and historically to all others (we Irish, he's not too sure about.. he grudgingly puts some of us in the majority).

only a short bit in, it's not exactly gripping reading.. but I really want to see where he's going with this so I'm going to struggle through.

runswithascript

Mick86 wrote:

What didn't you get? Put me wise now so I can look out for them?:D

They're all pretty much towards the end, also tell me if you find the women incredibly slutty in it!

theCzar

Finished "The 4th Hand" by John Irvine. Enjoyed it quite a lot, and will look for more of his works. It was quite light to read but had some depth regardless. Sometimes very funny.

Now reading John Grisham's "The Broker". It has a good premise, we'll see if its worth it.

Mrs. MacGyver

Started 'The Blind Assassin' by Margaret Atwood, it's ok so far.

BTW The Brorker is the best of Grisham's to date (i have a all of them!).

Dublin's Finest

Would You Please Be Quiet, Please? Raymond Carver

Great short stories.

Red Hand

Finishing Snow Falling on Cedars by....Gutterson? Was recommended by a friend a while back....I like it.

Andy-Pandy

Neil Gaiman 'fragile things'


As always with books by Mr Gaiman, i like it.

ZorbaTehZ

The Book Of The New Sun
-Gene Wolfe.
250 pages into it and I can say quite surely that it's probably the most entertaining book I've ever read.

Tar.Aldarion

Harrington on Hold'Em - Dan Harrington

Capt'n Midnight

Thud - Terry Pratchett

arbeitsscheuer

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Thud - Terry Pratchett

My mate's reading that at the moment, says it's brilliant.

I've just finished The Truth - Terry Pratchett
Absolutely wicked, loved it.

Blush_01

Mrs. MacGyver wrote:

Started 'The Blind Assassin' by Margaret Atwood, it's ok so far.

I didn't really realise I liked The Blind Assassin until I'd finished it, and now I miss it. (Sorry if that sounds a bit mental!)

Reading Elephant Adventure by Willard Price, but I'm only on p. 13 so apart from it being fantastically detailed I can't really comment on it yet. Also reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. Likewise, not very far into it, but I love Hardy's writing style and Far From the Maddening Crowd is one of my favourite books of all time.

TylerDD

ive heard mixed reviews about Far From the Maddening Crowd -is it worth the read is it? i havent had much luck lately so want to pick up something that ill want to read again!

Crucifix

A novelisation of the computer game Resident Evil 2. It's great; by which I mean it's bad, but I'm loving it.

Capt'n Midnight

Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett

LouiseIV

TylerDD wrote:

ive heard mixed reviews about Far From the Maddening Crowd -is it worth the read is it? i havent had much luck lately so want to pick up something that ill want to read again!

Far From the Madding Crowd is a classic. I read it a few years ago and I would still rate it as one of my top five favourite books ever. It is very dark and depressing though, so don't expect a great uplifting experience when reading it.

Tar.Aldarion

Eats, Shoots and Leaves.

brianthebard

Oooh, I've been meaning to pick that up for ages, although I won't have any time for reading until after the exams. What's it like?

Tar.Aldarion

Very good!

Well, if you are pedantic. I like the writing style anyway. I'm just a bit into it yet.

brianthebard

I've been meaning to work on my pedantry!

Tar.Aldarion

To Spell Czechs then!
I'm sure it is our bible, or something.

s&mbarbie

this week, diary-chuck pallinuck, life of pi-yann martel, and reread dorian gray-oscar wilde...open to suggestions for new books:)

Tar.Aldarion

George R.R. Martin books!

ashyle

Interpretation of murder...bit of a slog I have to say. But I can't not finish a book once I've started

brianthebard

s&mbarbie wrote:

this week, diary-chuck pallinuck, life of pi-yann martel, and reread dorian gray-oscar wilde...open to suggestions for new books:)

Didn't like the ending of Diary myself, what did you make of it? Oh and anything by Tom Robbins is good.

s&mbarbie

brianthebard wrote:

Didn't like the ending of Diary myself, what did you make of it? Oh and anything by Tom Robbins is good.

Have to admit the ending was disappointing, I preferred survivor..