This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

JesseCuster

Daemon - Daniel Suarez

Just finished this techno-thriller, which is like a cross between The Matrix and The Terminator.
Exciting and highly entertaining even if a little silly at times.
I will certainly be reading the sequel which is due out next month.

Blush_01

The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga

So far so good, but I'm only beginning!

susanroth

The Grapes of Wrath by john Steinbeck

Busi_Girl08

Just finished The Road. Wow. Just WOW.

I'm kind of at a crossroads on what to read next.

Tricks of the Mind - Derren Brown or
Wuthering Heights or
Catch-22 or
Pride and Prejudice or
The Great Gatsby?

Need some advice here, Boardsies!!

susanroth

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

Just finished The Road. Wow. Just WOW.

I'm kind of at a crossroads on what to read next.

Tricks of the Mind - Derren Brown or
Wuthering Heights or
Catch-22 or
Pride and Prejudice or
The Great Gatsby?

Need some advice here, Boardsies!!

I really liked the Road as well although it is a bit depressing
My friends fave book is wuthering heights so maybe go with that?

Cadiz

The Road is incredible. Parts of it are seared into my brain.

I've just started Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. Fascinating for the era it's written in, but the actual writing? Meh.

Cadiz

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

Wuthering Heights or
Catch-22 or
Pride and Prejudice or
The Great Gatsby?

Need some advice here, Boardsies!!

All well worth a lash, OP. I'd go for Wuthering Heights if I had to choose. I think Tender is the Night is far and away a better book than Gatsby, worth checking out..

Blush_01

Best Love, Rosie - Nuala O'Faolain and All Names Have Been Changed - Claire Kilroy. Waiting for one to grab me more than the other.

Eliot Rosewater

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

Tricks of the Mind - Derren Brown or
Wuthering Heights or
Catch-22 or
Pride and Prejudice or
The Great Gatsby?

I'm actually reading Wuthering Heights at the moment, and I was only reading Pride and prejudice last week! P&P is easier to read; the narrative isn't as deep and its a simpler story at heart. I would read it before Wuthering Heights. P&P is an nice introduction to the style of writing and "social landscape" existing in the period both books are set in.

I would stay away from Great Gatsby unless your an experienced reader. I read it when I had only just started reading, and it went way over my head!

Catch 22 is brilliant and, like P&P, not that difficult to read!

Art_Wolf

The girl with the dragon tattoo

Raspberries

I'm reading Skippy Dies at the mo, and really enjoying it, would recommend it. It's still early days for him as an author I think but overall he's very good!

Blush_01

I just can't read Best love, Rosie. I just can't stand Nuala O'Faolain's writing. I'll have to come back to it in a few years.

Currently reading: Of Bees And Mist - Erick Setiawan

It's very pretty and lovely so far.

BarbaraAless

Just finished reading 'Survivor' (Chuck Palahniuk), which led me to my current reading of 'Abnormal' (Foucault) - Any fans Palahniuk out there?

monkey9

I just finished reading Shutter Island. A good book, but with a twist in the end that you can see coming a mile off!!!

kerash

Art_Wolf wrote: »

The girl with the dragon tattoo

+1:P

Littleblondehen

Freedom Next Time by John Pilger.
It makes me :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:. Although it's actually taking me quite a long time to read it, I started it in Febuary! That is very unlike me, I normally devour books, but this is tough going.

I'm also re-reading Patricia Cornwell's Cause of Death.

tHE vAGGABOND

just started dune this morning - one I always wanted to read

Sephiroth_dude

Started twilight eclipse yesterday.

Blush_01

Just started The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett. I've enjoyed the first 10 or so pages, I think it'll probably take a while!

Shakeandbake!

I love true crime books and i'm currently reading The Mexican Mafia by Tony Rafael. A thouroughly engrossing read, pretty sobering and would make one thankful we live in a relatively peaceful society.

This_Years_Love

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

Fear Uladh

Mark Twain - The Mysterious Stranger

herbieflowers

Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess.

Aidric

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.

tawfeeredux

Aidric wrote: »

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.

Hope to read this one soon enough myself.

Just finished Graham Greene's The Quiet American, first Greene novel I've liked, really glad I gave him one last chance.

Now on to Simon Schama's The American Future...

zesman

I've just finished Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien. An amazing book. I'd highly recommend this to anyone. Set during the Vietnam war the novel concerns a soldier who deserts from his unit. But please don't let the fact that this is a war novel put you off. It's far more than that.

monkey9

Just finished the Ginger Man by JP Donleavy. A decent enough read, sometimes hard to follow who was saying what. A lot of stream of conscienceness at times.

About an Irish American Trinity student called Sebastian Dangerfield in the late 1940's and his adventures as he goes from bar to bar, woman to woman, fight to fight. A lot of nostalgic Dublin scenes like getting the tram into town and getting off at the end of Dawson St and going for pints in Jury's.

I really enjoyed this one.


Have now started Handling The Dead by John Ajvide Lindqvist

patff

Aidric wrote: »

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.

for a work of fiction, this is a great piece of unsanitised American history.

patff

American Pastoral, Phillip Roth. A fine examination of the American dream gone wrong.

migozarad

ANGEL OF GROZNY-by Asne Seierstad.An expose of life in war-torn Chechnya between 1994-present.