This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

wilmer mclean

Reading Moby Dick and Suttree at the moment, both very good. Suttree can be fairly depressing and funny at the same time.

Sephiroth_dude

The passage-Justin cronin

Callan57

Well into 'Water for Elephants' by Sara Gruen .... really enjoying it too

AnnyHallsal

Rereading Frankenstein.

Callan57

Just beginning 'Sister' by Rosamund Lupton

Busi_Girl08

Just started "A Spot of Bother" by Mark Haddon.

I really enjoyed the "Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time", so hopefully it's good

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Going to do the one fiction then one non-fiction for a while

Don't know if I should put non-fiction in here but I'll go mad

This week I are mostly reading Empires, Wars and Battles - The Middle East from Antiquity to the rise of the New World

Ravage1616

Just finished A game of Thrones, I'm hooked George R. R. Martin now!

tHE vAGGABOND

Finishing The Corrections, by Jonathan Frantzen

Started ages ago and stopped for no reason. Its really excellent, I love it.

Up-n-atom!

tHE vAGGABOND wrote: »

Finishing The Corrections, by Jonathan Frantzen

Started ages ago and stopped for no reason. Its really excellent, I love it.

I'm almost finished reading Villette by Charlotte Bronte, and this is one of the books I have in line to read next...so don't know whether to go with The Corrections, Darkmans by Nicola Barker or Hellfire by Mia Gallagher. Any thoughts will be appreciated!

Also went to the library today and have another stack of books in line...I'm like some sort of bulimic reader, binging on books can't possibly read all at once:p

tim_holsters

In the last few weeks I’ve finished Leviathan by Philip Hoare. A fabulous and fascinating book about whales. Almost unbearably poignant at times when the barbarism of whaling is focused upon. This book has a similar style to W.G. Sebalds Rings of Saturn if that’s your thing.

Also finished A View From The Foothills by Chris Mullin. The guy who put so much effort into getting the Birmingham six released. Mullin has produced a very revealing book written in diary form of the Blair years in government. Some great anecdotes in there.

Also finished the Fall Of Kings by David Gemmell. The last in the Troy Trilogy. I’d never read Gemmell before because I stopped reading Fantasy in my teens but I really enjoyed these Troy books a great re-working of the myth.

Currently embarked upon Shantaram by David Gregory Roberts and I am liking it so far. 900 hundred or so pages though so could take a while.

AnnyHallsal

wilmer mclean wrote: »

Reading Moby Dick ...

I particularly liked Chapter 65, "The Whale as a Dish." Funny

wilmer mclean

AnnyHallsal wrote: »

I particularly liked Chapter 65, "The Whale as a Dish." Funny

Im a couple of chapters before that at the moment, some of the tangents Melville goes off on are hilarious. I wonder when he wrote it did he mean these sections on whaling to be funny or is it due to the different era the book was written in.

Callan57

A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon

tHE vAGGABOND

The Big Short - Amazing, cant wait for the same book on our muppets who almost bankrupted the nation

bigsmokewriting

American Psycho is my bus book of the day this week! One of those books that I kept 'meaning to read' but always had four others on the go!

Busi_Girl08

Absolutely demolished A Spot of Bother. Brilliant book, and the first one in a long time that actually made me laugh out loud

Next I'm giving The Pigeon by Patrick Suskind a go.

tim_holsters

I might give A Spot Of Bother a go so, I liked The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time alot but I've read a couple of critical reviews of ASOB but I might give it another look.

Callan57

tim_holsters wrote: »

I might give A Spot Of Bother a go so, I liked The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time alot but I've read a couple of critical reviews of ASOB but I might give it another look.

I'm almost half way into it & IMO good but not as good as Curious Incident.

tim_holsters

Righto, I'll say it's worth getting then. It would be hard to top Curious Incident anyways. Really loved that one.

AnnyHallsal

Terence Rattigan, Plays: One (French Without Tears, The Winslow Boy, The Browning Version, Harlequinade)

emeraldstar

Just started Lolita.

Toby Take a Bow

The Sun Also Rises, by Hemingway. Never read him before and it seemed to be as good a place as any to start.

Callan57

Starting Tinkers by Paul Harding

AnnyHallsal

Pinter, The French Lieutenant's Woman, and other screenplays.

This thread is the bestest reading log

Callan57

AnnyHallsal wrote: »

Pinter, The French Lieutenant's Woman, and other screenplays.

This thread is the bestest reading log

I remember the movie & loved it

AnnyHallsal

Callan57 wrote: »

I remember the movie & loved it

Excellent, going to watch it soon. I enjoyed the novel in college.

Blobby George

A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving.

Damian Duffy

The Secret History by Donna Tartt. Brilliant so far.

karlitob

Children on their Birthdays - Truman Capote.

Brilliant

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Papillon

Busi_Girl08

Gonna make a start on It by Stephen King. That should keep me going for a while.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

Gonna make a start on It by Stephen King. That should keep me going for a while.

This is the only Stephen King book I have read. And I hated it. But don't let that put you off :P

Belle E. Flops

The Help! Really liking it so far!

fishtastico

Just finished The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. Loved it, but annoyed that I'll probably be waiting forever for the final installment.

Just started A Brief History of Time. Seems decent so far

BopNiblets

The Gun Seller by Hugh "Dr. House" Laurie, I think it's fantastic, main character is not quite Ian Flemings Bond, but he's witty as Laurie himself, recommend it for spy spoof fans.

jmn89

Just finished The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (can't believe I held out against reading it for so long - it was hilarious)

Concurrently reading A Crown of Swords from the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and David Copperfield by Charles Dickens!

mav79

Half way through The Way Of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, and really enjoying it.

AnnyHallsal

Patti Smith, Just Kids.

Highly recommended if you're interested in late 60s/early 70s New York.

Callan57

Just 20 pages into 'What the Dead Know' by Laura Lippman

sproggy13

Page 47 of The English Patient - hard to get into:rolleyes:

AnnyHallsal

Picked up As If by Blake Morrison in a charity shop for a euro. An account of the Jamie Bulger murder trial

tim_holsters

AnnyHallsal wrote: »

Picked up As If by Blake Morrison in a charity shop for a euro. An account of the Jamie Bulger murder trial

I read this years ago. An extremely good account of the events leading up to and after that tragic day. If I remember correctly, it must be 8 or 9 years since I read it.

If you read the Daily Mail or papers of that ilk you probably won't like it.

AnnyHallsal

tim_holsters wrote: »

I read this years ago. An extremely good account of the events leading up to and after that tragic day. If I remember correctly, it must be 8 or 9 years since I read it.

If you read the Daily Mail or papers of that ilk you probably won't like it.

I'm more of a Guardian lady

It's compelling, very well written, judicious, though I find him a little too sympathetic towards the boys. It's interesting in light of all that has passed since. It's excellent, given its proximity to the murder.

EDIT: Post number 1984 - how appropriate it's in the Literature forum : )

The Princess Bride

Just finished "The Other Hand" by Chris Cleave- funny, sad , different.

Waiting for Harlan Coben's Live Wire to hit the shelves here.

tim_holsters

AnnyHallsal wrote: »

I'm more of a Guardian lady

It's compelling, very well written, judicious, though I find him a little too sympathetic towards the boys. It's interesting in light of all that has passed since. It's excellent, given its proximity to the murder.

EDIT: Post number 1984 - how appropriate it's in the Literature forum : )

You can't go wrong with the Guardian.

Thinking back that's the central memory I have of the book, Morrisons attitude towards the boys. A stance that was counter to most people's feelings on the matter. Which is understandable.

Post no.1984 eh, nice spot.

tHE vAGGABOND

While away over weekend I read "the confession" by John Grisham - predictable rubbish, but I wanted something light, so it did the job [very glad I did not pay for it tho!!]

Started Shogun by James Clavel <sp?> - A monster of a book, perfect for reading on my kindle

Mink

Just finished Wild Swans by Jung Chang, definitely in my top 10, brilliant book!

About to start Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett - as recommended in the 10 to read before the Apocalypse thread

Got it in Easons in Liffey Valley but the selection in there was sh!te - only new releases or mis lit. Going back to Chapters next time I think

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Mink wrote: »

Just finished Wild Swans by Jung Chang, definitely in my top 10, brilliant book!

About to start Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett - as recommended in the 10 to read before the Apocalypse thread

Got it in Easons in Liffey Valley but the selection in there was sh!te - only new releases or mis lit. Going back to Chapters next time I think

Definitely a top 10 for me too, an excellent way to learn history!

AnnyHallsal

The Talented Mr Ripley. Heard good things about Highsmith so I've intended to read it for ages. Good, creepy fun.