This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

Amomymous

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien

flyaway.

Breaking the Silence by Diane Chamberlain

Callan57

Hermy wrote: »

I enjoyed Fatherland too. I'll be interested to hear what you think of The Ghost.

Really enjoyed The Ghost .... and I watched the movie a few months back & I actually fell asleep before the end. The book is a dam good read though.

I'm now reading Not the End of the World a book of short stories by Kate Atkinson. Read her Left Early, took my dog a few months back & loved it.

old hippy

Amomymous wrote: »

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien

Good luck with that; it's the only Flann I couldn't finish

Hermy

Callan57 wrote: »

Really enjoyed The Ghost .... and I watched the movie a few months back & I actually fell asleep before the end. The book is a dam good read though.

I hated The Ghost. Having enjoyed everything up until that book I was shocked by how badly written it was and how shoddily the plot was strung together.

tim_holsters

Hermy wrote: »

I hated The Ghost. Having enjoyed everything up until that book I was shocked by how badly written it was and how shoddily the plot was strung together.

I went off Harris a bit too, I've read 3 or 4 of his books but not The Ghost. It's a cracking movie though I really enjoyed that.

tim_holsters

Strange Days Indeed:The Golden Age Of Paranoia by Francis Wheen. An acerbic look at the 70's. I knew Richard Nixon was a bad egg but I didn't realise how truly bonkers he was.

flyaway.

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

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Better Than Sex-Mick Fitzgerald

The title gets ya quite a few 2nd glances on the bus. Fitzgerald comes across as a really genuine lad who really appreciates how lucky he's been in his riding career. He recounts some great stories about Richard Dunwoody and their love/hate relationship. His stories about some of the great horses he has ridden including See More Business, Fondmort and Katarino to name a few of many brought back a lot of memories.

Monkeybonkers

The Alienist by Caleb Carr.

Seemingly was a smash hit when it was released in 1994 so I'll give it a spin. A historical thriller with Theodore Roosevelt as one of the main characters.

flyaway.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

Callan57

As Julian Barnes got the Booker for The Sense of an Ending, which I really liked, I'm now starting Arthur & George

AnnyHallsal

Callan57 wrote: »

As Julian Barnes got the Booker for The Sense of an Ending, which I really liked, I'm now starting Arthur & George

You're in for a treat.

I thought it should have gotten the Booker the year it was nominated. I still think of the characters fondly

Sergeant

I´ve just completed A Game of Thrones. The first novel of the sort I´ve tried to read since I threw Lord of the Rings on the ground when I was 14. I loved it. Pure wonderful escapism.

IvyTheTerrible

Maximum 40 Characters wrote: »

Better Than Sex-Mick Fitzgerald

The title gets ya quite a few 2nd glances on the bus. Fitzgerald comes across as a really genuine lad who really appreciates how lucky he's been in his riding career. He recounts some great stories about Richard Dunwoody and their love/hate relationship. His stories about some of the great horses he has ridden including See More Business, Fondmort and Katarino to name a few of many brought back a lot of memories.

That's why I love the Kindle! :P

Aparently some of the biggest selling ebooks are erotic literature!

flyaway.

Scarred by Julia Hoban

Miss Fluff

A friend lent me Room by Emma Donoghue today so about to start that shortly - have ten more pages left of In Cold Blood - can't recommend it enough, will be going on a Capote spree after this methinks!

Lisha

A friend lent me Room by Emma Donoghue today so about to start that shortly

Miss Fluff, enjoy Room its quite a read, it might take a bit to get into it but when you do you wont want to leave....

perri winkles

Finished Slaughterhouse 5 about two weeks ago. I don't think I got the point of it at all, read rave reviews about it but I think it went way over my head Very strange altogether.

Started The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat: and other clinical tales. Mostly reading it for college but its a really fascinating read anyway if your interested in the brain/ brain abnormalities.

read cloud atlas, temeraire and now "the end specialist"

Arlecchina

Currently reading Rosemary Sutcliff's The Eagle of the Ninth, and I'm mentally kicking myself for not having discovered this as a kid. Not that it's necessarily a kid's book, but I know I'd have devoured it. The prose is stunning.

MissFlitworth

Reread The Enterprise of Death by Jesse Bullington (3rd time this year, love that book)

Considering picking up Snuff this weekend but I've not been loving the most recent Discworld novels (since they've started being transcribed) and really, really hated the last Tiffancy Aching book. Probably should leave it for a little while, Scary Discworld Obsessive so it makes me sad when the books aren't right

flyaway.

The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld

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The Power Of The Dog- Don Winslow

Absolutely fantastic.A fictional account of the US war on drugs spread over 25 years.
Unputdownable

flyaway.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

useurename

Just finished Darkness,Take My Hand and Sacred by Denis Lehane.Excellent page turners.

flyaway.

Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan

Miss Fluff

Lisha wrote: »

A friend lent me Room by Emma Donoghue today so about to start that shortly

Miss Fluff, enjoy Room its quite a read, it might take a bit to get into it but when you do you wont want to leave....

You were so right about that Lisha. Started it this morning and have just finished it What a beautiful book, would highly recommend it!

Have Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann so going to start that now

AnnyHallsal

Just finished this:



A stunning adaptation.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Just started Dune by Frank Herbert.
I've never read sci-fi but heard this is a but special

flyaway.

Doll by Nicky Singer

x_Ellie_x

The Shining by Stephen King

flyaway.

The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

Mrs Ron Burgundy

Lisha wrote: »

A friend lent me Room by Emma Donoghue today so about to start that shortly

Miss Fluff, enjoy Room its quite a read, it might take a bit to get into it but when you do you wont want to leave....

Took me AGES to get into it, think that it was the wrong book to bring on hols. Only really got into it 3/4 of the way through. I wouldn't really recommend it myself.

The Passage is a fantastic book though, finished it late last year. Absolutely LOVED it, couldn't put it down. Have to wait til mid - late 2012 for the next installment though (it's a trilogy) so i would recommend waiting a while before you read it cos I was so disappointed when I realised I had to wait so long. It's a monster of a book tho so if your a slow reader then get it now.

baconsarnie

Loved that. Really gripping

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The Power Of The Dog- Don Winslow

Absolutely fantastic.A fictional account of the US war on drugs spread over 25 years.
Unputdownable

flyaway.

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Arianna Damp Zephyr

Arianna Damp Zephyr wrote: »

Just started Dune by Frank Herbert.
I've never read sci-fi but heard this is a but special

It is, it's a classic

Giselle

bluewolf wrote: »

It is, it's a classic

My favourite sci-fi book of all time.


Never bother with the film though!

Mrs Ron Burgundy

Was doing my hdip last year and was only able to read literature related to the course (yawn), so this summer i made up for that bigtime by reading continuously. My standout books were:

A Thousand Splendid Suns
One Day
Skippy Dies
The Passage
Water For Elephants

Read some others which I found so mediocre that I can't remember there names.
Has anyone read The Boy In The Attic? Am considering buying it and want to know if it's worth the money.

IvyTheTerrible

Mrs Ron Burgundy wrote: »

Was doing my hdip last year and was only able to read literature related to the course (yawn), so this summer i made up for that bigtime by reading continuously. My standout books were:

A Thousand Splendid Suns
One Day
Skippy Dies
The Passage
Water For Elephants

Read some others which I found so mediocre that I can't remember there names.
Has anyone read The Boy In The Attic? Am considering buying it and want to know if it's worth the money.

I just read The Boy in the Attic and to be honest, I found it mediocre. Malone doesn't find out anything particularly new, he seems to "fluff out" the book with irrelevant asides about other murders and incidents (such as a suicide in St Patricks institution). The style of writing is not fantastic and he seems to have geared it towards an American audience (using American turns of phrase, longish explanations of aspects of Irish culture which are redundant for an Irish reader, and some patronising generalisation). Also, it made me very uncomfortable how this book was written without the cooperation of the murder victim's parents. Would not recommend.

Mrs Ron Burgundy

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

I just read The Boy in the Attic and to be honest, I found it mediocre. Malone doesn't find out anything particularly new, he seems to "fluff out" the book with irrelevant asides about other murders and incidents (such as a suicide in St Patricks institution). The style of writing is not fantastic and he seems to have geared it towards an American audience (using American turns of phrase, longish explanations of aspects of Irish culture which are redundant for an Irish reader, and some patronising generalisation). Also, it made me very uncomfortable how this book was written without the cooperation of the murder victim's parents. Would not recommend.

I thought as much myself so I ordered The Shining (can't believe I've never read this OR seen the film :eek:) and A Game of Thrones instead. Talk about completely different books...hopefully the latter was a good choice for someone who never normally reads that genre (love the tv series though)

emeraldstar

Finished my last book yesterday so grabbed Wide Sargasso Sea as I was running out the door for the train this morning. It's been waiting to be read for a while. Jane Eyre is one of my favourite books so this should be interesting.

Callan57

emeraldstar wrote: »

Finished my last book yesterday so grabbed Wide Sargasso Sea as I was running out the door for the train this morning. It's been waiting to be read for a while. Jane Eyre is one of my favourite books so this should be interesting.

I've had that on my list for a while ... would be interested in your opinion.

Just started One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson

Niles

Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Wyldwood

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Not my normal reading material but persuaded by my daughter to give it a go.

flyaway.

I, Coriander by Sally Gardner

tim_holsters

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley.

Monkeybonkers

Journey to Hell: Inside the worlds most violent prison system Donald MacNeil

and

The Reluctant Fundamentalist Moshin Hamid

timewilltell

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad...so far not so intruiging!

mav79

Halfway through Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts because of some recommendations from here, and all i can say is wow.