This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

Monkeybonkers

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

WickedWest

emeraldstar wrote: »

Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck

How's that going? I find Steinbeck to be incredibly dull.

Callan57

Starting Daydream Girl by Bella Pollen

emeraldstar

American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis

meganj

Just finished Jo Nesbo's Phantom - really enjoyed it, had been waiting for it to come out and I'm a huge Nesbo fan so it was great!

Hunger Games trilogy is in the Post Office waiting for me, hope it lives up to the hype!

Cokeistan

A Storm of Swords, George R.R. Martin

Sleazy Rider

Just finished A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry, which has easily made it into my all time top ten.

Currently reading World War Z by Max Brooks which is OK.

MagicMarker

Started 'The Shadow of the Wind' by Carlos Ruiz Zafón this morning, really enjoying it so far.

Mahna Mahna

Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse then hopefully onto Life by Keith Richards

Squ

Sleazy Rider wrote: »

Just finished A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry, which has easily made it into my all time top ten

Just bought it on the back of your post

Callan57

Starting The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

mikemac1

The Litigators

Usual top class from John Grisham

highlydebased

Steve Jobs' Autobiography. Very interesting.

MagicMarker

The Wasp Factory - lain Banks

Only read the first third, can someone please tell me if it's worth going on because so far it's pretty crap tbh.

eclectichoney

MagicMarker wrote: »

The Wasp Factory - lain Banks

Only read the first third, can someone please tell me if it's worth going on because so far it's pretty crap tbh.

A very good book imo - a little disturbing mind you!

Callan57

Finished The Paris Wife by Paula McLain ..... a great read & highly recommended for anyone interested in Ernest Hemingway & his writings. Really loved it.

Now I need a short story fix so I'm starting Field Study by Rachel Seffert

eclectichoney

Callan57 wrote: »

Now I need a short story fix so I'm starting Field Study by Rachel Seffert

Just finished Landed by Tim Pears - excellent stuff, and just starting Robin Black's If I loved you I would tell you this: also in need of a short fiction fix!

Callan, interested to see what you think of Field study, I remember finding it v disappointing after the excellent Dark Room but it was a long long time ago now that I read it.

Seifer

Just finished The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. Can't say I've read anything like it before. It's quite a heavy read but definitely worth it. He does some very clever things with language that often cracked a smile.

Will probably devour the copy of Philip Pullman's, Once upon a time in the North, I managed to track down before moving onto something else with more meat.

Monkeybonkers

MagicMarker wrote: »

The Wasp Factory - lain Banks

Only read the first third, can someone please tell me if it's worth going on because so far it's pretty crap tbh.

Don't know if you've gone any further with this book. I was completely underwhelmed by it. Didn't find it at all disturbing either. I'd still say continue on with it and see what you think but it did nothing for me

SarahBM

Finally finished the Master and Margarita last night. Weirdest book I ever read. Didn't really like it. Started the Missing by Jane Cassidy.

Callan57

eclectichoney wrote: »

Just finished Landed by Tim Pears - excellent stuff, and just starting Robin Black's If I loved you I would tell you this: also in need of a short fiction fix!

Callan, interested to see what you think of Field study, I remember finding it v disappointing after the excellent Dark Room but it was a long long time ago now that I read it.

Almost finished Field Study and really liked it .... especially Dimitroff & The Late Spring ... also The Crossing I thought was beautifully observed.
Agree with you The Dark Room was brilliant but different genre so you can't really compare. Also her Afterwards was a good read.

cynder

Finished legend by Marie Lu and also read fallen, torment and fallen.

Getting insurgent first thing tomorrow.

Sleazy Rider

Squ wrote: »

Just bought it on the back of your post

Hope you enjoy it.

wilkie2006

Snako wrote: »

Just started Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman, Asweh, It's bo-styles

How are you getting on with it? I thought that was an amazing, amazing novel. I enjoyed it a lot more than Barnes's Booker Prize winner.

However, I wonder if "Pigeon English" has made such an impression on me because it's set in the kind of place I live in London. I'd be interested to hear your opinion of it.

Squ

Sleazy Rider wrote: »

Hope you enjoy it.

Wipping through it, very hard to put down. It's one of those reads, where I'm looking at the amount of pages left and sorry there's not more!

bullpost

Just finished the Master and Margarita recently as well. Found it quirky but original and enjoyable.

SarahBM wrote: »

Finally finished the Master and Margarita last night. Weirdest book I ever read. Didn't really like it. Started the Missing by Jane Cassidy.

Sleazy Rider

Squ wrote: »

Wipping through it, very hard to put down. It's one of those reads, where I'm looking at the amount of pages left and sorry there's not more!

Yeah I was exactly like that too.

Achillles

Just finished Fight Club today. Excellent read and brilliantly written, but the film followed it so closely it took away from my enjoyment of the book having seen the film first.

Also finished Steven Erikson's 'Crippled God' earlier on in the week. Finally after ten confusing yet brilliant books, I finished the saga. For anyone struggling to get through the earlier books, keep going they're definitely worth it!

Starting 'Drive' tonight. Haven't seen the film so can't wait to sink my teeth into it!

perri winkles

I'm still reading Birdsong and my god I am struggling.

I think the fact that it seems like a love story has really put me off. I'm not big into romance novels and it is moving painfully slow.

Anyone read it and thought it was amazing? I'm reluctant to give up but I don't actually look forward to reading it, I have to force myself to pick it back up again.

x_Ellie_x

I'm now reading Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.

Censorsh!t

Reading Battle Royale by Koushan Takami

Sleazy Rider

perri winkles wrote: »

I'm still reading Birdsong and my god I am struggling.

I think the fact that it seems like a love story has really put me off. I'm not big into romance novels and it is moving painfully slow.

Anyone read it and thought it was amazing? I'm reluctant to give up but I don't actually look forward to reading it, I have to force myself to pick it back up again.

I loved it. Each to their own though I suppose.

Callan57

perri winkles wrote: »

I'm still reading Birdsong and my god I am struggling.

I think the fact that it seems like a love story has really put me off. I'm not big into romance novels and it is moving painfully slow.

Anyone read it and thought it was amazing? I'm reluctant to give up but I don't actually look forward to reading it, I have to force myself to pick it back up again.

Read it & loved it .... I love all his books with the exception of Engleby which I finished but didn't really enjoy.

perri winkles

I've just gotten to the war part so hoping it'll pick up a bit. I'm going to stick with it hate giving up on a book

cynder

In the last couple of days I've read, passion, torment, fallen and yesterday I read insurgen.

MagicMarker

The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien

I've been meaning to read it for a while now, but it being a children's fantasy novel and me not being a child or particularly interested in fantasy novels, I've put it off.

It's not too bad so far though, I'm only a couple of chapters in.

doriansmith

I have a pile of new books to be read but I've started re-reading my favourite book, 1984, first. Loving it just as much as the first time I read it

Callan57

Reading The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde ..... I need a laugh

Censorsh!t

Reading Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams. Good and funny so far, of course.

Callan57

Today I am going to start Various Pets Alive and Dead by Marina Lewycka .... she wrote A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian which I absolutely loved so really looking forward to Various Pets

emeraldstar

A Night to Remember, Walter Lord

SarahBM

finished The Missing, good read. First time in a long time I read a book in the space of a couple of days. going to start the Tree of Season by Stephen Gately.

didnt start the above book because I went into Chapters after work and bought books and now cannot decide what to read.
Im reading Persuasion again while I try to decide.

emeraldstar

Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant by Jeremy Musson

Majesticzebras

Tiny Sunbirds Far Away by Christie Watson
Also Defending Jacob by William Landy

Happy bunny:D

Callan57

Finished off Various Pets Alive & Dead last night .... enjoyable read but IMO the ending is a bit too contrived.

Today I start Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz

Monkeybonkers

Finished Pride and Prejudice and now I'm starting on the Flashman series of books which I hear are excellent. I have them all on my Kindle so not sure if I'll read them all on one go or break them up with other books but I'll see how I go.

Loved Pride and Prejudice btw

Belle E. Flops

Monkeybonkers wrote: »

Loved Pride and Prejudice btw

Great book, but I actually prefer 'Emma'. If you haven't read it, I suggest you do!

johnny_ultimate

I've just finished Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, which I loved. It's a focused, witty and acutely observational book, but that's not why I loved it. I loved it for the characters. It took me a while to realise why, but there was a major plot development near the end that left me genuinely upset. Upset about the consequences it would have for everyone involved. Their reactions and responses would be crystal clear, and I felt genuinely sorry for them, which to me is a rare reaction to fictional creations. The Berglunds and their friends are such beautifully drawn individuals that I just loved every minute I spent reading about their joy, their sadness, their decisions, their mistakes, their victories. It's all there in the title, because this is a book about people with the freedom to decide the path they take in life, and all the consequences those decisions will have. And it makes for hypnotic reading. A truly great novel.

Monkeybonkers

Belle E. Flops wrote: »

Great book, but I actually prefer 'Emma'. If you haven't read it, I suggest you do!

I will stick it on my list. Thanks

emeraldstar

Belle E. Flops wrote: »

Great book, but I actually prefer 'Emma'. If you haven't read it, I suggest you do!

Emma's okay, but Persuasion is definitely Austen's next best after P&P. In fact it's as good as P&P, I sometimes think... which is saying a lot coming from me