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.

Busi_Girl08

I am about 113 pages into Pride and Prejudice now.

To be honest...I am struggling:(

The characters are just really annoying me :mad:

tazkatie

Just started the Road by Cormas MacCarthy yesterday, about half way through. Cannot wait to pick it up again this evening. I am fascinated by it. Haven't seen the movie, didn't know what the book was about. But it is well worth the read. Dark and amazing. The fear faced by father and son is tangible. Defo recommend it

tazkatie

Finished the Road last night. Was an amazing book. Haunting images and prose. I don't think I will watch the movie, book was too good, don't want the images tarnished. Just starting a Long Way Down by Sebsatian Barry.. Will let you know how I get on!

tazkatie

Only about a quarter way through it but already I know I am going to relish this book. It has a histrocial slant about young Irish boys going to France to fight in World War 1 and the corresonding domestic issues that were occuring in Ireland 1916 onwards. I can't wait to get back to reading this one this evening

MardiB

Just finishing 'Carry me down' by M. j. hyland. Took a little while to get into it but pretty good. i love Richard Yates, he is one of my all times favourites especially ' Disturbing the peace'

tim_holsters

Anyone who wants a really engrossing absorbing read check out The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. It's like a hugely entertaining sophisticated soap opera and it's very funny to boot, a truly brilliant novel.

Censorsh!t

Finished The Virgin Suicides a few days ago. Really really liked it!

Now reading The Holy City by Patrick McCabe. Only a bit in...not sure what to think yet.

thelonecarrot

I'm flipping between "I'm not scared" by Niccoló Ammanti and War and Peace by Tolstoy.

I'm not sure about either of the right now. But they are both getting much better as they go along.

JesseCuster

Just finished One Day by David Nicholls.

Absolutely loved it, I am missing the two main characters already!
Highly recommended.

livinginkorea

Never thought I would have liked this but gave Book 1 a try for the laugh since I watched the TV show last year and naturally the book is 10 times better than the series. It's more than 900 pages and I am around the 680 mark. Good bathroom reading!

Sephiroth_dude

Starting breaking dawn tomorrow.

tazkatie

Just finished the Bone Thief by Jefferson Bass. Excellent book, Kathy Reichs esqe. Must say I did enjoy it a lot. Propbably not packed with the same level of scientific detail as a Kathy Reichs but very good all the same. I have just started a Tess Gerriten book called the Keeper of the Bride.. Not sure about this one but will keep at it for a while.

monkey9

I've just read two books over the last couple of days which i found to be great reads!

Blacklands by Belinda Baeur. I read this in about twelve hours. Didn't want to put it down. It's about an eleven year old boy who lives in England with his mother, younger brother and his Nan
The family live under the shadow of the death of the boys uncle who was murdered nineteen years before as a ten year old by a serial killer. His body was never found, but is persumed buried in the moors somewhere.
The boy spends his time digging holes in the moors hoping to find the body because he thinks this can heal the pain within the family and give them closure, thus gaining some sort of normality.
He then decides to send a letter to the killer in jail to ask where the body is buried and a game of cat and mouse ensues.
Unputdownable!!

The other book is Northline by Willie Vlautin. Vlautin is the singer songwriter with a really quality band called Richmond Fontaine. His novels are a lot like his songs, about the downtrodden and deadbeats in the underbelly of Americana. His other novels so far are The Motel Life and his recently published, Lean On Pete.


Have just started The Outlander by Gil Adamson

randomguy

monkey9 wrote: »

The other book is Northline by Willie Vlautin. Vlautin is the singer songwriter with a really quality band called Richmond Fontaine. His novels are a lot like his songs, about the downtrodden and deadbeats in the underbelly of Americana. His other novels so far are The Motel Life and his recently published, Lean On Pete.

Coincidence - Finished the Motel Life last night. Really enjoyed it, and flew through it in a couple of days since his style is deceptively simple.

Read Lean on Pete a few weeks ago, and have been going around evangelicising it for the last few weeks, it's that good. Eileen Battersby gave it one of the best reviews I've come across from her, and turns out it deserved it. Everyone should read it. But I think I'll take a few more weeks before I read Northline, just to clear my head of The Motel Life first, since they all seem to be written in a similar style.

OxfordComma

Finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson the other day. I thought it was a great book, and I've already bought the second instalment in the series.

Started The Road by Cormac McCarthy yesterday, and I'm about 70 pages in. So far, it's incredibly harrowing and atmospheric, and it probably won't take me too long to finish.

tazkatie

Haven't read the Girl with the Dragoon Tattoo, though it has been on the bookshelf for quite a while now.. Must try and get round to it. Read the Road there recently myself and it is harrowing and amazing and can't get it out of my head. Enjoyed is not the right word with this book but will read it again and again I think!
Reading the second Bourne Trilogy at the minute. Just on the first book. I read the original Bourne books years ago and was a great fan of Robert Ludlum, Eric Van Lustbader is doing a good job keeping up the traditions.

Mink

Read Girl with Dragon Tatoo recently. Wasn't overly impressed (I think I was left disappointed by all the hype) but good enough read, kept me interested. However, going to leave it a while before I read the next one. Translation wasn't great it has to be said, the bad english was a bit distracting at times.

About to finish Atonement by Ian McEwan. I loved the film & the book is just fantastic. Uber descriptive.

Think I'm going to pick up The Book Thief today & get stuck into that next.

Prior to the first book above I read the 9 books out of the Sookie Stackhouse Series (ie; True Blood) by Charlaine Harris. They were great craic I have to say. Not all about vampires, lots of other supernaturals in it. I might read them again in a couple years.

tazkatie

Mink wrote: »

Read Girl with Dragon Tatoo recently. Wasn't overly impressed (I think I was left disappointed by all the hype) but good enough read, kept me interested. However, going to leave it a while before I read the next one. Translation wasn't great it has to be said, the bad english was a bit distracting at times.

About to finish Atonement by Ian McEwan. I loved the film & the book is just fantastic. Uber descriptive.

Think I'm going to pick up The Book Thief today & get stuck into that next.

Prior to the first book above I read the 9 books out of the Sookie Stackhouse Series (ie; True Blood) by Charlaine Harris. They were great craic I have to say. Not all about vampires, lots of other supernaturals in it. I might read them again in a couple years.

Still I will give teh Girl with the Dragon Tattoo a shot. Will be a while the second Bourne Trilogyis going to keep me occupied for a while. I have read Atonement and loved it. I also have read the Book Thief, personally I found it a great read, contrary to many negative reviews it received. Very different style from what I am used to reading but I still found the narrative great. Hopefully you will also enjoy it.!

Mink

Ok I ended up getting Redemption Falls by Joseph O'Connor. Anyone have feedback on that before I get stuck in tonight?

tHE vAGGABOND

Phillip Pullmans new "good man jesus and scoundrel christ"