What book are you reading atm??

ILoveYourVibes

Zorba the Greek. I've read it before. Would recommend.

Kewreeuss

Buried, if you are interested in Greek mythology you'll love his greek myths.
gives the story of each god and goddess, myths and their variations. he gives his own interpretation, which is fine unless you are a scholarly classical scholar.

buried

Yeah I'm definitely going to purchase all that mans work now. So cool, and its true, the fact he was giving his own interpretation in 'The White Goddess' opened up vistas of my own interpretation which was really brilliant and really eye opening. Fantastic work.

Carry

keepalive213 wrote: »

Dark is the sun

You don't say

new Author

Book Of Bones by John Connolly pretty hard to put down like most of the Charlie Parker books

TheRepentent

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Will that mean less posts bragging about your life?

Tauriel

Just finished No Place Like Home by Mary Higgins Clark after starting it over two months ago.

It was quite torturous to read and I really hate crime fiction written in the first person which added to the misery of reading this book.

arybvtcw0eolkf

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Will you be incorporating stoicism and stoic philosophy into your life, Makikomi? Being humble, patient, and empathetic in everything you do? Battling the hubris and excess of the ego? Will that mean less posts bragging about your life?

Nope, not in the least.

But I'll continue doing what Aurelious advises me, re. not giving two shits about others and their opinions of me.

Carry

Noel Some Cornbread wrote: »

... what Aurelious advises me, re. not giving two shits about others and their opinions of me.

Must. Read. Aurelius.

EmmetSpiceland

Carry wrote: »

Must. Read. Aurelius.

Might be putting Descartes before the horse there, C.

JohnnyFlash

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Might be putting Descartes before the horse there, C.

Are you saying you Kant read one in isolation to the other?

New Home

You're too Jung for that. Also, *insert sentence about schadeFreude here*.

EmmetSpiceland

New Home wrote: »

You're too Jung for that. Also, *insert sentence about schadeFreude here*.

To Hume are you referring?!

Any appetite here for a free book recycling/ pass it forward kind of thing?

With this big Green vote in the elections, I feel quite guilty looking at my bookshelves and the mini forest that I've accumulated -- books that I will never read again.

Have just finished reading The Master and Margarita. Hard copy, good condition, If anyone wants it and can collect it in the city centre (Dublin) or D6 PM me. Otherwise it's just a waste of good paper (no offence, Mr Bulgakov)

quickbeam

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Any appetite here for a free book recycling/ pass it forward kind of thing?

With this big Green vote in the elections, I feel quite guilty looking at my bookshelves and the mini forest that I've accumulated -- books that I will never read again.

Have just finished reading The Master and Margarita. Hard copy, good condition, If anyone wants it and can collect it in the city centre (Dublin) or D6 PM me. Otherwise it's just a waste of good paper (no offence, Mr Bulgakov)

I leave my unwanted books at the library. They have a freebies shelf. Good place to discard the unwanteds, and also to pick up other people's unwanteds.

New Home

Or you could bring it to a nursing home, homeless shelter, day centre, etc, or donate it to a charity shop.

arybvtcw0eolkf

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Any appetite here for a free book recycling/ pass it forward kind of thing?

With this big Green vote in the elections, I feel quite guilty looking at my bookshelves and the mini forest that I've accumulated -- books that I will never read again.

Have just finished reading The Master and Margarita. Hard copy, good condition, If anyone wants it and can collect it in the city centre (Dublin) or D6 PM me. Otherwise it's just a waste of good paper (no offence, Mr Bulgakov)

Good idea. I met a boardsie recently to give her some books (still have to find the first and last book from the Emperor series for her).

All my reading is on Kindle these days, and in pubs lol



Except that I recently bought Leonard Cohen's 'Book of Longing', I had it years ago and lost it and wanted it again. Its a lovely thing to hold and read.

appledrop

So I'm now half way through Milkman. I hate it. In her book she has a character name Somebody Mc Somebody. I've renamed this book Loopy Mc Loopy. How the hell did this winner Manbooker prize? I have read plenty of longlisted ones + liked a good few of them.

I will finish it though!

_Godot_

Why force yourself to read something you're not enjoying?

appledrop

I always finish a book. In rare cases the ending or some part of book might give me an eurkua moment + I change my view on book.

quickbeam

Me too. I feel I can't justly criticise a book until I've completed it. Because ... you just never know.

Nigel Fairservice

I always finish a book that I've started...eventually. In one case it took me 7 years to finish The Cider House Rules. I read half the book when I bought it (I loved the movie) and couldn't finish it. I came back to it years later and started again and I enjoyed it.

I hated every page of Shantaram. I can say that because I finished it

quickbeam

Nigel Fairservice wrote: »

I always finish a book that I've started...eventually. In one case it took me 7 years to finish The Cider House Rules. I read half the book when I bought it (I loved the movie) and couldn't finish it. I came back to it years later and started again and I enjoyed it.

I hated every page of Shantaram. I can say that because I finished it

Uh oh, I've those two exact books on my to be read shelf :eek:

optogirl

Just started Normal People, Sally Rooney

arybvtcw0eolkf

_Godot_ wrote: »

Why force yourself to read something you're not enjoying?

appledrop wrote: »

I always finish a book. In rare cases the ending or some part of book might give me an eurkua moment + I change my view on book.

I've pushed on through some books and found some real gems, two which come to mind are Unit Pride, and Exodus by Leon Uris.

Nigel Fairservice

quickbeam wrote: »

Uh oh, I've those two exact books on my to be read shelf :eek:

The Cider House Rules is well worth a read. When I started it in 2007 I had a lot of things going on at the time and probably didn't give it the attention I should have. Can't say the same for Shantaram. I'm not very fond of the author so that probably has a lot to do with it.

Danger781

Finished reading:
Calibans War (Expanse Series #2)

Definitely preferred it over the first book in the series. Kept my interest much better. Couldn't put it down at some points!

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Just stared reading:
Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky

I'm about 120 pages in. Seems like another excellent offering from an author who is quickly becoming a favourite of mine.

super_furry

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. It's starting to outstay it's welcome now after a really promising start and if it doesn't pick up soon, I'm going to drop it.

mikhail

super_furry wrote: »

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. It's starting to outstay it's welcome now after a really promising start and if it doesn't pick up soon, I'm going to drop it.

Sadly, Reynolds is often guilty of weak endings to otherwise very good books.

Foweva Awone

Widdershins wrote: »

The Last Person Who Called Me Sweetpea Ended Up Dead. I'm only on the first page, which is like reading the Boards ''annoyances '' thread if all the posters were having psychotic episodes AND the wrong team won. It's a long ''people are sh1t'' rant, before she kills 'em all (I think ). I like dark humour but I'm finding it hard work so far.

I'm about 2/3 of the way through and actually really enjoying it! Never thought a sociopath could be so strangely likeable. Did you finish it in the end? What did you think?