This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

OakeyDokey

Taking a break from Terry Prachett and reading Orange is the New Black. I wanna watch the TV show but want to read this first.

ivytwine

ivytwine wrote: »

Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin.

Finished it, fantastic book. Loved Rosemary's Baby and Stepford Wives too. Pity he didn't write a few more!

IgnatiousReily

Game of Thrones book 2. Good entertainment although obviously not 'literature'. Tyrion, the Eunuch and Littlefinger are my favourite characters

littlemac1980

Half way through "Gardens of the Moon" - Steven Erikson - started a couple days ago - really exciting and interesting style. Love it so far!

SarahBM

On the bus and just finished reading The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks. Enjoyable if not a little predictable.
Next is Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood for cinema book club. But can you believe, its in my suit case, which is under the bus. And I have an hour and a half left on my journey. Just my luck!!!

Aenaes

IgnatiousReily wrote: »

Game of Thrones book 2. Good entertainment although obviously not 'literature'. Tyrion, the Eunuch and Littlefinger are my favourite characters

I'm not sure if that's fair. Yes, the language and writing style might not ever be considered great but credit to the author in creating such great characters either lovable, repugnant or devious and a setting which includes classes similiar to Middle Age knights, Vikings, Mongol Empire, among a Roman style empire with some War of the Roses thrown in!

Callan57

Finished Frog Music by Emma Donoghue ... great read, enjoyed it a lot.

Now I think it will be Sebastian Faulks, A Possible Life

MagicMarker

Finally finished Kafka on the Shore. Disappointing tbh, started off well enough but the last 100 pages were a bit of a slog.

Travel is good

Meathlass wrote: »

Finished Burial Rites on Saturday. Very vivid descriptions of time and place. Enjoyed it, slightly haunting in a way.

Thanks for all the recommendations for this book, I really enjoyed it. The scenery descriptions were inspiring, makes me want to go to Iceland now. For a first novel, I thought it was very well researched.
Thank you all. I have got some great books recommended to me on this thread.

I'm reading "Dr. Sleep" now, by Stephen King. I read "112263" recently and I liked that also. I have purchased a new copy of "the Shining" so might re-read that.

dubsgirl

Just started Wally Lamb - She's come undone

Never read anything by him before and seriously loving his writing style already

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Still wading through A Commonwealth of Thieves. It's very interesting and much more accessible than say your standard history book but it's not exactly something you get stuck into and read chapters at a time. I must owe a fortune to the library for it at this point

ivytwine

Kate Atkinson, Life After Life. Enjoying it, once I got past the fact that every chapter has the main character die somehow!

Callan57

ivytwine wrote: »

Kate Atkinson, Life After Life. Enjoying it, once I got past the fact that every chapter has the main character die somehow!

That takes a bit of getting used to right enough

eire4

Finished a re read of Alexander Dumas' old classic The Count of Monte Cristo today.

Callan57

Finally getting around to reading Fahrenheit 451 - it's been waiting for me for years

Aenaes

eire4 wrote: »

Finished a re read of Alexander Dumas' old classic The Count of Monte Cristo today.

I really need to read this sometime, it's been on my radar for a while now. I think I'll look for it specifically in the library next time I'm there.

SarahBM

Aenaes wrote: »

I really need to read this sometime, it's been on my radar for a while now. I think I'll look for it specifically in the library next time I'm there.

Its pretty big, it might be worth your while to just pick up a copy. I remember getting mine for like €3, its a wordsworth classic so you will probably get it cheap enough. might save your self in over due fines :D

Callan57

Finished Fahernheit 451 ... brilliant, amazing it was originally written in the early 50s

Next is The Corporal's Wife by Gerald Seymour

adrian522

Finished Dominion by CJ Sansom

Very impressed with it, a novel based on an alternate history where Britain makes a peace deal with Germany in 1940 and the British have a totalitarian government in the 1950's.

Very well written, good story. A bit like Winter in Madrid by the same author, only gripe being the ending being a bit over the top in both books, but both well worth the read, a solid 4/5.

IvyTheTerrible

Finished The One Hundred Year old Man ...

Meh, it didn't live up to the hype for me. A poor man's Forrest Gump.

a0ifee

finally finished This Side of Paradise now that exams are out of the way, didn't enjoy it as much as other Fitzgerald books but enjoyed it nonetheless! Onto the Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides now.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Finally finished A Commonwealth of Thieves. Very informative but not exactly a page turner. Took me so long to finish it I'm 3 books behind my Goodreads target and must owe the library a small fortune!

Jimmy Iovine

I'm reading a biography of Neil Armstrong, "First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong".

It's really interesting. A huge amount of the book consists of technical language relating to his various flights and planes. It's worth putting up with though and you do become a little bit more knowledgeable.

I don't get to read everyday so I'm getting through this steadily. It has taken me about a month to read 200+ pages. That's not bad going considering this is the heaviest book I've ever read in terms of specialist information.

I'm at the part in the book where Neil has just been picked for the space program. The author describes every single thing that they did. There is an incredible attention to detail in it.

I'd recommend it but you'll need to have an interest in his life, otherwise you'll give up by page 40. If you do stick with it, you'll really get to know Armstrong.

Ice Storm

I downloaded loads of free classics on my Kindle recently and have started The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. There is something comforting about reading a children's book.

It turns out that Dorothy's magic shoes were silver in the book, not ruby. Who knew!? (not me! :pac:)

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Ice Storm wrote: »

I downloaded loads of free classics on my Kindle recently and have started The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. There is something comforting about reading a children's book.

It turns out that Dorothy's magic shoes were silver in the book, not ruby. Who knew!? (not me! :pac:)

I knew I think they made them red for the film because it was right at the start of the technicolour era and they wanted them to stand out.

a0ifee

The Virgin Suicides was a good book, very different from what I've read before.

Onto Wuthering Heights now so see ye in about five years, seeing as I'm already confused 4 chapters in

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

a0ifee wrote: »

Onto Wuthering Heights now so see ye in about five years, seeing as I'm already confused 4 chapters in

I love Wuthering Heights. So different from what I expected based on the epic romance idea that people seem to have of it from the films.

ivytwine

Wuthering Heights is one you need to read twice I think. I love the last lines.

Callan57

Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Started reading The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell last night. Intended reading only a few chapters to get me started found myself breaking 100 pages and having to force myself to put it down.
I'm not entirely sure it's brilliant or anything but I couldn't stop reading. It's about two young sisters, 15 and 11, in a Glasgow housing estate who have just buried their parents in the back garden on Christmas Eve. Having experience with social workers and foster care the older one decides to keep the deaths quiet aiming to get to 16 when she can take care of them both without anyone interfering. Their next door neighbour is an old man known in the neighbourhood for being a perv. He takes an interest in the girls and knows there's something going on with them. He is, of course, not really a perv but that's as far as I've gotten.