This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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Posy wrote: »

I've just started 'Life of Pi.' Ugh, it's pretty gory so far! :eek:

Can't remember it starting gory? Gives a great argument for zoos at the beginning :pac:
I would have to advise to read an analysis afterwards, lots of things go over my head and I knew that a huge amount had with this book, so I googled an analysis and it showed me just how much there is to the book and opened up a lot of levels that I didn't contemplate (which wasn't a lot of the literary bs of finding something that just wasn't there)

Just beginning The Girl with the Dragoon Tatoo now

Asphyxia

Posy wrote: »

I've just started 'Life of Pi.' Ugh, it's pretty gory so far! :eek:

I read that ages ago I saw it the other day and was going to pick it up as far as I can remember I enjoyed it.

Arianna Damp Zephyr wrote: »

Just beginning The Girl with the Dragoon Tatoo now

I loved this book I finished the 3rd one a couple of weeks ago, I hope you like them as much as I did.

I have gotten back into reading poetry I bought a little book of poetry by W.B. Yeats going to read through it tonight

Callan57

Just starting 'Forgetting Zoe' by Ray Robinson

Asphyxia

Getting madly back into reading I have started The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit so far so good

Posy

Enjoying 'Life of Pi' a lot more now that it's just

him and Richard Parker left on the boat.

tazkatie

Have just read the girl with the dragon tattoo and the girl who played with fire.. absolutely loved them both.. Going the start the final one soon. Have also read the first four of the Dexter books and have read the first five of the anita blake vampire hunter books. Have enjoyed all of them! Love a good series of books!

anothernight

I just finished The Picture of Dorian Gray. I hated it with a passion and I hold it responsible for many a bus journey spent embarrasingly asleep I'm starting Lord of the Flies. So far it's very good.

johnwhite072

Reading Freedom by Jonathan Franzen. Excellent so far, the last great American novelist (apparently!)

pearliefan

Read 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy', Douglas Adams, recently and really enjoyed it!

Getting into 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', Oscar Wilde, and enjoying it so far!

Callan57

Finished 'Forgetting Zoe' by Ray Robinson
A superb read which kept me awake to 3am last night - always the sign of a good book.
I'm going to start 'The Finkler Question' tonight ... looking forward to deciding if it deserved the Booker

Asphyxia

anothernight wrote: »

I just finished The Picture of Dorian Gray. I hated it with a passion and I hold it responsible for many a bus journey spent embarrasingly asleep I'm starting Lord of the Flies. So far it's very good.

Oh that's really surprising I loved The Picture Of Dorian Gray, I lent my copy to my boyfriends mum and she also told me it wasn't great not because it was a bad story she just found it very difficult to read.

Lord Of the Flies is a brilliant book I hope you really enjoy ending is great

I have started reading I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith. My mother was giving all her old books to charity so I raided the box beforehand and got myself a few books to keep me going for now.

anothernight

Pocketfizz wrote: »

Oh that's really surprising I loved The Picture Of Dorian Gray, I lent my copy to my boyfriends mum and she also told me it wasn't great not because it was a bad story she just found it very difficult to read.

I like the concept and I agree that it's very well written. What I didn't like was that it read as a timeline of very spaced out, boring events, if you get me. It was very very predictable as well, though I suppose that's to be expected from a short classic book (as in everyone knows most of the story anyway).

I'm nearly finished with Lord of the Flies at this stage. Still loving it

squeakyduck

It took me ages to get through the lord of the flies but I flew through the end of it. It's quite an upsetting ending especially with everything that has happened to the boys.

tHE vAGGABOND

The Dice Man - weird, weird, weird

anothernight

squeakyduck wrote: »

It took me ages to get through the lord of the flies but I flew through the end of it. It's quite an upsetting ending especially with everything that has happened to the boys.

I just finished it. You're so right. Meh

8mv

Just finished Ghost Light by Joseph O'Connor. As usual, he doesn't dissapoint. Good story told in an interesting way.

elance2010

I've finished "Do you remember me?" from Sophia Kinsela it's a beautiful novel and also funny!
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Kate P

Emma Donoghue's Room is a good read - there's a weakness in the middle but otherwise it's worth the read.

The Earth Hums in B Flat is also a good read, with a similarly charismatic narrator.

Ian Rankin's The Complaints is the weakest thing he's written in a long time and I'm disappointed. Also just finished the latest Kathy Reichs book which is a series, I'm sad to say, that seems to be going the way of the Scarpetta books. The history and science - re Vietnam war deaths, is interesting but the relationships and plots give credibility the kind of stretch marks that hang around a long time.

Just started Damon Galgut's In A Strange Room and like it a lot, but it's not one for dipping in and out of in stolen moments.

Callan57

'Slammerkin' by Emma Donoghue

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Ten Seconds from the Sun by Russell Celyn Jones

AnnyHallsal

Kafka's The Trial

Asphyxia

elance2010 wrote: »

I've finished "Do you remember me?" from Sophia Kinsela it's a beautiful novel and also funny!
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I agree I love Sophia Kinsela I have read a few of her books and I always find myself in giggles

vepyewwo

Emma Donoghue's Room is a good read - there's a weakness in the middle but otherwise it's worth the read.

I'm finding this quite hard to get into, not sure if it's the child narration that I'm not keen on but I'm about 50 pages in and it hasnt really gotten going for me. Abandoned it yesterday and started Kevin Lewis "The kid" instead which I'm enjoying but will give Room another go.

Just finished Jeffrey Archer short stories "And therby hangs a tail" which was rubbish, none of the stories were great and I'm usually a fan of Archer.

optogirl

All families are Psychotic by Douglas Copleand - much preferring it to another of his I read 'Girlfriend in a Coma'

DonOcelot

Ive started reading "Dark Rivers Of The Heart" by Dean Koontz.

Really enjoying it so far, interesting enough story & characters and it rarely drags.

Paddy Samurai

Currently reading this one.
I have been hearing about this book for years so i hope it lives up to all the online hype about it.Looking good so far.


http://www.amazon.com/Boys-Life-Robert-McCammon/dp/1416577785/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1290187409&sr=1-1

anothernight

Reading Like the Flowing River, a collection of short stories by Paulo Coelho. I find it very annoying because I'm reading it in Spanish, and even though the language is very simple, they seem to not have translated it properly. Things that made sense in Portuguese were translated literally to Spanish, so they lose sense but sound simple, making it sound "deeper" or something. It's not the first time I've seen that happen in a book by Paulo Coelho =/

An example of this is how they didn't bother translating the word "interior" (which means the countryside in Portuguese. The sentence in English is "like any other person who lives in the countryside, the most important news is the weather.").


Other than that, it's ok. Never been into his work because I find it quite boring, so it's nice to read something in bite-size pieces.

kylith

Atonement. I'm really enjoying it. Think I'll go read some more now.

Callan57

Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler

H. Flashman

Treasure island!

I read it as a kid years ago but had pretty much forgotten it ... now that I'm reading it again I'm realising how good it is