This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

Isard

x_Ellie_x wrote: »

I'm about to start Stephen King's Christine

I read lots of King's books and this one is one of my favourites:)

I've started Kevin Anderson's "The Saga of Seven Suns" today. Well, I like some characters already, it's a good sign:D

Stench Blossoms

Half way through Dennis Lehane - Sacred.

Can't stop myself from reading it.

Travel is good

I love Dennis Lehane.

I've another 100 pages to go on "The 19th Wife" by David Ebershoff. It's fiction, but a very interesting story about Latter Day Saints (the Firsts) & polygamy in mid-19th century America.

onzie

Next up for me - The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers, it has been plugged hard by a friend

flyaway.

The Gunslinger by Stephen King

AnnyHallsal

Jon Ronson, Them: Adventures with Extremists

tHE vAGGABOND

Finished Storm of Swords by George RR Martin [book 3 of song of fire and ice]

Now reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson - been on the list of books I want to read one day for ages...

Isard

I've started Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" - enjoying true art.

tHE vAGGABOND wrote: »

Now reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson - been on the list of books I want to read one day for ages...

It's on my list, too. Please share your impressions after you've read it:)

AnnyHallsal

Failed to enjoy Madame Bovary for a second time. Maybe it's the translation but the prose is so meandering. And Emma's so silly. And it's all so overblown. In its time, revolutionary, sure. But quite annoying now, for me.

Callan57

Starting Lustrum by Robert Harris

Belle E. Flops

AnnyHallsal wrote: »

Failed to enjoy Madame Bovary for a second time. Maybe it's the translation but the prose is so meandering. And Emma's so silly. And it's all so overblown. In its time, revolutionary, sure. But quite annoying now, for me.

Emma is one of my favourite books, absolutely love it. I get what you're saying about Madame Bovary though, I found it a struggle to finish it, didn't enjoy it at all.

AnnyHallsal

Belle E. Flops wrote: »

Emma is one of my favourite books, absolutely love it. I get what you're saying about Madame Bovary though, I found it a struggle to finish it, didn't enjoy it at all.

I meant Emma Bovary!

Belle E. Flops

AnnyHallsal wrote: »

I meant Emma Bovary!

Ooops sorry about that!

Monkeybonkers

I have finally started to read Pillars of the Earth. Unfortunately I made the mistake of warching the first few episodes of the TV series so I already know a rough outline of some of the plot. Damn my weakness for watching it!!

AnnyHallsal

Michel Houellebecq, Atomised

x_Ellie_x

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Belle E. Flops

Room by Emma Donoughue

Isard

x_Ellie_x wrote: »

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Seemed a little bit dreary to me at first but then it really absorbed me...

I'm reading Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House". Enjoying it very much. Irony and witty dialogues don't interfere with the horror plot and somehow even make it more scary.

bullpost

The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald.

Arianna_26

Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell.

perri winkles

Just finished reading Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts.

It's either one of the best books I've ever read, or one of the worst.

Ita a mammoth read at 933 pages, and I would question how much of it was necessary. Roberts wrote it in the first person and I found him really self indulgent which put me off and made me dislike him after a while. However parts of it were completely absorbing and I found myself looking forward to reading more.

Really on the fence over it! Anyone else read it?

Callan57

The Yellow Wallpaper & Other Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

and just for a laugh ... Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde

IvyTheTerrible

perri winkles wrote: »

Just finished reading Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts.

It's either one of the best books I've ever read, or one of the worst.

Ita a mammoth read at 933 pages, and I would question how much of it was necessary. Roberts wrote it in the first person and I found him really self indulgent which put me off and made me dislike him after a while. However parts of it were completely absorbing and I found myself looking forward to reading more.

Really on the fence over it! Anyone else read it?

I know lots of people loved it but I absolutely hated it. The story itself was interesting enough but the pseudo philosophical musings and egotism really got on my nerves and in the way of the story.

flyaway.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

perri winkles

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

I know lots of people loved it but I absolutely hated it. The story itself was interesting enough but the pseudo philosophical musings and egotism really got on my nerves and in the way of the story.

That's exactly how I should have put it!

He definitely grated on me and I didn't empathise with him at all. So much unnecessary description aswell, if he had cut that all out, the book would have been half the length it is, and much better for it.

Yep, mind made up, I defo wouldn't recommend it

flyaway.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

x_Ellie_x

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

Callan57

The Song of Achilles by Madeleine Miller

patff

The Master of Ballantrae, R L Stevenson

tim_holsters

A Little History of The World by E H Gombrich