This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

oolon colluphid

oeb wrote: »

Probably my favorite book of all time!


This weekend I read "Prince of Thorns" by Mark Lawrence, which was brilliant but too short and "The Running Man" by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman), which was also fantastic. I had read a few Stephen King books when I was younger, but I was not too impressed so I never bothered going back to him, although The Running Man might make me re-think that. I normally get through a book a week, so it says alot about the first two that I am on my third in three days

I just started "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" by Michael Chabon, it's an alternate history detective story, I'm finding it a little hard to get into to be honest.

Of course Prince of Thorns is half as long again as Brave New World which in turn is longer than The Running Man.

Callan57

Finished The Woman in Black ... I read a hell of a lot scarier books

Starting The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt today

T954

Callan57 wrote: »

Finished The Woman in Black ... I read a hell of a lot scarier books

Starting The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt today

Finished the sisters brothers last week and thought it was excellent...

Now onto 'Alone in Berlin' by Hans Fallada and going very well.

Belle E. Flops

I'm nearing the end of The Sisters Brothers, really enjoying it!

Belle E. Flops

Just after starting 'The Turn of the Screw' by Henry James.

Huzzah!

T954 wrote: »

Finished the sisters brothers last week and thought it was excellent...

Now onto 'Alone in Berlin' by Hans Fallada and going very well.

Loved Alone in Berlin - it's a fantastic book.

Just started Wolf Hall, and I'm really enjoying it so far.

Callan57

Just starting The Summer of the Bear by Bella Pollen

Honey-ec

Read The Hunger Games trilogy during the week, started "Skippy Dies" last night.

I enjoyed "Wolf Hall", although Mantel uses a very irritating narrative device throughout the book. I won't say what it is, or it'll annoy you even more, but I'll be interested to hear whether you notice it yourself.

IvyTheTerrible

Honey-ec wrote: »

Read The Hunger Games trilogy during the week, started "Skippy Dies" last night.

I enjoyed "Wolf Hall", although Mantel uses a very irritating narrative device throughout the book. I won't say what it is, or it'll annoy you even more, but I'll be interested to hear whether you notice it yourself.

Yes I noticed it...it's very annoying. I didn't really enjoy the novel because of it.

OldeCinemaSoz

JOHN GILES

A Football Man.

A wonderful read from one of the greatest players ever
to put on The Republic jersey.

:cool:

eire4

OldeCinemaSoz wrote: »

JOHN GILES

A Football Man.

A wonderful read from one of the greatest players ever
to put on The Republic jersey.

:cool:

I haven't read that one yet. I will have to track it down and read it at some point.

tinyk68

The Forgotton Waltz by Anne Enright. I'm about a third of the way through it and enjoyng it so far. I like her pared back style of prose. It's quite stark but she manages to convey a lot with just a few words.

Monkeybonkers

Just starting White Fang by Jack London

HavingCrack

Just started a Clergymans Daughter by George Orwell, his 2nd novel. I'm finding it very hard to get into. Apparently Orwell hated the book and refused to let it be republished during his lifetime. From what I have read so far I'm not suprised, it just isn't very well written. It reads very much like an author in the early days of his career, which he was I suppose!

Callan57

'The Wedding Gift' by Marlen Suyapa Bodden

tim_holsters

We Were Young And Carefree by Laurent Fignon.

emeraldstar

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

OldeCinemaSoz

JOHN GILES

A Football Man.

A wonderful recollection from one of the greatest
footballers ever to play for and manage THE REPUBLIC.

:cool:

x_Ellie_x

11.22.63 by Stephen King
Four to Score by Janet Evanovich

WoundedRhino

I'm on a Chuck Palahniuk kick at the moment, recently read Survivor and Invisible Monsters, just started Fight Club.

WoundedRhino

x_Ellie_x wrote: »

11.22.63 by Stephen King
Four to Score by Janet Evanovich

Ooh, how is that? I love Stephen King but haven't got round to picking this up yet.

Callan57

Well into The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde

Penny77

Rucks, mauls and Gaelic football by Moss Keane. really good so far

Cherry Blossom Girl

I've just finished Rabbit, Run by John Updike. I really liked it, going to read the rest of the series soon!
I'm currently about 2/3 of the way through White Noise by Don DeLillo.

triseke

The City and the City by China Mieville

wilkie2006

emeraldstar wrote: »

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

I enjoyed that one. I wonder when she's going to bring something new out.

Have just started "Everyman" by Philip Roth.

Read about 50 pages of "Game of Thrones" but I don't think it's for me. I'm not really interested in fantasy writing and 800-odd pages is a lot to commit to!

emeraldstar

wilkie2006 wrote: »

I enjoyed that one. I wonder when she's going to bring something new out.

There's a new novel coming in September.

On Beauty is the first Zadie Smith book I've read. A friend of mine is a huge fan and raves about her novels. I'm finding it okay; not quite so amazing as my friend would have me believe!

wilkie2006

emeraldstar wrote: »

There's a new novel coming in September.

On Beauty is the first Zadie Smith book I've read. A friend of mine is a huge fan and raves about her novels. I'm finding it okay; not quite so amazing as my friend would have me believe!

Yea, I would say it's good but not amazing. About the same as "The Autograph Man". Even if you're not really enjoying "On Beauty", I'd recommend you read "White Teeth", which really is very good.

Chinafoot

Just finished 'Plainsong' by Kent Haruf.

Beautiful book.

oeb

Still on my "Stuff I meant to read for ages but never got around to" buzz, I had meant to read the "The Accidental Time Machine" by Joe Haldeman since it came out a few years back (Being a massive fan of "The forever war") and I finally got around to it last night.

I very much enjoyed it.