This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

SarahBM

beautiful copy of the LOTR, I wouldnt want to take it out of the box, its so pretty!

I have to re-read the Hobbit again, its been too long.

Just finished Rebecca last night, I couldnt put it down! I love it. first book in a long time to hook me in like that. Going to see the play adaptation of My Cousin Rachel in the Gate on Friday and really looking forward to it. Going to get a few more Du Maurier books I think.

so now Im going to try and finish a patrica cornwell one I started ages ago but put down coz I got a bit bored. Must learn to finish things I start!

swapple

An Object of Beauty - Steve Martin. So far so good

clairefontaine

The Good Father by Noah Hawley. Beautiful and moving account in first person narrative of a man whose son is convicted of political assassination and sentenced to death. The narrator is a divorced man with a new family and sets out to clear is son from his first marriage's name while his son is in solitary waiting for lethal injection. It's heartbreaking and powerful. Definitely recommend.

wilkie2006

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I read The Hobbit once again over Christmas and I just started reading The Lord of the Rings 50th edition. It's a beautiful book, with some details on the printing history of LOTR which I found fascinating.



http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618517650/

Oooooh, I like that a lot... well selected!!!

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wilkie2006 wrote: »

Oooooh, I like that a lot... well selected!!!

It really is beautiful. I bought it last year and was afraid to open it too much! I decided while it is great to have, it is a damn shame to leave it on my shelf and never read it. It really enhances the reading too. I'm savouring it by only reading one chapter per day.

Callan57

Today I began The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman

Meathlass

Just finished King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild - an account of the Belgian colonisation of the Congo and the human rights movement in the early 19th century which exposed widespread cruelty and slavery there as part of the rubber trade.

I know it doesn't sound it but it's a great book, expertly researched and the writing just flows along. Roger Casement has a large part to play in the story too so very interesting. It's certainly made me think again about small lil Belgium.

The_Gatsby

Just finished reading The Grapes of Wrath and thought it was brilliant. It took me a while to get my head around the colloquial language but the book is now one of my favourites.

I'm currently reading Tom Browns School Days. It's a great read, for me especially, as I grew up in England and certain aspects of it remind me of my childhood. Only 60 pages in but I already love it.

baconsarnie

Just started "The Sportswriter" by Richard Ford and the first 30 pages have flown past.

emeraldstar

Going between The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse and The Kingdom of Ohio by Matthew Flaming.

baconsarnie

Meathlass wrote: »

Just finished King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild - an account of the Belgian colonisation of the Congo and the human rights movement in the early 19th century which exposed widespread cruelty and slavery there as part of the rubber trade.

I know it doesn't sound it but it's a great book, expertly researched and the writing just flows along. Roger Casement has a large part to play in the story too so very interesting. It's certainly made me think again about small lil Belgium.

It's a genuinely fascinating, harrowing read. Would really recommend it to anyone with an interest in history- and there is certainly a dearth of good books on Africa and imperialism in Africa.

Compu Global Hyper Meganet

I'm after reading and rereading "Dubliners" about 6 times in a row now and I'm amazed at how accessible and brilliant it is. I want to read Ulysses now, but I'm wondering if I would be better off reading the Iliad first so that I can appreciate it fully. It's available to download on project Gutenberg.

Anyone have any ideas? Ulysses has a terrible reputation, but like I say I thought Dubliners was immense. Should I jump straight in?

*By terrible reputation, I mean that it's supposedly overly high brow and pretentious.

adrian522

Compu Global Hyper Meganet wrote: »

I'm after reading and rereading "Dubliners" about 6 times in a row now and I'm amazed at how accessible and brilliant it is. I want to read Ulysses now, but I'm wondering if I would be better off reading the Iliad first so that I can appreciate it fully. It's available to download on project Gutenberg.

Anyone have any ideas? Ulysses has a terrible reputation, but like I say I thought Dubliners was immense. Should I jump straight in?

*By terrible reputation, I mean that it's supposedly overly high brow and pretentious.

Have you read "A portrait of the artist as a young man"?

eire4

Finished a re read of John Connolly's The Unquiet.

Ipso

Started Salem's Lot again yesterday.

Quality

Reading A long long way, Sebastian Barry

Irish book based in Dublin/France during WW1.

Some interesting things in the book, but I amnt convinced just yet

evil-monkey

The New Binary Press Anthology of Poetry: Volume I
Like to support contemporary poetry publishers based - particularly the independent ones. Decent diverse collection - has a few prestigious prizewinners in it so it's not your typical anthology fool of novices. Nice diverse collection.

Other than that A Clash of Swords - not much needed to be said on that, I'd think

Callan57

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome .... I need a light read after a couple of heavy, intense reads

Tom Joad

Callan57 wrote: »

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome .... I need a light read after a couple of heavy, intense reads

Enjoy - one of the funniest books I have read and you'll fly through it.

Tom Joad

Just finished One hundred Years of Solitude by Marquéz and starting on Wuthering Heights. Couldn't get into One Hundred Years of Solitude and really struggled to finish it - the characters were very confusing, the plot was rambling and a bit all over the place - its like the author was stoned when he wrote it .

IvyTheTerrible

The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan. It's the history of the people that stayed in the Dustbowl of the 1930's and how they survived. Very interesting.

niamh92

this week i am finally reading The Hobbit. made me feel bad that my 9 year old brother had read it when i havent so here i go

skeleton_boy

Lord of the Flies - Yes, I have a fantastic amount of classics to read for the first time.

Meathlass

Tom Joad wrote: »

Just finished One hundred Years of Solitude by Marquéz and starting on Wuthering Heights. Couldn't get into One Hundred Years of Solitude and really struggled to finish it - the characters were very confusing, the plot was rambling and a bit all over the place - its like the author was stoned when he wrote it .

One hundred years of Solitude is my favourite book though I regularly had to consult the family tree at the front of the book to figure out people's relationships to each other. I like the magical realism that he and Isabella Allende write.

Did Wuthering Heights for the Leaving so have a bias having studied rather than just read it but a good book also.

Tom Joad

Meathlass wrote: »

One hundred years of Solitude is my favourite book though I regularly had to consult the family tree at the front of the book to figure out people's relationships to each other. I like the magical realism that he and Isabella Allende write.

Did Wuthering Heights for the Leaving so have a bias having studied rather than just read it but a good book also.

Yeah that wrecked my head especially when the names were so similar - to me that's too much work - I like to get lost in a book and immerse myself in the story and if I'm checking notes or looking at family trees it's not for me.

But in saying that I can understand why some people would love it. Love in the time of cholera was on my list - is it much the same as One hundred years??

SarahBM

Finished the Bone Collector, which was very good. Just started the Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling. Not sure I like it yet. A lot of characters to keep track of

Meathlass

Tom Joad wrote: »

But in saying that I can understand why some people would love it. Love in the time of cholera was on my list - is it much the same as One hundred years??

I hated Love in the time of cholera though Marquez has said it's his favourite book as it's based on the story of his grandparents. It just didn't work for me. The central conceit of a unrequited love affair, a naive hapless suitor and a life turned on the whim of a girl just left me cold. Beautifully written though and alot more accessible but I just couldn't care about the characters.

IvyTheTerrible

The Tent, a collection of short stories by Margaret Atwood. Delightfully strange.

Tom Joad

Meathlass wrote: »

I hated Love in the time of cholera though Marquez has said it's his favourite book as it's based on the story of his grandparents. It just didn't work for me. The central conceit of a unrequited love affair, a naive hapless suitor and a life turned on the whim of a girl just left me cold. Beautifully written though and alot more accessible but I just couldn't care about the characters.

Not really selling it to me:D. will put it on the long list that I will eventually get to.

Belle E. Flops

I am absolutely loving the Count of Monte Cristo so far.

I wish I had more time to dedicate to reading it but I'm so busy at the moment.
Every day I really look forward to when I get to read my few chapters before bed.

Such a great story.