This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

AnnyHallsal

Stephen Grosz, The Examined Life

Catherine!

TimeRiders book 4 - The Eternal War, by Alex Scarrow

highlydebased

Have a bit of a let up in the reading for college so I've started "Never let me Go"- Ishiguro

Say it Aint So

Lucky Jim- Kingsley Amis

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Have started into The Cove by Ron Rash. Like it so far, nice style of writing, very easy to read.

marienbad

I just curious- a number of posters have used the expression ''easy to read'' in a complementary sense - is this a factor then in choosing books ?

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

marienbad wrote: »

I just curious- a number of posters have used the expression ''easy to read'' in a complementary sense - is this a factor then in choosing books ?

Can't speak for others but what I meant by that, in relation to this particular book, is that the writing flows very well. It's very easy to get into it and just keep reading and reading.

Something like Redemption Falls or Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor have a very unique style, switching between narrators, extracts from newspapers, historical accounts, etc. and I found them quite difficult to really get into them. It took quite a few chapters to get a real handle on the story. They were worth it once I did, but I wouldn't describe them as "easy to read".

I wouldn't say it's a factor in choosing a book, mainly because you can't really tell if they are before you read them, but personally I find it a bonus if there's a good story accompanied by a nice writing style.

baconsarnie

Say it Aint So wrote: »

Lucky Jim- Kingsley Amis

Really enjoyed this-genuinely hilarious stuff

Finised Budapest Chico Buarque there a few days ago. Magical

Started I, Claudius by Robert Graves a day ago.

Slattsy

Picked up Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.

Seems to have a few decent reviews, so i'll give it a whirl and report back.

Tom Joad

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Can't speak for others but what I meant by that, in relation to this particular book, is that the writing flows very well. It's very easy to get into it and just keep reading and reading.

Something like Redemption Falls or Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor have a very unique style, switching between narrators, extracts from newspapers, historical accounts, etc. and I found them quite difficult to really get into them. It took quite a few chapters to get a real handle on the story. They were worth it once I did, but I wouldn't describe them as "easy to read".

I wouldn't say it's a factor in choosing a book, mainly because you can't really tell if they are before you read them, but personally I find it a bonus if there's a good story accompanied by a nice writing style.

Great post - would agree 100% with that

IvyTheTerrible

Just finished Affinity by Sarah Watters, great stuff.

Now reading The Best Man to Die by Ruth Rendell, nice little murder mystery.

Callan57

Finished Mystic River ... absolutely brilliant.

Next will be Sacrilege by S J Parris

AnnyHallsal

Philip Roth, American Pastoral. Roth.

Meathlass

AnnyHallsal wrote: »

Philip Roth, American Pastoral. Roth.

Great Book

OakeyDokey

Started The Host.. It's from thr same author as the Twilight Saga. I'm enjoying it so far

Compu Global Hyper Meganet

AnnyHallsal wrote: »

Philip Roth, American Pastoral. Roth.

Great book, excellent choice.

emeraldstar

Reading my first Stephen King novel: Pet Sematary.

Monkeybonkers

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

marienbad

Meathlass wrote: »

Great Book

Indeed ,one of the greatest American novels.

Belle E. Flops

Monkeybonkers wrote: »

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Absolutely loved this book. My dog ended up eating it so must get another copy!

marienbad

Now on part 3 of 1Q84- still mesmerising. Also reading On The Natural History Of Destruction by W.G.Sebald- he really is such an extraordinary writer.

Sephiroth_dude

The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga

Callan57

Going to start HHhH by Laurent Binet today ... it's the weather for a bleak read

marienbad

The New York Trilogy- Paul Auster

baconsarnie

Callan57 wrote: »

Going to start HHhH by Laurent Binet today ... it's the weather for a bleak read

I'd be interested in how you found it- I thought it was an outstanding read (but I don't know many people who have read it)

a0ifee

Been around two months now, and I'm still reading Les Miserables..still on Fantine! Slowly but surely, getting there...

Callan57

baconsarnie wrote: »

I'd be interested in how you found it- I thought it was an outstanding read (but I don't know many people who have read it)

I'm roughly a third of the way into it and I agree it is outstanding & really a gripping read. Not having heard or read any opinions or reviews of it I have to admit I picked it up purely on the basis of the intriguing title - not my usual method of selecting a book but there you go. Anyway must get back to it.

eire4

Finished a re read of Michael Connelly's The Last Coyote.

Tom Joad

a0ifee wrote: »

Been around two months now, and I'm still reading Les Miserables..still on Fantine! Slowly but surely, getting there...

Stick with it's only warming up now

Paddy Samurai

Part 2.
Set 100 years after " WolfsAngel", hopefully with more Werewolves and dark magic .About 3 chapters in , and liking it so far.........................

The Vikings are laying siege to Paris. As the houses on the banks of the Seine burn a debate rages in the Cathedral on the walled island of the city proper. The situation is hopeless. The Vikings want the Count's sister, in return they will spare the rest of the city. Can the Count really have ambitions to be Emperor of the Franks if he doesn't do everything he can to save his people? Can he call himself a man if he doesn't do everything he can to save his sister? His conscience demands one thing, the demands of state another. The Count and the church are relying on the living saint, the blind and crippled Jehan of St Germain, to enlist the aid of God and resolve the situation for them. But the Vikings have their own gods. And outside their camp a terrifying brother and sister, priests of Odin, have their own agenda. An agenda of darkness and madness. And in the shadows a wolfman lurks. M.D. Lachlan's stunning epic of mad Gods, Vikings and the myth of Fenrir, the wolf destined to kill Odin at Ragnarok, powers forward into new territories of bloody horror, unlikely heroism, dangerous religion and breathtaking action.