This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

I've been reading Shall We Gather At The River by Peter Murphy.

I don't know what to make of it. It's written in a really weird way. It's almost like reading the non dialogue bits of a screen play, if that makes sense. Almost like a voice over, just giving you very small bits of information, and very distinct scenes. It jumps through time, switches to different characters, I'm not sure I like it to be honest.

IvyTheTerrible

Dodger by Terry Pratchett.

It's the "real" story of the Artful Dodger from Oliver Twist. It's not Discworld but I can see how Ankh Morpork was inspired by Dickensian London.

Really enjoying it so far.

adrian522

adrian522 wrote: »

Have to say I really enjoyed this, it was very well paced, the characters were very likable and it was easy to read.

Currently reading Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan

Has anyone read it?

Finished out this last night. It was an enjoyable read, some of the prose really put you in the locations being described but the ending left a bit to be desired, plenty of outstanding questions that were left hanging etc. Not a bad book, but not great either.

Now going to start Seven Deadly Sins by David Walsh about Lance Armstrong and all that.

Meathlass

adrian522 wrote: »

Now going to start Seven Deadly Sins by David Walsh about Lance Armstrong and all that.

Really enjoyed reading this. Felt it tailed off a bit by the end though. Almost as if he got bored of talking about it though it's probably the result of the book being rushed out after the UCI ruling.

Callan57

Nothing to read at lunch so picked up Two Pints by Roddy Doyle ... good laugh, only 89 pages so I'll probably finish it on the way home

eire4

Finished a re read of Michael Connelly's The Poet his first non Harry Bosh novel and probably the best of his early books.

Callan57

The Weekend by Bernhard Schlink

Courtesy Flush

Reading "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga

Callan57

Tonight I'm starting Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick

eire4

Finished a re read of Michael Connelly's Trunk Music this weekend.

baconsarnie

Finished I, Claudius at the weekend and to be honest, it didn't do it for me. Historical fiction is a difficult genre to be honest and I felt that a non fiction book would have done more for me

Moved onto "Sabbath's Theatre" by Philip Roth.

Slattsy

Courtesy Flush wrote: »

Reading "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga

Excellent book.

Monkeybonkers

When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris.
The blurb says he's "a humorist par excellence" but I have to say I'm not finding it myself. Still, I'm only 50 pages in so I'll give it a chance.

Tom Joad

Just finished Wilkie Collins "The Woman in White" - took me ages but really enjoyed this. Starting on Uncle Tom's Cabin next..

Callan57

Starting William Boyd's Stars and Bars

Censorsh!t

Reading Isaac Asimov's I, Robot. Really like it so far.

mackthefinger

Skippy dies by Paul Murray

Halfway through this for our book club this month. Really
enjoyable read so far, very funny but with a bit of a dark undercurrent.
Set in a Dublin boarding school, highly recommended.

TommieBoy

I picked up a few poetry books and Lady Chatterley's Lover from the library.

marienbad

TommieBoy wrote: »

I picked up a few poetry books and Lady Chatterley's Lover from the library.

What are the poetry books ?

TommieBoy

marienbad wrote: »

What are the poetry books ?

I'm sorry for not saying ......The Poetry and Prose of Shelley, Dear Ghosts by Tess Gallagher and Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip (which I am enjoying very much).

Callan57

Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez

Any key?

mackthefinger wrote: »

Skippy dies by Paul Murray

Halfway through this for our book club this month. Really
enjoyable read so far, very funny but with a bit of a dark undercurrent.
Set in a Dublin boarding school, highly recommended.

I ADORED this, best book I read so far this year. Just finished it last week, picked it up in a book swap in The Philippines of all places ha!

Just started Shutter island by Dennis Lehane, I've heard good things.

eire4

Finished a re read of Michael Connelly's Blood Work this morning.

Swiper the fox

I also enjoyed Skippy dies but thought it was at least one hundred pages too long, there was an awful lot of needless crap about the video game(at least I think that's what it was, if you read it you'd know what I mean).

I just finished "The Fields" a new Irish book which is very enjoyable to read but ultimately quite dissapointing, for anyone who grew up in the 80s their is a lot of laughs in his observations of the time, almost worth reading for this alone.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Swiper the fox wrote: »

I also enjoyed Skippy dies but thought it was at least one hundred pages too long, there was an awful lot of needless crap about the video game(at least I think that's what it was, if you read it you'd know what I mean).

I enjoyed it too but thought that maybe there were a few too many characters in it. Or too much time given over to some of them.

Monkeybonkers

Had a mad reading spurt at the weekend, finished the David Sedaris book and then read Bankok 8 by John Burdett. Next up is World Without End by Ken Follett. That should slow me down a bit!

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

I just finished Shall We Gather At The River by Peter Murphy. Thought it was awful. Really awful.

Callan57

This morning I started The Quarry by Johan Theorin .... I loved Echoes From The Dead & The Darkest Room so I have high hopes for The Quarry

Slattsy

Just finished Gone Girl. Not for me but i can see why some people would enjoy it.

Picked up my first ever Stephen King book. I went for Cell.
Didnt fancy getting into IT or The Stand just yet. (ease myself in)

Tom Joad

Slattsy wrote: »

Picked up my first ever Stephen King book. I went for Cell.
Didnt fancy getting into IT or The Stand just yet. (ease myself in)

Don't judge King by Cell, one of his poorest efforts imho..