This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

juicyduckie

Slattsy wrote: »

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)

Finished Gone Girl a few weeks ago. I wasn't too impressed.
The plot had potential, I enjoyed some of the twists yet I really didn't connect with the writer's style at all.
I have no idea how it's so popular!

Gamayun

Just finished David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, loved it,

Moving on to Simon Pegg's Autobiography Nerd Do Well.

Ipso

I'm reading Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane which isbthe follow up to Gone Baby Gone. Very good so far.

honeybear

Didn't like Gone Girl.

SarahBM

honeybear wrote: »

Didn't like Gone Girl.

I was going to read it, because 2 of my friends have read it, and I have seen 3 people today reading it! might give it a miss though.

Just finished Along Came A Spider by James Patterson. Not what I was expecting at all. My Mam has read all his books, she thinks he is great. I loved the film with Morgan Freeman playing Alex Cross. I was so disappointed. I thought the writing wasnt great, the story was a bit predictable and I just didnt like any of the characters.

Next is To Kill a Mocking Bird. Im half reading the Wonders of the Solar System at the moment too.

Swiper the fox

SarahBM wrote: »

I was going to read it, because 2 of my friends have read it, and I have seen 3 people today reading it! might give it a miss though.

Just finished Along Came A Spider by James Patterson. Not what I was expecting at all. My Mam has read all his books, she thinks he is great. I loved the film with Morgan Freeman playing Alex Cross. I was so disappointed. I thought the writing wasnt great, the story was a bit predictable and I just didnt like any of the characters.

Next is To Kill a Mocking Bird. Im half reading the Wonders of the Solar System at the moment too.

I often find movies predictable when I've read the book, it's just happened to you in reverse;)

juicyduckie

SarahBM wrote: »

I was going to read it, because 2 of my friends have read it, and I have seen 3 people today reading it! might give it a miss though.

Just finished Along Came A Spider by James Patterson. Not what I was expecting at all. My Mam has read all his books, she thinks he is great. I loved the film with Morgan Freeman playing Alex Cross. I was so disappointed. I thought the writing wasnt great, the story was a bit predictable and I just didnt like any of the characters.

Next is To Kill a Mocking Bird. Im half reading the Wonders of the Solar System at the moment too.

Gone Girl is worth the read if you've nothing better to be at, just don't expect too much.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Bright's Passage by Josh Ritter.

Really enjoying it so far. Quite a simple story I guess, and a bit odd maybe too, but it's working for me.

marienbad

The Age Of Doubt , by Andrea Camilleri , the latest Commissario Montalbano mystery. Great series if you like that kind of thing.

MaggieNF

New to this forum, currently reading 1984, have high hopes!

SarahBM

MaggieNF wrote: »

New to this forum, currently reading 1984, have high hopes!

welcome. Just bought 1984 the other day, its next on my list. Hope it lives up to the hype.

Monkeybonkers

Badfellas by Paul Williams

Callan57

Staring at Lakes by Michael Harding

AnnyHallsal

John Lanchester, Capital. Enjoying it a lot. An expansive vision of life in London just before the crash. Moreish .

MaggieNF

Found myself a bit let down by 1984, still glad I read it though. Currently reading Night by Elie Wiesel, looking forward to this

Callan57

Half Blood Blues By Esi Edugyan

eire4

Finished a re read of Michael Connelly's Void Moon last night.

AnnyHallsal

Starting Coetzee's Disgrace

Monkeybonkers

Bill, the Galactic Hero by Harry Harrison

highlydebased

Now reading Don Delillo's White Noise

SarahBM

Finished to Kill a Mocking-bird. Absolutely loved it. great book.
Now on to 1984 by George Orwell.

Merkin

Engrossed by Noel Hawley's The Good Father at the moment, would highly recommend!

implausible

The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu. Really getting into it - the contrast of teenage girls' angst and Israeli military service is jarring.

baconsarnie

highlydebased wrote: »

Now reading Don Delillo's White Noise

Read that last year. Had high hopes post-Underworld, but this really disappointed me. I spoke to a friend who was also underwhelmed by this, so would be interested in seeing how this goes for you.

Now reading Elias Khoury's "As though she were sleeping" and its shifting narrative, "open" structure and shifts from time periods and perspective, while beguiling at first, is starting to grate on me at the moment. :o

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

I'm reading Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway.

It's..... um.... wordy.

Callan57

Finished Half Blood Blues ... superb

Now starting Waiting For Sunrise by William Boyd

Meathlass

Just started Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Very interesting.

Monkeybonkers

Flashman and the Angel of the Lord by George MacDonald Fraser

Adolescenteen

Polished off Malcolm Gladwell's 'Tipping Point' and Christopher Hitchens' 'Letters To A Young Contrarian" this week. Moving on to 'The Decisive Moment' by Jonah Lehrer now.

Tom Joad

Nearly finished Lolita by Nabokov - amazing book despite the subject matter. Incredible use of language by a non-native English speaker - its incredible that at times despite being such an odious character that I actually felt sorry for Humbert.

Only a few pages to go and will then tackle Love in the time of Cholera - interested to see how this goes as I detested 100 year of solitude..