What book are you reading atm?? CHAPTER TWO

ILikeBoats

The Mist is so good. I remember The Jaunt and The Raft always scared me when I was younger!

eightieschewbaccy

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The Jaunt is my next read. The tonal differences are great between the stories. His novellas and short stories are ideal for films too. Always found it funny that directors are so willing to take on behemoths like It and The Stand which are so much easier to mess up. Plenty of the shorter stuff do get the movie treatment too obviously.

bullpost

Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd

Spy novel set in the 60s.

silliussoddius

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Speaking of tonal differences, I love how Frank Darabont took two stories with open endings and gave them his own endings that ranges from kittens and rainbows to bleach shower.

Did you smash it

A star called Henry by Roddy Doyle. First book of Doyle’s I read and was impressed. A welcome antidote to my previous read Crime and Punishment which was one of the worst written books I’ve ever had the misery of getting through.

silliussoddius

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Around the time he stopped writing about crime and went on to the punishment bit. It began to drag a bit there for me.

Tauriel

Vietnam: An Epic History of a Tragic War by Max Hastings

I am well read on European wars but not so much outside of our continent, so I decided to give this a go to educate myself on the war in Vietnam. It is very well written and Hastings doesn't take sides on who was right or wrong but just recounts the facts in a non judgemental and informative manner.

Dial Hard

Started Oddbody by Rose Keating last night. Think it might still be too soon after Carrion Crow for more body grotesquerie, tbh 🤢

pavb2

Just finished the Silo trilogy a great idea and all books are very different in narrative and pace. Book one is probably the best a lot of action, book two Shift is backstory and my least favourite.

Book 3 Dust is good alot more characters involved and closes things out. I think the best approach is to read one after the other especially between Shift & Dust, I left a bit of time between these and had forgotten lots.

Might go for Hilary Mantel,s A Place of Greater Safety next but have also started A History of the World in 47 Borders.

Jack Daw

Just finished reading Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto

Excellent book, very well plotted mystery, and it's short only around 150 pages so is a nice quick read if you don't feel like reading a long book.

Fann Linn

Just finished 'Japanese Destroyer Captain ' by Tameichi Hara. The most successful Japanese destroyer commander of WW2. He wrote the manual for destroyer torpedo running for the Japanese Navy and he survived over 100 sorties/ battles in the Pacific. He was regarded by his own crews as being a just commander who was fair and disciplined and who also lived by his grandfather's Samurai code.

At the same time he was not afraid to give praise to US naval commanders and crews whilst simultaneously he was more than critical not just of himself but also the Japanese governmental and military leadership who he believed utilised Japanese crews and ships incorrectly.

I've an interest in naval history and it was a nice change to see this side of the coin in contrast to US/UK naval battles and ships.

bullpost

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Snap.

Was just about to post that I'm reading same book. 😀