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and would ya recommend it?

I'm reading 'Full Dark, No Stars' by Stephen King!

Just started so can't really say I can recommend it just yet!

You can't beat a bit of Stephen King!

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Carry

appledrop wrote: »

So I'm now half way through Milkman. I hate it. In her book she has a character name Somebody Mc Somebody. I've renamed this book Loopy Mc Loopy. How the hell did this winner Manbooker prize? I have read plenty of longlisted ones + liked a good few of them.

I will finish it though!

You are very brave.

I've started to read "No Bones" by Anna Burns, because the premise was promising. That was ages ago and I never finished it. It's still on the pile of unread/unfinished books and together with "Shantaram" on the very bottom of that pile.

I just can't stand pretentious prose and over-ambitious stories, trying desperately to be original and being just boring. So I didn't even bother with "Milkman".

Or "Shantaram" (forgot the author's name) trying to be cool and, in my memory, just being as interesting as a used teabag.

The Man Booker is no guarantee for excellent fiction. I. e. all the world seemed to be raving about Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall". I started it and my reaction was like "okaay, really?, so what".

Great fiction should comprise a fascinating story (depending on personal interests), excellent prose and a universal truth about the human condition - and at it's best a lot of food for thought or at least a tickling of your brains.

Sometimes a well told story for bedtime is just good enough.

Carry

chases0102 wrote: »

Can anyone recommend something that is similar to Liz Nugent's style of fiction?

Last couple of fiction books I read - Woman in the Window, and Anatomy of a Scandal - were terrible.

Tana French: The Witch Elm
Jo Spain: Dirty Little Secrets

chases0102

Can anyone recommend something that is similar to Liz Nugent's style of fiction?

Last couple of fiction books I read - Woman in the Window, and Anatomy of a Scandal - were terrible.

[Deleted User]

On the second book of Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. Some time off work and really getting through it. Really good.

Foweva Awone

Widdershins wrote: »

The Last Person Who Called Me Sweetpea Ended Up Dead. I'm only on the first page, which is like reading the Boards ''annoyances '' thread if all the posters were having psychotic episodes AND the wrong team won. It's a long ''people are sh1t'' rant, before she kills 'em all (I think ). I like dark humour but I'm finding it hard work so far.

I'm about 2/3 of the way through and actually really enjoying it! Never thought a sociopath could be so strangely likeable. Did you finish it in the end? What did you think?

mikhail

super_furry wrote: »

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. It's starting to outstay it's welcome now after a really promising start and if it doesn't pick up soon, I'm going to drop it.

Sadly, Reynolds is often guilty of weak endings to otherwise very good books.

super_furry

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. It's starting to outstay it's welcome now after a really promising start and if it doesn't pick up soon, I'm going to drop it.

Danger781

Finished reading:
Calibans War (Expanse Series #2)

Definitely preferred it over the first book in the series. Kept my interest much better. Couldn't put it down at some points!

Just stared reading:
Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky

I'm about 120 pages in. Seems like another excellent offering from an author who is quickly becoming a favourite of mine.

Nigel Fairservice

quickbeam wrote: »

Uh oh, I've those two exact books on my to be read shelf :eek:

The Cider House Rules is well worth a read. When I started it in 2007 I had a lot of things going on at the time and probably didn't give it the attention I should have. Can't say the same for Shantaram. I'm not very fond of the author so that probably has a lot to do with it.

arybvtcw0eolkf

_Godot_ wrote: »

Why force yourself to read something you're not enjoying?

appledrop wrote: »

I always finish a book. In rare cases the ending or some part of book might give me an eurkua moment + I change my view on book.

I've pushed on through some books and found some real gems, two which come to mind are Unit Pride, and Exodus by Leon Uris.

optogirl

Just started Normal People, Sally Rooney

quickbeam

Nigel Fairservice wrote: »

I always finish a book that I've started...eventually. In one case it took me 7 years to finish The Cider House Rules. I read half the book when I bought it (I loved the movie) and couldn't finish it. I came back to it years later and started again and I enjoyed it.

I hated every page of Shantaram. I can say that because I finished it

Uh oh, I've those two exact books on my to be read shelf :eek:

Nigel Fairservice

I always finish a book that I've started...eventually. In one case it took me 7 years to finish The Cider House Rules. I read half the book when I bought it (I loved the movie) and couldn't finish it. I came back to it years later and started again and I enjoyed it.

I hated every page of Shantaram. I can say that because I finished it

quickbeam

Me too. I feel I can't justly criticise a book until I've completed it. Because ... you just never know.

appledrop

I always finish a book. In rare cases the ending or some part of book might give me an eurkua moment + I change my view on book.

_Godot_

Why force yourself to read something you're not enjoying?

appledrop

So I'm now half way through Milkman. I hate it. In her book she has a character name Somebody Mc Somebody. I've renamed this book Loopy Mc Loopy. How the hell did this winner Manbooker prize? I have read plenty of longlisted ones + liked a good few of them.

I will finish it though!

arybvtcw0eolkf

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Any appetite here for a free book recycling/ pass it forward kind of thing?

With this big Green vote in the elections, I feel quite guilty looking at my bookshelves and the mini forest that I've accumulated -- books that I will never read again.

Have just finished reading The Master and Margarita. Hard copy, good condition, If anyone wants it and can collect it in the city centre (Dublin) or D6 PM me. Otherwise it's just a waste of good paper (no offence, Mr Bulgakov)

Good idea. I met a boardsie recently to give her some books (still have to find the first and last book from the Emperor series for her).

All my reading is on Kindle these days, and in pubs lol

Except that I recently bought Leonard Cohen's 'Book of Longing', I had it years ago and lost it and wanted it again. Its a lovely thing to hold and read.

New Home

Or you could bring it to a nursing home, homeless shelter, day centre, etc, or donate it to a charity shop.

quickbeam

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Any appetite here for a free book recycling/ pass it forward kind of thing?

With this big Green vote in the elections, I feel quite guilty looking at my bookshelves and the mini forest that I've accumulated -- books that I will never read again.

Have just finished reading The Master and Margarita. Hard copy, good condition, If anyone wants it and can collect it in the city centre (Dublin) or D6 PM me. Otherwise it's just a waste of good paper (no offence, Mr Bulgakov)

I leave my unwanted books at the library. They have a freebies shelf. Good place to discard the unwanteds, and also to pick up other people's unwanteds.

[Deleted User]

Any appetite here for a free book recycling/ pass it forward kind of thing?

With this big Green vote in the elections, I feel quite guilty looking at my bookshelves and the mini forest that I've accumulated -- books that I will never read again.

Have just finished reading The Master and Margarita. Hard copy, good condition, If anyone wants it and can collect it in the city centre (Dublin) or D6 PM me. Otherwise it's just a waste of good paper (no offence, Mr Bulgakov)

EmmetSpiceland

New Home wrote: »

You're too Jung for that. Also, *insert sentence about schadeFreude here*.

To Hume are you referring?!

New Home

You're too Jung for that. Also, *insert sentence about schadeFreude here*.

JohnnyFlash

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Might be putting Descartes before the horse there, C.

Are you saying you Kant read one in isolation to the other?

EmmetSpiceland

Carry wrote: »

Must. Read. Aurelius.

Might be putting Descartes before the horse there, C.

Carry

Noel Some Cornbread wrote: »

... what Aurelious advises me, re. not giving two shits about others and their opinions of me.

Must. Read. Aurelius.

arybvtcw0eolkf

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Will you be incorporating stoicism and stoic philosophy into your life, Makikomi? Being humble, patient, and empathetic in everything you do? Battling the hubris and excess of the ego? Will that mean less posts bragging about your life?

Nope, not in the least.

But I'll continue doing what Aurelious advises me, re. not giving two shits about others and their opinions of me.

Tauriel

Just finished No Place Like Home by Mary Higgins Clark after starting it over two months ago.

It was quite torturous to read and I really hate crime fiction written in the first person which added to the misery of reading this book.

TheRepentent

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Will that mean less posts bragging about your life?

new Author

Book Of Bones by John Connolly pretty hard to put down like most of the Charlie Parker books