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This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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  • #962
    tim_holsters
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭tim_holsters


    In the last few weeks I’ve finished Leviathan by Philip Hoare. A fabulous and fascinating book about whales. Almost unbearably poignant at times when the barbarism of whaling is focused upon. This book has a similar style to W.G. Sebalds Rings of Saturn if that’s your thing.

    Also finished A View From The Foothills by Chris Mullin. The guy who put so much effort into getting the Birmingham six released. Mullin has produced a very revealing book written in diary form of the Blair years in government. Some great anecdotes in there.

    Also finished the Fall Of Kings by David Gemmell. The last in the Troy Trilogy. I’d never read Gemmell before because I stopped reading Fantasy in my teens but I really enjoyed these Troy books a great re-working of the myth.

    Currently embarked upon Shantaram by David Gregory Roberts and I am liking it so far. 900 hundred or so pages though so could take a while.


  • #963
    AnnyHallsal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,118 ✭✭✭AnnyHallsal


    wilmer mclean wrote: »
    Reading Moby Dick ...

    I particularly liked Chapter 65, "The Whale as a Dish." Funny :)


  • #964
    wilmer mclean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 131 ✭✭wilmer mclean


    AnnyHallsal wrote: »
    I particularly liked Chapter 65, "The Whale as a Dish." Funny :)

    Im a couple of chapters before that at the moment, some of the tangents Melville goes off on are hilarious. I wonder when he wrote it did he mean these sections on whaling to be funny or is it due to the different era the book was written in.


  • #965
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon


  • #966
    tHE vAGGABOND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,693 ✭✭✭tHE vAGGABOND


    The Big Short - Amazing, cant wait for the same book on our muppets who almost bankrupted the nation :(


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  • #967
    bigsmokewriting
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 169 ✭✭bigsmokewriting


    American Psycho is my bus book of the day this week! One of those books that I kept 'meaning to read' but always had four others on the go!


  • #968
    Busi_Girl08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,522 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    Absolutely demolished A Spot of Bother. Brilliant book, and the first one in a long time that actually made me laugh out loud :)

    Next I'm giving The Pigeon by Patrick Suskind a go.


  • #969
    tim_holsters
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭tim_holsters


    I might give A Spot Of Bother a go so, I liked The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time alot but I've read a couple of critical reviews of ASOB but I might give it another look.


  • #970
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    tim_holsters wrote: »
    I might give A Spot Of Bother a go so, I liked The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time alot but I've read a couple of critical reviews of ASOB but I might give it another look.

    I'm almost half way into it & IMO good but not as good as Curious Incident.


  • #971
    tim_holsters
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭tim_holsters


    Righto, I'll say it's worth getting then. It would be hard to top Curious Incident anyways. Really loved that one.


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  • #972
    AnnyHallsal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,118 ✭✭✭AnnyHallsal


    Terence Rattigan, Plays: One (French Without Tears, The Winslow Boy, The Browning Version, Harlequinade)


  • #973
    emeraldstar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    Just started Lolita.


  • #974
    Toby Take a Bow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Toby Take a Bow


    The Sun Also Rises, by Hemingway. Never read him before and it seemed to be as good a place as any to start.


  • #975
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Starting Tinkers by Paul Harding


  • #976
    AnnyHallsal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,118 ✭✭✭AnnyHallsal


    Pinter, The French Lieutenant's Woman, and other screenplays.

    This thread is the bestest reading log :)


  • #977
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    AnnyHallsal wrote: »
    Pinter, The French Lieutenant's Woman, and other screenplays.

    This thread is the bestest reading log :)

    I remember the movie & loved it


  • #978
    AnnyHallsal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,118 ✭✭✭AnnyHallsal


    Callan57 wrote: »
    I remember the movie & loved it

    Excellent, going to watch it soon. I enjoyed the novel in college.


  • #979
    Blobby George
    Closed Accounts Posts: 690 ✭✭✭Blobby George


    A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving.


  • #980
    Damian Duffy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 266 ✭✭Damian Duffy


    The Secret History by Donna Tartt. Brilliant so far.


  • #981
    karlitob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭karlitob


    Children on their Birthdays - Truman Capote.

    Brilliant


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  • #982
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Papillon :)


  • #983
    Busi_Girl08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,522 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    Gonna make a start on It by Stephen King. That should keep me going for a while. :)


  • #984
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Busi_Girl08 wrote: »
    Gonna make a start on It by Stephen King. That should keep me going for a while. :)

    This is the only Stephen King book I have read. And I hated it. But don't let that put you off :P


  • #985
    Belle E. Flops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 747 ✭✭✭Belle E. Flops


    The Help! Really liking it so far!


  • #986
    fishtastico
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 321 ✭✭fishtastico


    Just finished The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. Loved it, but annoyed that I'll probably be waiting forever for the final installment.

    Just started A Brief History of Time. Seems decent so far


  • #987
    BopNiblets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭BopNiblets


    The Gun Seller by Hugh "Dr. House" Laurie, I think it's fantastic, main character is not quite Ian Flemings Bond, but he's witty as Laurie himself, recommend it for spy spoof fans.


  • #988
    jmn89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭jmn89


    Just finished The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (can't believe I held out against reading it for so long - it was hilarious)

    Concurrently reading A Crown of Swords from the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and David Copperfield by Charles Dickens!


  • #989
    mav79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭mav79


    Half way through The Way Of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, and really enjoying it.


  • #990
    AnnyHallsal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,118 ✭✭✭AnnyHallsal


    Patti Smith, Just Kids.

    Highly recommended if you're interested in late 60s/early 70s New York.


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  • #991
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Just 20 pages into 'What the Dead Know' by Laura Lippman


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