This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

Callan57 · 23-06-2011 03:17PM

Eliza92 wrote: »

and now I am starting with a Woman in White by Wikkie Collins

Love that book ... Enjoy

tim_holsters · 23-06-2011 06:06PM

Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks.

Not bad but not as good as the first two. I think I'll take a little break from the Culture.

Travel is good · 23-06-2011 08:21PM

I must be the last person to have started the Jo Nesbro books.

I'm about half way through "The Red Breast" and I've started "Nemesis" in work.

Linguo · 24-06-2011 02:43PM

Reading The Shining at the moment, been so so so long since I've read this I can't remember it at all which is great because I'm loving it, like reading it for the first time!:D

Hermy · 24-06-2011 10:39PM

Started Amongst Women by John McGahern last week but I'm in two minds about finishing it.
In the meantime I've started Juliet Naked by Nick Hornby - it's okay so far but not great.

kmurr04 · 24-06-2011 10:53PM

reading grave secrets by kathy reichs at the moment

Belle E. Flops · 25-06-2011 02:55PM

Reading 'The Woman in Black' by Susan Hill at the moment. Have just started it but I'm enjoying it so far.

Asphyxia · 26-06-2011 02:30AM

Firebird - Janice Graham

CdeP · 26-06-2011 03:53PM

About seventy pages into The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver.

Very interesting so far.

Niles · 26-06-2011 07:26PM

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. About 70 pages in, I think I prefer 1984 for some reason.

Paddy Samurai · 26-06-2011 10:52PM

While not McCammons usual type of book I am about 300 pages into it , and enjoying it more than I thought I would.

Speaks the Nightbird is the finest novel this author has yet produced, and considering his other works, such as Boy's Life, Gone South, and the epic Swan Song, that's saying something. The novel concerns the coming age of a Magistrate's squire in a struggling colonial town, and a witchcraft trial which will forever change his life. The book richly evocates it's setting, and it's obvious McCammon has done a great deal of research into his subject matter. Although not an out and out horror novel, this has it's fair share of grisly moments, but bottom line it's an intensely involving and absorbing read with (unusually in this reader's experience) a richly rewarding climax. Not only that: but the book, despite being a fantastic stand alone work, manages to offer the tantalising prospect of a sequel. Robert McCammon is simply one of the finest authors working today. Read this, you will love it.

ValJester · 27-06-2011 09:26PM

Started The Fall by Albert Camus.Don't think it's as great as The Outsider or The Plague,but still fairly good.

flyaway. · 27-06-2011 09:44PM

The Rapture by Liz Jensen

bnt · 28-06-2011 08:27PM

tim_holsters wrote: »

Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks.

Not bad but not as good as the first two. I think I'll take a little break from the Culture.

What a coincidence - I've been reading this too, and finished it half an hour ago. The "twist" at the end wasn't quite as effective as it could have been, I thought. I've read the first three Culture novels in the last month, and also fancy a break.

So the character we've known as Cheradenine, all through the book, was actually an imposter - but that means that we never got to learn much about the original Cheradenine. He was the "good guy" in a couple of flashbacks, and that's about it.

Conversely: the imposter (Elethiomel) is, we learn at the end, a genuine sociopath who murdered his cousin and made her bones in to a chair - but in the remainder of the book he doesn't show much sign of that. If anything, he's riven by guilt, no longer the sociopath he was before. The most violent scene in the book (by far) involved the drone (Skaffen-Amtiskaw) and its "knife missiles".

tim_holsters · 28-06-2011 11:19PM

The Junior Officers' Reading Club by Patrick Hennessey.

Soldiering in the British army at home and abroad, pretty good but not as good as I was led to believe.

AnnyHallsal · 29-06-2011 11:01AM

Euripides Alcestis/Hippolytus/Iphigenia in Taurus.

Love a good Greek

Cottontail · 29-06-2011 03:28PM

Confessions of an ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire. An interesting twist on Cinderella!

emeraldstar · 29-06-2011 05:29PM

^^^ Yeah, it's one of his better ones.

Asphyxia · 30-06-2011 01:57AM

I picked up Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult so I'm excited to start reading it

She is one of my favorite authors.

smokedeels · 30-06-2011 01:02PM

Synopsis: Hopeless individuals playing the part of cogs.

My favourite piece of prose from the book so far: "....watching the hard brilliance of the stars, enjoying the incredible hazy swarm of a star cluster, like a giant conglomeration of fire-flies caught in mid-motion and stilled forever"

Callan57 · 30-06-2011 03:06PM

The Postmistress by Sarah Blake

ThunderApple · 30-06-2011 09:30PM

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome. It's the second time I read it and it's still funny and exciting.

flyaway. · 01-07-2011 02:03PM

One Day by David Nicholls

Callan57 · 03-07-2011 06:27PM

The Blindfold by Siri Hustvedt

tim_holsters · 04-07-2011 09:40PM

A Week At The Airport: A Heathrow Diary by Alain de Botton.

I'm a sucker for de Botton's philosophical musings.

Callan57 · 04-07-2011 10:08PM

'Started Early, Took My Dog' ... Kate Atkinson

Travel is good · 06-07-2011 01:30PM

I normally try to finish one book before I start another, but somehow I've now got 3 on the go:

Ghostwritten by David Mitchell

Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

Nemesis by Jo Nesbro

Caros · 06-07-2011 01:48PM

Have two on the go at the moment

The hare with amber eyes by Edmond de waal

and Still Missing by Chevy Stevens.

evercloserunion · 06-07-2011 04:36PM

This week I picked back up Les Miserables. I've been at it for ages now, but that's mainly due to reading about half of it and then not picking it up for months (final year college exams). I was considering starting again or even reading from a few chapters back but the general plotline up to the point I'm at is surprisingly fresh in my mind now that I have read the next few pages. It's a really great book, but I have no idea where the story is going from here (which I guess is part of the quality).

x_Ellie_x · 07-07-2011 12:29AM

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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