This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

AnnyHallsal · 06-11-2011 09:48PM

Like a few on here I'm on to In Cold Blood.

flyaway. · 07-11-2011 02:16PM

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Callan57 · 07-11-2011 07:51PM

Doris Lessing's Martha Quest

useurename · 07-11-2011 09:31PM

fisgon wrote: »

City of Bohane, by Kevin Barry

Like a graphic novel mixed with film noir set in a twisted, futuristic Limerick City. Wild, lyrical and great.

Can't get in to this at all.I just don't have the patience for it.Just finished ONE DAY.It's for the ladies but I enjoyed it.

AnnyHallsal · 08-11-2011 12:01AM

Jeffrey Eugenides's The Marriage Plot. Middlesex is one of my all-time favourites, so this is a treat.

purplek · 08-11-2011 12:15AM

The Good Man Jesus and the Scounderel Christ by Philip Pullman

Mrs Ron Burgundy · 10-11-2011 11:43AM

Really enjoying The Shining. Haven't ever seen the film (I know SHOCKER!!) but I'm actually glad I'm reading the book first. The books are nearly always better than the films in my experience. I'm only on page 138 but what was with the casting of Wendy in the film - for starters she's meant to be blonde and also good-looking. Yer one in the movie doesn't seem anything like the character King created. Can anyone who's seen the movie and read the book tell me whether it was good casting or not?

baconsarnie · 11-11-2011 01:29PM

Just finished “The Siege of Krishnapur” by JG Farrell and started "G" by John Berger.

flyaway. · 12-11-2011 03:16PM

Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith

Callan57 · 12-11-2011 11:19PM

The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am by Kjersti Skomsvold

flyaway. · 13-11-2011 06:54PM

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Callan57 · 13-11-2011 10:49PM

Starting on Pompaii by Robert Harris

flyaway. · 15-11-2011 01:41PM

Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde

kerash · 15-11-2011 03:43PM

Gave up on 'The Widows of Eastwick' half way through.

Belle E. Flops · 15-11-2011 04:34PM

kerash wrote: »

Gave up on 'The Widows of Eastwick' half way through.

I finished it but it was a struggle, v.disappointed by it.

tim_holsters · 16-11-2011 06:21PM

The tent, the bucket and me by Emma Kennedy. A memoir detailing myriad camping mishaps very funny too.

AnnyHallsal · 16-11-2011 07:11PM

Asti Hustvedt, Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris

eire4 · 16-11-2011 07:54PM

I am reading again "The Best of Isaac Asimov" a collection of his short stories. A very enjoyable read.

Callan57 · 16-11-2011 09:30PM

Mother, Missing by Joyce Carol Oates

flyaway. · 16-11-2011 10:39PM

Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

emeraldstar · 16-11-2011 11:07PM

The Concert Ticket by Olga Grushin

Monkeybonkers · 16-11-2011 11:54PM

Reading Generation Kill. I've seen the TV series and after 40 pages in I'm sick of the macho American bull**** already. With the curse of finishing a book once I start it hanging over me I know I'm going to read it all. *sigh*

At least I have Crime and Punishment to look forward to afterwards

tim_holsters · 17-11-2011 11:11PM

Monkeybonkers wrote: »

Reading Generation Kill. I've seen the TV series and after 40 pages in I'm sick of the macho American bull**** already. With the curse of finishing a book once I start it hanging over me I know I'm going to read it all. *sigh*

At least I have Crime and Punishment to look forward to afterwards

I recently "killed" the last two episodes of the tv series, they'd been hanging around on my skyplus for.... well it must be have been nearly two years.

I could just never bring myself to watch them there was always something better I could have been doing. The series for me anyway never really got going although it wasn't terrible but there's no way I'd attempt the book.

Like you though if I start a book I've got to finish it, grit you're teeth and soldier on

ulinbac · 18-11-2011 12:08AM

Finished The Game of Thrones on Saturday (will start the second in a few weeks), then started The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy on Sunday and Finished it on Tuesday. Didn't think it was as good as everybody made it out to be but was surprised by the amount of people (even those that would never really talk about reading) that have read it. Strangely enough I have found it funnier looking back on it then when I was reading it.

Started The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics - Lessons from the Japanese Recession. 30 pages in and its really interesting. That said my college and work are all finance related, but its an easy read and learning a lot.

AnnyHallsal · 18-11-2011 07:13PM

Boy A by Jonathan Trigell.

I've seen the film already and it seems twas a faithful adaptation. A good read (semi-based on the Jamie Bulger murder).

CleanYerPlate · 19-11-2011 01:02PM

"The Pink Ladies Club" by Emma Hannigan. Chicklit would never be my first choice, or even my second, but I was intrigued when I saw her on the Late Late. Nice story but shockingly repetitive.

Callan57 · 21-11-2011 02:11PM

Remember Me by Trezza Azzopardi

cynder · 21-11-2011 06:03PM

I started reading the hunger games yesterday by 9 pm i had finished book 1 and started book 2, went to sleep at 11 but my little guy was sick so i got up with him at 1am and read the rest of book 2, at 3am i started book 3 and finished it by 7.10 this moring, i read the whole trilogy in around 17 hours thats around 1200 pages... With breaks to give my little guy medicine and pat him down with wet towels and open up windows and give him iced drinks.

im going to suffer with a bad migraine in the morning......

AnnyHallsal · 21-11-2011 08:26PM

Vol. 2 of The Sandman: The Doll's House.

And of course it looks awesome :pac:

mdood32 · 21-11-2011 08:33PM

Caitlin Moran's book is hilarious!!!!!!!!!!

This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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