This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

x_Ellie_x · 24-01-2012 04:51PM

I'm about to start One For the Money by Janet Evanovich. I want to read it before I go see the film.

eire4 · 24-01-2012 09:01PM

I have just started re reading Moving Mars by Greg Bear. A change of tack to say the least from last week when I was re reading Tom Barry's famous book Guerrilla days in Ireland.

Belle E. Flops · 24-01-2012 09:17PM

Finished the Hunger Games trilogy today. Going to start the Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy now!

Monkeybonkers · 25-01-2012 01:42AM

eire4 wrote: »

I have just started re reading Moving Mars by Greg Bear. A change of tack to say the least from last week when I was re reading Tom Barry's famous book Guerrilla days in Ireland.

Great book (Tom Barry one)

tim_holsters · 25-01-2012 06:26PM

The Hungry Years by William Leith.

eire4 · 25-01-2012 06:30PM

Monkeybonkers wrote: »

Great book (Tom Barry one)

I agree I had read it before about 10 years or so ago and really enjoyed it again.

bain_triail_as · 25-01-2012 11:50PM

x_Ellie_x wrote: »

I just started Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut this afternoon.

Man without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut

Necronomicon · 26-01-2012 02:19PM

emeraldstar wrote: »

The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman

Me too. I've enjoyed the trilogy so far, but there's something that I can't put my finger on that has stopped me from really loving it so far. I'm not sure what it is, but I can't see myself repeating them in the future.

emeraldstar · 26-01-2012 02:44PM

Necronomicon wrote: »

Me too. I've enjoyed the trilogy so far, but there's something that I can't put my finger on that has stopped me from really loving it so far. I'm not sure what it is, but I can't see myself repeating them in the future.

I'm kind of the same. I think it's because for so long I've always been hearing how wonderful this trilogy is, so it's been built-up before I even read it as being really amazing. I do like it, but I don't quite love it.

tinyk68 · 26-01-2012 02:55PM

I'm almost finished Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Did it for my Leaving Cert many years ago and liked it then so when my daughter bought it recently I asked to borrow it when she finished it. Second time around I'm enjoying it from a totally different perspective. When I was a teenager I was in love with Heathcliffe and really wanted Cathy to be with him. Now I pity him and feel he was a sad and lonely man. It's amazing what the passage of time does to your opinions.

Monkeybonkers · 26-01-2012 03:37PM

Monkeybonkers wrote: »

House of Holes by Nicholson Baker

Pure, unadulterated filth!! :eek:

Next up: Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

x_Ellie_x · 27-01-2012 04:20PM

I'm just about to start A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith.

Callan57 · 27-01-2012 09:29PM

The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright

Miguel_Angel · 27-01-2012 10:51PM

I started last night "1Q84", since I love Murakami's books, this one seems to be the easiest one among them all (in order to read it, of course).

It's really good and it's a very good initation book to enter Murakami's world.

Cheers!.

Corrections in grammar are really welcome!.

SarahBM · 28-01-2012 06:54PM

Finshed the Great Gatsby. dont know what all the hype is about. I thought it was crap.

no idea what to read next.

suggestions. something exciting. and not overly complicated.

Miguel_Angel · 28-01-2012 08:02PM

SarahBm
The Great Gatsby is fantastic

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I would recommend you read The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, if you haven't read it already.

Cheers!.

Don Booker · 28-01-2012 09:29PM

Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Hunter S. Thompson

Not quite as vile as the current campaign, but you would miss Hunt about the place.

SarahBM · 29-01-2012 01:32PM

Miguel_Angel wrote: »

SarahBm
The Great Gatsby is fantastic .

I would recommend you read The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, if you haven't read it already.

Cheers!.

If the New York Trilogy is anything like the Great Gatsby I dont think I would like it. What did you like about it? I thought it was very boring. not much happens really. I found the characters very superficial and didnt like any of them.

snoreborewhore · 29-01-2012 08:31PM

Has anyone else read "How to be a Woman" by Caitlin Moran? Absolutely phenomenal!

emeraldstar · 30-01-2012 11:05AM

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

IvyTheTerrible · 30-01-2012 11:08AM

snoreborewhore wrote: »

Has anyone else read "How to be a Woman" by Caitlin Moran? Absolutely phenomenal!

Yeah, I just loved it. It's the first book in a long time where I laughed out loud literally, and she articulated a lot of what I feel about feminism but hadn't been able to say.

Callan57 · 30-01-2012 06:29PM

snoreborewhore wrote: »

Has anyone else read "How to be a Woman" by Caitlin Moran? Absolutely phenomenal!

Yea, I enjoyed it but I certainly would not say 'Absolutely phenomenal' .. out of 10 I would probably give it a 7

tim_holsters · 30-01-2012 09:48PM

SarahBM wrote: »

If the New York Trilogy is anything like the Great Gatsby I dont think I would like it. What did you like about it? I thought it was very boring. not much happens really. I found the characters very superficial and didnt like any of them.

I don't think you'll like the New York Trilogy Sarah. It's a hard read, for me anyway, I find Auster a bit dense.

If you're gonna be there next monday, I'll bring you a surprise book, since I see from your post you're looking for something to read next.

SarahBM · 30-01-2012 10:31PM

tim_holsters wrote: »

I don't think you'll like the New York Trilogy Sarah. It's a hard read, for me anyway, I find Auster a bit dense.

If you're gonna be there next monday, I'll bring you a surprise book, since I see from your post you're looking for something to read next.

Your grand, Im starting the Master of Margarita - recommended by some of the girls at work.

tim_holsters · 30-01-2012 11:43PM

SarahBM wrote: »

Your grand, Im starting the Master of Margarita - recommended by some of the girls at work.

Right, never heard of that one.

Dibble · 31-01-2012 02:36PM

Solar by Ian McEwan

doriansmith · 31-01-2012 05:48PM

A Land of Two Halves by Joe Bennett. Combines two of my loves: travel & New Zealand

Viral Vector · 31-01-2012 05:51PM

Alan Partridge's autobiography....AHA!

The only best autobiography i've ever read!

Oh and coincidentally Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton!

Bannasidhe · 31-01-2012 06:01PM

Just finished Umberto Eco's The Prague Cemetery -now there's time I'm never getting back

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I found it tough going to be honest and it assumes the reader already knows about The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and The Dreyfus Affair - which I did but then I am a historian.
I could be kind and say it was a translation issue but I abandoned reading Eco's Baudolino when it came out - even though I have an understanding of Medieval 'geography myths' I found that work disjointed, over complicated and badly written (translated?) too - characteristics I feel The Prague Cemetery shares.

Miguel_Angel · 01-02-2012 11:58AM

SarahBm
Well, what I do love most of The Great Gatsby is how the author tells the story and how he writes about that world full of glitter and envies.
The main character is rather incredible too, how he is looking for what he is looking for, how he has to manage with the society is involved wherein..

There are a lot of things I like in that book.

By the way, Paul Auster is not as dense as Tim states, in fact, The New York Trilogy is his easiest novel, even though the three stories are interconnected with very tiny points.

Paul Auster's style is that kind of style called "Realismo Magico" in Spanish (I suppose you can call it "Magic Realism" in English

) and it comes from Gabriel Garcia Marquez and his book Cien Años de Soledad (100 years of solitude), and I have to say that that book is dense (and thick) not Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy.

In fact, if I can read any book in English (even Shakespeare) you can do it!.

However, if you can tell us your favourite books (I've missed some pages of this thread) I can recommend you something interesting

.

Cheers!.

Corrections in grammar are welcomed!.

This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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