This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

juicyduckie · 20-05-2013 11:06AM

Started Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin at the weekend, excellent read thus far!

baconsarnie · 20-05-2013 04:33PM

Finished "Their eyes were watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston last night & started "Herzog" by Saul Bellow.

The Princess Bride · 20-05-2013 11:52PM

Just finished "Defending Jacob" by William Landay-recommended by some posters on here.

An excellant read, I was not expecting that ending at all!

adrian522 · 21-05-2013 11:08AM

Just finished Derby Day by DJ Taylor. I liked the Prose but felt it lost momentum towards the end. It was a bit of a struggle to get through to be honest.

Not sure yet what I'll move on to, Loads of stuff on the kindle I guess I'll just pick something. Maybe "The Great Gatsby" given it's been in the news a lot lately and I've never read it.

Callan57 · 21-05-2013 10:00PM

Finished & really enjoyed Last Train from Liguria

I have Canada by Richard Ford on my Kindle so it's next ... this book has come to me highly recommended so I expect to enjoy it.

Meathlass · 22-05-2013 11:07AM

Just starting the new Dan Brown book Inferno.

I'm only 100 pages in but interesting so far and will encourage me to pick up my dog eared copy of The Divine Comedy for another go at it.

OakeyDokey · 22-05-2013 12:11PM

Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice. Half way through and I like it.

Also still on the 3rd Sookie Stackhouse book which I will finish later. Not sure how I feel about these book yet, is it weird to be this far in a series and still not know how you feel?

Merkin · 22-05-2013 12:51PM

Just finished and really really enjoyed Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Have just started Afterwards by Rosamund Lupton and it seems good so far, only about 50 pages in.

Swiper the fox · 23-05-2013 11:00AM

Transatlantic by Colum McCann is fantastic so far, brilliant account of Frederik Douglass time in Ireland with some harrowing famine episodes, looks like it will be better than his last which is some achievement.

Callan57 · 23-05-2013 11:19AM

Swiper the fox wrote: »

Transatlantic by Colum McCann is fantastic so far, brilliant account of Frederik Douglass time in Ireland with some harrowing famine episodes, looks like it will be better than his last which is some achievement.

Listened to his interview earlier in the week & book does sound good - I'm looking forward to it.

eire4 · 23-05-2013 05:22PM

Just finished a re read of Michael Connelly's The Lincoln Lawyer which was a bit different from the usual Connelly theme but just as enjoyable. The book was made into a film with the same name I believe as well.

Huzzah! · 23-05-2013 08:07PM

Swiper the fox wrote: »

Transatlantic by Colum McCann is fantastic so far, brilliant account of Frederik Douglass time in Ireland with some harrowing famine episodes, looks like it will be better than his last which is some achievement.

High praise, indeed. I look forward to reading it!

AnnyHallsal · 26-05-2013 09:02AM

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. Incredible writing.

Sephiroth_dude · 27-05-2013 12:07PM

This week I'll be starting the second book in the The Kingkiller Chronicle,The Wise Man's Fear by robert rothfuss.

The book I'm currently reading prince of thorns by mark lawrence,is a very very dark piece of fantasy,I did enjoy it to a certain extent but it's not the style of fantasy I'm use to reading I guess.

IvyTheTerrible · 27-05-2013 12:16PM

Cosmos by Carl Sagan

I'm only sorry that I haven't read this sooner, it's great.

adrian522 · 29-05-2013 11:59AM

adrian522 wrote: »

Just finished Derby Day by DJ Taylor. I liked the Prose but felt it lost momentum towards the end. It was a bit of a struggle to get through to be honest.

Not sure yet what I'll move on to, Loads of stuff on the kindle I guess I'll just pick something. Maybe "The Great Gatsby" given it's been in the news a lot lately and I've never read it.

OK finished The Great Gatsby this morning. Loved this book, I'm tempted to re-read it straight away but I'll leave it be for a few months I think.

I'm not sure what I'll read next but I'll probably start something new this evening.

giggii · 29-05-2013 04:31PM

adrian522 wrote: »

OK finished The Great Gatsby this morning. Loved this book, I'm tempted to re-read it straight away but I'll leave it be for a few months I think.

I'm not sure what I'll read next but I'll probably start something new this evening.

I actually did this, read The Great Gatsby on the bus home Friday night and loved it so much that I sat in the garden for a few hours on Saturday reliving the amazingness of it all again!

Currently re-reading Stephen King's IT, The Stand is one of those books that I dig up every once in a while to re-read, so I thought I'd give IT a go, having not read it in about 10 years! Enjoying it so far!

Tom Joad · 29-05-2013 09:55PM

Took me ages to finish Dangerous Liaisons (awful, awful stuff) so now started Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers - only 30 pages in but already immersed in it - a joy to read.

Paddy Samurai · 30-05-2013 01:46PM

I just finished Warlord by Angus Donald. Normally I would not read historical fiction novels back to back.I had planned to read a fantasy novel "The Sacred Band " by Durham ,but....

I have been waiting for this sequel for about 5 years ,so when it arrived last week it jumped to my "number 1" must read.Beautifully produced book.Love the maps ,especially the colour one on the inside cover.

Just read the first page .:D

Meathlass · 30-05-2013 02:17PM

Reading The King's Deception by Steve Berry

One of those page turner historical fiction books a la Dan Brown but this isn't very good. Very convoluted plot lines. Think I'll go for something a bit more heavyweight next.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 30-05-2013 02:38PM

After a bit of a delay I just finished Eventide by Kent Haruf, a sequel to Plainsong which I read and loved last month. I think I loved Eventide even more. I'm going to have to gorge on his other books now.

eire4 · 30-05-2013 06:32PM

Finished an enjoyable re read of Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch crime novel Echo Park last night.

emeraldstar · 30-05-2013 08:35PM

My Week With Marilyn by Colin Clark. Saw the film when it was out and didn't love it, but am enjoying the book so far. A very light and easy read.

baconsarnie · 31-05-2013 01:21PM

eire4 wrote: »

Finished an enjoyable re read of Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch crime novel Echo Park last night.

You're Michael Connelly and I claim my €5 prize!!!

cloudatlas · 01-06-2013 01:38AM

'The Phantom' - Jo Nesbo. Very good so far.

Swiper the fox · 01-06-2013 08:03AM

Finished Transatlantic a few nights ago, excellent book, I far prefer it to Let the great world spin, I can confirm that Frederick Douglass was a man of impeccable tastes, he thought Cork a far superior place to Dublin, till still the case 170 years later.

Started reading There is a light that never goes out, it's a biography of The Smiths, not far in still dealing with the immigrant Irish family history of Morrissey and Marr and social history of post war Manchester, seems quite good so far.

AnnyHallsal · 01-06-2013 09:15AM

Well Blood Meridian is one of the best books I've ever read. I think it's darkness and violence justified by the precision of McCarthy's vision and the almost unparalleled beauty of the language. Will anyone ever forget Judge Holden!

Now ready the badly-written, simplistic but interesting in parts Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku.

marienbad · 01-06-2013 11:25AM

AnnyHallsal wrote: »

Well Blood Meridian is one of the best books I've ever read. I think it's darkness and violence justified by the precision of McCarthy's vision and the almost unparalleled beauty of the language. Will anyone ever forget Judge Holden!

Now ready the badly-written, simplistic but interesting in parts Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku.

At last someone who agrees with me on Blood Meridian andyes the Judge is one of the most frightening villains created. A great,great book.

02-06-2013 02:15AM

marienbad wrote: »

At last someone who agrees with me on Blood Meridian andyes the Judge is one of the most frightening villains created. A great,great book.

I'm working my way through Cormac McCarthys books at the moment, Blood Meridian is one of the most gripping books I have ever read. The Judge is unforgettable.

Honey-ec · 04-06-2013 10:32AM

Finished John Boyne's Next of Kin last week. I'm kind of cooling off Boyne, I have to say, his last couple of books have been extremely predictable.

Started Blood Meridien after that, got about 2/3s of the way through and decided to take a break from it for a while. McCarthy is an unparallelled wordsmith, but I just needed a few days away from the unrelenting bleakness.

Read Life of Pi over the weekend. Beautiful book, but my first thought on finishing it was "That's unfilmable." Watched the film last night, and that opinion stands.

Will go back to Blood Meridien this evening, then it's The Great Gatsby, followed by This House is Haunted by John Boyne. If this leaves me as cold as Next of Kin and Crippen, I'm giving up on him.

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