This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

American Desperado by Jon Roberts and Evan Wright.

Pretty interesting, great cast of names mentioned. Probably gonna be a movie scripted by William Monahan and starring Mark Wahlberg.

Hanna Fat Radiance wrote: »

Finished "The 100 year old man who climbed out of a window" recently as recommended by an earlier poster and I must say that I enjoyed it tremendously. Kinda like Forrest Gump re-imagined by Quentin Tarantino. Have now just started into I Am Legend and liking it so far.

Despite not being into sci-fi, I enjoyed "I am Legend". Poor old Richard Matheson.

Finished a re read of Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch novel 9 Dragons last night.

Started "Revolutionary Road" by Richard Yates yesterday

I'm enjoying it a lot- in stark contrast with the last book I read (Faulkner's "Absalom! Absalom!"- beautifully written in places but tough going)

@anotherquestion I don't know if your a fan of poetry but if you are I would probably start there. If not, his book Post Office is well worth a read, or any of the collections of short stories are good because they start giving you little glimpses into the man's psyche..... Though sometimes with him that isn't the most pleasant of things Tales of Ordinary Madness is worth a read but it is deeply, deeply troubling at times so kinda depends on what your tastes are. haha chances are you will be impressed with whatever you pick up by him regardless of it's subject matter he was a very good writer.

Finished Lolita (which was excellent) and starting on The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

Montezumas Revenge by Harry Harrison

Re-reading The Chronicles of Narnia. Read them in primary school got into a discussion with someone which led me to want to read them again.

A brief history of time by Stephen Hawking.

Only 8 pages in but very interesting so far.

wilkie2006 wrote: »

Thomas Pynchon: what's the craic? Is he any good? Been thinking of reading something by him for a while - recommended? If so, what?

I've only read Inherent Vice,The Crying of Lot 49 (finished it yesterday) and the first 200 pages of Gravity's Rainbow (it's a tough read) but I think I have a decent handle on his style.If you like crazy characters with even crazier names (Genghis Cohen , Bigfoot Bjornsen, Benny Profane, Oedipa Maas etc.) , involuted plots,absurdist/bawdy humour and incredibly detailed prose delivered in an inimitable quirky style - Pynchon's your man .

OakeyDokey wrote: »

Re-reading The Chronicles of Narnia. Read them in primary school got into a discussion with someone which led me to want to read them again.

I only read these when I was 21, I thought 1 and 3 where the best. hated the films.

nearly finished East if Eden for book club. picked it after lots of positive suggestions from here, but I cannot say I liked it.
Dangerous Liaisons is next (light house cinema/chapters book club)

Very surprised to hear that somebody was disappointed with East Of Eden, a stonewall classic in my view although I prefer Grapes of Wrath(my number 1 book ever I would say), eire4 you never fail to surprise, why would you choose to read that TP Coogan book again, unless you are in your 60s it must have been irrelevant enough the first time round, I thought you lived in a dungeon with the Michael Connelly back collection as your only company, get yourself to the library.

I finished Kate Atkinsons Case Histories, decent enough whodunit style detective book, not bad, I can I=understand now why people get so into crime fiction, I've also read a couple of Denis Lehane and Michael Connelly books in the past year or so, I've been recommended to try Iain Banks, what would be the best one?

Like somebody else here mentioned there has been so many references to The 100 year old man book that I have also bought it, about 80 pages in, easy to read and not bad so far.
I've been meaning to read Pappilon for ages, think I'll do that next.