This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

Dibble · 26-08-2013 04:16PM

The Gathering by Anne Enright

Nero707 · 26-08-2013 05:09PM

Finished The Catcher in the Rye, I didn't enjoy it as much as I had hoped. Started At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien. I read The Third Policeman before and I really enjoyed it, so I hope this is as good.

eire4 · 26-08-2013 08:00PM

Finished a re read of Tim Pat Coogan's excellent biography of Eammon DeValera this weekend. The book really brings home how power hungry and out of touch with the real world of everyday peoples lives DeValera was.

HeadPig · 27-08-2013 01:09AM

eire4 wrote: »

Finished a re read of Tim Pat Coogan's excellent biography of Eammon DeValera this weekend. The book really brings home how power hungry and out of touch with the real world of everyday peoples lives DeValera was.

Have you read Diarmuid Ferriter's bio of him? V good apparently

eire4 · 27-08-2013 05:05PM

HeadPig wrote: »

Have you read Diarmuid Ferriter's bio of him? V good apparently

I have read Diarmuid Ferriter but thought Coogan's was better myself.

IvyTheTerrible · 27-08-2013 10:09PM

SarahBM wrote: »

I know what you mean, sometimes you just wanted to shake her and wonder what me man saw in her at all.

By the way I am really liking the Count of Monte Cristo!

Wasn't that kind of the point though? That the narrator was so naive and silly; and so much less desirable and worldly than Rebecca?

SarahBM · 27-08-2013 10:31PM

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

Wasn't that kind of the point though? That the narrator was so naive and silly; and so much less desirable and worldly than Rebecca?

Is that why he found her attractive? did he actually love her???:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Mystery! Love it!

I think seeing the film has ruined the Count of Monte Cristo for me. I kinda know whats going to happen. I wish I hadnt seen the film.

Tom Joad · 27-08-2013 10:34PM

SarahBM wrote: »

I think seeing the film has ruined the Count of Monte Cristo for me. I kinda know whats going to happen. I wish I hadnt seen the film.

Never knew there was a film :eek:. Am 3/4 of the way through the book at the minute and still loving it..

Is the film worth a watch? Obviously I would wait until I've finished the book.

Honey-ec · 27-08-2013 10:37PM

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

Wasn't that kind of the point though? That the narrator was so naive and silly; and so much less desirable and worldly than Rebecca?

I don't think so. I think the point was that Rebecca was far too independent and worldly for Maxim's liking, whereas the narrator was precisely the type of woman that society at the time valued. We're reading from a 21st century viewpoint, but I think contemporary readers would have identified, or at least sympathised moreso with the narrator.

Where Du Maurier's sympathies lay, however, is a mystery, to this reader at least.

MagicMarker · 27-08-2013 10:44PM

Tom Joad wrote: »

Never knew there was a film :eek:. Am 3/4 of the way through the book at the minute and still loving it..

Is the film worth a watch? Obviously I would wait until I've finished the book.

I saw the version with Guy Pearce, an absolute joke of a movie.

HBO need to make a miniseries.

Arist · 27-08-2013 10:47PM

"Joyland" by Stephen King. After 25 years absence I have returned to the master story teller..........

Next up "Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West" Cormac McCarthy.

Merkin · 27-08-2013 10:48PM

East of Eden by Steinbeck, just a few chapters in, have a feeling it's going to be a good one

SarahBM · 27-08-2013 10:48PM

Tom Joad wrote: »

Never knew there was a film :eek:. Am 3/4 of the way through the book at the minute and still loving it..

Is the film worth a watch? Obviously I would wait until I've finished the book.

I really liked the film. Guy Pierce and Jim Caviezel are in it. I think it is worth a watch. but definitely wait til you have finished the book.

SarahBM · 27-08-2013 10:53PM

MagicMarker wrote: »

I saw the version with Guy Pearce, an absolute joke of a movie.

HBO need to make a miniseries.

we obviously have different taste in films

:D:D

salacious crumb · 28-08-2013 08:50AM

SarahBM wrote: »

we obviously have different taste in films :D:D

Nobody's seen the old Richard Chamberlain version then? :pac:

IvyTheTerrible · 28-08-2013 09:59AM

SarahBM wrote: »

I really liked the film. Guy Pierce and Jim Caviezel are in it. I think it is worth a watch. but definitely wait til you have finished the book.

The French mini-series with Gerard Depardieu is much better, IMO.

paddyh117 · 28-08-2013 12:25PM

Merkin wrote: »

East of Eden by Steinbeck, just a few chapters in, have a feeling it's going to be a good one

I'm about half way at the moment and loving it - somebody mentioned recently that it was too dark to enjoy, but there's actually some great humour in it - look forward to getting back to it every day!

SarahBM · 28-08-2013 01:27PM

paddyh117 wrote: »

I'm about half way at the moment and loving it - somebody mentioned recently that it was too dark to enjoy, but there's actually some great humour in it - look forward to getting back to it every day!

Humour?!? Really? I thought it was one of the most depressing books I ever read.

Monkeybonkers · 28-08-2013 02:41PM

salacious crumb wrote: »

Nobody's seen the old Richard Chamberlain version then? :pac:

Loved that version when I was young. Haven't seen any of the new ones so can't comment on them.

Are we old if we remember it?

salacious crumb · 28-08-2013 02:45PM

Monkeybonkers wrote: »

Loved that version when I was young. Haven't seen any of the new ones so can't comment on them.

Are we old if we remember it?

Old-ish

I've also seen the Guy Pearse one, which I wasn't as impressed with, and I've only ever read a kid's adaptation of the novel and that was also a long time ago. Maybe I should check out the actual novel one of these days.

Monkeybonkers · 28-08-2013 02:50PM

I wouldn't mind reading it myself. I suppose the nearest thing I've read recently that would match it in scope would be World Without End by Ken Follett. Mind you I read that in two days

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 28-08-2013 02:57PM

I'm reading "To Be Sung Underwater" by Tom McNeal and I'm loving it. There's something about it reminds me of "Tell The Wolves I'm Home" which is the best book I've read this year.

Callan57 · 28-08-2013 07:08PM

The Rider On The White Horse by Theodor Storm

fruvai · 29-08-2013 12:44AM

Finished American Psycho last week and finished The Road tonight. Probably gonna tackle the literary behemoth that is Gravity's Rainbow and try to get it finished before Pynchon's latest comes out.

paddyh117 · 29-08-2013 09:57AM

SarahBM wrote: »

Humour?!? Really? I thought it was one of the most depressing books I ever read.

Not finding it depressing at all - in fact, quite the opposite, it's so beautifully written (I've never read Steinbeck before), that I'm finding it quite uplifting!

Monkeybonkers · 29-08-2013 10:30AM

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 29-08-2013 12:02PM

Monkeybonkers wrote: »

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

You should read Sweet Thursday next, if you like it that is.

Monkeybonkers · 29-08-2013 03:26PM

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

You should read Sweet Thursday next, if you like it that is.

I'll stick it on my list, thanks. I have a few ahead of it in the queue though. You know how it is.

SarahBM · 29-08-2013 03:28PM

paddyh117 wrote: »

Not finding it depressing at all - in fact, quite the opposite, it's so beautifully written (I've never read Steinbeck before), that I'm finding it quite uplifting!

Fair enough. Enjoy

Honey-ec · 29-08-2013 03:49PM

Finished Tampa last night. It left me rather nonplussed. It makes for very uncomfortable reading, which is obviously the idea. But I'm not sure if Nutting has an actual point to make. She seems to be content to just make the reader squirm, without really backing it up with much of a moral.

Bought Stephen King's The Tommyknockers and The Mammoth Book of Zombies, which is an anthology today.

This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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