This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

VanillaLime · 30-08-2013 11:06AM

Read Maggie O'Farrell's Instructions for a Heatwave over the weekend, thought it was brilliant, really drew me in.

Slattsy · 30-08-2013 11:12AM

Almost finished 1984 (what a book)

Where do i go from here though ??

salacious crumb · 30-08-2013 01:01PM

Slattsy wrote: »

Almost finished 1984 (what a book)

Where do i go from here though ??

Try Aldous Huxley's Brave New World for a similar type of theme....

Gamayun · 30-08-2013 04:13PM

Slattsy wrote: »

Almost finished 1984 (what a book)

Where do i go from here though ??

salacious crumb wrote: »

Try Aldous Huxley's Brave New World for a similar type of theme....

Also We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, is very similar in theme.

Written in 1921 it is widely acknowledged to have influenced both 1984 and Brave New World, though Huxley denied this.

From Wiki:

George Orwell averred that Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) must be partly derived from We. However, in a 1962 letter to Christopher Collins, Huxley says that he wrote Brave New World as a reaction to H.G. Wells's utopias long before he had heard of We. According to We translator Natasha Randall, Orwell believed that Huxley was lying.

Callan57 · 31-08-2013 11:57PM

Tonight I am starting The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
(aka J K Rowling)

SarahBM · 01-09-2013 04:00PM

Callan57 wrote: »

Tonight I am starting The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
(aka J K Rowling)

I dont know if I want to read that, I didnt like A Casual Vacancy at all.

I went in to Chapters today with my friend, she bought loads. I got the Artemis Fowel collection. never read them before, but a lot of people have told me they are good.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 02-09-2013 04:58PM

I finished reading "To Be Sung Underwater" by Tom McNeal. The first 300 or so pages were wonderful. I was completely absorbed by it. And then all of a sudden it just seemed to drag. The last section of the book seemed almost like it was written by someone else. It made me quite sad.

Still interested to read some more of McNeal though.

Monkeybonkers · 02-09-2013 07:26PM

I've started Vanity Fair by William Thackeray. Only 50 pages in and already I love it. I'm really enjoying all the classic novels that I've been reading lately. Love the language used in them.

Callan57 · 02-09-2013 07:29PM

Monkeybonkers wrote: »

I've started Vanity Fair by William Thackeray. Only 50 pages in and already I love it. I'm really enjoying all the classic novels that I've been reading lately. Love the language used in them.

OH I love Vanity Fair

Miss Mayhem · 03-09-2013 01:30PM

I'm reading J.K. Rowling's new novel The Cuckoo's Calling at the moment. I'm about half way through it and liking it so far!

Callan57 · 03-09-2013 02:29PM

Miss Mayhem wrote: »

I'm reading J.K. Rowling's new novel The Cuckoo's Calling at the moment. I'm about half way through it and liking it so far!

Yea I'm slightly less than half way & it's not at all bad - enjoying it

SarahBM · 03-09-2013 08:10PM

Callan57 wrote: »

Yea I'm slightly less than half way & it's not at all bad - enjoying it

did you read the Casual Vacancy?

Callan57 · 03-09-2013 08:19PM

SarahBM wrote: »

did you read the Casual Vacancy?

Sure did & I liked it too .... before you ask no I haven't read any Harry Potter

Dibble · 04-09-2013 01:03PM

Currently reading Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.

SarahBM · 04-09-2013 05:47PM

Callan57 wrote: »

Sure did & I liked it too .... before you ask no I haven't read any Harry Potter

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

you havent read harry potter?!?!?! OMFG!!!
I love harry potter, but I didnt like the casual vacancy.

emeraldstar · 04-09-2013 06:44PM

a0ifee wrote: »

I'm biased, my favourite character's introduced in the second :pac:

I'm curious as to who? I can't say any of the newbies of Book Two stand out as particularly great characters for me!

Currently almost done with Mockingjay, and that will be an end to The Hunger Games trilogy for me. Addictive and enjoyable - the first was good - but I thought each novel got a bit worse than the previous.

Callan57 · 04-09-2013 07:10PM

SarahBM wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

you havent read harry potter?!?!?! OMFG!!!
I love harry potter, but I didnt like the casual vacancy.

I know major lapse in my education - but in my defence I was definitely not the target audience

Miss Mayhem · 04-09-2013 08:28PM

SarahBM wrote: »

did you read the Casual Vacancy?

I haven't read it yet. I was put off by all the bad reviews. But since The Cuckoo's Calling is turning out to be quite a good book I'm definitely going to read it soon.

SarahBM · 04-09-2013 10:05PM

Callan57 wrote: »

I know major lapse in my education - but in my defence I was definitely not the target audience

I think I was like 17 when I started reading Harry Potter, so not really the target audience either, but I have re-read them a few times and Im 25 now. I saw one of the films on the other day and I was like "Id love to read them all again". There are not enough hours in the day!!!
:rolleyes:

Saorenza · 05-09-2013 01:48AM

I enjoyed The Cuckoo's Calling; ticked all the boxes for me. I was put off The Casual Vacancy after hearing JK Rowling talk about it and read a bit from it - I have it on the Kindle though so I might try it another time. I read the Harry Potter last and loved them - my niece recommended them. I had read the first few years ago when they came out and was not pushed. I am far from the target audience age:rolleyes:

And reading Standing in Another Man's Grave by Ian Rankin - glad he brought back Rebus - didn't like The Complaints.

salacious crumb · 05-09-2013 08:23AM

Callan57 wrote: »

I know major lapse in my education - but in my defence I was definitely not the target audience

I have neither read any of the books, or seen any of the movies :pac:

Slattsy · 05-09-2013 01:13PM

Slattsy wrote: »

Almost finished 1984 (what a book)

Where do i go from here though ??

Went for The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov.

It was a choice between that and A Clockwork Orange, which i'll get next time i think.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 05-09-2013 01:25PM

I'm halfway through "The Island Walkers" by John Bemrose. It's basically about a family (The Walkers) in a small mill town in Canada in the 60's. The main focus is on the father Alf, who is offered a promotion by the new owners of the mill if he sells out his friends who are trying to form a union, and his eldest son Joe, who has fallen in love with the new girl at school but is struggling with his working class upbringing and his ambitions to better himself.

I read more when it's sunny so maybe that's why but I've been tearing through this book. It's really enjoyable so far. One of those books that you can see being a great mini series on TV. I always try to picture what I'm reading as a film or TV series and I find my favourite books require very little effort on my part to imagine them that way.

Gamayun · 05-09-2013 04:02PM

I just finished The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi.

It was an enjoyable read, I felt that it dragged in places, and is probably overlong, but the last 80 or so pages sped along nicely. For some reason I imagined it as an anime film in my head as I read it! Good but not great.

Also, just as an aside, this was the third book in a row I've read the US edition of (sheer coincidence, the others being Kinski Uncut and The Unbearable lightness of Being) and I still can't get used to US spelling. When I see mold, molt, dike, ax, mustache, specialty, check (for cheque) etc. I just think "Hey, a typo! ... oh no, wait..."

SarahBM · 06-09-2013 08:16AM

Putting down the count of Monte Cristo for a while. Reading Heart of Darkness for the light house/chapters book club. It's like 100 pages so should have it read over the weekend.

AnnyHallsal · 06-09-2013 09:03AM

Just finished The Dante Club. Fun read, beautifully written and I learned a lot about Dante.

Callan57 · 06-09-2013 09:15AM

Finished The Cuckoo's Calling - enjoyed it a lot & I hope she writes more adventures for PI Cormoran Strike & Robin

Now it's on to The Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst

Swiper the fox · 06-09-2013 09:46AM

I read the Guts by Roddy Doyle recently, it was grand, very easy to read obviously but a bit disappointing considering the radio interviews I heard where various radio presenters were fawning over Roddy.

I'm reading Sean Kelly's autobiography which isn't bad, he was a childhood hero of mine so it's nice to track his career as an adult, when I was a kid I never understood why he wasn't winning the tour every year. Very little mention of drugs so far but that's not what I'm interested in this case. Next up is Laurent Fignon's We were young and carefree, going to go on a sports book splurge for a while, I need to fill my sports library.

Belle E. Flops · 07-09-2013 02:22PM

Was about to start reading Gatsby again. I changed my mind though because I have so many books to get through that I haven't read yet .

Instead I'm starting The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. Should be good I think.

Callan57 · 07-09-2013 02:38PM

Belle E. Flops wrote: »

Was about to start reading Gatsby again. I changed my mind though because I have so many books to get through that I haven't read yet .

Instead I'm starting The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. Should be good I think.

Oh that is superb IMO - hope you enjoy

This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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