What book are you reading atm??

salacious crumb · 07-01-2014 12:16pm

bnt wrote: »

Just read A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes story. It's quite short, and fairly weird in a way I wasn't expecting.
I wasn't expecting the whole Mormons interlude, for example.

Great story.

Neil Gaiman wrote a fantastic Holmes/Lovecraft pastiche called A Study In Emerald, which reverses the rolls of Holmes and Moriarty. Sort of.

Yeah, I know Moriarty wasn't in A Study In Scarlet

Raytown Rocks · 07-01-2014 12:18pm

Just Finished Michael Connelly " The Gods of Guilt"
Have to say it was a great read.

Just started Eamonn Dunphy " The Rocky Road"

Collie D · 07-01-2014 12:30pm

"The Stone Roses War and Peace" by Simon Spence. Big fan of the band but too young to see them first time around. Interesting reading about their dodgy manager (always an integral part of a good rock 'n' roll story

) as I wasn't too up on the facts about the dodgy contracts and fallouts etc.

Prologue starts with him touting tickets outside the Spike Island gig - probably a made-up analogy but I liked it.

looking_around · 07-01-2014 1:24pm

Currently reading "Tower on the Rift" by Ian Irvine, second book in the "view from the mirror" series (or tale of Three worlds).

His writing has improved from the first book(A Shadow on the Glass)
Though it's very much "go, go, go, danger, danger" with protagonist often barely escaping dire situations. The world is detailed though, and if you like fantasy, and can skip read lumps pointless of text. (perhaps if you liked WoT series) I suggest you try it.
Interesting story, could have been written better.

bnt · 08-01-2014 9:53am

Just started reading Inversions by Iain M. Banks. It's set in the Culture universe, but it's not a Culture novel per se, being set exclusively on one medieval planet. I'm only half way through the first chapter, and we're already in to ironically graphic descriptions of torture ... do I really need to know that if your hot pokers aren't sufficiently hot, they don't stop the bleeding? :eek:

salacious crumb · 08-01-2014 9:57am

^^ After seeing your post yesterday, I broke out a Holmes collection last night :pac:

hairyprincess · 08-01-2014 5:58pm

Searching For Me by Aoife Curran, a really lovely book about a girls journey to find her birth parents.

The, Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan, really enjoyed this book, this guy certainly has his finger on the pulse of life for a lot of people post the Tiger years.

I downloaded The, Scent Of Roses and The, Fault In Our Stars after recommendations here, looking forward to getting stuck into them.

Merkin · 08-01-2014 6:37pm

Halfway through White Oleander by Janet Fitch and highly recommend it!

FouxDaFaFa · 08-01-2014 7:56pm

hairyprincess wrote: »

I downloaded The, Scent Of Roses and The, Fault In Our Stars after recommendations here, looking forward to getting stuck into them.

Heed previous recommendations and don't read it in public.

It broke me.

08-01-2014 8:02pm

Just finished Bruno Tonioli: My Story. I roared with laughter!

baron von something · 08-01-2014 8:03pm

salacious crumb wrote: »

Great story.

Neil Gaiman wrote a fantastic Holmes/Lovecraft pastiche called A Study In Emerald, which reverses the rolls of Holmes and Moriarty. Sort of.

Yeah, I know Moriarty wasn't in A Study In Scarlet

try "Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles" by kim newman
its the same premice where it focuses on moriarty and his sidekick moran instead of holmes and watson.its next on my list as soon as i get my kindle fixed

salacious crumb · 09-01-2014 11:00am

baron von something wrote: »

try "Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles" by kim newman
its the same premice where it focuses on moriarty and his sidekick moran instead of holmes and watson.its next on my list as soon as i get my kindle fixed

Is it a Wold Newton Universe story?

baron von something · 09-01-2014 12:30pm

salacious crumb wrote: »

Is it a Wold Newton Universe story?

no its just a story from another angle about their criminal ways and how holmes is a nuisance to them

salacious crumb · 09-01-2014 12:48pm

baron von something wrote: »

no its just a story from another angle about their criminal ways and how holmes is a nuisance to them

Cool. I'll put it on my list

Piliger · 09-01-2014 3:56pm

chef wrote: »

Just Finished Michael Connelly " The Gods of Guilt"
Have to say it was a great read.

Just started Eamonn Dunphy " The Rocky Road"

I read 18 of Connolly's books in 2013. Brilliant. My reading has exploded since I abandoned paper and moved to my Kindle, 43 books in 2013.

Mars Bar · 09-01-2014 5:18pm

Piliger wrote: »

I read 18 of Connolly's books in 2013. Brilliant. My reading has exploded since I abandoned paper and moved to my Kindle, 43 books in 2013.

He's the reason I got back in to reading.

I found Trunk Music in the school one day (6 or 7 years ago) and "borrowed" it. I say "borrowed" in that I would have put it back where I found it if I didn't like it but I loved it and kept it. Now I have the whole collection apart from Gods of Guilt. I dropped the biggest hint for Christmas and it still wasn't under the tree

.

Piliger · 09-01-2014 5:25pm

Mars Bar wrote: »

He's the reason I got back in to reading.

I found Trunk Music in the school one day (6 or 7 years ago) and "borrowed" it. I say "borrowed" in that I would have put it back where I found it if I didn't like it but I loved it and kept it. Now I have the whole collection apart from Gods of Guilt. I dropped the biggest hint for Christmas and it still wasn't under the tree .

I just finished it. Good but not as great as some imho. It's a Mickey Haller novel.

baron von something · 10-01-2014 8:09pm

working my way through the entire collection of Spike Milligans war memoirs.they are the most irrevelant books about WWII i've ever read.hilarious

DEFTLEFTHAND · 10-01-2014 8:55pm

Piliger wrote: »

I just finished it. Good but not as great as some imho. It's a Mickey Haller novel.

Read it myself over xmas. Just started The Drop this week, it's the only book of the Bosch series that I haven't read.

BrokenArrows · 10-01-2014 9:21pm

I've started listening to audio books while at work. Luckily I've got a job where wearing headphones isn't an issue.

I'm listening to the Star Force series of books at the moment. Very good.
I'll move onto something a little more useful next. Lol.

Borboletinha · 10-01-2014 11:01pm

Rabbit Run, John Updike , so far so good. Will probably read the whole series.

anncoates · 10-01-2014 11:06pm

Borboletinha wrote: »

Rabbit Run, John Updike , so far so good. Will probably read the whole series.

You really, really should.

In addition to Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest, he did a small novel, Rabbit Remembered that is tucked away in a short story collection and is a sequel to the Rabbit series.

Femme_Fatale · 11-01-2014 12:10am

The Year Of The Flood by Margaret Atwood. I read the first part of that trilogy, Oryx and Crake, years ago and found it absolutely brilliant. But then forgot about it because it took a good while before The Year Of The Flood was published. It's great to be rediscovering that story again. And it's even more relevant now.

Gonna read the third book as soon as I finish this.

IvyTheTerrible · 11-01-2014 11:06am

baron von something wrote: »

working my way through the entire collection of Spike Milligans war memoirs.they are the most irrevelant books about WWII i've ever read.hilarious

Do you mean irreverent?

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

The Year Of The Flood by Margaret Atwood. I read the first part of that trilogy, Oryx and Crake, years ago and found it absolutely brilliant. But then forgot about it because it took a good while before The Year Of The Flood was published. It's great to be rediscovering that story again. And it's even more relevant now.

Gonna read the third book as soon as I finish this.

This might sound silly, but those books have made me think about how I live my life!

enniscorthy · 11-01-2014 11:23am

THE BEANO ANNUAL

MonstaMash · 11-01-2014 11:30am

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown.

A fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century...a truly tragic read.

Using council records, autobiographies & firsthand descriptions, Brown allows the great chiefs & warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne & other tribes, to tell us in their own words of the battles, massacres & broken treaties that finally left them demoralized & defeated.

Pumpkinseeds · 11-01-2014 3:04pm

The Book of Lost Things, John Connoly, I'm really enjoying it. It's the first one of his books I've read.

baron von something · 11-01-2014 3:09pm

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

Do you mean irreverent?

!

woops.i actually meant irrelevant.but it is also irreverent too i suppose

beano345 · 11-01-2014 3:14pm

Cosmos by Carl sagan

5live · 11-01-2014 3:58pm

MonstaMash wrote: »

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown.

A fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century...a truly tragic read.

Using council records, autobiographies & firsthand descriptions, Brown allows the great chiefs & warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne & other tribes, to tell us in their own words of the battles, massacres & broken treaties that finally left them demoralized & defeated.

You should try 'Empire of the Summer Moon' by S. C. Gwynne. It tells the true story of the kidnapping and search for people taken by the Commanches and is the story that the film 'The Searchers' was based on.

Carson10 · 11-01-2014 5:21pm

Iam Reading Ross O'Carroll-Kelly 'Downturn Abbey' at the moment. I got it as a Christmas gift. Ive read about 3/4 of his other books. Last one about 2 years ago. I enjoyed the other ones but Iam struggling to keep reading it after 100 pages-in.

Id give it about 2/10. Dont think I will finish it. The whole 'Ross' story seems a bit drawn out at this stage with this book. Its not funny anymore.

Standard Toaster · 11-01-2014 6:00pm

'Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud' by Brendan Gregg

Great book....if your into that kinda thing!

Birneybau · 11-01-2014 8:57pm

Finished "Stoner" by John Williams, a lost classic, loved it.

Now reading "The Circle" by Dave Eggers and it is amazing.

cloudatlas · 12-01-2014 1:04pm

'As I lay dying' by Faulkner.

beano345 · 12-01-2014 1:16pm

started the manipulated man by esther vilar...its an eye-opener

Missyelliot2 · 12-01-2014 1:25pm

"The Spinning Heart" by Donal Ryan
Excellent so far

gandalf · 12-01-2014 1:28pm

Marketing Research in Ireland !!!!

I have an exam tomorrow

salacious crumb · 13-01-2014 9:35am

MonstaMash wrote: »

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown.

Great book.

py2006 · 13-01-2014 10:14am

salacious crumb wrote: »

Great book.

Started it and never came back to it. Not sure why.

salacious crumb · 13-01-2014 10:46am

Try again :pac:

Barna77 · 13-01-2014 3:23pm

Finally finished American Psycho. Jesus that was a letdown. Had meant to read it for a long time, but I couldn't wait to finish it. Got tired of all the designer clothes names and people that look like other people. Skipped the third chapter on pop music. And yeah some fúcked up moments too.

I've read other books by Easton Ellis. Rules of Attraction was by far the best. Less than Zero was alright and Glamorama another long disppointment. Wonder if I'd bother with Imperial Bedrooms, sequel to Less than Zero.

Started I Am Legend.

nacho libre · 13-01-2014 3:29pm

Oblomov

Merkin · 13-01-2014 6:05pm

Nearest Thing to Crazy by Elizabeth Forbes, seems good so far!

mosstin · 13-01-2014 7:01pm

Just started 'Wolf Hall'. 100 pages in and it's not happening for me just yet.

K-9 · 13-01-2014 11:21pm

baron von something wrote: »

working my way through the entire collection of Spike Milligans war memoirs.they are the most irrevelant books about WWII i've ever read.hilarious

Spike was on the Late Late:

Gaybo: How long were you in North Africa?

Spike: 6'4".

Still cracks me up.

Rereading Bonfire of the Vanities after I watched the Wolf of Wall Street. The broker in the book reminded me of the De Caprio character, he's a "Master of the Universe" and hasn't many redeeming qualities.

Say Your Number · 15-01-2014 12:13am

Just finished The Rocky Road by Dunphy and really enjoyed it, I admire his honesty, to come out and denounce the Charlton regime during Italia '90 while the whole country was in party mode took serious balls, the amount of abuse he and his family was a bit ridiculous seeing as he had a valid point of view.

Sir Arthur Daley · 15-01-2014 1:21am

Some old 90s Playboys, classics,

vanessamee · 15-01-2014 1:36am

Reading the London train written by Tessa Hadley nice and light for me at the moment .usually read Martina Cole luv her books but finding them to be repetitive lately

Daqster · 15-01-2014 1:58am

The Damage Done - Warren Fellows.

JumpShivers · 15-01-2014 2:03am

Beginning to read Philomena by Martin Sixsmith.

What book are you reading atm??

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