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What book are you reading atm??

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and would ya recommend it?

I'm reading 'Full Dark, No Stars' by Stephen King!

Just started so can't really say I can recommend it just yet!

You can't beat a bit of Stephen King!

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[Deleted User]

The Peanut wrote: »

Sell me its advantages. I'm still unsure

It's just easy. It's everywhere I am. I can read it anywhere at all and its not a big heavy book (granted the only book I've read on it wouldn't have been massive in real life form). It fits in my pocket. I can read it lying down without feeling the weight on my wrist. I can leave it lying on the table without having to hold the pages open. When you're finished a book you can have another one immediately!

I'm only sorry I didn't buy one sooner.

The Peanut

Deleted User wrote: »

I got a new kindle this week. Why oh why did I never have one of these before?

Just finished The Girl on The Train. It was good. Not brilliant.

Starting Gone Girl now, finally.

Sell me its advantages. I'm still unsure.

Working my way through Four Quarters of Light: An Alaskan Journey by Brian Keenan. Really enjoying it though I'm a little obsessed with Alaska.

[Deleted User]

I got a new kindle this week. Why oh why did I never have one of these before?

Just finished The Girl on The Train. It was good. Not brilliant.

Starting Gone Girl now, finally.

fizzypish

Spunge wrote: »

midnight tides, the 5th book in the Malazan series. First one that didnt confuse the fudge out of me, even though it has quite a few characters

Completely new set of characters on a completely new unknown continent set slightly before the events of the 4th book. I was reading it all the while saying to myself "Where's the ****ing desert gone". Also the intrusion from the pantheon tends to be more comprehend able and generally occurs at the end of the book. It took me a while to get to grips with the fact that the author isn't going to explain any of what he's writing about when I started book one. Some of it may make more sense in another books time IF the story naturally goes in that direction.

dr.kenneth noisewater

Reading American Sniper atm, interesting in ways but hard to like Chris Kyle. If you dont like America, I'll kill you is his attitude to most things. Still a bit to go so hopefully it picks up

BlaasForRafa

conorhal wrote: »

A critique of popular dystopian young adult fiction I saw a little while back made me pause and wonder if that's true. The main thrust of the artice, which was scathing of the Hunger Games series, was how nhillistic they were and how Katnis was a passive social media pawn primarily interested in what boy she wanted to kiss rather then engaged with the wider social context of the novels. It suggested a sort of disengaged passivity to many of the main female characters that made them worryingly awful role models.

Hunger Games was basically a badly written rip-off of the far superior Battle Royale.

Aglomerado

LynnGrace wrote: »

Yes, indeed, used to read all of these authors, as a teen.

And me!! Got through a fair few Harold Robbins and Sidney Sheldons.

LynnGrace

eisenberg1 wrote: »

The Pirate, I thought it was pure porn (back then:eek:)

The Carpetbaggers is a title that I remember. No recollection now of what it was about!

McChubbin

Tried to read a chapter of The Exorcist and gave up- felt like I needed to consult a thesaurus with every sentence. It was a hard read for me and I have a varied vocabulary myself.

Decided to attempt a stab at Irvine Walsh's "Filth" and it's not too bad. He writes with a Scottish accent (IE: "Didn't" becomes "Didnae") and I find I hear James McAvoy's voice in my head when I'm reading despite not seeing the movie.
That said, the thing that gets to me is that Walsh doesn't follow the usual protocols for writing dialogue in that he doesn't use quotation marks. I'm enjoying the first 2 chapters but it's a bit of a strange read in that the structure is unlike what I'm used to.

Custardpi

Basster wrote: »

Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene. Haven't read anything by him in years. Funny book, very enjoyable.

One of my favourite Greene books. You'll never look at vacuum cleaners the same again!

Chartsengrafs

Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene. Haven't read anything by him in years. Funny book, very enjoyable.

Shandashey

spud82 wrote: »

The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson. Brilliant book. Read it in a day

Read this myself there on holidays, flew through it & have bought his other one, the girl with a clock for a heart

LynnGrace

mariaalice wrote: »

When I was a teenager and young adult adult my favourite authors were Jacqueline Susann, Leon Uris, Sidney Sheldon and the like and I still went on to read ' decent' books as an adult.

Reading a book any book is what's important.

mariaalice wrote: »

Then name of the author has just come back to me ..Harold Robbins anyone else read him when you were a teen.

Yes, indeed, used to read all of these authors, as a teen.

eisenberg1

mariaalice wrote: »

Then name of the author has just come back to me ..Harold Robbins anyone else read him when you were a teen.

The Pirate, I thought it was pure porn (back then:eek:)

[Deleted User]

Then name of the author has just come back to me ..Harold Robbins anyone else read him when you were a teen.

KH25

Thargor wrote: »

Hunger Games/Divergent/Maze Runner etc etc and all this other young adult crap that sprung up all of a sudden are hilariously awful, the world and the characters and everything else are always so one dimensional and just plain stupid, I'm never touching any of them again.

I actually enjoyed the first hunger games book. The second one wasn't bad either. Sure the story is nothing groundbreaking but as people have said if it gets someone into reading then that's great.

My problem, without getting into spoiler territory, is that I think it became very obvious from the end of the second book that the author couldn't decide what she wanted to do with Katniss' character. It felt like she zig zagged all over the place especially in the third book. There was very little consistency in how she acted.

On top of that I think the story felt far too rushed in the third book. It was as if the original idea needed more time to be properly developed (maybe 4 books instead of 3). The ending also felt like it came out of nowhere and it was absolutely dreadful. Again I can't say much more than that because I don't want to give away too much.

Spunge

midnight tides, the 5th book in the Malazan series. First one that didnt confuse the fudge out of me, even though it has quite a few characters

[Deleted User]

There was another author we all read as teens and use to pass around in school in the seventies, anyway the books were really popular because they had tons of graphic overwrought sex in them. Its driving me mad that I cant think of the name of the author, it was a male author and he was American, any one know who I mean.

[Deleted User]

conorhal wrote: »

A critique of popular dystopian young adult fiction I saw a little while back made me pause and wonder if that's true. The main thrust of the artice, which was scathing of the Hunger Games series, was how nhillistic they were and how Katnis was a passive social media pawn primarily interested in what boy she wanted to kiss rather then engaged with the wider social context of the novels. It suggested a sort of disengaged passivity to many of the main female characters that made them worryingly awful role models.

When I was a teenager and young adult adult my favourite authors were Jacqueline Susann, Leon Uris, Sidney Sheldon and the like and I still went on to read ' decent' books as an adult.

Reading a book any book is what's important.

New Home

conorhal wrote: »

I don't suppose it was in Clondalkin was it? It would be pretty funny of I actually picked up and really enjoyed the exact same novel you binned in the charity shop!

Nope, it was in Oxfam in Sligo... It was the black hardback version with the slip cover. You never know, someone else might have picked it up in Sligo and dropped it off in Clondalkin :pac:. Yeah, like there was only one copy ever printed... :rolleyes: I'm so smart I scare myself, sometimes... But yes, it would have been funny...

conorhal

New Home wrote: »

I picked it up in a charity shop too, and that's where it went back, too. Despite individual taste in books, it's still great when we find a book, any book, that we can get lost into.

I don't suppose it was in Clondalkin was it? It would be pretty funny of I actually picked up and really enjoyed the exact same novel you binned in the charity shop!

conorhal

ScienceNerd wrote: »

If it gets young people reading I think it's fine. I read some awful crap as a young teenager.

A critique of popular dystopian young adult fiction I saw a little while back made me pause and wonder if that's true. The main thrust of the artice, which was scathing of the Hunger Games series, was how nhillistic they were and how Katnis was a passive social media pawn primarily interested in what boy she wanted to kiss rather then engaged with the wider social context of the novels. It suggested a sort of disengaged passivity to many of the main female characters that made them worryingly awful role models.

GLaDOS

Thargor wrote: »

Hunger Games/Divergent/Maze Runner etc etc and all this other young adult crap that sprung up all of a sudden are hilariously awful, the world and the characters and everything else are always so one dimensional and just plain stupid, I'm never touching any of them again.

If it gets young people reading I think it's fine. I read some awful crap as a young teenager.

New Home

I picked it up in a charity shop too, and that's where it went back, too. Despite individual taste in books, it's still great when we find a book, any book, that we can get lost into.

conorhal

New Home wrote: »

I'm glad someone likes it, I believe it was very successful at the time, but I must admit I found it badly written, quite tedious, and predictable...

I picked it up in a charity shop for two euro and started reading it on holiday so I hadn't heard of it and had no expectations of it. I did wonder when it was going to get going but it seems to be headed in some interesting directions. Yeah I suspect that I can predict how it will all end, it's fairytale setup sort of demands an adherence to particular convetions and tropes but I think it's quite well written.

New Home

conorhal wrote: »

I'm really enjoying 'Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell', it's a charmingly quirky victorian set 'adult fairytale' about two magicians attempting to revive the practice of practical magic who become bitter rivals in the process.
It starts quite slowly but it's building into quite the gothic thriller set in a Downton Abbey sort of world where fairytales are true. I believe that it's been turned into a major BBC series, I hope they dont screw it up as they did with Wolf Hall.

I'm glad someone likes it, I believe it was very successful at the time, but I must admit I found it badly written, quite tedious, and predictable...

conorhal

I'm really enjoying 'Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell', it's a charmingly quirky victorian set 'adult fairytale' about two magicians attempting to revive the practice of practical magic who become bitter rivals in the process.
It starts quite slowly but it's building into quite the gothic thriller set in a Downton Abbey sort of world where fairytales are (or at least were) true. I believe that it's been turned into a major BBC series, I hope they dont screw it up as they did with Wolf Hall.

LenaClaire

mariaalice wrote: »

Centennial or Hawaii by the same author are better books, Hawaii was the first every adult type book I read.

Hawaii and Texas were the James Michener books I read first. All of his books are pretty long, but you get so much historical information that I really like them.

[Deleted User]

Ilyana 2.0 wrote: »

I'm very slowly reading The Covenant by James A. Michener, a sort-of historical novel about South Africa. It's a bit of a random one, recommended by my dad. Seems interesting albeit slow-moving, and the author has a lovely writing style.

Centennial or Hawaii by the same author are better books, Hawaii was the first every adult type book I read.

Thargor

KH25 wrote: »

Panem is hunger games yes? I detested the direction it went in after the first book. The only time I've finished a book and felt angry at the author.

Hunger Games/Divergent/Maze Runner etc etc and all this other young adult crap that sprung up all of a sudden are hilariously awful, the world and the characters and everything else are always so one dimensional and just plain stupid, I'm never touching any of them again.