What book are you reading atm??

eviltwin · 19-02-2018 4:39pm

Vulgar Favours, a true crime account of the murder of Versace

Michael D Not Higgins · 19-02-2018 4:52pm

recyclops wrote: »

only getting around to the dark tower series now, ( 33 years old dont know how i never started)

just finished the drawing of the three and all i can say is WOW

I'm in a similar position. Have it queued up on the Kindle to read next.

19-02-2018 5:25pm

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Is that her real surname?😊

I think so

she's an American author

Currently reading Past Mortems by Carla Valentine

kimokanto · 20-02-2018 12:25am

Just finished "The North Water" by Ian McGuire.
Victorian era novel set in the dying days of the whaling industry.

This novel plays out in a tough world & is an unrelenting, exciting & violent read.

I loved it

eisenberg1 · 22-02-2018 12:19pm

A ton of Malice - Barry McKinly

Half way thru, very enjoyable

Dial Hard · 22-02-2018 12:32pm

A Book of American Martyrs by Joyce Carol Oates. The protagonist is a racist, sexist, bigoted evangelical Christian whom I thoroughly hate. I'm bet into it.

22-02-2018 4:38pm

A Storm of Swords 2: Blood and Gold by George R.R Martin

Wailin · 22-02-2018 4:46pm

Just finished Call of the Wild by Jack London. Fantastic little book that I should have read years ago as a teenager. Starting White Fang next.

Wailin · 22-02-2018 8:14pm

kimokanto wrote: »

Just finished "The North Water" by Ian McGuire.
Victorian era novel set in the dying days of the whaling industry.

This novel plays out in a tough world & is an unrelenting, exciting & violent read.

I loved it

Sounds like my kind of book...just ordered it!

Paddy Samurai · 23-02-2018 3:17pm

Reading a thriller is a change of pace for me but this one was recommended to me by friends and work colleagues ,so decided to give it a go.
Just finished chapter two and I may already be hooked.:D

Critics are calling I AM PILGRIM Unputdownable ,Booklist The best book of 2014 Suspense Magazine The next Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , The New York Post A breakneck race against time and an implacable enemy An anonymous young woman murdered in a run down hotel all identifying characteristics dissolved by acid. A father publicly beheaded in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square .A notorious Syrian biotech expert found eyeless in a Damascus junkyard Smoldering human remains on a remote mountainside in Afghanistan. A flawless plot to commit an appalling crime against humanity .One path links them all and only one man can make the journey

Wailin · 23-02-2018 3:36pm

Paddy Samurai wrote: »

Reading a thriller is a change of pace for me but this one was recommended to me by friends and work colleagues ,so decided to give it a go.
Just finished chapter two and I may already be hooked.:D

Was very underwhelmed with this book to be honest and can't see what all the fuss is about. Lags badly in the middle and only picks up near the end.

eviltwin · 23-02-2018 3:52pm

Paddy Samurai wrote: »

Reading a thriller is a change of pace for me but this one was recommended to me by friends and work colleagues ,so decided to give it a go.
Just finished chapter two and I may already be hooked.:D

I loved this book, not the kind of thing I usually read very enjoyable.

Ipso · 23-02-2018 6:05pm

Lancaster against York by Trevor Royle. After reading some fictionalized history on the war of the Roses I decided to read something more non fiction based. He also has a book on the Cromwellian wars which I might read at some point.
Also the North Water, mentioned above, sounds good. Going to read that next.

Riddle101 · 23-02-2018 6:47pm

I just bought Frank Herbert's Dune novel along with Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. Can't wait to get stuck into them as i've been really eager to read Dune for a while now.

banie01 · 23-02-2018 7:36pm

Riddle101 wrote: »

I just bought Frank Herbert's Dune novel along with Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. Can't wait to get stuck into them as i've been really eager to read Dune for a while now.

Dune really is a fantastic book, massive scope and still an allegory for so much of the world.

I'd recommend God Emperor too, the later books and in particular the cash ins by Herberts son are poor.

Benildus · 26-02-2018 6:16pm

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.

gutenberg · 26-02-2018 7:53pm

I started The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.

pitifulgod · 26-02-2018 8:21pm

gutenberg wrote: »

I started The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.

Definitely up there as my favourite book that I read last year.

appledrop · 26-02-2018 9:47pm

gutenberg wrote: »

I started The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.

That book is unreal. Up there with one of my favourites.

appledrop · 26-02-2018 9:50pm

Fatherland by Robert Harris. More of a thriller than I was expecting which I wouldnt usually read but very enjoyable all the same.

Fann Linn · 26-02-2018 9:50pm

The Tatooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris.

appledrop · 26-02-2018 9:53pm

Fann Linn wrote: »

The Tatooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris.

How are you finding it? I recently read The Choice by Edith Ever and it was a very interesting read. Thinking of buying this one next.

Fann Linn · 26-02-2018 10:02pm

appledrop wrote: »

How are you finding it? I recently read The Choice by Edith Ever and it was a very interesting read. Thinking of buying this one next.

I've an interest in history and have a 'gra' for WW2 to be honest, so just finding another viewpoint on this terrible time.

Saying that, the story itself is interesting, and the subjects pov is quite original and yet so very , very central to the full horrors of Auschwitz. It's really amazing how Man can be so barbaric and yet also amazing how Man can struggle to survive that very barbarity.

appledrop · 26-02-2018 10:11pm

Thanks for the reply. Sounds like an interesting read definitely on the list for the next book. If we get this snow in that we are promised I'll be flying through them all!

Thargor · 04-03-2018 11:32pm

Riddle101 wrote: »

I just bought Frank Herbert's Dune novel along with Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. Can't wait to get stuck into them as i've been really eager to read Dune for a while now.

Dune is an amazing read, enjoy it, probably my all time favourite.

appledrop · 04-03-2018 11:55pm

Right so finished reading Fatherland. I did really enjoy it but disappointed with the ending. Anyone else feel the same?

Inspector Coptoor · 05-03-2018 12:14am

Reading a physics book called
“the greatest story ever ...so far. Why are we here” by Lawrence M Krauss.

I have a biochemistry background and physics is not my strongpoint but this book is giving me a much better understanding of quantum mechanics.
Would recommend.

kimokanto · 05-03-2018 1:08am

I recently finished David Szalay's book - "All that man is"
It reads more like a collection of short stories than a novel but this in no way reduces the quality of this book.
There is a subtlety & simplicity to his writing which belies its magnificance.
Bleak at times but touchingly sensative & funny also.

shoegal1 · 05-03-2018 8:34am

Just finished The Potato Factory by Bryce Courtenay. Part 1 of a trilogy. From 19th C London to the convict colony of Van Diemen's Land, a really good read.

rushfan · 05-03-2018 9:16am

appledrop wrote:

Right so finished reading Fatherland. I did really enjoy it but disappointed with the ending. Anyone else feel the same?

It's on the list!! Just finished Conclave which wasn't bad, intriguing ending.

Malari · 05-03-2018 11:10am

Ferney, by James Long.

I appreciate a lot of work went into the historical research for this novel, and the writing is quite beautiful at times, but I just couldn't get on board with the central love story. I didn't identify with the characters and

I found myself sympathising with the husband.

I don't think I'll bother with the sequel.

Hector Bellend · 05-03-2018 11:47am

The complete Sherlock Holmes.

I only really got into reading as a twenty something. I was a nerd reader as a teenager and didn't read a lot of fiction. Only getting around to most of the classics now.

Still better late that never. Almost finished reading outliers by your man Malcolm Gladwell and am just about to start a book on fifa corruption.

Vojera · 05-03-2018 11:48am

I'm reading The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman, the follow-up to the His Dark Materials series.

I'm always surprised at how well Pullman captures the world from the point of view of a child. It feels very real.

New Home · 05-03-2018 1:18pm

Malari wrote: »

Ferney, by James Long.

I appreciate a lot of work went into the historical research for this novel, and the writing is quite beautiful at times, but I just couldn't get on board with the central love story. I didn't identify with the characters and
I found myself sympathising with the husband.
I don't think I'll bother with the sequel.

I absolutely LLLOVE that book!!! I read it back in 1998, mind you. I agree with what you're saying about

the husband

, but I thought the story was so brilliant I was completely hooked (again, this was 20 years ago).

The sequel ("The Lives She Left Behind"), which is set something like 15 years later (I can't remember exactly), answers some of the questions left from "Ferney" and is one of those books you can't stop reading, it's written beautifully and is very well structured, and again the historical part is very well researched, too, but I felt disappointed by the ending, I felt like James Long wanted to put a very definite stop to any chance of a further volume - to me it sounded like the editors forced him to write it - either that or he got fed up and put those characters behind him ages before he had finished to write the sequel.

James Long (who has also written a couple of books along the same lines under the pseudonym Will Davenport - "The Sinner" and "The Painter", if I remember correctly), used to be a BBC journalist. His first few novels were mostly crime/thrillers/espionage type of things, but he has an obvious passion for history. He has also co-written "The Plot Against Pepys" with his historian son Ben Long .

He's one of my favourite authors (and I don't even like history).

New Home · 05-03-2018 1:19pm

Vojera wrote: »

I'm reading The Book of Dust[/i] by Philip Pullman, the follow-up to the His Dark Materials series.

I'm always surprised at how well Pullman captures the world from the point of view of a child. It feels very real.

That's on my wishlist.

Chapters, wait 'till I get to Dublin!

diomed · 05-03-2018 1:21pm

On Writing by Stephen King
Read it before, reading it now, and will read it again.

Malari · 05-03-2018 1:49pm

New Home wrote: »

I absolutely LLLOVE that book!!! I read it back in 1998, mind you. I agree with what you're saying about
the husband
, but I thought the story was so brilliant I was completely hooked (again, this was 20 years ago).

That's interesting, New Home! I actually found the story not imaginative enough! Not the history aspects, perhaps, but just

more detail on how they came to find each other repeatedly, more depth of character, more on how they dealt with the practicalities of returning to the same village.

I've read many of Claire North's books, some with a similar-ish theme, and the protagonists are often

self-centred and morally dubious, which I don't have a problem with because I was interested in them. I just didn't care about Ferney and Gally...I cared about Mike!

05-03-2018 2:26pm

Just finished reading A Life In Parts by Bryan Cranston. I enjoyed it, great actor and seems like a nice guy

mariaalice · 05-03-2018 2:33pm

For some reason, I want to go back to reading James A. Michener even though I still have books from Christmas to read. Hawaii is up there with my favorite books.

05-03-2018 11:18pm

Business Analysis for Dummies. Interesting and I do feel quite slow in understanding it all.

Autosport · 05-03-2018 11:32pm

Gallery of the Dead by Chris Carter

I love my crime thrillers and his are gruesome, gory and I love his twisted mind

pauldla · 06-03-2018 6:08am

The Iliad. Read it years ago but a recent podcast put me in the humour to read it again. It's excellent, but my god I'd forgotten how bloody it is.

corks finest · 06-03-2018 7:10am

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Business Analysis for Dummies. Interesting and I do feel quite slow in understanding it all.

The wolf's gold(Empire) Anthony Riches,,,,,number 5/6 in the empire series, good.

Oops69 · 12-03-2018 2:44pm

The man in the high castle , Philip K. Dick , enjoying so far ,another troubled genius I’m afraid .

Your Face · 12-03-2018 6:14pm

The Welsh Triangle Revisited by Peter Paget.

It's great fun.

17-03-2018 5:26pm

Friend request by Laura Marshall

Outlaw Pete · 17-03-2018 8:01pm

Brave by Rose McGowan.

One of those books you can't put down dread picking up.

Half way through and so far she's just been a bratty narcissist with seemingly zero self awareness.

Irishder · 17-03-2018 11:19pm

Running ---- Ronnie O'Sullivan.

Good insight into him, Interesting fella

donegal_man · 18-03-2018 12:28am

Picked up Colin Bateman's "Mystery Man" for some light reading and loving it. It's about the owner of a book shop who becomes a private detective pretty much by accident when the owner of the agency next door disappears and falls into a case involving murder, nazis and customers who are "a heady mix of silent-but-deadly farters, shoplifters, alcoholics, and students".

Graces7 · 18-03-2018 3:31am

Temporarily bookless; rereading some Karin Slaughter. Must download something from Gutenberg ...

What book are you reading atm??

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