This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

Metalfan · 31-08-2010 2:07pm

Warlock by Wilbur Smith

Travel is good · 31-08-2010 3:07pm

"Skippy Dies" by Paul Murray

I'm on a bit of a Booker Prize theme here, as I just bought The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas & Room by Emma Donoghue.

emeraldstar · 01-09-2010 1:54pm

Have had Skippy Dies sitting at home for ages. I really must read it now. We've got innumerable piles of unread books though, it's quite ridiculous, so I don't know when I shall get round to it. How do you find it?

pearliefan · 01-09-2010 3:04pm

'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' was great.. Reading the second one now - 'The Girl Who Played with Fire' - and it's a fantastic read as well.

rushnaldo · 01-09-2010 6:43pm

pearliefan wrote: »

'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' was great.. Reading the second one now - 'The Girl Who Played with Fire' - and it's a fantastic read as well.

Same here. I'm half ways thrugh the second book. Its even better than the first one imo so far. Has anyone read all three? which is the best?

Callan57 · 01-09-2010 6:53pm

rushnaldo wrote: »

Same here. I'm half ways thrugh the second book. Its even better than the first one imo so far. Has anyone read all three? which is the best?

Read all 3 and for me the last one Hornets' Nest is the best but all 3 are rivetting reads ... for once well worthy of all the hype

Travel is good · 02-09-2010 12:26pm

emeraldstar wrote: »

Have had Skippy Dies sitting at home for ages. I really must read it now. We've got innumerable piles of unread books though, it's quite ridiculous, so I don't know when I shall get round to it. How do you find it?

I just finished the book yesterday. A strange story, but very topical. It reminded me a bit of the film "Donnie Darko". It's set in a fictional Irish fee-paying school, though you can probably guess which school it's based on. I won't reveal anymore, though the title gives you a hint.

Last night I started "The Room" by Emma Donoghue.

Blobby George · 02-09-2010 1:58pm

Fire And Ice by J.A. Jance

Busi_Girl08 · 02-09-2010 2:29pm

Finished Brave New World. Loved it.

Just started Kite Runner last night.

Callan57 · 02-09-2010 10:58pm

About to start The Housekeep & The Professor by Yoko Ogawa

Kurtosis · 03-09-2010 1:13am

The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman

8mv · 03-09-2010 9:25pm

Finished the Millenium Trilogy. Quite decent but left me a little underwhelmed. No interest in any character except Lisbebh.

Just started Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor. Liking it so far. Can't wait to see how it ends!

I'll also be reading as many plays as I can as suggestions for our drama group. Just scanned through A Crucial Week In The Life Of A Grocers Assistant by Tom Murphy. I'll mark it down as a possible. Saw a production of his Bailegangaire recently and it blew me away.

Censorsh!t · 04-09-2010 11:19am

Finished Brave New World by Aldous Huxley a few days ago. I liked it. But (just seen as they're compared so much) I do like Orwell's Nineteen-EightyFour more.

I'm now onto Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz. For a book that's over 700 pages long I'm tearing into it very well! It's one that just flows and you don't notice that you've read so much. I like Toltz's way of describing things, and much of the passages have a very quotable feel to them.

BopNiblets · 04-09-2010 6:37pm

Finished reading Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan, gritty and hardboiled, great stuff (if not a little confusing sometimes, I tend to read at night so sleepy no good for delicate plot points

).

Asphyxia · 06-09-2010 10:33pm

I've been re-reading some classics at the moment but started the girl who played with fire and think it's brilliant so far, so excited about it.

MsMoo · 07-09-2010 6:56pm

Recently read Iain Banks - The Steep Approach to Garbadale and a re-read of Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman - Good Omens.

Great reads.

Fenny · 08-09-2010 1:31pm

Finally getting round to reading At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien. It's really good so far! He's mad craic.

Busi_Girl08 · 08-09-2010 2:09pm

Fenny wrote: »

Finally getting round to reading At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien. It's really good so far! He's mad craic.

LOVED that book. It's just so...all over the place. In a good way :P

I just started The Dalkey Archives. So far so good

pavb2 · 08-09-2010 8:41pm

Just coming to the end of The Religion Tim Willocks very good story not sure about the flowery language though.

Read short story The Lottery last night,excellent twist

Callan57 · 08-09-2010 9:36pm

Just getting into The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

RacoonQueen · 08-09-2010 11:02pm

Reading the new Sansom book Heartstone. This could beat Sovereign!

Callan57 · 09-09-2010 10:25am

RacoonQueen wrote: »

Reading the new Sansom book Heartstone. This could beat Sovereign!

Is it that good? I'm a huge fan of Sansom just love his writing style

Kevlyn20 · 10-09-2010 4:41pm

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

Finished Brave New World. Loved it.

Just started Kite Runner last night.

Fantastic book The Kite Runner as is A Thousand Splendid Suns.

Currently reading Kate Mosse, Sepulchre enjoying it so far

Callan57 · 13-09-2010 10:02pm

Just finished The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver and I'm going to start 'Room' tonight ... heard so much about it I'm really looking forward to it.

Kalimah · 14-09-2010 10:43pm

Finished The Reluctant Fundamentalist. An easy read and well done too. I liked it. Just on to an Antonia Fraser bio of Charles 11 which is a bit turgid to say the least. I picked up The Chidren's Book by AS Byatt in a charity shop during the week. Dying to read thE new CS Sansom Matthew Shardake. I love those stories!

LoLth · 15-09-2010 1:21pm

I'm about halfway through Zero History by William Gibson. I *think* its the last in the Bigend trilogy (after pattern recognition (great) and Spook Country (good)). this one is very much closer to pattern recognition in pace and enjoyability.

Seillejet · 15-09-2010 10:19pm

I am about a third of the way in to Jo Nesbo's "The Snowman", and it is stunningly good. I read one of his other Harry Hole novels which was decent but this demands your attention it is that good. I would highly recommend.

cynder · 16-09-2010 7:47am

Seillejet wrote: »

I am about a third of the way in to Jo Nesbo's "The Snowman", and it is stunningly good. I read one of his other Harry Hole novels which was decent but this demands your attention it is that good. I would highly recommend.

I read that on holidays in france, loved it. I told my mom to get it and she got it of amazon 3 days ago.

Callan57 · 16-09-2010 7:01pm

I'm almost finished Emma Donoghue's 'Room' ... amazing book very thought provoking and would be a deserving Booker winner.

Asphyxia · 17-09-2010 10:36pm

My sister's boyfriend (who works in a book shop) got me a couple of books today that were left in the store room. I finished the Girl Who Played with Fire a few days ago which was brilliant and i'm thinking of starting Les Miserables - Victor Hugo, it's volume to of the book. I already read volume one so we'll see how it goes when I start it tomorrow.

8mv · 18-09-2010 9:30am

Just finished Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor - very good indeed. I was surprised at his ability to humanise soldiers on both sides. For relief, I'm re-reading The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson and then some more plays.

pavb2 · 18-09-2010 11:38am

Callan57 wrote: »

Just finished The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver and I'm going to start 'Room' tonight ... heard so much about it I'm really looking forward to it.

Hi Callan would you recommend The Lacuna?

Callan57 · 19-09-2010 7:00pm

pavb2 wrote: »

Hi Callan would you recommend The Lacuna?

Definitely .... though it did take me a while to get into the style of it ... it's written as a series of diary entries but I really did enjoy it. I always find that period in US history (1950's) amazing & the whole 'reds under the bed' obsession. I read Philip Roth's 'I Married A Communist' sometime ago and loved it also.

trishasaffron · 19-09-2010 9:16pm

Really enjoyed "Seige of Krishnapur" by JG farrell - it won the booker back in the 70s and he is of interest here having lived in dalkey and died fishing off west cork.

Highly recommend

Censorsh!t · 20-09-2010 5:59pm

Finished The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis. I like Ellis' style of writing, really calm and unaffected/emotionless even when writing about explicit things. I think that's what made American Psycho so powerful.

Now onto Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

UpCork · 22-09-2010 9:08pm

I am almost finished Alone in Berlin. Feels like it has taken me an age to read. I've been quite busy but also the translation from German doesn't make the prose as fluid.
Am enjoying it but can't wait to finish it as I've heard rave reviews of The Help, so want to start that

KeanSeenan · 22-09-2010 9:23pm

Censorsh!t wrote: »

Finished The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis. I like Ellis' style of writing, really calm and unaffected/emotionless even when writing about explicit things. I think that's what made American Psycho so powerful.

Now onto Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

I've been meaning to get to them, the films were ok.

In other news, I just finished 'Norwegian Wood' by Haruki Murakami and I really enjoyed it, so I thought I'd go onto 'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe.

storm2811 · 24-09-2010 8:18pm

Ooh, haven't posted in a while, read Notes on a Scandal and The Kite Runner recently and starting Q&A tonight.
Doing a kind of book - film comparison thing.
I already seen Notes on a Scandal and have to say I liked both the film and book equally, unusual because most films from books aren't great.

Loved The Kite Runner! Was a complete downer for the first half, almost wanted to stop reading it for a while. Have to see the film now and compare.

I've heard Q&A is fantastic and haven't seen Slumdog Millionaire either so looking forward to starting it.

Planning on reading The Help after that, heard it was good and seen a few posters here recommending it too.

Isle · 26-09-2010 1:15am

I'm reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. I thought it was a bit slow at the start but once you get past the first 100 pages or so it really gets going. I haven't been stop reading it. I even took it to work with me yesterday to read whenever I got a chance.

Kalimah · 30-09-2010 3:26pm

I finished Room by Emma Donoghue today. I get through it in two days! I don't think I've ever finished as book as fast except Angela's Ashes.
I thought Room was absolutely marvellous. I had thought it might be very depressing but it was inspiring and uplifting.

bp1989 · 30-09-2010 9:53pm

Read The Hunger Games for twelve hours today. Is that excessive?

Busi_Girl08 · 04-10-2010 10:18am

FINALLY finished The Dalkey Archive yesterday (It took me 5 weeks, I've been busy

)

I started The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ yesterday.

Meh. It's alright.

AnnyHallsal · 07-10-2010 8:21pm

I just finished Lorrie Moore's A Gate at the Stairs. I've read a few of her short stories before and have decided I'm a fan. Her writing is almost .. miraculous .. at moments and she's funny, proper funny! Two enthusiastic thumbs up, as I go to hunt out her back catalogue.

Cavehill Red · 07-10-2010 8:27pm

Kim Stanley Robinson's 'Galileo's Dream' - already superb only three chapters in.
Next up is Mailer's 'The Castle in the Forest', but that might be a while away. I'm really enjoying the current read.

tHE vAGGABOND · 07-10-2010 9:38pm

Fall of Giants by Ken Follet..

Harmless enough historical fiction, but one reviewer compared it to Forrest gump, in that of the co-incidences, random meetings with key people and figures in the book stumbling into the most important moments of the time, and changing them

Censorsh!t · 08-10-2010 9:26am

Pretty much finished Regeneration by Pat Barker. It's good enough, but can't help having the feeling that not much happened in it... I guess its only the first part in a trilogy though. Either way its a good anti-war novel, ans also has a good critique on shock therapy which was somewhat upsetting/disturbing.

Also half way through Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H Lawrence. I didnt expect to like it as much as i do, even though it seems a bit slow paced at times, it's still an interesting read (even in between the durty bits =P).

Busi_Girl08 · 08-10-2010 9:59am

I finished The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, t'was alright.
The ending was more intriguing than the beginning, anyway.

Last night I started Slaughterhouse 5.

emeraldstar · 08-10-2010 1:29pm

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters. Absolutely loving it. Just finished Waters' Tipping the Velvet before this and thought that was good, but this one is even better.

Kalimah · 08-10-2010 3:51pm

Three quarters through Skippy Dies. It's a great read.

tough__cookie · 08-10-2010 7:35pm

James Patterson Pop goes the Weasel

This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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