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Old 26-10-2009, 11:47   #831 (permalink)

 
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Started A Snowball in Hell by Christopher Brookmyre. Great opening chapter - I love that character.
Surely the only novel which quotes former Aberdeen FC Manager Ebbe Skovdahl!

I'm about 3/4 of the way through this and like with all Brookmyre books I've read this is the point where I start skimming over the overly descriptive, far fetched action scenes.
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I have dinghy'd all the books I was previously in the middle of to read, In Cold Blood by Capote. I'm a really slow reader, but it's really very good.
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Finished Michael Chabon's 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay'. It was absolutely brilliant. I thought it would take a while to get going like 'The Yiddish Policeman's Union' did, but it got right into the thick of it. Loads going on without making the plot complicated or difficult to follow.
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World War Z by Max Brooks.
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Finished Michael Chabon's 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay'. It was absolutely brilliant. I thought it would take a while to get going like 'The Yiddish Policeman's Union' did, but it got right into the thick of it. Loads going on without making the plot complicated or difficult to follow.
Yay, brilliant books both of them. I reckon Kavalier and Clay is in my top ten books ever fo sho. Apparently a film has been touted for ages, and of course the Coens are making a Yiddish Policeman's Union film. Read any other Chabon?
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Not as yet. I pick up books as and when I see them in second hand shops so if I see any other Chabon books I will definitel be picking them up and reading them. Fantastic writer.

Currently on Margaret Atwood's 'Surfacing'.
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Just finished The Death Of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave,really enjoyed it,
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This week I read Stephen Fry's 'the Hippopotamus' which, although slightly disturbing in places, was excellent. Also the first volume of the 'Fell' comics by Warren Ellis, 'Fell: Feral City'. Damn good, but bleak bleak bleak.

Currently reading 'Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!' by Richard Feynman. He was a genius!
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Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev. It's really rather excellent.
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Currently reading 'Big Chief Elizabeth'.

It's all about Elizabethan forays into America. It's interesting: first interaction with native Americans, treachery,deceit, abandonment. Breakdown of Anglo-Spanish relations, piracy, weak commanders, strong commanders, the recruiting of colonists fatigued by the filth, disease and crime of London, persuaded to leave by promises of status and land in the New World.
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