Larsen B Posted September 10, 2009 Report Share Posted September 10, 2009 I'm reading Wild Harbour by Ian McPherson which I picked up on a whim in the oxfam book shop having gone specifically to find some Nan Shepherd. It was written before WW2 and follows a couple who try to escape the war (which in the book breaks out in 1944) by hiding in a cave in the Speyside hills. I've been keen to read some more by local(ish) writers, although I've still never read Sunset Song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaTsunami Posted September 10, 2009 Report Share Posted September 10, 2009 Nan Shepherd's good, probably better than Lewis Grassic Gibbon. But for local(ish), Willa Muir is my favourite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaki Posted September 10, 2009 Report Share Posted September 10, 2009 I'm reading Wild Harbour by Ian McPherson which I picked up on a whim in the oxfam book shop having gone specifically to find some Nan Shepherd. It was written before WW2 and follows a couple who try to escape the war (which in the book breaks out in 1944) by hiding in a cave in the Speyside hills. I've been keen to read some more by local(ish) writers, although I've still never read Sunset Song.Dinna, it's a dirge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raddudemcawsumburger Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 Adam Copeland on Edge.'tis rather good if you like WWE.even if you don't still good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Denim.. Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 Dystopias are great, I mean shit, but great.You should read 'The City and The City' by China Mieville. If you like 1984, Brave New World, Neverwhere, Steampunk, Kafka and suchlike. Also just finished 'Un Lun Dun' by China Mieville. (Dystopia for junior readers.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stichman Posted September 17, 2009 Report Share Posted September 17, 2009 The Radetzky March - Joseph RothThis is one of the best books I've ever read. It follows a couple of generations of an Austro-Hungarian family and beautifully charts the demise of the empire. Some absolutely brilliant characters and astonishingly vivid imagery. I just loved this so much, what a book. I can't recommend it highly enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stichman Posted September 17, 2009 Report Share Posted September 17, 2009 I started Wuthering Heights a while ago but I struggled to get into it and it's been sitting with a bookmark in the same place for a few months now.Pack it in and go for The Mill on the Floss for all your effeminate classic needs. It's ace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaTsunami Posted September 22, 2009 Report Share Posted September 22, 2009 I'm reading 'Among Muslims: Meetings at the Frontier of Pakistan' by Kathleen Jamie, and it's both very interesting and very good. I'm a big fan of her poetry and I'm reading this as part of an argument in my PhD. I read her other travel book 'Findings' which is a great wee as well. On the fiction front I'm a wee bitty through Murakami's 'The Wind Up Bird Chronicles' but if I don't finish it before 'The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest' comes out it will be on hold for a short while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted September 22, 2009 Report Share Posted September 22, 2009 Pack it in and go for The Mill on the Floss for all your effeminate classic needs. It's ace.I've actually re-started Wuthering Heights. I'm getting more into it this time. Before I was just giving it 20 minutes a day on my lunch break, but it's really a book you need to concentrate on without people coming in and out and talking to you. Now I've got Stephen King in my desk drawer for lunch breaks and Wuthering Heights next to my bed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaki Posted September 22, 2009 Report Share Posted September 22, 2009 Now I've got Stephen King in my desk drawer for lunch breaks Does he just pop out and do requests? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 Now finished 'The Death of Bunny Munro' by Nick Cave. Enjoyed it OK but it sees a fair shift in style from 'And the Ass saw the Angel'. In fact it read more like an Irvine Welsh novel. It actually seems to be a continuation of Cave's apparent ongoing mid-life crisis so far seen in Grinderman. Now reading 'Reheated Cabbage' by Irvine Welsh, so far so good. I think it shows that despite still being an enjoyable read, his later period writing has not been near his earliest work in terms of quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 I'm on a bit of a non-fiction thing at the moment. Just finished Bad Science by Ben Goldacre (excellent book about how badly the press report science stories, fraudulent claims made by alternative medicine practicitioners etc) and in the middle of reading Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality by Manjit Kumar (a bit of a biography of the two scientists and an account of their contributions to Quantum theory and the repercussions of it).Might need to read something lighter after that one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flash@TMB Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 I'm on a bit of a non-fiction thing at the moment. Just finished Bad Science by Ben Goldacre (excellent book about how badly the press report science stories, fraudulent claims made by alternative medicine practicitioners etc) I read that a few months back. The chapter on Gillian McKeith is priceless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flash@TMB Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 Am currently reading "Entering The Castle" by Caroline Myss. It's a modern reworking of El Castillo Interior written in 1577 by Saint Teresa of vila. Am only at page 44 but already it's shaping up to be one of the most beautiful things I've ever read. The foreward by Ken Wilber and the authors own preface are worth the admission price alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted October 5, 2009 Report Share Posted October 5, 2009 Had my eye on Charlie Brooker's new book at work all day yesterday so caved and bought it with money I don't really have. So far, so good as per Brooker-usual. Hardback though. Weird.And look at his lovely scowling face...Aww... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaTsunami Posted October 5, 2009 Report Share Posted October 5, 2009 ******************MILD STIEG LARRSON SPOILERS********I started/finished The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest yesterday evening/wee hours of the morning. I thought it should have ended a wee bitty sooner than it did as anything after the warehouse confrontation sort of weakened the sense of finality. All in all though a cracking end to the trilogy, although I still think the second book is the strongest of the three. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted October 6, 2009 Report Share Posted October 6, 2009 I'm reading The Dirt, the Motley Crue book. Unputdownable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaki Posted October 8, 2009 Report Share Posted October 8, 2009 Finished Moll Flanders. I enjoyed it apart from the preface. Daniel Defoe sounds like a bit of a nob all things told. Started A Snowball in Hell by Christopher Brookmyre. Great opening chapter - I love that character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimyReizeger Posted October 13, 2009 Report Share Posted October 13, 2009 At a loss for things to read at the moment so re-reading 'Success' my Martin Amis, which is really good book about a group of people going slowly insane due to over-prevalence of rampant narcissism, materialism, sexual humiliation and incest within their family. It's written from the point of view of the two male children, who occupy entirely different positions within society yet are forced to live with one another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaki Posted October 13, 2009 Report Share Posted October 13, 2009 At a loss for things to read at the moment so re-reading 'Success' my Martin Amis, which is really good book about a group of people going slowly insane due to over-prevalence of rampant narcissism, materialism, sexual humiliation and incest within their family. It's written from the point of view of the two male children, who occupy entirely different positions within society yet are forced to live with one another.There's heaps of other books been written. Go to a library, bookshop, jumble sale or even check on line Sounds like a nifty story like but I've never understood re-reading whole books. I'll keep books I like and flip through them, read a section here and there that I enjoyed but I've never re-read a book start to finish. I consider that when I die there will be thousands of enjoyable books that I never got round to reading so why waste my time on one when I ken fit happens?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimyReizeger Posted October 13, 2009 Report Share Posted October 13, 2009 Yeah, aside from this I've never re-read a book before for pleasure. I literally can't find anything which zings for me at the moment; keep starting then stopping things that people recommend etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFM Posted October 17, 2009 Report Share Posted October 17, 2009 Reading Perch Hill by Adam Nicolson and it is very good, BFM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 Been on a bit of a Vonnegut binge of late. Currently reading 'Armageddon in Retrospect'. It's very very good, I'm sad he's dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 I'm reading The Dirt, the Motley Crue book. Unputdownable Love that book. I had never heard of 'ludes' untill I read it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaki Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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