kirsten Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 Started reading Evelyn Waugh's 'Scoop' at last the other week having read and loved 'A Handful of Dust', 'Brideshead Revisited' and 'Vile Bodies', but I've just not really been in the mood for it recently. Today during my lunch hour at work I started reading Chuck Palahniuk's 'Survivor' on the recommendation of my friend Neil. It's pretty interesting so far. Palahniuk is very strange. I've only read 'Fight Club' of his before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 Started reading Evelyn Waugh's 'Scoop' at last the other week having read and loved 'A Handful of Dust', 'Brideshead Revisited' and 'Vile Bodies', but I've just not really been in the mood for it recently. Have you read "The Loved One"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 Have you read "The Loved One"?Not yet, but I'll hopefully get to it eventually! Waugh's on my list of authors to read everything by. Should I make it a priority? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 It's the only Waugh book that I have read - read it as part of something I did in Higher English and have since re-read it and I think it's brilliant. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 Ace, will definitely make sure it's one of his next ones I read then. You should check out 'A Handful of Dust' sometime, I think it's my favourite of his. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 Nice one, will do. Will actually order it NOW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted March 7, 2011 Report Share Posted March 7, 2011 Ace, hope you enjoy. If not, I hope you got it cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted March 7, 2011 Report Share Posted March 7, 2011 4.45 inc P&P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Broonbreed Posted March 13, 2011 Report Share Posted March 13, 2011 Not sure if this book has been mentioned in this thread already but I'm currently re-reading Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith. It's a thriller set in cold war russia and it's fucking ace.are 2 word reviews acceptable on here? I can't be arsed writing any more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre Von Mondragon Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 A brief diversion from the delights of genre in 'Bad Vibes' by Luke Haines of the Auteurs and others, FAF so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 'Strangeland' by Tracey Emin, picked up for 2 in HMV. Kind of memoirs type thing. She's quite a strange lady. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stroopy121 Posted March 18, 2011 Report Share Posted March 18, 2011 Finally getting around to reading Lord of the Rings.A lot of friends have slated the books, common complaint is that while The Hobbit was a pretty easy read and was fairly quickly paced, the Fellowship et al were much slower paced and overly verbose making them much harder to get into.I've found this to be utter cock, I've slapped my friends who told me this and think the writing style is spectacular. It can be very verbose and seem to spend longer than you'd expect describing seemingly insignificant details but IMO that makes it even easier to lose yourself in. In parts it reads like a really long poem. Brilliant.xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted March 19, 2011 Report Share Posted March 19, 2011 Finally getting around to reading Lord of the Rings.A lot of friends have slated the books, common complaint is that while The Hobbit was a pretty easy read and was fairly quickly paced, the Fellowship et al were much slower paced and overly verbose making them much harder to get into.I've found this to be utter cock, I've slapped my friends who told me this and think the writing style is spectacular. It can be very verbose and seem to spend longer than you'd expect describing seemingly insignificant details but IMO that makes it even easier to lose yourself in. In parts it reads like a really long poem. Brilliant.xxI read a collected edition, I found the first 100 pages or so a chore to get through but then I couldn't put it down.I'm now reading 'The Devil's Star' by Jo Nesbo, really liking these books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeid Posted March 19, 2011 Report Share Posted March 19, 2011 Currently reading Jenna Jameson's book, which is certainly interesting.. haven't even got to the porn stuff yet.Got Andy Goram and Robbie Fowler books to read after. Read the Dalglish one not so long ago, was very interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 I read a collected edition, I found the first 100 pages or so a chore to get through but then I couldn't put it down.I'm now reading 'The Devil's Star' by Jo Nesbo, really liking these books.I read about 10 pages and shoved it under the bed. Saying that I was about 12, trying to read this after seeing the films. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaki Posted March 29, 2011 Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 Started Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh last night. First of his I've read, really good so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted March 29, 2011 Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 I started A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh and it is also really good so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted March 29, 2011 Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 I started A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh and it is also really good so far.Hooray ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted March 29, 2011 Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 Just about to start "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" after having it recommended to me by 3 people in the space of a week. Must stop reading comics and get stuck into this book.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted March 29, 2011 Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 Just about to start "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" after having it recommended to me by 3 people in the space of a week. Must stop reading comics and get stuck into this book....What comics you reading?I'm on the Fantastic 4 Civil War one at the moment. Then getting in to Nemesis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted March 29, 2011 Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 What comics you reading?I'm on the Fantastic 4 Civil War one at the moment. Then getting in to Nemesis.Working on the Captain America Hail Hydra and Man Out Of Time series, just starting the new Hulk (Red Hulk!) series and the new Silver Surfer series, and re-reading all the Lenores so I can get started on volume 2. And just a bunch of various randoms / one-shots that I picked up that looked interesting, and a few Spidey graphic novels I picked up on the cheap. I'm going to get started on Fantastic 4 at some point because I like them, just kinda waiting for a .1 or something as a starting point rather than coming in halway through a story and not knowing what's going on. I heard one of them died and was replaced by Spiderman? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted March 29, 2011 Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 Working on the Captain America Hail Hydra and Man Out Of Time series, just starting the new Hulk (Red Hulk!) series and the new Silver Surfer series, and re-reading all the Lenores so I can get started on volume 2. And just a bunch of various randoms / one-shots that I picked up that looked interesting, and a few Spidey graphic novels I picked up on the cheap. I'm going to get started on Fantastic 4 at some point because I like them, just kinda waiting for a .1 or something as a starting point rather than coming in halway through a story and not knowing what's going on. I heard one of them died and was replaced by Spiderman?I can't remember if that spoiler is true.. Some shit definitely goes down in Civil War but it's been a while since I read the original. I'm working my way through the ones that tie in with it and stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 29, 2011 Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 Been re-reading Slaughterhouse 5, read Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe which was fucking brilliant. I seriously recommend it to anyone, very easy to read about this wrestler in Africa who used to be head of a tribe (sorta) and his life falls around about him, partly thanks to the British colonialisation of lower Niger. Sounds dense but it ain't, a ten year old could read and enjoy it, brilliantly written.Also read another african book, Sozaboy by Ken Adu-Safo. Written in a made up sort of english/african dialect that the author called "Rotten English" it's much fucking harder to read but also enjoyable, if you can stand having to work out what every second sentence means. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Denim.. Posted April 4, 2011 Report Share Posted April 4, 2011 Just finished the above book. Pretty good. All about a monk trying to prove the existance of God on a fucked up planet where visions come to life. ... ends up Satan is God. ... there, ruined it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted April 14, 2011 Report Share Posted April 14, 2011 'The God Delusion' by Richard Dawkins.My head hurts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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