Pierre Von Mondragon Posted April 14, 2011 Report Share Posted April 14, 2011 Jus(s)t started 'The Worm Ouroboros' by E.R. Eddison; pre-Tolkienian epic Fantasy, inna Revived Jacobean prose stylee. The only difficulty is keeping track of the werst thous, as it can take a moment of deciphering to work out to whom the characters are referring. The only other complaint is that the fantastic psychogeography is a bit prosaic, Witchland, Demonland, Pixyland et al. Good though, so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerryChristmas Posted April 26, 2011 Report Share Posted April 26, 2011 Finished Valtaires Candide, brilliantly funny, period tragedy. and Robinson Crusoe half way through Oliver twist and have Don Quixote on order and being sent the spanish Edition by the ex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted April 28, 2011 Report Share Posted April 28, 2011 'The God Delusion' has had to be transferred to bedtime reading, it's too heavy going for the commute.Commute reading is now 'Die Hard' by Roderick Thorpe. It's the book the completely brilliant film was based on and originally called 'Nothing Lasts Forever' but I have had to break with my normal weird phobia of buying film tie-in editions of books because a copy of the original pre-film book costs a fortune on Amazon and this copy was only a few quid. The main characetr isn't called John McClane and he is travelling to LA to see his daughter, not his wife, who is dead. That's the differences so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted April 28, 2011 Report Share Posted April 28, 2011 have Don Quixote on order and being sent the spanish Edition by the ex woah how's your Spanish? Is it an updated language version or in the original style? I know native Spanish speakers who find it very difficult to read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaki Posted April 28, 2011 Report Share Posted April 28, 2011 Enjoyed Waugh's Men at Arms. Will probably read the rest of the trilogy. Fancied a lighter read so am reading Louis Theroux's Call of the Weird. It's about him going back to America in 2004 to catch up with some of the oddballs he spent time with filming his documentaries. It's pretty good fun more than anything overly thought provoking. Can't help reading it in his voice and imagining his mannerisms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Denim.. Posted May 10, 2011 Report Share Posted May 10, 2011 Reading "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins. (Trilogy)Don't be put off by the 'Teen Fiction' tag on these books. They are a pretty (if easy) good read. About a dystopian future where kids are put into an arena to fight to the death for the entertainment of the masses. Think running man / battle royal. Apparently, it's being made into a film for next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted May 14, 2011 Report Share Posted May 14, 2011 I really need to get into reading again soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jester1470 Posted May 17, 2011 Report Share Posted May 17, 2011 Buy a kindle, we love ours and read much more because of the convenience of it i thought I would hate it in principle but really love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen B Posted May 17, 2011 Report Share Posted May 17, 2011 Just finished 'The Gospel According to Jesus' by Jose Saramago (which was fantastic) and started 'On Black Hill' by Bruce Chatwin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted May 17, 2011 Report Share Posted May 17, 2011 Gospel According to Jesus Christ is absolutely fantastic. I just started re-reading "The Book of Illusions". It's probably my favourite Paul Auster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaki Posted May 18, 2011 Report Share Posted May 18, 2011 Had a ten day holiday in the sun and read some crackers:The Innocent - Ian McEwan. Incredibly well written cold war spy tale based in 50's Berlin. Everything about this book was top notch. Things the Grandchildren Should Know - Mark Oliver Everett ('E' from the Eels). Been meaning to read this for ages being a big fan of Eels. Now I'm an Eels fanatic. The general theme is how music has made him overcome the incredible amount of tragedies in his life. Very funny and touching. I'd recommend it to anyone whether they are fans or not. I love him and I wish he was my friend. Lean on Pete = Willy Vlautin. I picked this up when Richmond Fontaine played the Tunnels. Vlautin is their front man and songwriter. It's a novel about a lost teenage boy kicking about the Pacific North West and a racehorse. I could imagine it being studied in English classes in years to come. It screams Steinbeck although the writing style is very basic and direct which wasn't necessarily a bad thing. I'll be checking out his other books. A Most Wanted Man - John Le Carre. His latest and probably last book. Typical Le Carre novel (espionage, double crossing, incredibly complex plot, morality, emotions, ace writing, plot twists) based in modern times of the war on terror. The man is a genius. Read it. About a quarter of the way through All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses and Eye by Christopher Brookmyre. Typical Brookmyre experience of a lot of laughs, a few groans, quality back stories, satire and dialogue and frustratingly boring passages of gadgets and action adventure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted May 18, 2011 Report Share Posted May 18, 2011 I read Viz on the shitter this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted May 18, 2011 Report Share Posted May 18, 2011 Had a ten day holiday in the sun and read some crackers:The Innocent - Ian McEwan. Incredibly well written cold war spy tale based in 50's Berlin. Everything about this book was top notch. Things the Grandchildren Should Know - Mark Oliver Everett ('E' from the Eels). Been meaning to read this for ages being a big fan of Eels. Now I'm an Eels fanatic. The general theme is how music has made him overcome the incredible amount of tragedies in his life. Very funny and touching. I'd recommend it to anyone whether they are fans or not. I love him and I wish he was my friend. Lean on Pete = Willy Vlautin. I picked this up when Richmond Fontaine played the Tunnels. Vlautin is their front man and songwriter. It's a novel about a lost teenage boy kicking about the Pacific North West and a racehorse. I could imagine it being studied in English classes in years to come. It screams Steinbeck although the writing style is very basic and direct which wasn't necessarily a bad thing. I'll be checking out his other books. A Most Wanted Man - John Le Carre. His latest and probably last book. Typical Le Carre novel (espionage, double crossing, incredibly complex plot, morality, emotions, ace writing, plot twists) based in modern times of the war on terror. The man is a genius. Read it. About a quarter of the way through All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses and Eye by Christopher Brookmyre. Typical Brookmyre experience of a lot of laughs, a few groans, quality back stories, satire and dialogue and frustratingly boring passages of gadgets and action adventure.These all sound like books i'd like.I'm currently reading Broken Skin by Stuart MacBride. Enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would. The way he describes Aberdeen is spot on and it gives me a nice warm homely feel. Some of the dialogue is a bit cheesy but on the whole he's a good writer. Will definitely be checking out his other stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted May 18, 2011 Report Share Posted May 18, 2011 I read Viz on the shitter this morning.The man of the modern age doesn't read magazines on the shitter. He watches a funny youtube video on his poncy phone.Pootubing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Gold Posted May 19, 2011 Report Share Posted May 19, 2011 These all sound like books i'd like.I'm currently reading Broken Skin by Stuart MacBride. Enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would. The way he describes Aberdeen is spot on and it gives me a nice warm homely feel. Some of the dialogue is a bit cheesy but on the whole he's a good writer. Will definitely be checking out his other stuff.It's total trash, but I really love Stuart MacBride's books. Plus, he gave me a free ale once. What a champ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted May 19, 2011 Report Share Posted May 19, 2011 It's total trash, but I really love Stuart MacBride's books. Plus, he gave me a free ale once. What a champ.Agreed - his books are great, but not in a GREAT way. Clearly not literary genius, but I enjoy reading them which I guess is the main thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerryChristmas Posted May 22, 2011 Report Share Posted May 22, 2011 woah how's your Spanish? Is it an updated language version or in the original style? I know native Spanish speakers who find it very difficult to read.I can read Spanish quite well and understand it as spoken but cant speak it well at allI think the hardest part about speaking it is that you have to deal with adjectives coinciding with noun genders and so as a non-native speaker i have to remember long strings of words on the fly and i have a shit memory It gets a lot easier to learn when you're speaking it every day under the constant words 'you learn it and about my culture before i marry you' lolSo far i've read Guzman de Alfrache, El estrangulador and Cronica de Espana and hope to read many more in this fascinating language Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted May 23, 2011 Report Share Posted May 23, 2011 Reading Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk at the moment. Pretty good. So far, not as good as Fight Club or Survivor. But pretty entertaining.Basically it's about porn star Cassie Wright breaking the world gang bang record for consecutive fucks. 600 to be exact. It tells the story from the view point of Mr 72, 137 and 600. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 'Die Hard/Nothing Lasts Forever' was pretty cool, quite different to the film but lots of recognisable stuff as well.Now reading a book I grabbed for a couple of quid in HMV, 'Hell Bent for Leather' by Seb Hunter, about his time as a Heavy Metal obsessed youth and his journey onwards through bands etc. Pretty amusing, easy read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaTsunami Posted May 26, 2011 Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 Read the first book in 'The Hunger Games' trilogy by Suzanne Collins. People keep banging on about them so I figured I'd give them a read before the films came out next year. It was pretty great for a book aimed at teenagers. Really fucking dark in places, well written and the characters are a LOT more rounded out than anything you'll find in that Twilight shite. 1984 meets Battle Royale.Then I read the first book in the Song of Ice and Fire series, 'Game of Thrones' since I started watching it. Not as laden down with long-winded passages describing shit no-one is interested in as I'd feared from a fantasy novel. Heavily inspired by medieval England, it's really entertaining. I'm looking forward to A Clash of Kings now.Currently reading Margaret Atwood's 'Oryx and Crake' which I'm really enjoying. A post-sort-of-apocalypse sci-fi read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Denim.. Posted June 8, 2011 Report Share Posted June 8, 2011 Read the first book in 'The Hunger Games' trilogy by Suzanne Collins. People keep banging on about them so I figured I'd give them a read before the films came out next year. It was pretty great for a book aimed at teenagers. Really fucking dark in places, well written and the characters are a LOT more rounded out than anything you'll find in that Twilight shite. 1984 meets Battle Royale.I finished the third book in the series last week and must say that right up to the end I was hooked. (I can' t wait to see how Haymitch is portrayed in the film. To me, he outshone the main characters.)In the middle of reading some Kafka for the first time. (Short stories) I was hoping to finally get to the bottom of the meaning of 'Kafkaesque' but I'm still none the wiser. Not the distopian nightmare author I was expecting. Not altogether bad either. Think Edgar Allan Poe without the horror. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest E.C Posted June 8, 2011 Report Share Posted June 8, 2011 Ed Macy - Apache Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stroopy121 Posted June 8, 2011 Report Share Posted June 8, 2011 Just started the new Christopher Brookmyre book - Where the Bodies are Buried. Par for the course so far - absolutely fucking excellent.Crime fiction meets black comedy. Anyone not familiar with him I very much recommend him. Quite Ugly One Morning is his first book and is a brilliant place to start.xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaki Posted June 8, 2011 Report Share Posted June 8, 2011 About a quarter of the way through All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses and Eye by Christopher Brookmyre. Typical Brookmyre experience of a lot of laughs, a few groans, quality back stories, satire and dialogue and frustratingly boring passages of gadgets and action adventure.Finished this one last night. Probably one of his more ridiculous but also one of his most enjoyable. I wasn't too bored by the gadgets/action adventure as I was hooked on the silly story that somehow in small parts seemed believable. Found out today Brookmyre is also the president of the Scottish Humanist Society. I like him and I like his books. I wonder how well he does in other countries as his writing has a lot of Scottish in-jokes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest E.C Posted June 8, 2011 Report Share Posted June 8, 2011 Finished this one last night. Probably one of his more ridiculous but also one of his most enjoyable. I wasn't too bored by the gadgets/action adventure as I was hooked on the silly story that somehow in small parts seemed believable. Found out today Brookmyre is also the president of the Scottish Humanist Society. I like him and I like his books. I wonder how well he does in other countries as his writing has a lot of Scottish in-jokes.Just recently finished "A Big Boy did it and Ran Away" and really liked it. The way it was written was very enjoyable and the plot, although daft, was pretty cool. My sister has all of his books, so just wondered what order you'd suggest reading them in?Are they all completely different character/stories or do they link with each other etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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