James Broonbreed Posted March 4, 2015 Report Share Posted March 4, 2015 Half way through Women, by Bukowski. Pretty standard Bukwoski. In other words fuckin ace. 'Her cunt was huge' etc. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted March 4, 2015 Report Share Posted March 4, 2015 (edited) I just finished wrestling tome "The Death Of WCW" by RD Reynolds. Now reading " John Dies At The End" by David Wong. Its quite Palahniuky so far. Edited March 4, 2015 by Lemon Raspberry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Broonbreed Posted March 8, 2015 Report Share Posted March 8, 2015 Half way through Women, by Bukowski. Pretty standard Bukwoski. In other words fuckin ace. 'Her cunt was huge' etc.Finished and enjoyed. Now on to a book of Poe shorts. Grim wordy stuff thus far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted March 8, 2015 Report Share Posted March 8, 2015 I'm reading Top Dog by Andy Bonds along side re-reading Jurassic Park, 20 years after I first picked it up. Forgot how many little interesting bits didn't make the film Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 Just finished Reality Dysfunction by Peter F Hamilton. What a slog. Is it too much to ask for some sci-fi that's actually readable? Too many characters, too many made up words (admittedly sci-fi is always going to struggle a bit for this but this is ridiculous) and too many pages. Probably won't bother with the rest of the trilogy. Currently reading On Writing by Stephen King. It's great. Part biography and part tutorial it's basically King giving his thoughts on the technical aspects of writing along with the context of his own career development and personal history. Really making me want to get back into his books as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaTsunami Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 I'm reading a Dragon Age novel because that stupid game has taken over my stupid life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted March 14, 2015 Report Share Posted March 14, 2015 I just finished 'Girl In A Band' by Kim Gordon. Oh, boy, is it a bitter 273 pages. On the whole, it was enjoyable, and there are some great stories about her time with Sonic Youth and when she first moved to New York (especially good is the one about when she gave Johnny Thunders into trouble and he retaliated by calling her "four eyes" - Yeah! You tell that nerd, Johnny!) but it's mainly a way of calling Thurston and the woman he cheated with assholes publicly. Which is fair enough, I guess, I've never had a marriage of 30 years be ended by an affair so I probably can't comment, but it didn't seem worth it and it just made me sad. Oh, and such namedropping. Lots of names.The way it is written is pretty odd, too. Almost as if there was no sub-editor or something as there's a lot of repetition. She talks about constantly being asked the question "what's it like to be a rock'n'roll mom?" three times and at every mention of it, it's as if she has just brought it up for the first time. Really bizarre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain America Posted March 18, 2015 Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 Right at the end of my re reads of the Harry Potter series. I'm getting the sads all over again that this is the last book in that universe. I'd love to read books based on Aurors or Bill Weasley's job as a curse breaker for Gringotts. So much more it would be great to read about that wizarding world. I don't even really want another Harry Potter story just more from the same world with new characters. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted March 18, 2015 Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 (edited) I've put away "Turning My Back On The Premier League" by Lee Price and "The Commitments" by Roddy Doyle this week. I've taken a break halfway through "John Dies At The End" so might try and polish that off, then I've got Harry Potter 7 to start. I've got the rest of the Roddy Doyle Barrytown Trilogy lined up, and I still haven't started Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee. I spent a lot of yesterday on the Kindle store adding stuff to my wishlist. Edited March 18, 2015 by Lemon Raspberry 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stroopy121 Posted March 18, 2015 Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 Finally finished Game of Thrones book 1. Shite. Couple of good moments, but nearly 800 pages of preamble before a story starts can eat my ass. On to To Kill A Mockingbird now. It seems much less shitty. xx 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted March 18, 2015 Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 I'm currently reading Cloud Howe by Lewis Grassic Gibbon which is the follow up to Sunset Song and the second of the Scots Quair. It is absolutely superb and some of the banter and especially put downs are proper lol funny! Powerful stuff too, about the changing shape of Scotland between the wars and the class struggles and stuff, so well worth a look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted March 18, 2015 Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 Burned through the latest Stuart MacBride book - The Missing and The Dead last week. I can't kid myself that they're particularly well written books. The characterisation is often over the top and the plot clunks through some awkward gear changes. But they're enjoyable and entertaining. Nice change for this one to be set in Banff so his readers got to see an expanded palette of the NE setting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted March 18, 2015 Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 (edited) I like the MacBride books, they're pulp but they're enjoyable pulp. Good point on the characterisation. I've always thought some of the supporting characters were a bit stock or overly comedic. I think I've only read four of them though. Edited March 18, 2015 by Lemon Raspberry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted March 18, 2015 Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 I'm starting to see Spoonie's point on the Kindle love, I got one for Christmas and I'd say I've read more books this year so far than I did in the last two years combined. Totally changed reading for me. Especially handy having the Kindle app on my tablet, then I've got my Spotify open on there as well so I can play music from the same device. Plus I can use that when reading books that might have photos in them, and I can use it to browse the Kindle store, AND when you switch between devices it remembers where you were in the book. So handy! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted March 18, 2015 Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 I like the MacBride books, they're pulp but they're enjoyable pulp. Good point on the characterisation. I've always thought some of the supporting characters were a bit stock or overly comedic. I think I've only read four of them though. You should get the new one, lots of Broch mentions in it. I don't think Stuart himself would make any great claims for the literary merit of his books. I might have come across a bit negative but I've read all his books so far and thought they've all been great fun, just a bit flawed in places. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted March 18, 2015 Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 Echo everything Chris has to say about MacBride, it's a comfortable read more than anything else I think. Can't work out if it's the local connection that makes it worthwhile for me or whether I'd hold the same interest if it was set in Manchester or whatever. Same take on Lee Child's "Jack Reacher" series, not groundbreaking stuff but an easy and engaging read - that's without the local connection, so maybe I just answered my own question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted March 20, 2015 Report Share Posted March 20, 2015 Finished Diary. Thought it was really good. Watched Rosemary's Baby. Half the book ruined. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted March 26, 2015 Report Share Posted March 26, 2015 I've put away "Turning My Back On The Premier League" by Lee PriceRead this one too, and really enjoyed it. A bit repetitive at times, but really interesting. If you liked that and want a laugh, read Pointless by Jeff Connor which I read a few years back and it had me in bits!http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pointless-Jeff-Connor/dp/0755313534/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1427375734&sr=1-1&keywords=pointless 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Broonbreed Posted March 26, 2015 Report Share Posted March 26, 2015 Just about finished Animal Farm. Stalin, you prick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted March 26, 2015 Report Share Posted March 26, 2015 Now reading " John Dies At The End" by David Wong. Its quite Palahniuky so far. Still struggling through this piece of shit. Avoid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain America Posted March 26, 2015 Report Share Posted March 26, 2015 Just finished the first Song of Ice and Fire. It's pretty good so far but George RR Martin is not really a very good writer. I feel like the whole story would be easier to read if he had just written down all the ideas and then had someone else write it. The hardest part is the million names you need to remember. Old Bill brother of Ben who married Tim's sister at x place and now he's lord or blah blah. Then like three hundred pages later it's just oh here's Ben and just straight on. WHO THE FUCK IS BEN. The worst was the Dothraki's. Trying to remember which of them was a bloodrider and who was part of Danny's Khas and when they started to throw down it was hard to keep up with who was who and who was fighting who. Still you can feel it's all building up so I'm looking forward to book two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Broonbreed Posted March 26, 2015 Report Share Posted March 26, 2015 I've never liked books with lots of names. I gave up on Lord of the Rings after about 4 pages. The names were really Tolkien their toll. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain America Posted March 26, 2015 Report Share Posted March 26, 2015 I've never liked books with lots of names. I gave up on Lord of the Rings after about 4 pages. The names were really Tolkien their toll. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skubbs Posted March 26, 2015 Report Share Posted March 26, 2015 I find a lot of male fantasy writers are like this, apologies for the sweeping generalisation - I've given up on a lot of books because of it, I lose interest far too quickly. Teenage fiction seems to be better because it's not so long winded but there's a good story at the heart of it. I like Trudi Canavan as she seems to be more "to the point", and stories don't drag on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Broonbreed Posted March 26, 2015 Report Share Posted March 26, 2015 Existentialist Sci-Fi all the way. Philip K Dick is a master of only using a few characters - with flying cars. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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