Alkaline Posted July 9, 2010 Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 Anyone wanting to read more Cormac McCarthy should read 'Blood Meridian', ace.Is that one of his "western" styled ones? If so, no dice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted July 9, 2010 Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 Is that one of his "western" styled ones? If so, no dice.It's kinda like a Western if it was written by Nick Cave...it's mighty good.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offramp Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 Got all these ready to go - guess where I've been recently...Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson MandelaThe Rise and Fall of Apartheid - David WelshFoul!: The Secret World of FIFA: Bribes, Vote Rigging and Ticket Scandals - Andrew JenningsMore Than Just a Game: Football v Apartheid - Prof. Chuck Korr, Marvin Close Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 New iPhone kind of distracted me from reading Brookmyre on the train and it ended up I couldnt be arsed going back to it so now reading 'The Amateurs' by John Niven, which is pretty good. Bedtime reading is 'Bad Vibes' by Luke Haines, which is pretty good also, he has equal opportunity hatred for almost everyone involved in British music in the mid-90's. I couldn't stand the guy at the time but I did like the 2nd Black Box Recorder album, now investigating The Auteurs back-catalogue... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre Von Mondragon Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 1st Auteurs album is ace, esp 'Idiot Brother' and its sinuously lovely guitar hook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 1st Auteurs album is ace, esp 'Idiot Brother' and its sinuously lovely guitar hook.Aye that album was my first port of call, enjoyed it so have the next 2 on order. Also finally got around to getting the other 2 Black Box Recorder albums, God bless Amazon...only ever saw the 3rd one in One Up 2nd hand but priced at a ridiculous amount.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 I'm getting into "Blind Eye" by Stuart MacBride. It's thrilling stuff. Unputdownable... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 After a bit of a break from reading novels, due to The Sopranos, The World Cup, laziness, I today started to read The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I have high expectation after hearing so many good things about it.I just got a whole load of books from a friend who is moving back to the US and can only take so many with him. Free stuff, yay! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen B Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 I am finally getting round to reading 'Falling and Laughing: The Restoration of Edwyn Collins' as homework for an interview with the man himself, not that I think I need the research. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 Richard Herring's 'How Not To Grow Up' because I do love a bit of Richard Keith. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delboy Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 Just finished 'The Fallen' by Dave Simpson. A great read where he tracks down ex members of The Fall.So in the name of continuity borrowed Mark E Smith's book 'Renegade' from the library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted July 30, 2010 Report Share Posted July 30, 2010 Just finished 'The Fallen' by Dave Simpson. A great read where he tracks down ex members of The Fall.So in the name of continuity borrowed Mark E Smith's book 'Renegade' from the library.I'm in the opposite situation, how is 'The Fallen'? 'Renegade' is a good laugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkaline Posted July 30, 2010 Report Share Posted July 30, 2010 After a bit of a break from reading novels, due to The Sopranos, The World Cup, laziness, I today started to read The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I have high expectation after hearing so many good things about it.I just got a whole load of books from a friend who is moving back to the US and can only take so many with him. Free stuff, yay! I am 50 pages from the end of The Road. It's very bleak but thoroughly enjoyable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted July 30, 2010 Report Share Posted July 30, 2010 Just finished 'The Fallen' by Dave Simpson. A great read where he tracks down ex members of The Fall.I'm really struggling to read this, I've just been finding it quite disappointing so keep putting it away and then stubbornly returning to it weeks later. I just found that, athough it's not badly written, it has so much filler in it that it reminds me of how I'd write essays in sixth year, by throwing in unnecessary information just to bulk them up a bit. Also, the whole Karl Burns thing is clearly a way of him trying to get you to continue reading, but just isn't interesting enough to hold my attention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted August 4, 2010 Report Share Posted August 4, 2010 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
girl anachronism Posted August 7, 2010 Report Share Posted August 7, 2010 I'm currently reading I Am A Cat by Soseki Natsume. My last flatmate left it behind when he moved out and I admittedly only really started reading it as I absolutely love cats and am really missing our cat. I'm enjoying it but just pick it up now and then as I think it reads better as separate short stories (it doesn't read as much more than a loosely connected string of anecdotes otherwise). But hey, it's got an adorable, witty (if slightly smug), unwanted (aww) kitten as the main character so I'm pretty happy . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RF Scott Posted August 8, 2010 Report Share Posted August 8, 2010 Finished 'Berg' by Ann Quin a few days ago, it was incredible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre Von Mondragon Posted August 19, 2010 Report Share Posted August 19, 2010 New Iain M Banks Culture novel due Oct, good news indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Stu Posted August 19, 2010 Report Share Posted August 19, 2010 Just started Singlularity Sky by Charles Stross which is a good Culture style sci-fi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 Properly started reading Stewart Lee's 'How I Escaped My Certain Fate: The Life and Deaths of a Stand-Up Comedian' today. I'd began reading it at work, but have gone back to the start. I'm not even a fifth of the way through and can already tell that it's probably the only book on stand-up comedy I'll ever need to read.I have him singing 'That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate' stuck in my head though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre Von Mondragon Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 Stephen Donaldson- Yet More Thomas Covenant Crap, the most miserable hero in fantastic literature returns, even grumpier, yaas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Denim.. Posted August 29, 2010 Report Share Posted August 29, 2010 Finally got round to reading 1984 by Orwell, finished it today. Fantastic as expected. Any particular recommendations for which one to go for next? Next up is 'The Satanic Verses' by Salman Rushdie.If you liked 1984 then I also recommend 'Brave New World' and 'Fahrenheit 541'. Satanic Verses.... don't bother. Really, you will be bogged down with this pile of shite for weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaki Posted September 13, 2010 Report Share Posted September 13, 2010 Finished East of Eden which I think is one of the finest and most complete novels I've ever read. Moved onto Stuart MacBride's Flesh House for my trashy page-turner fix. It did the job. That's the fourth one of his I've read and I keep going back to them so there must be something, beyond being based in Aberdeen, that I like about him. He definitely has a distinctive wrriting style, although it is not particularly good. Started reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins last night and as expected I am quite enjoying it. Give me a week and I'll be ready for dinner parties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted September 13, 2010 Report Share Posted September 13, 2010 Started reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins last night and as expected I am quite enjoying it. Give me a week and I'll be ready for dinner parties.I found it not a bad read but wavered a bit about two thirds of the way through. Samey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaki Posted September 13, 2010 Report Share Posted September 13, 2010 I found it not a bad read but wavered a bit about two thirds of the way through. Samey.A few folk I know have said the same thing. I get the impression he likes to reinforce his points. I don't suppose I have to find out what happens at the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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