Spoonie Posted May 3, 2012 Report Share Posted May 3, 2012 That book is a grim read Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Posted May 3, 2012 Report Share Posted May 3, 2012 That book is a grim readThe movie was a grim watch! Tilda Swinton was superb though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrr Posted May 3, 2012 Report Share Posted May 3, 2012 Mass Effect has got me proper hankering for some epic sci-fi. Time to get my Alastair Reynolds on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted May 4, 2012 Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 Went in to waterstones yesterday and realised how many great books I still have to read. I might just start buying them and work through a big pile when off work and stuff. Can someone start throwing book names at me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted May 4, 2012 Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 Can someone start throwing book names at me?I think this thread should help: http://www.aberdeen-music.com/threads/your-current-read.25567/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoney_stu Posted May 14, 2012 Report Share Posted May 14, 2012 Lee Childs books about Jack Reacher are good pot-boilers if you like violent vigilante type characters with a bit of sex now and then... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoney_stu Posted May 14, 2012 Report Share Posted May 14, 2012 The Breaking of Eggs by Jim Powell ... enjoyed that! ... and a bit more cerebral that Reacher ! (see above) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre Von Mondragon Posted May 17, 2012 Report Share Posted May 17, 2012 Was on Hols to the Dam, took 'Perdido Street Station' by China Mieville, good read, but the read was inferior to the ideas, which is fair enough in SF I suppose. Now reading Miles Davis' autobiog 'Miles', very compelling, a nice palate cleanser before back to the joys of genre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 Finished the second Hunger Games book ‘Catching Fire’ and now having a diversion into ‘Skagboys’ by Irvine Welsh before going to the 3rd one. But then again, I bought a few cheap books in HMV at the weekend that may divert me further, including an Eric Cantona bio – not particularly fussed about football but I find him an interesting character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 I've been reading through the Song of Ice and Fire series (Game Of Thrones). Just finished A Feast For Crows and I'm pretty fed up with it. It's also just occurred to me that there's still way too much unresolved and the pace would have to pick up considerably for it to be wrapped up in the next book. Checking online confirms that there's still two as yet unwritten books to come.I think that the author's original plan of having a five year character gap in the middle of the series might have served it better. The younger characters could grow up a bit and the story could take a bigger leap towards a proper resolution. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted May 30, 2012 Report Share Posted May 30, 2012 Currently reading John Ajvide Lindqvist's 'Harbour'. I read 'Let The Right One In' a couple of years ago and loved it. His 'Handling the Undead' was pretty good too, so we'll see how this one goes. We've had vampires and zombies, but this is set to be general supernatural weirdness about a little girl disappearing into thin air. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teabags Posted May 30, 2012 Report Share Posted May 30, 2012 I'm reading this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted June 1, 2012 Report Share Posted June 1, 2012 I'm a few chapters in to Skagboys. It's really good so far. But they started taking heroin farrr too quickly. About 4 chapters in boom. You could end it there since half his other books have filled in gaps.The shite competition had me literally laughing aloud. On a bus full of people. Great read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted June 1, 2012 Report Share Posted June 1, 2012 Yeah, they don't hang about, that's for sure. The reasons are pretty well set out tho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted June 1, 2012 Report Share Posted June 1, 2012 Meh, as far as I can seethere's a recession. but the thing is, he has a job, uni, he seems to get his hole pretty easily and he's just moved in to a new flat with a friend. He's surrounded mostly by people who love him and he only wants heroin out of curiousity. it isn't exactly the "my lifes shit i've turned to drugs" feel the rest of the series has.saying that, i'm only 4 chapters in, and the one where he does it is quite sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted June 1, 2012 Report Share Posted June 1, 2012 He's got a horrendous relationship with one brother, his other brother's disabled, he's carrying the weight of his whole family by being the first at uni, etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaki Posted June 1, 2012 Report Share Posted June 1, 2012 Recently I read:Hearts in Atlantis – Stephen King. This was loaned to me by my bird’s brother and his wife and came with high praise and “I defy you not to like this” ringing in my ears so I felt obliged to read it all. I’ve read some of King’s books before which I’ve enjoyed but generally I have no interest in the supernatural. This (massive) book started off ok and I was getting into the characters before people seemingly from another realm turned up and then I was just sitting there turning the pages muttering to myself. There are two novellas in the middle of the book where nothing supernatural happens but did nothing for me. Then it went back to time travel or some shit, I read the last page and then threw it against the wall. Shite.Skinny Dip – Carl Hiaasen. Satirical crime caper. Exactly like all his other books which is why I enjoyed it.To Kill a Mocking Bird – Harper Lee. I’d never read this before. I must have been in the Standard Grade class that did Sunset Song instead L I can see why it is considered a classic, because it was brilliant. I’ll read it again.I am now halfway through Absolute Friends by John Le Carre but I haven’t picked it up for a week and so now I can’t remember who all these people are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted June 1, 2012 Report Share Posted June 1, 2012 He's got a horrendous relationship with one brother, his other brother's disabled, he's carrying the weight of his whole family by being the first at uni, etcGood point. still, i'd say, for the time he's living in, the good outweighs the bad. and it looks like he was the first of his close friends to do it too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted June 1, 2012 Report Share Posted June 1, 2012 To Kill a Mocking Bird – Harper Lee. I’d never read this before. I must have been in the Standard Grade class that did Sunset Song instead L I can see why it is considered a classic, because it was brilliant. I’ll read it again.Sunset Song is magic too tho! Nothing endures but the land. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted June 1, 2012 Report Share Posted June 1, 2012 still, i'd say, for the time he's living in, the good outweighs the bad. and it looks like he was the first of his close friends to do it tooremember, the good seems to outweigh the bad in a lot of peoples lives. People with depression and people who take their own lives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted June 1, 2012 Report Share Posted June 1, 2012 remember, the good seems to outweigh the bad in a lot of peoples lives. People with depression and people who take their own lives.aye but this is a book. i know it's good to have things hidden and to keep us guessing. but apart from the odd moment, so far, he hasn't seemed depressed. only curious.read another chapter, I fucking hate Sick Boy. he was okay in Trainspotting, a dick in Porno, and just as big a dick in this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted June 4, 2012 Report Share Posted June 4, 2012 He's a horrendous piece of work and there's one scene in particular in that book where he takes things too far, even by his standards! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 I don't think i'm there yet but i look forward to it. the wee davie spunking in billy's face bit was hilarous. renton breaking up with fiona broke my heart though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 Aye, that meeting with her was brutal! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 read the bit with dickson raping mariaIs that the too far thing? He's taken it further before than that but I really hope that is what you meant... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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