Nah - am still finishing off Season 4 at the mo, so will hold off on reading owt until finish off S5
But ta - once I have done, I'll look out for that
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Nah - am still finishing off Season 4 at the mo, so will hold off on reading owt until finish off S5
But ta - once I have done, I'll look out for that
Urbanblues
Was that it, life?
Just finished 'Germinal' by Zola. Absolutely incredible. Only another 18 to read in the Rougon-Macquart series, having already read 'Nana'.
krtek a houby
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"Live and Let Die". Unfortunately, some very suspect views on black people 
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
Still working through Bolano and about to finish 'Robinson Crusoe'.
little_legs
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Summertime by Coetzee. Good book.
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
I'm about half way through Court of the Red Tsar in just over a week. Not bad going when it's been on a shelf gathering dust for the past year or so. I can almost remember four or five Russian/Georgian names now 
live_jayeola
/me is jayeola
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Simon Ings
The Eye: A Natural History
The Eye: A Natural History
soluble duck
kappa antagonist
Just finished In Cold Blood by Capote which was excellent...
Just started a big old biography from the mid eighties of David Bowie called 'Alias'
Just started a big old biography from the mid eighties of David Bowie called 'Alias'
Yeh, I really liked that when I read it too
Think it's one I'll read again at some point
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
I've been ill so have spent most of the time reading.
Nazi Germany and The Jews by Saul Friedlander, which was a strong read, a good overview, but sails close to Goldhagen a few times.
Re-read Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning, which I now realise is more than good, it's great.
Uncommon Danger by Eric Ambler, a cracking late-30s spy thriller, probably the best I've read (but I haven't read a lot of spy stuff).
Now it's Little Man, What Now? by Hans Fallada.
Nazi Germany and The Jews by Saul Friedlander, which was a strong read, a good overview, but sails close to Goldhagen a few times.
Re-read Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning, which I now realise is more than good, it's great.
Uncommon Danger by Eric Ambler, a cracking late-30s spy thriller, probably the best I've read (but I haven't read a lot of spy stuff).
Now it's Little Man, What Now? by Hans Fallada.
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
The number of times I've picked that up, then gone for something else.
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
The Story Of Reading by Alberto Manguel(sp?). Non-fiction, about... the story of reading. Looks nice so far.
And Matter by Iain M. Banks which I've tried to finish for years now, but loses interest after a few minutes, not sure why (have read all the other books, perhaps this just wasn't a book for me).
And Matter by Iain M. Banks which I've tried to finish for years now, but loses interest after a few minutes, not sure why (have read all the other books, perhaps this just wasn't a book for me).
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
The Tell Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe
soluble duck
kappa antagonist
Yeh, I mean there was a lot of hype about it, particularly because that film came out a few years ago, which was also very good, but it is a really well written book. It reads like a fiction except you know that he has researched it to the finest detail, although there are some bits where he has spruced some things up.
I would recommend you give it go
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
read it next time! It really is a superb book, Harper Lee's best.
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Yeh, I mean there was a lot of hype about it, particularly because that film came out a few years ago, which was also very good, but it is a really well written book. It reads like a fiction except you know that he has researched it to the finest detail, although there are some bits where he has spruced some things up.
I would recommend you give it go
Ok, next time
Is there a Salinger/Pynchon thing going on here?
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
Richard Morgan - Woken Furies
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
reclusivity???
Naah, there is talk amongst the literati* that the truth is that Lee wrote In Cold Blood whilst Capote actually wrote Mockingbird.
*my big bro
Obnoxiousness
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David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
That Pynchon was/is Salinger rumour that was around for years. Didn't know about the Lee/Capote thing
Urbanblues
Was that it, life?
'The Plague' - Albert Camus.
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
The Plains of Passage - Jean M Auel
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Finished Little Man, What Now? by Hans Fallada. It became fascinating after a slow start -- white collar poverty and despair in Weimar Germany. Pretty leaden translation though.
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
Elmore Leonard - Maximum Bob.
Fantastic book. Almost as bizarre as a Carl Hiaassen novel. Must be something in the water in Florida.
Fantastic book. Almost as bizarre as a Carl Hiaassen novel. Must be something in the water in Florida.
krtek a houby
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The Road - Cormac McCarthy
I read my first one by him the other week and was hugely impressed. Really sparse writing, hits home like a fuckoff big hammer. Quality writer
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
I read my first one by him the other week and was hugely impressed. Really sparse writing, hits home like a fuckoff big hammer. Quality writer
I just ordered two more. I shall spend the first part of next year on an Elmore Leonard jag.
Currently reading: Jeff Noon - Nymphomation.
I love his writing. It's kind of poetic, kind of gritty, and sort of dub somehow. When you get past the sheer joy of his abuse of language there are some really sharp ideas there too.
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