*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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I just finished Swag by EL - would definitely recommend that. I am just going to read everything he's done tbh, but spaced out between other books. Am totally fucking hooked on his writing style - the man is a god
e2a - the first one I read was The Hot Kid, which is brilliant too
e2a - the first one I read was The Hot Kid, which is brilliant too
Voley
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I've always thought it would make a great HBO series. One series for each book - you'd have enough room to have all the dense plots over a series. And with someone a bit scarier than the guy that played Dudley Smith in the film of LA Confidential.
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Cheers. Will look em up.
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I've just looked up the LA Quartet, and the only one I've read is the first book!
The Big Nowhere next then. I envy you frankly.
(Quick edit, btw)
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
Seconded. My favourite so far is Be Cool.
Washer Mouth - The man who was a washing machine, by Kevin Donihe
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
Just finished Jane Eyre. Enjoyed it immensely.
Spion
I hear ya
Looks superb . . . but, so many books so little time
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Finished The Orchid Trilogy by Jocelyn Brooke, which I really really enjoyed.
Made up of The Military Orchid, The Mine of Serpents and The Goose Cathedral (1948-1950), it's an often really beautiful, mostly melancholic and occasionally very funny look at the author's childhood in Kent and his time in the army (he re-enlisted for a couple of years in 1947), interspersed with lots of botany, musings about memory and nostalgia, guilt at not writing and time spent drinking in Dover with sailors. The books get about as close as anyone could get to describing homosexual desire at that time without having to be published in Paris.
It was a real thrill for me to read about places I know so well -- Folkestone, Sandgate, Bishopsbourne. Kent doesn't have many literary mythmakers, but I love this one.
Nearly finished How Not To Write A Novel by Sandra Newman & Howard Mittlemark, which is funny when it doesn't try too hard.
Made up of The Military Orchid, The Mine of Serpents and The Goose Cathedral (1948-1950), it's an often really beautiful, mostly melancholic and occasionally very funny look at the author's childhood in Kent and his time in the army (he re-enlisted for a couple of years in 1947), interspersed with lots of botany, musings about memory and nostalgia, guilt at not writing and time spent drinking in Dover with sailors. The books get about as close as anyone could get to describing homosexual desire at that time without having to be published in Paris.
It was a real thrill for me to read about places I know so well -- Folkestone, Sandgate, Bishopsbourne. Kent doesn't have many literary mythmakers, but I love this one.
Nearly finished How Not To Write A Novel by Sandra Newman & Howard Mittlemark, which is funny when it doesn't try too hard.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
I loved it - absolutely loved it
I am onto The Girl Who Played With Fire. Not bad. I enjoyed The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo but I felt his writing got a bit lazy and unfocused towards the end of the book when the story started to take precedence.
One of the best books that I've ever read on the English drug scene; 'Poppy Dream - the story of an English addict,' by Joe South. It is an autobiography of a registered heroin addict, prostitute and drug dealer. The book is beautifully written and absolutely reeks of authenticity. I couldn't put the book down and laughed and cried in equal measure. Forget 'Trainspotting' and other contrived stories about the drug scene 'Poppy Dream' is the real thing. Marvellous....and it's English!
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Journey into the Past by Stefan Zweig -- short and sweet. Great writer, Zweig.
Now: Far From The Madding Crowd
Now: Far From The Madding Crowd
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
Elmore Leonard - The Hunted
Why do people bother with authors like Tom Clancy? Elmore Leonard does action better, and with real seeming characters, and with the ability to twist a cliche into something absolutely strange.
Why do people bother with authors like Tom Clancy? Elmore Leonard does action better, and with real seeming characters, and with the ability to twist a cliche into something absolutely strange.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Court of The Red Tsar is on order and due in the next three days
In the meantime I am making do by re-reading the first Artemis Fowl book.
In the meantime I am making do by re-reading the first Artemis Fowl book.
I'm not sure you can compare the two. Clancy is a ham-fisted clumsy best-seller-list chaser, lacking any soul or semblance of vision, and Leonard gifts us with writing that feels like he's sat right there alongside you, telling you the story
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
In the last week I've finished
The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March by Adam Zamoyski
Both excellent books though the first had rather more laughs.
The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March by Adam Zamoyski
Both excellent books though the first had rather more laughs.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
i found it rather disappointing. Cormac McCarthy is one of my favourite authors but this one just didn't do it for me. It just read like a pulp western
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
I'm certainly not comparing them. Just questioning how Clancy gets to sell any books.
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