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*What book are you reading? (part 2)

Along with Crichton, Grisham, and any number of hacks these people sell McDonalds books. You know what they will be like, they are made to a pleasing formula and they'll fill a hole.

Oh and there is always one authorial eye on the potential film rights dosh
 
Well I am reading 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' cos I have spent most of this year reading either classics or research methods, which is not always fun. anyway, so far the book is awesome. totally loved the 'Post Birthday World' and thus far, this seems even better.

Tomorrow one of my favourite authors - Hanif Kureishi - is doing a reading from his new book, and I have tickets - very excited indeed. Love him.
 
tastebud said:
Well I am reading 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' cos I have spent most of this year reading either classics or research methods, which is not always fun. anyway, so far the book is awesome. totally loved the 'Post Birthday World' and thus far, this seems even better.

Tomorrow one of my favourite authors - Hanif Kureishi - is doing a reading from his new book, and I have tickets - very excited indeed. Love him.
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what's the new book called? i like kureishi too. his last book 'something to tell you' was a mix of everything he has written before, so i did not enjoy it as much as i enjoyed his previous books.
 
ericjarvis said:
I'm certainly not comparing them. Just questioning how Clancy gets to sell any books.
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It's probably got everything to do with marketing eh? I've never noticed stacks of Elmore Leonard books in WH Smith, airports, supermarkets, or motorway service stations, which is where I imagine most of them get picked up

Plus I think the covers are designed specifically to catch a certain kind of male eye, whereas Leonard's are quite subtle, and don't look like they contain vast amounts of testosterone
 
I have started All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.

I have read The Road (which I wasn't keen on, but I can accept is a great and important book) and Blood Meridian, which I can only say is fucking amazing, in a very very violent kind of way.

I don't know which way this one is going to go yet.
 
Dillinger4 said:
I have started All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.

I have read The Road (which I wasn't keen on, but I can accept is a great and important book) and Blood Meridian, which I can only say is fucking amazing, in a very very violent kind of way.

I don't know which way this one is going to go yet.
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I've not read any other McCarthy, but ATPH is a masterpiece. Not a word too many or out of place.
 
Dillinger4 said:
I have started All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.
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I fucking LOVE that book. By far the best one in that trilogy.

It totally appealed to the cowboy within - the landscapes, the horses :D, the two growing young men in the unfolding tale...I loved the simplicity of it

That's something I'm getting more and more into lately - simplicity of the text, and strength of the writing. It's a thrilling combination for me, and one I admire to the very tips of my toes :cool:

Annie Proulx was one of the first writers to hook me into that style, and now I have Cormac McCarthy, Elmore Leonard, and James Ellroy :cool:
 
re-reading 'The Secret Annexe' which is a hefty anthology of war diaries covering entries from all sorts of people and all sorts of wars. I'd forgotten how good it is. From the rage-inducing to the heartbreaking and everything inbetween. Best charity shop find ever.
 
sojourner said:
I fucking LOVE that book. By far the best one in that trilogy.

It totally appealed to the cowboy within - the landscapes, the horses :D, the two growing young men in the unfolding tale...I loved the simplicity of it

That's something I'm getting more and more into lately - simplicity of the text, and strength of the writing. It's a thrilling combination for me, and one I admire to the very tips of my toes :cool:

Annie Proulx was one of the first writers to hook me into that style, and now I have Cormac McCarthy, Elmore Leonard, and James Ellroy :cool:
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It's makin me feel like a cowboy

:cool:
 
Len Deighton - Winter: A Berlin Family 1899-1945

Brilliant. It's got nazis, zeppelins, spies, and pianos. What more could anyone want.
 
A Life In Secrets: Vera Atkins and the lost agents of SOE - Sarah helm.

An excellent read that neatly combines the life story of SOE spymaster Vera Atkins (a senior member of SOE's F Section that sent agents into occupied France) with her personal search for the 118 F Section agents lost during WWII.

Fascinating if also, at times, depressing reading.
 
Dirty Martini said:
Moustaches and Lederhosen? But I guess they feature as well at some point.
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Funnily enough, yes. As do schnapps, schnitzels, and various types of sausage. And beer. Len Deighton is generally quite good at giving his characters a chance to drink some obscure and interesting beers now and again.
 
I've finished all 3 of James Freys book. LOVED A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard (especially MFL). Took me a while to get into Bright Shiny Morning, but really enojyed it once i'd got used to to the format.

Last night i started reading Suttree by Cormac McCarthy. I was so blown away i ended up reading the first two chapters to my other half.
 
Scared to read the thread as i spotted the title twice as i scrolled down, but if i can resist the rest of the booze around my person i will finish The Road tonight, i guess many of you have an opinion on it. It has helped me appreciate my warm bed on the last two nights, sent me into some sort of survivalist half dream about going into long term survival mode. I'm not currently convinced that it is as good as the hype though i'm hopeful of an inciteful/heavily revealing finale. Still, even if it dissapoints, i recall appreciating some works for not giving an answer and leaving you to ponder(i'm waffling, sorry). Probably moving on to something entirely different next anyway, at least after i read George Kimbwall's Four Kings.
 
sojourner said:
Loved that book :cool:
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yeah it's amazing. so emotional. really, really does make me question having kids at all. she writes about r'ships so well too.

littlelegs - it was a collection of short stories - eight of which are new ones and two are old ones - the launderette one and my son the fanatic being the old ones i think.
he was amazecore. love him even more now. was very funny. and mental. great. wish i had recorded it on my phone or something. didn't buy the book or get it signed, but so glad i saw him.
yeah - the most recent was not necessarily his best. i have read all his stuff and that one just didn't flow so well. he does write about the same stuff in every book though. but now i know why and can relate to his reasons.
anyway - he was great.
 
tastebud said:
... littlelegs - it was a collection of short stories - eight of which are new ones and two are old ones - the launderette one and my son the fanatic being the old ones i think. he was amazecore. love him even more now. was very funny. and mental. great. wish i had recorded it on my phone or something. didn't buy the book or get it signed, but so glad i saw him. yeah - the most recent was not necessarily his best. i have read all his stuff and that one just didn't flow so well. he does write about the same stuff in every book though. but now i know why and can relate to his reasons. anyway - he was great.
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well in that case... following the thread about jealousy, i am jealous that tastebud went and saw hanif :mad: glad you enjoyed the evening ;)
 
Smurker said:
Scared to read the thread as i spotted the title twice as i scrolled down, but if i can resist the rest of the booze around my person i will finish The Road tonight, i guess many of you have an opinion on it. It has helped me appreciate my warm bed on the last two nights, sent me into some sort of survivalist half dream about going into long term survival mode. I'm not currently convinced that it is as good as the hype though i'm hopeful of an inciteful/heavily revealing finale. Still, even if it dissapoints, i recall appreciating some works for not giving an answer and leaving you to ponder(i'm waffling, sorry). Probably moving on to something entirely different next anyway, at least after i read George Kimbwall's Four Kings.
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exactly how i felt about 'the road'. i blitzed through the book in 2 days and wasn't sure what to think of it as there is no logical end to it, i was not sure if that was a flaw or a smart way of keeping the reader in suspence. the book would not leave my brain for days, scenes from the book kept on coming back, especially during sleep. fuck! that was scary.
 
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