*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[DotCommunist]

It's first external link on that wiki page. Right up your street! From what I've read so far would bet the author was in the Red Army for a while, has squaddie talk that seems realistic.

just getting into this, is v. good stuff- the account of the battle of pellenor fields and Aaragorns role is hilarious

 

[JimW]

just getting into this, is v. good stuff- the account of the battle of pellenor fields and Aaragorns role is hilarious

Glad you liked it - that's about the bit I've got to as well.
ETA: Reckon you can tell the translator isn't a native speaker mind - mixes up colloquial registers here and there, but doesn't hide the cracking read beneath so far.

 

[neonwilderness]

I'm about to try starting Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock, it's been on my to read list for ages

 

[89 Til Infinity]

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell. Quite an eye opener into the nature of the Spanish Civil war.

 

[nogojones]

Walter Mosley - A Red Death

 

[quimcunx]

I need a new book but because I've spent so little time in bookshops for the past decade I never have much idea what there is out there.

I've just finished reading The Ancestor's Tale by Dawkins so something light and holidayish. Not a romance. Something Brookmyrish maybe. Funny would be good, or thrillery.

Not sure if I've read that Mosley. Maybe I'll start there on Amazon and see where it gets me.

 

[imposs1904]

I need a new book but because I've spent so little time in bookshops for the past decade I never have much idea what there is out there.

I've just finished reading The Ancestor's Tale by Dawkins so something light and holidayish. Not a romance. Something Brookmyrish maybe. Funny would be good, or thrillery.

Not sure if I've read that Mosley. Maybe I'll start there on Amazon and see where it gets me.

Colin Bateman's Mystery Man novels are both thrillery and funny. I prefer him to Brookmyre.

 

[quimcunx]

is mystery man the first in the series?

i shall download a sample. Thank you.

 

[imposs1904]

is mystery man the first in the series?

i shall download a sample. Thank you.

Mystery Man ->The Day of the Jack Russell -> Dr. Yes

In that order. I've still to read Dr. Yes but I enjoyed the first two.

 

[frogwoman]

I'm reading Hitler - Hubris by Ian Kershaw. It is that fucking good

 

[Greebo]

I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.

 

[TruXta]

Something L. Ron?

 

[pseudonarcissus]

finished 'the war of the worlds' last night. great book, brilliant in fact.

I just finished War of the Worlds, it's amazing, and quite scary. I don't know why I didn't read it when I was young, but I'm catching up now. Just started Slaughterhouse Five

 

[Greebo]

Something L. Ron?

No - just something which I'm reading more to prove a point than out of pleasure.

 

[TruXta]

No - just something which I'm reading more to prove a point than out of pleasure.

 

[Greebo]

*shrug* It's no big deal - plenty of others will be read for pleasure or information (or both), and even this one may turn out to be enjoyable.

 

[TruXta]

It's not Marx is it?

 

[Orang Utan]

The Bible?

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Andy McNab.

 

[Greebo]

I just finished War of the Worlds, it's amazing, and quite scary. I don't know why I didn't read it when I was young, but I'm catching up now. Just started Slaughterhouse Five

You probably didn't read it when younger because HG Wells's writing style makes his books quite heavy going at times. Also, people expect anything written before a certain date to be boring. Silly when you bear in mind that fiction writers didn't sit down to write a literary classic, most of the time they had a story which they thought would sell and might be worth telling.

 

[TruXta]

Andy McNab.

What point would that prove?

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Dunno. I'm bored, I guess?

 

[Greebo]

It's not Marx is it?

No

The Bible?

Did that decades ago, so no.

Andy McNab.

Do me a favour! No.

Now can you stop turning this thread into a guessing game, please?

 

[DotCommunist]

I'm on Irenicon

Alt history tale set in medieval Italy. In this version of history Herod succeeded in killing jesus so instead of crucifixes theres just loads of statues of Mother Mary holding a dead baby.

It's not managed to grab me yet

 

[Orang Utan]

Harry Potter?
Dan Brown?

 

[Greebo]

Harry Potter?
Dan Brown?

1, not this time. 2, certainly not.

 

[izz]

Just re-read Suttree, Cormac McCarthy. Most splendid.

 

[DotCommunist]

Glad you liked it - that's about the bit I've got to as well.
ETA: Reckon you can tell the translator isn't a native speaker mind - mixes up colloquial registers here and there, but doesn't hide the cracking read beneath so far.

I noticed a couple of slightly jarring usages like 'broad' or 'guys' where it really wasn't appropriate to the tone- but despite this its a great book. Did it in two all nighters aided by coffee and obsession

 

[mentalchik]

The Departure - Neal Asher

still manfully struggling through the last book of The Hunger Games.......fuck me it's badly written and i'm bored of it

 

[Mephitic]

A Drinking Life: Pete Hamill.