*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[DaRealSpoon]

Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch

Sequel to The Lies of Locke Lamora

Absolutely brilliant

 

[Quartz]

I hope you will forgive the slightly longer than normal post for this thread.

How many times do you read each book? If I've enjoyed a book, I'll re-read it, and the second time through is usually better than the first.

 

[BoatieBird]

Feersum Endjinn by Iain M Banks. It's the first Iain M book I've read and I'm enjoying it now I've got my head round the style.
I'm really enjoying some of the characters - particularly Bascule, or should I say petikularli Bascule.

Thanks for the recommendation machine cat

 

[weltweit]

How many times do you read each book? If I've enjoyed a book, I'll re-read it, and the second time through is usually better than the first.

Interesting question. Usually I only revisit a book many years later. I know I will want to read Catch-22 again and also A short history of nearly everything, and I may read the two Orwell book I have a second time, I know they are quality and can't recollect the details any more. The cheesy biographies probably not if I am honest.

 

[flypanam]

Kevin Barry's City of Bohane.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

How many times do you read each book? If I've enjoyed a book, I'll re-read it, and the second time through is usually better than the first.

I agree - second time can be better for books I like. I like Bill Bryson and recently bought the audio book of Notes From A Small Island to listen to, rather than re-read the book. Also bought the audio versions of several of Orwell's books, all of which I've read already.

 

[xslavearcx]

The politics of psychoanalysis - an introduction to Freudean and Post Freudan Theory by Stephen Frosh. Picked it up from a charity bookshop for £2. Don't know fuck all about anything to do with psychology so this is my start. Very enjoyable, and i think it opens up possibilities for me being able to understand a lot of leftie stuff that draws from freudian theory. Realising the extent of my fuckedupness is also a bit of a revelation.

 

[Dillinger4]

reading Untouchables: Dirty Cops, Bent Justice and Racism in Scotland Yard by Michael Gilliard.

 

[Quartz]

Just read 'Rivers of London' by Ben Aaronovitch today. Big mug of tea plus sunshine plus good book = bliss. I'll see if the local bookshop has the next two volumes.

The second volume is nowhere near as good on a first read. Whodunnit is telegraphed almost right from the start. The third book felt a little messy, but having read the first two, I correctly surmised that an early player would be key to the matter, which was rather disappointing.

 

[Dr Nookie]

I've just finished reading 'Brief loves that live forever' by Andrei Makine. It was absolutely beautiful.

 

[Frances Lengel]

The Widow's Tale by Mick Jackson. Ok so far, he's alright old Mickah.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

"The Wrath of Angels" - John Connolly. Only just started it but spooky already

 

[izz]

'The Dreamthief's Daughter' by Michael Moorcock. Never read anything by him before but really quite enjoying it.

 

[Superdupastupor]

just finished 'The Silver Darlings' by Neil M. Gunn

beautiful book about the generations after the Scottish highland crofters were cleared and not emigrating but choosing instead to harvest the sea where no man is lord.

 

[DotCommunist]

The Armageddon Crazy by Mick Farren

set in a weird kind of fascist american christian dystopia. Its good, in its way.

 

[starfish]

Started The Monkeys Raincoat by Robert Crais last week but might put it on hold as i bought Post Office by Charles Bukowski at our local car booty this morning & the guy i bought it from said it would be the best book ill ever read so im quite intrigued.

 

[maya]

'The Dreamthief's Daughter' by Michael Moorcock. Never read anything by him before but really quite enjoying it.

Check out the Cornelius quartet (if you can find the compendium volume with all four books in one), it's great stuff... A bit confusing in parts (the main characters span several incarnations and genders in different parallel universes), but very good IIRC.

 

[RedDragon]

Joe Hill NOS4A2 (pronounced nosferatu) just started, mixed feeling not sure of what to expect from the son of Stephen King

 

[thedockerslad]

The Armageddon Crazy by Mick Farren

set in a weird kind of fascist american christian dystopia. Its good, in its way.

Is it really. I think I'll give it a miss because I want to.

 

[DotCommunist]

Is it really. I think I'll give it a miss because I want to.

read what you like, no skin off my nose

 

[DotCommunist]

Joe Hill NOS4A2 (pronounced nosferatu) just started, mixed feeling not sure of what to expect from the son of Stephen King

he called his son Joe Hill?

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Sent a tweet to John Connolly yesterday about a reference in his latest book "The Wrath of Angels"...and he replied!!

I have since replied to that tweet and am now worrying that he'll think I am a stalker!!

 

[DotCommunist]

Amitav Ghosh 'Calcutta Chromosone'


good so far. Not sure where its going yet.

 

[TruXta]

M. John Harrison's Empty Space, absolutely beautiful so far.

 

[sojourner]

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Halfway through - fucking brilliant. Funny how loads of the older 'classics', for want of a better word, could be written today.

 

[rubbershoes]

The Secret Race by Tyler Hamilton

Tells all about doping at the Tour de France

I'm after some EPO now

 

[N_igma]

The Brothers Karamazov - cunt of a book.

 

[ringo]

The Brothers Karamazov - cunt of a book.

No good or just hard work? I have it in my head that this is the best novel I've never read, but I'm saving it for when I'm grown up (along with Ulysses, baking and listening to jazz).

 

[ska invita]

those beatles sure were high

 

[Dr Nookie]

I have just finished reading 'Down and out in Paris and London' by George Orwell, and am about to start on 'The Speakers' by Heathcote Williams. Bit of a theme developing....