*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[kittyP]

On the icons bar, immediately above where you type a post, the icon for emoticons. That one.

Oh yeah. I sit a long way from the screen so it just looks like a yellow and red blob from here but yes you are right!

 

[colbhoy]

I am reading Sandy Koufax; a Lefty's Legacy by Jane Leavy. I have read quite a lot of books on baseball but this is standing up so far as one of the best.

 

[May Kasahara]

Wish You Were Here: England On Sea by Travis Elborough. Not sure I'm going to stick with it, his writing style is rather annoying.

 

[stethoscope]

Just started Jilted Generation - Ed Howker and Shiv Malik.

 

[Dillinger4]

Has anybody read any William Gaddis?

 

[May Kasahara]

Wish You Were Here: England On Sea by Travis Elborough. Not sure I'm going to stick with it, his writing style is rather annoying.

Nope, can't stand it, it's going back to the library unread. His editor also needs stern words for not having had stern words with Mr Elborough.

Now reading a sort of beginner's guide to the Spanish Civil War.

 

[izz]

Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovitch. It was most enjoyable but lasted less than 24 hours. I'm on Dissolution by Sansom now.

 

[MrSki]

Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovitch. It was most enjoyable but lasted less than 24 hours. I'm on Dissolution by Sansom now.

I read that last week. Unfortunately someone else has Moon over Soho out of the library so I will have to wait.

Dissolution is a good un & should last a bit longer!

 

[Cheesypoof]

The Master and Margarita is like that for me. I kept getting feelings of weird and nauseating disorientation whilst reading it, and remember having to put it down sometimes, to walk around and re-acquaint myself with the 'real' world.

Totally. Hated The Master and Margarita, got it as a present, and only read half it. Wont go back

Finished 'Jimi Hendrix, a brothers story' by Leon Hendrix - very enjoyable speed read. I admire him for overcoming odds to find peace with himself, while keeping in the spirit of Jimi.

Will now start, 'Wild' by Cheryl Strayed. It's a sob memoir about a mother and daughters survival. Can't say i am massively looking forward to it, got it as a present.......will report back.

 

[izz]

I read that last week. Unfortunately someone else has Moon over Soho out of the library so I will have to wait.

Dissolution is a good un & should last a bit longer!

It already has, so thank you MrSki

 

[DotCommunist]

Orb Scepter Throne

Ian C Esselmonts 4th outing in Malazan world

 

[5t3IIa]

John Dies At The End by David Wong. Got 3% in, not having read any reviews past 'AMAZING' and 'BRILLIANT' and obvs no back cover as it's Kindle and was all a bit "Arf ffs what's all this then?" but enjoying it a lot I think

 

[izz]

Whistling for the elephants, Sandi Toksvig.
Mr Pye, Mervyn Peake

 

[sojourner]

Totally. Hated The Master and Margarita, got it as a present, and only read half it. Wont go back.

Ah no, I did love it, I just found it a really strange book to read and it had a physical effect on me.

Currently reading Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck. It's not his best, have to say.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Terminal World by Alastair Reynolds, works well as an adventure story but fails as hard sci-fi. It's set in a far-future megacity built around an artificial mountain, with distinct zones where only a certain level of technology is able to function. This provides Reynolds with a chance to mash steampunk, noir and sci-fi tropes together into a single story but it leaves too many nagging questions like where does the steampunk zone get the gas for its gaslights and where does the 50's New York zone get the beans for its coffee.

 

[DotCommunist]

Bone and Blood

Esselmonts latest entry to the malazan world

 

[Dillinger4]

I am reading Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon. It is pretty good.

On my fiction to-read pile I have a few by Don Delillo, A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis (if I like that I will read JR which looks pretty good).

And a load of poetry.

 

[machine cat]

I'm halfway through The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M Banks.

It's good, but I can't help feeling that there's something missing. It feels like I'm reading a Culture by numbers novel.

 

[DotCommunist]

Hydrogen Sonata was a return to form for me- not the glory days of early culture novels but a lot better than the preceding two. Theres an essentially dissapointing thing to the novel for me but I'll not spoilerise

 

[flypanam]

Orb Scepter Throne

Ian C Esselmonts 4th outing in Malazan world

Any good? I haven't been too impressed with his offerings.

 

[maya]

"To Be or Not To Be: A chooseable-path adventure.
by Ryan North, William Shakespeare, and YOU."

(a.k.a. Hamlet, "choose your own adventure" style...)

 

[Orang Utan]

But the whole point of Hamlet is his inability to choose!

 

[DotCommunist]

Any good? I haven't been too impressed with his offerings.

improvement on his earlier ones yes.

 

[marty21]

William Mcilvanney - Laidlaw

Enjoying it - you can see how Rebus came about - he's like Rebus' dad - (Rankin has said that Laidlaw was an inspiration for Rebus)

 

[Idris2002]

William Mcilvanney - Laidlaw

Enjoying it - you can see how Rebus came about - he's like Rebus' dad - (Rankin has said that Laidlaw was an inspiration for Rebus)

What era is this? 'cause in the last Rebus book he's 65 if he's a day.

 

[sojourner]

Gave up on Tortilla Flat. It was kind of amusing, in the way that lying down in a field on a summer's day watching fluffy stuff fly by through the air is amusing, but that was all.

Started reading Panopticon by Jenni Fagan instead. Verrrry different to everything else I've been reading for months now. It's what I would call an easy read, so far.

 

[Yetman]

I started Ulysees by James Joyce and already I can tell it's a proper involving story, best read by candlelight at the window of a tower overlooking a moonlit bay....this is going to be one of those I come back to over the course of a few years whenever I'm in that sort of mood Cheesypoof

I'm also reading Graham Hancocks Fingerprints of the Gods. Gets a bit samey and a often over-conjectured, but there's occasional points that keep me hooked. Overall I'm enjoying it though.

I've got WOOL - books 6 onwards on my phone when I'm away from my books, after reading the first 5, these are good, but get overfilled with politics and social relationships between large groups which aren't as involving as personal journeys, which the first books seemed to be more about.

 

[DotCommunist]

I started Ulysees by James Joyce and already I can tell it's a proper involving story, best read by candlelight at the window of a tower overlooking a moonlit bay....this is going to be one of those I come back to over the course of a few years whenever I'm in that sort of mood Cheesypoof

I'm also reading Graham Hancocks Fingerprints of the Gods. Gets a bit samey and a often over-conjectured, but there's occasional points that keep me hooked. Overall I'm enjoying it though.

I've got WOOL - books 6 onwards on my phone when I'm away from my books, after reading the first 5, these are good, but get overfilled with politics and social relationships between large groups which aren't as involving as personal journeys, which the first books seemed to be more about.

Thats what I found MORE frustrating with WOOL book 1, I was after more grand narratives rather than personal journies. Horses for etc

 

[TruXta]

Neverwhere is the second best book Gaiman ever wrote. American Gods is the best. But you should do Neverwhere. Its good fun.

I find his comics superior - AG read like a pastiche of his own earlier work with Sandman.

 

[TruXta]

Orb Scepter Throne

Ian C Esselmonts 4th outing in Malazan world

Any good? I'm back at the Deadhouse Gates.