*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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A Clash of Kings - George R R Martin
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I'm torn again now. Cant decide what to go for next.
Eleanor Catton - The Luminaries. Had this for a while now, cos it looks a fascinating tale or tales). But now everyone will think I'm just reading it cos it won that bloody prize. Also, it is bloody long.
Alan Garner - Boneland - well, Boneland and Weirdstone and Gomrath, cos I'd need to remind myself abut them before doing the new(ish one).
geoffrey Cocks - The Wolf at the Door, Stanley Kubrick History & the Holocaust. Which should be familiar to anyone who's seen Room 237. Bit heavy man, and very small print. Maybe I'll just do odd chapters of that.
Eleanor Catton - The Luminaries. Had this for a while now, cos it looks a fascinating tale or tales). But now everyone will think I'm just reading it cos it won that bloody prize. Also, it is bloody long.
Alan Garner - Boneland - well, Boneland and Weirdstone and Gomrath, cos I'd need to remind myself abut them before doing the new(ish one).
geoffrey Cocks - The Wolf at the Door, Stanley Kubrick History & the Holocaust. Which should be familiar to anyone who's seen Room 237. Bit heavy man, and very small print. Maybe I'll just do odd chapters of that.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Theres something happening here: The New Left, The Klan and FBI Counterintelligence
David Cunningham
good so far
David Cunningham
good so far
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
loved The Secret History - started The Little Friend , but it didn't grab me as much, never finished it, not sure where it is in the book mountain at marty towers
I started reading a preview on google books looks good.
New Tom Holland, Shadow of the Sword.
Interesting, but I'm finding it harder to ignore his guesswork this time around.
Interesting, but I'm finding it harder to ignore his guesswork this time around.
BoatieBird
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The Little Friend does take a while to keep going, I couldn't see what the fuss was about when I started it but I stuck at it because a friend had absolutely raved about it. A slow burner.
Taking a short break from the machinations of Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings to read the Morrissey autobiography.
I have to say i'm really enjoying it and am surprised by that. Currently 10% of the way through and have Louder Than Bombs playing as a musical companion.
One criticism, it could do with better editing. The sentences & paragraphs seem unruly. My copy is a DRM free Kindle rip but i think it's the style of the author that is responsible for the construct. It's a good read. (I'm having a lovely evening.)
I have to say i'm really enjoying it and am surprised by that. Currently 10% of the way through and have Louder Than Bombs playing as a musical companion.
One criticism, it could do with better editing. The sentences & paragraphs seem unruly. My copy is a DRM free Kindle rip but i think it's the style of the author that is responsible for the construct. It's a good read. (I'm having a lovely evening.)
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
can you imagine trying to be morrisey's editor? fuck...
Read one of Alain De Bottom's books a while back, thought he was a charlatan and a buffoon.
Read his Twitter feed last night, seems very insightful, probably the right medium for him in this impatient age.
Read his Twitter feed last night, seems very insightful, probably the right medium for him in this impatient age.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
His twitter feed is full of empty platitudes - he's like the philosopher from The Day Today
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
just got hold of a copy
TruXta
tired
Re-reading the Malazan books as I've no headspace for serious shizzle, on the House of Chain now. DotCommunist
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
House of Chains was where the mythic structure begins to make sense imo. From warrens/azath etc. Thats why Erikson will always be the better teller of these malazan stories. He makes you work for it, Ian Esselmont just plates it up for you and cuts up the difficult bits.
TruXta
tired
It's a lot easier to follow all the strands on the second read through. Unfortunately it also shows up all the creaky and patchy bits where the writing takes a clear back stage role to just getting on with the world-building and plot. There's A LOT of passages where character A goes "so you know, X and Y went to ABC to kill off M, but then K, L and E came from this place to talk to G and so on and henceforth".
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Aye, I tend to forgive those bits by thinking of it as saga-telling. Which it pretty much is, despite the personalised stuff.
What we still have yet to see is the mauling the Bridgeburners got in Mott Wood, which from asides seems to have been a campaign against marsh wizards and woodland guerillas. Think roman legions being eaten by german forests.
What we still have yet to see is the mauling the Bridgeburners got in Mott Wood, which from asides seems to have been a campaign against marsh wizards and woodland guerillas. Think roman legions being eaten by german forests.
TruXta
tired
That and more on the Crimson Guard please.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Orb, Sceptre, Throne and the last Ian C one cover the Guard, and Jackaraku.
What remains uncovered (other than mott wood) is Assail, where if I know my malazan, the forces of humanity are locked in conflict with remnant segulah and the Fokrul themselves
BoatieBird
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just got hold of a copy
Oooh, I'm tempted to get it for next week's holiday reading, but I really object to paying £9.50 for the kindle version
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
I've heard good things about it, started it many times but never finished it (not anything to do with the book, just my own restlessness levels). His short stories are very good... There was a 2 x pocket book edition and 1 x hardback edition [re-]published of his collected short stories very recently, just a few years ago... Really recommend it, if you haven't read it yet you're in for a treat. I think I prefer his short stories to his novels really, the short format just works better for me because he crams all his conceptual ideas into easily digestible little pieces, many of them close to genious.
I remember very few of them for some reason, so every time I just look up a story at random it's like reading it the first time all over again- For instance the story (from 'Myths of the Near Future', IIRC) about a group of pensioners and other upper middle class holidaymakers who are being kept in endless limbo in their luxury hotel resort never allowed to leave, Prisoner style, all told though increasingly desperate postcards back home... And the one I always remember as it's one of my favourites: The man who sits in his chair all day surrounded by hi-tech 'entertainment screens', such a passive consumer he's totally handicapped and cannot even move around on his own anymore- trapped in his chair, he needs a maid to do all the housework and stuff. Then he gets really paranoid as he believes there's a stranger in his flat, moving around behind his back as some sort of secret stalker djinn watching him all the time, he can hear this stranger's breath, always beind his back, watching him- And in a fit of paranoia he believes his housemaid to be this secret stalker and stabs her to death in the bathroom as she tries to help him... Alone again, he hears this stranger's breath again, coming closer and closer... Then he realises it's his own breath he hears, he's become so alienated from his own body that he didn't recognise it... The end. Just genious.
And 'Empire of the Sun' (recounting his family's internment in a Japanese POW camp in China during WW2) is less fantastic but really poignant as he really experienced these things. There's a film version starring a young Christian Bale, which reminds me of how much better Bale was as a child actor (he got some sort of award for this role i think)
OK, i talk too much... Sorry
Enjoy Ballard
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