*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[May Kasahara]

I had my fingers crossed

Fainites!

Cover tells you all you need to know, really.

Overview of all the main ones plus a few I'd never heard of before, lent to me by a bloke at work who pretty much believes all of them. Entertaining if incredibly on a regular basis as you'd imagine. I'm enjoying the sensationalist way it's written too, even if it's not meant to be a joke. Refreshingly, even for someone that clearly believes a lot of this, David Icke doesn't get a particularly favourable write-up. For a shit book it's remarkably compelling - I got about halfway through it last night. The 'Were there two Yorkshire Rippers?' chapter was a new one on me.

That looks and sounds like the 'are you ready to join Urban?' manual

(although maybe not so much anymore haven't seen a good conspirathread for ages)

I've just started King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence. Violent and somewhat trashy fantasy but the writing isn't bad and, like the first in the series, it's relentlessly page-turnerish.

 

[Voley]

(although maybe not so much anymore haven't seen a good conspirathread for ages)

Perhaps I should use this book to inspire a few new threads. The most recent chapter I read this lunchtime would go well, I think:

'Did Marilyn Monroe die with oodles of Nembutal and chloral hydrate stuffed up her arse?'

 

[Orang Utan]

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[Orang Utan]

Fainites!

Had no idea what that was either
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fainites

 

[Voley]

Just read that chapters on fake moon landings and 9/11 being a false flag in that 'Conspiracy!' book. Quite surprised/heartened to see the author debunking both of them. I'd expected him to have at least a bit of sympathy with the 9/11 one.

 

[May Kasahara]

I've just started King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence. Violent and somewhat trashy fantasy but the writing isn't bad and, like the first in the series, it's relentlessly page-turnerish.

Nearly finished this. It's much, much better than the first one. The writing is so much stronger, the characters are much more complex.

 

[idumea]

"Full Metal Apache : Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America (Post-Contemporary Interventions)" for the title alone

 

[Welsh lad]

The Keeper, Luke Delaney. It's about a serial killer.

 

[Sue]

So, I read a lot and can't remember ever not finishing a book. But, I'm currently reading A Confederacy of Dunces ('A pungent work of slapstick, satire and intellectual incongruities...a grand comic fugue' according to the NYT quote on the back) and really struggling with it. Is it just me or is it an utterly shit book, with no redeeming features whatsoever? I'm about a quarter of the way through and really thinking of giving up on it. Does it get any better or should I just abandon it and move onto something -- anything -- else?

 

[Greebo]

Männer sind Helden - Jo Berlin
Still wading through Confessio Amantis...

 

[miss direct]

I'm reading the Rosie Project.

 

[bmd]

I've just finished The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. I really enjoyed it apart from the bit where he's on his own in Amsterdam. Fantastic characters, excellent story line that all fitted together in a completely believable way and such evocative writing.

 

[marty21]

The Fellowship of the Ring - Tolkein - haven't read this since I was a teenager (which was a long long time ago) enjoying it all over again

 

[TruXta]

Got two on the go: Atwood's The Handmaiden's Tale and Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost.

 

[MrSki]

So, I read a lot and can't remember ever not finishing a book. But, I'm currently reading A Confederacy of Dunces ('A pungent work of slapstick, satire and intellectual incongruities...a grand comic fugue' according to the NYT quote on the back) and really struggling with it. Is it just me or is it an utterly shit book, with no redeeming features whatsoever? I'm about a quarter of the way through and really thinking of giving up on it. Does it get any better or should I just abandon it and move onto something -- anything -- else?

My general rule is if it is still shite after a hundred or so pages it is not likely to get better. Move on.

 

[Sue]

My general rule is if it is still shite after a hundred or so pages it is not likely to get better. Move on.

About 90 pages in so maybe I'll call it quits at that. Just feels wrong not finishing it...

 

[Orang Utan]

I think it's a great book. I'm surprised that you hate it so much. Made me LOL a lot.

 

[MrSki]

About 90 pages in so maybe I'll call it quits at that. Just feels wrong not finishing it...

There are so many good books out there that it seems daft to bother with one you are not enjoying. Besides it takes so much longer to read a shit book than one that grips you.

 

[sojourner]

Got two on the go: Atwood's The Handmaiden's Tale

Excellent book! Now then, where have you been?

I finished Turn of the Screw last night. He is such a clever writer

Picked up 'Drysalter' by Michael Symmons Roberts from the library. I usually only read the poetry on Write Out Loud, but there are some crackers in this and I've only just started dipping into it.

 

[TruXta]

Excellent book! Now then, where have you been?

Somewhere with lots and lots of parsley. I'll go back there in a moment

 

[DotCommunist]

Machete Season

bit grim

 

[Lea]

Looking Through the Cross by Graham Tomlin. Supposed to be reading this for lent but am rather hooked on A Song of Ice and Fire instead!

 

[Orang Utan]

Machete Season

bit grim

By who? Please give the author credit! It drives me crazy when people omit such important details
sojourner just did it too. Even mentioned the author being great but didn't bother to actually name him. Poor Henry James!

 

[DotCommunist]

By who? Please given the author credit!,it drives me crazy when people omit such important details
@sojourne

Jean Hatzfeld. its a book of interviews with killers from the rwndan massacre. Cheerful stuff.

 

[D'wards]

Salem's Lot by Stephen King. I like to read it by low lamplight in the wee small hours when not a mouse stirs, and it makes for a pretty creepy reading experience

 

[Orang Utan]

Jean Hatzfeld. its a book of interviews with killers from the rwndan massacre. Cheerful stuff.

Ta! Have you read Philip Gourevitch's We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families?

 

[sojourner]

By who? Please give the author credit! It drives me crazy when people omit such important details
sojourner just did it too. Even mentioned the author being great but didn't bother to actually name him. Poor Henry James!

I fucking mentioned him first time I posted that I was reading it - shurrup!

 

[sojourner]

Fucking library's shut today would you believe, so I'm falling back on the fella's copy of Turn of the Screw by Henry James. Read it before, twice actually, but years ago, and love the story, so reading the minutiae again will be interesting until I can next go the library.

Orang Utan

 

[DotCommunist]

Ta! Have you read Philip Gourevitch's We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families?

I've not. I picked the rwanda book up as its the anniversary of the massacre and I wanted to try and see what these people were thinking.
grimness

 

[Orang Utan]

I've not. I picked the rwanda book up as its the anniversary of the massacre and I wanted to try and see what these people were thinking.
grimness

Read it next if you can take it. Excellent journalism. He is very critical of the UN and the French about their inaction