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*What book are you reading? (part 2)

Evil Relations - David Smith and Carol Ann Lee - horrifying account of 17 year old David Smith - life almost destroyed by the police, media and the public when his only crime was calling the police on the moors murderers after they killed their final victim.

RIP David - you truly deserve it and a pity you didn't have it in life.
 
Recently re-read a load of Alfred Duggan I'd got cheap as reissued ebooks. Little Emperors about three brief imperial pretenders in the last days of Roman Britain, Winter Quarters about Gaul who ends up captured at Carrhae, Family Favourites about Elagabalus, an emperor from Syria who tries to change Rome's religion, God and My Right about Thomas Becket, Cunning of the Dove about Edward the Confessor and Knight With Armour about first crusade. All excellent, Little Emperors my fave - oh, also Three's Company was great, second triumvirate seen through eyes of Lepidus.
(edited to get my triumvirates right)
 
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BoatieBird said:
Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole
Beautiful :)

Proulx has been my reading highlight of the year so massive thanks to ringo and sojourner for their enthusiastic posts on here that made me want to read her books.
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:cool: I'm really envious of you getting to read her all fresh like that. Ace is one of my favourites of hers. Amazing what she does with dialogue, dropping a connective here and there, really gets it across.

ringo said:
Same here, and have been recommending her to my mates. I've tried not to read everything at once, got Accordian Crimes in my 'to read pile' atm though.
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:cool:

I started 'Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children' by Ransom Riggs last night. After not liking the narrative voice very much at first, I've gotten used to it a bit more, and the story is taking a better shape now. Although I would still have preferred it to be more scary, the storyline has more depth than I first thought.
 
Alistair Reynolds "Revelation Space". Epic sci fi; distant civilisations, ancient events and political intrigue. Requires a bit of concentration but will do splendidly over xmas for me.
 
D'wards said:
Just finished another reading of Blood Meridian - I think i'm slightly obsessed with this book.

It has made me read further about the native Americans, particularly the Apache and Comanche - where the European settlers practiced an almost business-like extermination of the peoples, the natives (some of them) were quite sadistic and creative with their violence and murder.
Interesting stuff.
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http://www.vice.com/read/james-francos-blood-meridian-test-656
 
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchmann.

Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber.
 
The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov

First Asimov book I have read, might look for others, I gather he wrote more than 400!
 
I'm reading The Bible atm.

AND SO SHOULD ALL OF YOU YOU FUCKING HEATHENS. :mad:

Been a while and although I'm nowhere near The New Testament yet it felt like the appropriate time of year for it. I'm finding all the lengthy descriptions of how many sons Noah's descendants had and how long they lived a bit tedious but we're just getting to the bit that Bob Dylan sings about on 'Highway 61 Revisited' so things are looking up. If I get right through it I might read the Koran again after as its essentially 'Old Testament 2: God's Back And He's Really Got His Wrath On This Time'. I remember enjoying it a lot last time round.
 
....not giving the Apocrypha a whirl then...?

...that Book of Enoch is meant to be dead good....

"....unputdownable....an utter revelation..." John the Divine

...the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church even reckon its canon & they know their shit....
 
Voley said:
I'm reading The Bible atm.

AND SO SHOULD ALL OF YOU YOU FUCKING HEATHENS. :mad:

Been a while and although I'm nowhere near The New Testament yet it felt like the appropriate time of year for it. I'm finding all the lengthy descriptions of how many sons Noah's descendants had and how long they lived a bit tedious but we're just getting to the bit that Bob Dylan sings about on 'Highway 61 Revisited' so things are looking up. If I get right through it I might read the Koran again after as its essentially 'Old Testament 2: God's Back And He's Really Got His Wrath On This Time'. I remember enjoying it a lot last time round.
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I've just started reading The Action Bible. It's a graphic novel version. I knew I'd never get through a proper Bible, so this shall suffice. It's very enjoyable so far.
 
farmerbarleymow said:
Witches - A Tale of Sorcery, Scandal and Seduction, by Tracy Borman.

It's about a particular case of alleged witchcraft back in the 17th century.
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How are you finding/did you find this ? It caught my eye in Waterstones but I didn't because I was Being Good.
 
izz said:
How are you finding/did you find this ? It caught my eye in Waterstones but I didn't because I was Being Good.
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I heard the author being interviewed on the radio & it sounded good. I might get it out from the library.
 
Voley said:
I'm reading The Bible atm.

AND SO SHOULD ALL OF YOU YOU FUCKING HEATHENS. :mad:

Been a while and although I'm nowhere near The New Testament yet it felt like the appropriate time of year for it. I'm finding all the lengthy descriptions of how many sons Noah's descendants had and how long they lived a bit tedious but we're just getting to the bit that Bob Dylan sings about on 'Highway 61 Revisited' so things are looking up. If I get right through it I might read the Koran again after as its essentially 'Old Testament 2: God's Back And He's Really Got His Wrath On This Time'. I remember enjoying it a lot last time round.
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Nice one Voley

I read it a few years ago (a New International Version so I could understand wtf was going on), and had a lightbulb moment about the begats - I had never actually realised before that all they are is a way of establishing heritage!

I remember reading through and thinking 'fuck, so THAT'S where XYZ got their inspiration from!' - so many artists have drawn from the bible, I'd never realised before. I'm now one of them - have pilfered fucking tons from it - it's amazing :cool::thumbs:
 
The girl with all the gifts.. So far its about children strapped into wheelchairs as they have some kind of infection..
 
sojourner said:
Nice one Voley

I read it a few years ago (a New International Version so I could understand wtf was going on), and had a lightbulb moment about the begats - I had never actually realised before that all they are is a way of establishing heritage!
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Yeah I'm reading the New International one so that I could get through the endless 'begatting' bit. I normally give up there. I do wonder if I'm missing out on some of the language though. I'm worried I might miss out on all the smiting with this version.

sojourner said:
I remember reading through and thinking 'fuck, so THAT'S where XYZ got their inspiration from!' - so many artists have drawn from the bible, I'd never realised before. I'm now one of them - have pilfered fucking tons from it - it's amazing :cool::thumbs:
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Oh yeah it crops up in the most unlikely places doesn't it? Nick Cave is a different listen after you've read The Bible. Just one example.
 
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