*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[Libertad]

ordered! (just going into our second season beekeeping).

I'm sure you'll love it. A quick search suggests that there are quite a few Urban beeks.

 

[sojourner]

Steve Jones's autobiog. Dire, predictable - I don't even know why I got it out the library

 

[ringo]

Started Early, Took My Dog - Kate Atkinson
Finally stopped reading books about the holocaust and nazis, completely in the wrong frame of mind for that. Onto something easy, good, entertaining and funny. Atkinson has become my go to author for escapism, just the right note of smart, homely page turner.

 

[krtek a houby]

John Sladek's The Complete Roderick. 50 pages in and as many characters to get to know. Don't know how many are peripheral and it's difficult to keep up with who's doing what. Will perservere, though.

 

[sojourner]

Well, I was attempting to read The Age of Bowie by Paul Morley, but one intro and two chapters of utter dribble have forced me to put it down.

Started reading The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern last night and loving it. Reminds me a little bit of Angela Carter and a bit of Rosie Garland, but is original enough for that not to matter.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Kill everything that moves: The real American war in Vietnam by Nick Turse

It's fascinating but not cheerful

 

[Sprocket.]

Well, I was attempting to read The Age of Bowie by Paul Morley, but one intro and two chapters of utter dribble have forced me to put it down.

Sorry to read this, I know that someone has bought me a copy for Christmas! Will give it a go, hope it is not yet another unfinished tome destined for the charity shop!

I have just started Berlin Game by Len Deighton in the Game, Set and Match trio.

 

[sojourner]

Sorry to read this, I know that someone has bought me a copy for Christmas! Will give it a go, hope it is not yet another unfinished tome destined for the charity shop!

Well you never know, if you do actually like his writing, there's hope! I hadn't read anything by PM for eons, so it wasn't a pleasant surprise for me.

 

[stockwelljonny]

Just finished Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami. Loved it, had to stay up late last night to finish! This is third Murakami after coming to him late, and love each of them..

 

[weltweit]

Having read Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian, and Post Captain, I am now reading HMS Surprise. I have the whole set I could work through though I think I will mix in some other books also.

 

[danny la rouge]

Having read Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian, and Post Captain, I am now reading HMS Surprise. I have the whole set I could work through though I think I will mix in some other books also.

Oh my god. I read Captain and Commander and thought it was one of the worst things I'd ever read. I gave it away to someone who drove 300 miles to give it me back. That's how much they didn't want it left in their house.

 

[weltweit]

Oh my god. I read Captain and Commander and thought it was one of the worst things I'd ever read. I gave it away to someone who drove 300 miles to give it me back. That's how much they didn't want it left in their house.

Ha, well I wasn't sure I would like it, nor was the person who lent it me, at first I was quite undecided but after a while I found I had read half of it so I continued..

 

[Radical-Cliff]

The Life Changing Magic of Tidying - Marie Kondo

 

[nogojones]

Kill everything that moves: The real American war in Vietnam by Nick Turse

It's fascinating but not cheerful

Halfway through this as well. I promised myself a few months back that I'd watch a few happy movies/read a few happy books. This don't fall under that catagory, so I'm also reading some P.G. Wodehouse short stories to keep me from the edge

 

[colbhoy]

D-Day, The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor.

 

[campanula]

Not really enjoying Cixin Liu's Dark Forest so dithering between B. Catling - The Vorrh and Jonas Jonasson - 'The hundred year old man who fell out of a window and disappeared'.

 

[Franjipan2112]

Nearly Finished Dangerous Sea by David Roberts

 

[muvva]

Things no one will tell fat girls- Jes Baker

 

[KeeperofDragons]

The Leveller Revolution by John Rees and dipping into Doctor Who The Whoniverse both I got for Christmas

 

[izz]

I'm a few stories into Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson. Woman was a twisted genius, able to conjure evil from the mundane.

 

[sojourner]

Started reading The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern last night and loving it.

Absolutely fucking loved this book, thoroughly recommended!!

Now reading Working the Phones by Jamie Woodcock, with thanks to the heads-up from
mango5 It's fab

 

[Voley]

A Clash of Kings - George R.R Martin.

I'm probably doing this the wrong way round - reading the books after watching the telly programme - but it's good seeing how much extra stuff was written. It's not like the telly programme is brief - there's seven seasons of it so far - but there's loads more in the books. Good little plotline developing with Sansa and the drunk knight bloke she saved from Joffrey atm for example. I don't remember that from the TV series. Very enjoyable.

 

[Orang Utan]

A Clash of Kings - George R.R Martin.

I'm probably doing this the wrong way round - reading the books after watching the telly programme - but it's good seeing how much extra stuff was written. It's not like the telly programme is brief - there's seven seasons of it so far - but there's loads more in the books. Good little plotline developing with Sansa and the drunk knight bloke she saved from Joffrey atm for example. I don't remember that from the TV series. Very enjoyable.

it's covered extremely briefly in S2 in one episode with Tony Way as Dontos. Way is in loads of things, you'll prob recognise him:

ETA: just had a quick look at IMDb and he's in 6 episodes! I can only remember the one where Sansa persuades Joffrey not to make Dontos drink himself to death

 

[Voley]

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ETA: just had a quick look at IMDb and he's in 6 episodes! I can only remember the one where Sansa persuades Joffrey not to make Dontos drink himself to death

Yes that's the only bit I remember too. ''Drink your fill on my nameday'' etc. 6 episodes though? Maybe they did cover it a bit more than I remember. Anyhow it looks like it's going off on a tangent I didn't predict anyhow and I'm enjoying the meandering plot.

 

[Mattym]

Just finished 'The power of the dog' by Thomas Savage. Fantastic story and characterisation and reasonably quick to complete.

 

[not-bono-ever]

HHhH

a novel about a journey to find out more about Heydrich, the Butcher of Prague.
A far better read that it sounds

 

[Orang Utan]

Yes that's the only bit I remember too. ''Drink your fill on my nameday'' etc. 6 episodes though? Maybe they did cover it a bit more than I remember. Anyhow it looks like it's going off on a tangent I didn't predict anyhow and I'm enjoying the meandering plot.

I recall now that there's a brief scene where he's playing the fool in Joffrey's court as instructed, but I think he just hangs about in court scenes after that, until he helps Sansa get away from King's Landing after the Joffrey's demise.

 

[Voley]

until he helps Sansa get away from King's Landing after the Joffrey's demise.

Ah, right, was that him? Yes, that ties in with the bit I've just read. I've just got to the bit where Theon unwittingly tries to get off with his sister, now. They'd not changed that much for the telly. You'd think that was humiliation enough but it's all downhill for him from here.

I do like the additional stuff in the books, though. Tyrion's chapters are even more scheming, somehow. Feels like I'm watching the director's cut.

 

[Orang Utan]

Ah, right, was that him? Yes, that ties in with the bit I've just read.

I've read and watched it so I can't remember which bit happened in book or tv now.
I'm about to read A Feast For Crows again as I skipped it loads last time and my pa is about to read it. we've been watching the tv series too, but are only up to S2. it is interesting going through it again and noting the differences. I think A Storm Of Swords/S3 are where the tv and books start to diverge massively.

 

[Red About Town]

The Football Factory - John King. Bought it at least 15 years ago. Skimmed through it at the time. Saw the film when it was released and forgot all about the novel.
Started reading it again this week and it is superb. Can't put it down....