MrSki
Who am I to say you're wrong
I am reading the Patrick O'Brian books but am picking them up in charity shops so not worrying too much about the order. Also am re-reading The Wheel of Time.
*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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weltweit
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I find them easy reading and I like that a chapter lasts about as long as I want to read in one sitting.
Candide - Voltaire
ringo
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Fup - Jim Dodge
"One hundred year old Grandaddy Jake and his enormous grandson Tiny live life on the fringes, drinking whiskey, building fences, boasting of immortality. But then, Fup arrives – an ass-kicking, web-footed, feathery sonofagun. See, Fup is a duck. A very big duck. A very big duck indeed... And she is going to change their world forever."
Loving this. Only a small novella so it'll be done in a day or two - brilliant, wild and funny.
"One hundred year old Grandaddy Jake and his enormous grandson Tiny live life on the fringes, drinking whiskey, building fences, boasting of immortality. But then, Fup arrives – an ass-kicking, web-footed, feathery sonofagun. See, Fup is a duck. A very big duck. A very big duck indeed... And she is going to change their world forever."
Loving this. Only a small novella so it'll be done in a day or two - brilliant, wild and funny.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
RW Southern, The Making of the Middle Ages.
weltweit
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Cannery Row is on my to read list!
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Put it at the top! It's ace.
BoatieBird
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"Seven Pillars of Wisdom". I had tried to read it many years ago, but was disappointed that it didn't have the immediate exciting fascination of the film, "Lawrence of Arabia." Very immature, I was.
Reading it now, I find it totally engrossing. It's also very illuminating, with regard to the old-time "Arab" mindset. One gets a better slant on the origins of the present-day global situation, vis a vis the "arab world".
Reading it now, I find it totally engrossing. It's also very illuminating, with regard to the old-time "Arab" mindset. One gets a better slant on the origins of the present-day global situation, vis a vis the "arab world".
Seconded. It deffo will.Finally got round to starting on Lonesome Dove, loving it so far.
It's made me smile quite a bit so far, but according to marty21 it will make me cry
1984 - Orwell
stockwelljonny
Wait here I have gone to get help
Executioners Song - Norman Mailer. First Mailer have read, its flipping long and had a few breaks but its compelling, v atmospheric and some great writing
stockwelljonny
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on the lighter side of Steinbeck but I loved Travels with Charlie, him driving round the states in 1960 in a camper truck with loads of booze and his dog, chatting to people he met to try and get a feel for the country he lived in.
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I think there's only that and 'The Long Valley' that I've yet to read by Steinbeck. Like the sound of that one, ta.
tedsplitter
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Just finished 'Journeyman', the autobiography of Ewan MacColl. I'm a fan and I liked it but it raises almost as many questions as it answers. What was he doing while World War 2 was happening? Like, literally, one chapter ends in 1939, the next one starts in 1945. There's hardly any substantial information about his first two marriages, and why doesn't he tell us more about his five kids? There's lots about theatre techniques, but hardly anything much about other folksingers and musicians besides Peggy Seeger. A strange but enjoyable book by the Stalin of British folk music.
weltweit
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I am a bit dissapointed in The Night Manager, I am now half way through, and hardly anything has happened!
eta: just after half way through though it suddenly picks up, a book of two halves.
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D'wards
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Just finished Wolf Hall - Cromwell is a fascinating subject, as is Henry VIII, and she painted a great portrait of the two men (as well as associated others - Thomas More - grrrr).
Her characterisation is fantastic - some of the best i've read.
I just found the writing style pretty hard going, so i doubt i'll read the sequels
Her characterisation is fantastic - some of the best i've read.
I just found the writing style pretty hard going, so i doubt i'll read the sequels
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
weltweit
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I have been loaned it, but it is a lot of pages!!
D'wards
IT'S YOUR DECISION DANIEL
It is! I actually read it quite quick so i can be done with it. Some people love the style - me old dad for instance - but my brother (who has a degree in English literature) abandoned as it was turgid.I have been loaned it, but it is a lot of pages!!
Just remember "he" is almost always Cromwell.
On a side note, Thomas More and the 16th century Catholic Church make ISIS look like the Sally Army.
ringo
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No, I'll look for it, ta.
Glad Dodgers arrived
Sea Star
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I tried to read this in 2015 and I got stuck around the middle. I think I'll have another go this year. When I was with it the book was fantastic so I know I just need to try a bit harder.
Reading a book about the making of David Bowie's "Low" right now, by Hugo Wilken. Better than I expected for £2.50 or whatever it cost me. Well researched. Lot's of stuff I didn't previously know.
D'wards
IT'S YOUR DECISION DANIEL
Pennine Walkies by Mark Wallington - lovely little travel book about a fella doing the Penine Way with his dog, Boogie.
His two others - 500 Mile Walkies and Boogie up the River are both good little reads - very funny, although i suspect over 70% of what happens is made up - by the third one the dog would be at least 15 - but nonetheless they are happy little travel books
His two others - 500 Mile Walkies and Boogie up the River are both good little reads - very funny, although i suspect over 70% of what happens is made up - by the third one the dog would be at least 15 - but nonetheless they are happy little travel books
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