BristolEcho
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Yeah I've had to wiki a few things to recap. Wasn't sure at first to be honest, but it's growing.
*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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Yeah I've had to wiki a few things to recap. Wasn't sure at first to be honest, but it's growing.
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A Book of Travellers' Tales, Eric Newby - Delightful, eventful and sometimes hilarious read..
I'm reading Shadow Captain by Alastair Reynolds, the second installment in the Revenger series. The third book comes out Jan, 2020
BristolEcho
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Taken me ages as I didn't read for a while, but I am now just under half way through this.
Found it pretty confusing at first and to be honest I really wasn't sure. The characters are starting to develop though and I've got some great quotes from it too.
PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
Yes please!
BoatieBird
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Yes please
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Inspired by someone on here I thought I'd read Kim having never read any Kipling. I know he's considered pretty dodge, but I quite enjoyed it. Been years since I've read a "classic" as well, think I'm going to try and do a few more.
Virtual Blue
ready
The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie
Spectacular. Where have I been all this time? How did I miss this?
Spectacular. Where have I been all this time? How did I miss this?
BristolEcho
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Great series. On the newest book as posted above and it's great.
D'wards
IT'S YOUR DECISION DANIEL
Just finished The Secret History by Donna Tartt as I'd twice heard Bob Mortimer saying it was his favourite novel, and if it's good enough for Bob it's good enough for me.
I very much enjoyed it.
After I finished I went back to Desert Island Discs to see what bob said about it.
He was talking about My Secret History by Paul Theroux
So I'll read that soon
I very much enjoyed it.
After I finished I went back to Desert Island Discs to see what bob said about it.
He was talking about My Secret History by Paul Theroux
So I'll read that soon
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
I liked it too. But I read another of her books and wasn’t as impressed.
D'wards
IT'S YOUR DECISION DANIEL
I've heard The Goldfinch is excellent
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
Thats the one I didn’t like. I didn’t think the characters rang true and I thought it dragged. But what do I know - it won awards.
BoatieBird
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The Little Friend is excellent, one of my favourite books.
Ken Macleod's Engine City, final part of the Engines of Light trilogy.
What a great series and thanks to urban for recommending this author.
What a great series and thanks to urban for recommending this author.
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy.
Struggling with it a little, to be honest - it's just meandering and doesn't seem to go anywhere.
Struggling with it a little, to be honest - it's just meandering and doesn't seem to go anywhere.
D'wards
IT'S YOUR DECISION DANIEL
I love it! My favourite book. It hasn't got a strong plot but has some great scenes and the starkest violence you'll ever read.
Have you got to the Comanche attack yet?
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
Yes - I like his style, and some of the characters are good once they got going, but the middle of it is all a bit repetitive and same-y. I read No Country a few years ago, and don't remember it being this much of a slog.
moonsi til
worked it out now!
Just been on holiday & finished Tracy Thorns ‘Naked At The Hall’ which is overall about singing.
Then read ‘Captain Corellis Mandolin’ -this I bought in a charity shop & had been on my shelf a while. It took me 50 pages to get into it but after I was fully absorbed & still thinking about it now & missing the people I read about.
I was then down to the few books on my Kindle (can’t get connected to Kindle shop) so I browsed the hotel library must most books in German. Found Bear Grylls autobiography so read that. I quite liked it as it was partly about Mount Everest which I love reading about. Finished that in a day so back to Kindle & started my first ever Jane Austin so now reading ‘Pride & Prejudice’ - will admit it’s a slight struggle but I’m plodding on.
Then read ‘Captain Corellis Mandolin’ -this I bought in a charity shop & had been on my shelf a while. It took me 50 pages to get into it but after I was fully absorbed & still thinking about it now & missing the people I read about.
I was then down to the few books on my Kindle (can’t get connected to Kindle shop) so I browsed the hotel library must most books in German. Found Bear Grylls autobiography so read that. I quite liked it as it was partly about Mount Everest which I love reading about. Finished that in a day so back to Kindle & started my first ever Jane Austin so now reading ‘Pride & Prejudice’ - will admit it’s a slight struggle but I’m plodding on.
It's challenging but worth it. Very different style from, say, The Road
Currently reading some WW2/spy thriller - Nemesis by Rory Clements. Not my normal thing but a page turner, all the same.
flypanam
Sausage to fortune
Samuel Stein's Capital City: gentrification and the real estate state.
One of those Jacobin series books that Verso does. Pretty intersesting with some good references. I think the idea that gentrification is 'the theft of space from labor and its conversion into spaces of profit' is very good.
One of those Jacobin series books that Verso does. Pretty intersesting with some good references. I think the idea that gentrification is 'the theft of space from labor and its conversion into spaces of profit' is very good.
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
well, this is one I will not be reading....
Lucy Ellmann’s 1,000-page novel Ducks, Newburyport has won the £10,000 Goldsmiths prize for “fiction at its most novel”, praised by judges as a “masterpiece”.
Ducks, Newburyport is the stream of consciousness novel....Made up of just eight sentences, with no paragraph breaks...
how on Earth are you supposed to read that on 30 minute bus rides? I’d be forever loosing my place
it might be quite an accomplishment to write, but I like my novels with paragraphs so I can stop and think, or do something else..
Lucy Ellmann’s 1,000-page novel Ducks, Newburyport has won the £10,000 Goldsmiths prize for “fiction at its most novel”, praised by judges as a “masterpiece”.
Ducks, Newburyport is the stream of consciousness novel....Made up of just eight sentences, with no paragraph breaks...
how on Earth are you supposed to read that on 30 minute bus rides? I’d be forever loosing my place
it might be quite an accomplishment to write, but I like my novels with paragraphs so I can stop and think, or do something else..
BristolEcho
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The middle to end is really great. The last few chapters were a bit of a drag, but it's nicely built for the next book. Can't wait.
Anyone recommend any decent books non-fiction books on China?
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
I recall enjoying Behind the Wall by Colin Thubron when I read it 25 years ago.
China has changed even more than I have in that time
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