*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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This is actually more enjoyable than I thought it would be. Loads of dialect I'm not used to - 'jacket', 'jolt' etc, and some I am - 'patsy', 'cooze'
. Veers dangerously close to Mickey Spillane but doesn't quite get there - in doing so, it's put a smile on my face
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Will do, if I ever get to the essays - am thinking it's perhaps not the best book at bedtime, it's taken me three nights of instantly falling asleep just to get through the intro
Finished Lonesome Dove, all 900 pages of it. In the end, it was quite dull - it was 'epic' without really living up to the scale. And a really wank ending
Robert Elms is about to talk about I Was Dora Suarez, which reminded me I still haven't read it, so I'm going to dig that out
Robert Elms is about to talk about I Was Dora Suarez, which reminded me I still haven't read it, so I'm going to dig that out
obanite
Kroketten
Been hooked on Iain Banks lately. Just devoured 3 while on holiday:
Look to Windward (average, didn't like the ending really)
Use of Weapons (interesting story)
Against a Dark Background (loved the setting!)
Think the last 2 are my favourite Banks books, Excession was top too
Now reading 'Empire in Black and Gold', some fantasy thing where everybody seems to be half man, half insect
E2A: oooh just found this! http://www.culturelist.org/cdr/article.cfm?id=142
Look to Windward (average, didn't like the ending really)
Use of Weapons (interesting story)
Against a Dark Background (loved the setting!)
Think the last 2 are my favourite Banks books, Excession was top too
Now reading 'Empire in Black and Gold', some fantasy thing where everybody seems to be half man, half insect
E2A: oooh just found this! http://www.culturelist.org/cdr/article.cfm?id=142
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Can't find it
So reading The Inner Circle, ANOTHER TC Boyle book
That's the Kinsey one, isn't it? It's good fun, but he does seem to lose interest 2/3rds of the way through.
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
I've just ordered a copy of 'Moby Dick', after listening to a recent discussion on 'Open Book (Radio 4). Does anyone have any suggestions to make before it arrives?
Beyond the Black Box - The Forensics of Airplane Crashes by George Bibel
He should write books 2/3 as long, as should almost everyone else.
Now on Primo Levi - the drowned and the saved.
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
Well 'Moby Dick' (Vintage Classics) arrived this morning - I opened up the book and had a quick look inside. Why oh why does it have to have been printed in a very odd looking font - which will probably not help as I tackle this Leviathan.
Wish me luck!
Wish me luck!
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
Reading 'On Beauty' - Zadie Smith....................really out of character for me this but am enjoyably suprised !
good luck!
Is it a small font? I hate that. It actively puts me off reading a book, cos I know I'll end up with a crippling headache
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
Yup, it is a small font!!!
Tc Boyle Spoilers!!!!
See, you've mentioned this before about Boyle, and this is the first of his I've read since you said it. And you're kind of right
The awful tension between the protagonists kind of dies off after the first 2/3rds and it's not till that 'attic scene' that it reappears, the rest is really "he did that and we did that". So, still a very good book - he just writes so well - but definitely a problem with the pacing.
See, you've mentioned this before about Boyle, and this is the first of his I've read since you said it. And you're kind of right
The awful tension between the protagonists kind of dies off after the first 2/3rds and it's not till that 'attic scene' that it reappears, the rest is really "he did that and we did that". So, still a very good book - he just writes so well - but definitely a problem with the pacing.
Yup, it is a small font!!!
My copy of it is too, otherwise I coulda let you borrow that
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
My copy of it is too, otherwise I coulda let you borrow that
Thanks Soj, that is a really kind thought. I'll let you know how it goes - I'll probably return to this thread with seriously weakened eyesight.
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
Moby Dick is a very slooooooow read.
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
Probably not as good as it was before I started that damn book!
Although I must admit I tend to read at night before I sleep, and reading by lamplight probably doesn't help either.
What are you reading Soj?
Although I must admit I tend to read at night before I sleep, and reading by lamplight probably doesn't help either.
What are you reading Soj?
I read by lamplight too, but a proper reading lamp - blinds me
As above, also finished the Alice Walker so am half-heartedly picking up The Boy with no Shoes again, but it's self-indulgent woe-is-me wank, and I keep shouting inwardly at the narrator
I have A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers and The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje lined up - not sure which one I want to start first
Grego Morales
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Pavane by Keith Roberts.
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