*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[Lea]

Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr

 

[ChrisC]

Rides a Dread Legion by Raymond E. Feist.

 

[Fictionist]

Will probably finish 'Lord of the Flies' this evening, I am considering 'Robinson Crusoe' as my next read.

 

[El Jefe]

The Rider by Tim Krabbe, a kind of existential account of a fictional mountain cycle race from the perspective of the rider, written in a really compelling, literally breathless style. It's one of the more curious books I've read in a while...

 

[Orang Utan]

a friend recommended that to me passionately - the same author wrote the story that was adapted as the vanishing wasn't it?

 

[El Jefe]

a friend recommended that to me passionately - the same author wrote the story that was adapted as the vanishing wasn't it?

yeh. i'm loving it, it's a totally original (AFAIK) narrative idea

 

[marty21]

Lisbeth Salander is my hero.

mine too!!

Finished the second of the trilogy, and the English translation of the 3rd doesn't come out until October, I want it NOW!!

i'm going to have to learn Swedish

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

yeh. i'm loving it, it's a totally original (AFAIK) narrative idea

i saw this at dinner time in a book shop down the road and now i'm thinking i should have purchased it....

*wonders whether he can sneak another new book past the beady eye of the missus or not*

 

[llion]

From Anger to Apathy - Mark Garnett. Rivetting history of politics, society and popular culture in Britain from 1975 to the Blair era. It's not too dry or academic, but isn't superficial or patronizing either.

 

[big eejit]

I capture the castle by Dodie Smith

 

[Scarlette]

I capture the castle by Dodie Smith

Ooh, I love that. I'm reading The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter. It's great. Gosh I love her.

 

[big eejit]

I've just started it. Very enjoyable so far.

 

[Leica]

I want it NOW!!

i'm going to have to learn Swedish

Same here

 

[seeformiles]

Colin Forbes - "The United State" (probably the worst book I've ever read - I will have to finish it on principle but it is utter shite)

 

[sojourner]

Got a cracking haul of books from the YM the other day, so started on J P Donleavy's A Fairytale of New York last night.

Very interesting style of writing - very unusual. TINY text though - bloody 1973 publication date, back when they didn't give a shit whether you would go blind trying to read the friggin thing!

 

[sojourner]

I'm reading The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter. It's great. Gosh I love her.

One of my all time favourite writers is Angela - think my favourite by her is The Passion of New Eve

 

[Bassism]

Just finished Urban Grimshaw and the shed crew - Bernard Hare

Just starting Selling Olga - Louisa waugh

 

[gosub]

Just finished Chocalate and Cuckoo Clocks -Alan Coren

Just starting The Corner -David Simon & Ed Burns

 

[Fictionist]

Will be starting Roberto Bolano's 'By Night in Chile' tonight.

 

[DotCommunist]

Will be starting Roberto Bolano's 'By Night in Chile' tonight.

Re: Lord of the Flies

There are a couple of films worth a gander. The B&W one is very stiffly acted, but not total gash.

The later one is a bit hollywood-slick but again not total gash.

 

[Fictionist]

I am still considering 'Lord of the Flies', I didn't think it was particularly engaging as a text, and it certainly bears the imprint of the period in which it was written (some fantastically casual racism in there - rather like 'Madame Bovary'). I'm beginning to suspect I expect too much of the novel form.

 

[Dillinger4]

Will be starting Roberto Bolano's 'By Night in Chile' tonight.

 

[Obnoxiousness]

Wormwood by GP Taylor

 

[sojourner]

I'm beginning to suspect I expect too much of the novel form.

Or maybe you're just concentrating on the 'classics'

 

[DotCommunist]

I loved what China Meville said about the Lord of The Flies. (paraphrasing here) ' When the British officer makes landfall and tells them all they are not behaving like British children and they all fall into line is repugnant. The kids from the Borrovilles would have told him to piss off'

 

[QueenOfGoths]

"A Season for the Dead" - a thriller by Dabid Hewson. Alright, not brilliant. Very much a Sunday evening 8.00pm serial kind of book.

Back to the Culture next with "Use of Weapons"

 

[Bakunin]

Stephen King - The Green Mile.

 

[Dillinger4]

I am reading Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon.

It is a kind of detective story. It is surprisingly normal, considering some of the other stuff by Thomas Pynchon. I am really really enjoying it so far. I have no idea where the story is going to go.

I am also re-reading Generation X by Douglas Coupland, again. This is about the 8th time I have bought this book. I kept buying it and then becoming really insistent that somebody else should read it and never getting my copy back.

 

[Fictionist]

Or maybe you're just concentrating on the 'classics'

Do you think so?

 

[llion]

Some of William Golding's other books are much, much better than Lord of the Flies e.g. the one he wrote straight afterwards, The Inheritors, about early man and Darkness Visible, a much later one which is a very interesting reflection of Britain in the seventies.