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Just finished Enduring Love by Ian McKewan and now on David Mitchells Cloud Atlas.
*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Just finished "Use of Weapons" - wonderful, halfway through I thought it was okay but wasn't enjoying as much as other Iain M. Banks but by the end I had completely revised that and it has really left me thinking.
Not sure what next - possibly Alan Furst's "The Polish Officer"
Not sure what next - possibly Alan Furst's "The Polish Officer"
i don't think i 'got' the Gathering, it didn't impress me in anyway at least.
I loved 'Enduring Love' and 'Engleby' though. (I think i enjoyed the latter as I felt a connection to where it was set - Cambridge)
I read 'The Third Policeman' on holiday, very surreal book - has anyone else read it or anything else by Flan O'Brien?
I loved 'Enduring Love' and 'Engleby' though. (I think i enjoyed the latter as I felt a connection to where it was set - Cambridge)
I read 'The Third Policeman' on holiday, very surreal book - has anyone else read it or anything else by Flan O'Brien?
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
The Engineer ReConditioned - Neal Asher
I'm really loving the playing with memories, and the ease of transition from mind to reality
Just sorta mucks about with the false memory thing dunnit? And growing up. I really like it - raw, fierce, vague, unsure, uncertain...I'm really loving the playing with memories, and the ease of transition from mind to reality
maybe it was too subtle for me
rolleyes: <--- @me) there's been a few books that people have really raved about that have really not engaged me... maybe it's a case of reading them at the wrong time of life or not reading it properly. The other book I can remember it happening with was Ali Smith's 'The Accidental'maybe it was too subtle for me
Or you just really don't like them
It's not a crime, is it? What really matters is that there is a fuckload of writing out there, and some will change your life, and some will move you, and some will just bore the pants off you
But someone somewhere will always connect with what another person has written
oh, absolutely. I don't often feel dislike for a book I just don't connect with it. More often than not I feel like I'm missing out when someone sings the praises of a book which I've read but not 'got', It feels more like i've completely misunderstood the book IYKWIM
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
Muhammad - Karen Armstrong
Perhaps the most irritating book that I will ever read. Inaccurate and lacking any sense of a intellectual rigour and independence. Hagiographic shit.
Perhaps the most irritating book that I will ever read. Inaccurate and lacking any sense of a intellectual rigour and independence. Hagiographic shit.
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Finished Zuleika Dobson, which was daft and remarkable equally 
Anyone else read it?
Now I'm reading some Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love.
He was a one-off I loved The Third Policeman, but preferred At Swim-Two-Birds and, best of all, The Dalkey Archive.
Anyone else read it?Now I'm reading some Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love.
He was a one-off
I loved The Third Policeman, but preferred At Swim-Two-Birds and, best of all, The Dalkey Archive.
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
Have you read Love In A Cold Climate?
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
Nice-I'll read it after this one, it's in the same volume
There's a pretty good (recent-ish) collection of letters between the Mitford sisters BTW, it gets really eerie when one of them dies and just drops out of the conversation while the others continue the exchange... Like one voice is missing. 
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Nice-
Cheers, might try those letters ... though I think I'd better take a break from reading about the interwar idle rich. I'm beginning to hanker for teapots and soapdishes.
He was a one-off
I read in the mini biography at the end of TTP that he wrote lots more but under different names - did he write those under another name?
Might add them to the To Read list, along with some of Nancy Mitfords stuff as I loved the Mitford Sisters Letters.
Going to read the rest of Pat Barkers "Regeneration Trilogy" first....
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
He wrote them as Flann O'Brien, but wrote his newspaper columns under the name of Myles na gCopaleen. His real name, though, was Brian O'Nolan
I really do recommend The Dalkey Archive. Astounding work.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Steve Pinker The Language Instinct
interesting stuff
interesting stuff
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
It's a good narrative that, although I do feel it looks at feudal society through rose tinted specs
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
yes, it's a fascinating read imo. i've heard accusations of some latent racism about his views which i don't think have any real substance.
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
Last Evenings on Earth - Roberto Bolano
The Rage & The Pride - Oriana Fallaci
The Rage & The Pride - Oriana Fallaci
Finished Linqvist's Handling The Undead. Not anywhere near as good as Let The Right One In. Without giving anything away it's a fresh take on zombies, where it's about the love between the bereaved and their dead rather than tearing flesh and stuff - and in parts is quite moving for those reasons, but the resolution sucks and some of the writing is quite bad (although that might be bad translation?).
Going to restart the big ole Tom Waits biog now...
Going to restart the big ole Tom Waits biog now...
Who by?
the recent Barney Hoskyns one. Actually, I've got that and Age of Extremes by Eric Hobsbawm next to my bed vying for my attention and I couldn't face either of them last night. I think I'm in a particularly thick mode.
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