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I've always been put off by that book - from my observations on the tube, it is always being read by the same people who read The Da Vinci Code or an 'adult'-version Harry Potter.
I know that sounds snooty, cos it is.
 
Orang Utan said:
I've always been put off by that book - from my observations on the tube, it is always being read by the same people who read The Da Vinci Code or an 'adult'-version Harry Potter.
I know that sounds snooty, cos it is.
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i agree, but two of my ex-french literature student friends liked it so i thought i'd give it a go.

me = snooty too.
 
Vixen said:
arthur golden - memoirs of a geisha.

i started it a few months back and couldn't really get in to it. after ian mcewan's simple and delicate, but rather beautiful writing style, i'm not overly enthused, but it might be a good story. anyone read it?
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Me! I bloody loved it. Defo one of the best books I read this year and wouldn't usually go for this sort of thing.

Starts off slowly but I really got into it. The way the author describes the settings through the eyes of the Geisha was great. Almost felt like I was there myself.

The film's supposed to be rubbish though.

I'm reading The Treatment by Mo Hayder at the moment. Not read a horror for a while and I like to mix it up a bit. Turns out it's set in Brixton......slow start so far.

Whilst I'm ranting....I thoroughly enjoyed The Insider by Piers Morgan. Took no time to read.
 
Vixen said:
for what reason though? you didn't enjoy it?
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no it was ok i guess, just that the copy i'd borrowed was in a language i'm not especially good at and so it probably felt more tedious than it actually was (if that makes sense)
 
maya said:
no it was ok i guess, just that the copy i'd borrowed was in a language i'm not especially good at and so it probably felt more tedious than it actually was (if that makes sense)
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hmm. i'm unconvinced so far.

it seems a bit clumsy writing wise. i am going to need to find a fantastic book for the next nine days and i don't think this one will be it.
 
Vixen said:
hmm. i'm unconvinced so far.

it seems a bit clumsy writing wise. i am going to need to find a fantastic book for the next nine days and i don't think this one will be it.
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yeah, don't bother with it- i thought of it as the archetypal "book club"-book, if you know what i mean...
i'm sure you won't miss anything by skipping this one...
 
Volume 2 of Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo trilogy. The first one was superb... he writes in a very descriptive style and I oculd almost see the characters moving in front of me.

the second volume is called Palace of Desire.
 
maya said:
yeah, don't bother with it- i thought of it as the archetypal "book club"-book, if you know what i mean...
i'm sure you won't miss anything by skipping this one...
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Orang Utan said:
I was always a bit sus about an American man writing in the voice of Japanese geisha....
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yep. it's complete toss: one of the worst books i have read in a while. i now need something utterly amazing to read to cancel it out. i have an evening in with six mince pies. i may read philip roth. or ian mcewan.
 
I am reading Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides. The story about the refugees and their journey in the first fifty pages is similar to the story of my family.
 
Wartime Britain 1939-1945 - Juliet Gardner

Nowhere near as dry as the title would suggest, loads of contemporary diary extracts
give it a personal perspective.
 
Leica said:
I am reading Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides. The story about the refugees and their journey in the first fifty pages is similar to the story of my family.
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Hopefully not too similar.
 
-i'm reading...

Jackie Wullschlager's biography of Hans Christian Andersen.
...which is okay enough, i've just decided to switch to reading his collected fairytales instead, because they're much better and i love the mood/doom/gloom of them, now when it's dark winter and cold outside and everything... :)
 
maya said:
Jackie Wullschlager's biography of Hans Christian Andersen.
...which is okay enough, i've just decided to switch to reading his collected fairytales instead, because they're much better and i love the mood/doom/gloom of them, now when it's dark winter and cold outside and everything... :)
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Yay! :cool:


I've got the complete unabridged Brothers Grimm, which I like to dip into for a little folk tale gnarly weirdness now and again.


NorthWest Europeans have learnt to enjoy our winters... :)


<moves pipe to other corner of mouth, pensively>
 
MysteryGuest said:
<moves pipe to other corner of mouth, pensively>
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...ah- is that a meer schaum pipe perchance, sir holmes? :)
*peers out window at the howling hounds of the moor and shadows drawing closer* :eek:
 
I'm reading On Beauty by Zadie Smith and I'm due to return The Way of Acting by Tadashi Suzuki to the library, er, yesterday.
 
the lost art of keeping secrets by eva rice.

it's beautifully observed in its 1950s upper class observation... liking it so far.
 
Have just started (at last!) 'A Feast For Crows' by George R R Martin. Glad to see it starts as it means to go on, with lust and death in the first few pages.
 
Just finished 'Amsterdam' Ian Mcwhatever he's called. Next.

People pounce on other Scottish authors, like Iain Banks and Irvine Welsh if their standard imperceptibly drops. But McEwan goes on churning out this formulaic stuff without a murmur.

Good for comedowns when you've got 4 hours to kill though. IMO natch.

Fuck me, I'm defending Sweaties. It must be Chrimbollox.
 
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