May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Don't seem to have picked up 'Divided Kingdom' since i got back from holiday, for some reason, so am currently ripping through "Sunset And Sawdust" by Joe R Lansdale. It's quality.
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Stephen Donaldson - The Runes of the Earth
"The Last Chronicles of Thomas Convenant", apparently (actually, it's the first of four new ones, apparently).
They've got much better as the story has gone along, after the struggle to finish the first book. This one is actually pretty gripping, I'm enjoying it.
"The Last Chronicles of Thomas Convenant", apparently (actually, it's the first of four new ones, apparently).
They've got much better as the story has gone along, after the struggle to finish the first book. This one is actually pretty gripping, I'm enjoying it.
choosysusie
Let me see first
The curious incident of the doy in the night-time would recommend it to anyone
tangerinedream
Density of Sound
Just finished 'The Corrections' - Johnathan Franzen, which I loved very deeply indeed. I adored the way no character was truly likable and each was blessed with a certain amount of humanity that made them understandable. One of the best things I've read for years - T'was like reading Delillo, without all the wanky 'look at me, I'm so clever and hip aren't I?' that drags his beautiful writing down.
Put down 'Brecht and CO' by John Fuegi to read it. - Am enjoying that much but not in a page turningly escapist way as yet. Possibly will as I get to the stuff about the more well known plays.
Put down 'Brecht and CO' by John Fuegi to read it. - Am enjoying that much but not in a page turningly escapist way as yet. Possibly will as I get to the stuff about the more well known plays.
bluestreak
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just starting "palestine" by joe saccho. supposed to be a treat.
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
Dark Water - Koji Suzuki, thought i'd give it a try after seeing the movie, bit disapointing so far
tangerinedream said:Just finished 'The Corrections' - Johnathan Franzen, which I loved very deeply indeed. I adored the way no character was truly likable and each was blessed with a certain amount of humanity that made them understandable. One of the best things I've read for years
Aye, its one of the best books I've ever read much for the same reason.
Am just reading The Bullet Trick by Louise Welsh. It's very very good indeed.
I don't know what it is about this book exactly but she has got a way with words! Colleague I was talking to about her earlier also highly recommends her first book The Cutting Room: ''You don't get better prose than this'' were his exact words and I agree.
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
On holiday I read:
Stan The Man - A Hard Life In Football by Stan Ternent
Three Men In a Boat (I don't know why I put off reading this for so long, it's great)
The Crust On Its Uppers by Derek Raymond (brilliant, morrie)
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale, which I enjoyed a lot.
Now, finally, The Bandini Quartet by John Fante.
Stan The Man - A Hard Life In Football by Stan Ternent
Three Men In a Boat (I don't know why I put off reading this for so long, it's great)
The Crust On Its Uppers by Derek Raymond (brilliant, morrie)
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale, which I enjoyed a lot.
Now, finally, The Bandini Quartet by John Fante.
Mrs Bradley
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I've been trying to read "I, Lucifer" - title intrigued me somewhat....and the idea is original to say the least (ie: Lucifer told he may be able to gain a place back in heaven if he can inhabit a human body and be a good boy etc)...oh, and Daniel Craig's in the film version
dynamicbaddog
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Ben Elton's The First Casualty- it's an historical drama set in World War 1.
I was a bit apprehensive when I bought this because I thought his last couple of books were a bit patchy, but this is good! I'm really enjoying it.
I was a bit apprehensive when I bought this because I thought his last couple of books were a bit patchy, but this is good! I'm really enjoying it.
tangerinedream
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Dirty Martini said:
Is the Ternent book any good? - I've always regarded him as a bit of a tosser for no reason I can actually put my finger on. (apart from being manager of Buuuurnley)
'Three men in a boat' has a sequel where they go on a biking holiday - 'Three men on a bummel' - It's not quite as funny, but still is funny (and is available for free here! http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2183)
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Reading 'Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell' by Susanna Clarke, a 1000 page romp through nineteenth century magicians circles
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Iam said:Stephen Donaldson - The Runes of the Earth
"The Last Chronicles of Thomas Convenant", apparently (actually, it's the first of four new ones, apparently).
They've got much better as the story has gone along, after the struggle to finish the first book. This one is actually pretty gripping, I'm enjoying it.
have you read his sci-fi trilogy? weird and a bit off-putting. the main female character in it gets abused pretty horrifically. she also keeps being unable to scream due to sounds not being able to express her anguish and so on. I liked the original Covenant stuff but that made me wonder about donaldson's mental wellbeing (and his views on women.)
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
tangerinedream said:
Yeah, the Ternent was a good read, it's a long time since I read a football book. Lots of great anecdotes and turns of phrase ("He'd be lucky to get a game for Holby City", "older than Jimmy Savile's haircut", etc), though embellishment is the name of the game in yer average manager's ghostwritten autobiography. He's a tosser, but not too much of a one. Can't see you enjoying the occasional references he makes to Blackpool though
Cheers for the Bummel link
tangerinedream
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Dirty Martini said:Yeah, the Ternent was a good read, it's a long time since I read a football book. Lots of great anecdotes and turns of phrase ("He'd be lucky to get a game for Holby City", "older than Jimmy Savile's haircut", etc), though embellishment is the name of the game in yer average manager's ghostwritten autobiography. He's a tosser, but not too much of a one. Can't see you enjoying the occasional references he makes to Blackpool though
Cheers for the Bummel link
Stan was our boss for a short and very unsuccesful period mid 80s, dunno if he goes into that at all, probably fairly bitter about not cutting it at the finest of the north west clubs. I'll give it a whirl sometime I think. I bet the Ian Wright, Paul Gascoigne seasons at Buuuuurnley are pretty good reading.
No worries fo't link.
cyberfairy said:Reading 'Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell' by Susanna Clarke, a 1000 page romp through nineteenth century magicians circles
I really enjoyed that - I can't seem to find anyone who has finished it! it peaks and troughs and is a little self indulgent but worth hanging in there with. She's writing a sequel you know?
I'm currently finishing Cormac McCarthy's Border trilogy with Cities of the Plain. To be entirely honest I'm not sure why he bothered apart from the fact that John Grady is such a fantastic character. The meeting of the two protagonists from the previous books seems at the moment to be a bit pointless and I'm nearing the end.
A wonderful trilogy but I'm a less than blown away with the last part.
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
tangerinedream said:
There's some bitterness there for sure.
The Gascoigne stuff is pretty cursory but the Ian Wright story is quite touching.
I think I enjoyed the Bury chapters best. The victory parade by open-top bus after they won the title is well told
maya said:revisiting Faulkner, "The Sound and the Fury"- hope to finish it this time!
One of my favourite writers although I've never read The Sound and the Fury
As I Lay Dying really cuts you up....Finished Cormac and kind of see why he did the third book although I got really lost at the end. I think it was all about storytelling....
Anyway - Nick Cave now - And the Ass Saw the Angel - really excited about this!
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
May Kasahara said:
Finished this at the weekend and would recommend it to anyone - like an East Texas Carl Hiaasen, only less smug, a wonderfully laconic crime novel set in the 1930s. Completely unpretentious, witty and peppered with some beautiful prose which he makes no fanfare of at all. Very evocative of the Depression and its travails. Thumbs up!
Off to library at lunchtime to drop it off and possibly pick up my copy of 'Black Swan Green' to read before next week's book club meeting, although I'm not feeling very enthusiastic about it...
The Primo Levi book is grossly captivating... amid all the violence and danger, the partisans are portrayed in a fascinating and very humane way. I truly feel for Lionel and Mendel now... I wish them all the luck as they try n evade the Nazis.
The book also discusses Zionism and why so many Jews from Eastern Europe migrated to Palestine.
The book also discusses Zionism and why so many Jews from Eastern Europe migrated to Palestine.
The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society by CHRIS STEWART
I have read all three of his books and loved them all, it makes me want to jack everything in and do the same as he's done, although i can't shear sheep
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I have read all three of his books and loved them all, it makes me want to jack everything in and do the same as he's done, although i can't shear sheep
Published by this top notch publisher Sort Of Books
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Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally
Not a particularly happy tale, but still brilliant and enthralling
Not a particularly happy tale, but still brilliant and enthralling
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