*What book are you reading ?

[Pieface]

Does what is says on the tin then? It's nice to rely on some things in life eh?

and weirdly, the current book I'm reading for book group has a character in it called Sojourner.

Mmmm synchronicity

 

[sojourner]

and weirdly, the current book I'm reading for book group has a character in it called Sojourner.

Mmmm synchronicity

Spookeh

What book is it? (assuming it's a different one than the fantasy)

 

[Pieface]

It is Woman on the Edge of Time. To be honest, Sojourner is a character that has been mentioned once in, um, passing so not so much a character as a detail

 

[Orang Utan]

I am reading a fantaseh trilogeh

It is somewhat unbelievable

Reminds me of something overheard coming out of the cinema after Lord Of The Rings - Bloke: what did you think of that then? Girl: well, it was a bit far fetched

 

[suitgirl]

i am reading the amber spyglass by philip pullman...it's holding my interest just about...

 

[sojourner]

i am reading the amber spyglass by philip pullman...it's holding my interest just about...

Last book in the trilogy - did you enjoy the first two? This one can be pretty treacly to get through at times compared to the first two, but well worth sticking with

 

[milesy]

it's the coupland I like least, to be honest. It's his hysterical soap opera elements to the fore and it just annoyed me.

yeah, it was a bit...hysterical and way OTT in places. but i enjoyed it thoroughly, although not nearly as much as other coupland books i've read. i've just started "life after god" and the contrast between the two is like listening to a dark, slow song on an album straight after a fizzy, cheesy pop number, but both songs by the same artist.

 

[Dubversion]

yeah, it was a bit...hysterical and way OTT in places. but i enjoyed it thoroughly, although not nearly as much as other coupland books i've read. i've just started "life after god" and the contrast between the two is like listening to a dark, slow song on an album straight after a fizzy, cheesy pop number, but both songs by the same artist.

Life After God fucked me up, seriously. It was like somebody had x-rayed my brain and it made me sad

 

[milesy]

i finished it on the bus this morning. i re-read the last page about ten times. what a fantastic book.

 

[Dubversion]

i finished it on the bus this morning. i re-read the last page about ten times. what a fantastic book.

it's that bit about "who do you feel most sorry for.. those who never had a sense of wonder, or those who did and lost it?" that did my head in.

but yes, a truly wonderful book.

 

[Orang Utan]

i finished it on the bus this morning. i re-read the last page about ten times. what a fantastic book.

All Families Are Psychotic? Is that the one with the astronaut in it?

 

[milesy]

yes that's the one with the astronaut in, but that's the one i finished earlier in the week. the one i finished this morning was "life after god"

 

[Orang Utan]

Ah, tis strange cos I've read them all apart from Eleanor Rigby and jPod and Life After God has had the least impact on me - I can't remember a thing about it, yet it seems to be a favourite amongst Coupland fans

 

[wiskey]

The men who stare at Goats... Jon Ronson.

finished this but got seperated from it (will post it back shortly) - it wasnt what i expected and it was really odd to be honest, but it was enjoyable and i got on with the style of it. it just wasnt beleiveable, or it was but i couldnt buy into it all.

it was also a lot shorter than i expected

 

[sojourner]

Tracey Emin, Strangeland

It was mentioned on here some time ago so when I saw it in oxfam I had to get it.

She's a woman of few words - am halfway through already and only read for an hour last night. It's interesting in the whole auto-biog selective way.

 

[Fez909]

Just finished Norwegian Wood by Murakami which was quite good. Not a lot happens, and it reminded me of Catcher in the Rye (which was even mentioned in the novel, so I'm guessing it was an influence).

And also finished Flatland by Edwin A Abbott. What a nice little book! Only seventy-nine pages long, but with a really interesting story: it's about a square, living in a two dimensional world, who encounters a sphere, and his problems trying to visualise the third dimension. It's not as geeky as it sounds, but it's quite amazing that this was first published in 1884. Some of the ideas are very 'Einsteinian' or even related to String Theory. Hmmm, I'm making it sound more complicated than it really is.

Read it

I've also got Don Quixote on the go, but I seem to have ground to a halt. Might read another small book and then see if I can pick up the Quixote beast again.

 

[chooch]

And also finished Flatland by Edwin A Abbott. What a nice little book!

Yes. I always liked that. Quirky and likeable.

 

[madamv]

finished this but got seperated from it (will post it back shortly) - it wasnt what i expected and it was really odd to be honest, but it was enjoyable and i got on with the style of it. it just wasnt beleiveable, or it was but i couldnt buy into it all.

it was also a lot shorter than i expected

It is a little dis-jointed in many ways. There sometimes is a flow and method to the madness, then sometimes a random person from three chapters back gets brought in. I liked the story of the boys who cycled though

 

[Final]

This week, I has been mostly reading, The Princess Bride by William Goldman.

 

[Dubversion]

This week, I has been mostly reading, The Princess Bride by William Goldman.

an excellent book, far better than the dreadful movie. Don't let anyone tell you different

 

[Final]

That's one of my favourite films... ever!

But the book is better.

 

[Orang Utan]

an excellent book, far better than the dreadful movie. Don't let anyone tell you different

Oh so it's dreadful now, is it?

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I'm reading Time and Again by Jack Finney. The plotting isn't all that interesting, but it gives a block by block account of what New York was like in 1882. There's a picture of the Dakota (John Lennon's apartment house) surrounded entirely by farmland.

 

[Dubversion]

Oh so it's dreadful now, is it?

well, it's pretty poor. compared with the book, it's dreadful

 

[Orang Utan]

I loves it

 

[Fez909]

Dubversion in 'slates film quite highly regarded' shocker!

 

[tastebud]

I love the book too, though don't actually remember the filum. Perhaps I haven't even seen it... dunno.

I'm reading A Passage to India again, cos for some reason I started really missing India this week

 

[Orang Utan]

I love the book too, though don't actually remember the filum. Perhaps I haven't even seen it... dunno.

I didn't even know it was a book until I read one of William Goldman's Adventures In The Screen Trade books and he talks about adapting his own book for the film

 

[tastebud]

Cool... I might try to get the film from Love Film soon

 

[Dubversion]

Cool... I might try to get the film from Love Film soon

honestly, don't. It really is poor after you've read the book.