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I'm sick to death of the bookclub book, which is just a load of whinging nonsense - 3 weeks already and I've not finished it. Says a lot. So I'm scrubbing it and gonna start The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy tomorrow :cool:
 
Started it today - into it already. Didn't realise it was gonna be set in the west (one of my favourite places in the world and I've never been)

And McCarthy lives in El Paso. It really doesn't get much cooler than that for me :D
 
Strumpet said:
I'd like to. It looks a lovely interesting place. And he is CUTE. ;)

*saves too!* heh
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You can have him, and I'll find me a Wicked Felina :cool:


Can we ride some of the way on old paint hosses? Can we can we can we? :D
 
All the Pretty Horses is shaping up brilliantly btw - the landscapes are mindblowingly articulated, dialogue just perfect, and I've laughed me head off at one part - didn't realise there was gonna be funny stuff in it too :cool:
 
I've been at the 3 for 2 deals in Waterstones again. :oops: In the last week I've read:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (and yes, I enjoyed it :p )

Andrew Roden - er, can't remember the exact title, but it was a kind of 'biography' of the Flying Scotsman, and very nicely done it was too

Dawkins - The God Delusion: better than I expected, very thought-provoking in places

Ed Husain - The Islamist: only done a few chapters, but it's very interesting so far
 
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox. Enjoying so far.

Just finished One Good Turn by kate atkinson, rubbish. Shame as I enjoyed Behind the scenes at teh museum immensely.
 
May Kasahara said:
Yeah, I know what you mean. I had a weird, queasy balance of enjoying the book and really disliking it, the entire way through. It's a shame he never got to produce more, I think it would have been really interesting to watch his work develop.
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My friend recommended this saying that her and another had absolutley loved it. It didn't make me laugh at all. I just didn't get it.


Confederacy of Dunces that is. Just realised I've quoted the bit that doesn't mention it.
 
that's a great book tastebud. :cool:

i'm reading a book called Hound Dog by Richard somebody. all about an Elvis impersonator, living in Cambridge, who hates Elvis.

a bit strange so far.....
 
Still working through 'American Psycho', which is quite disjointed, and have decided to pick up 'The Conference of the Birds' by Attar, which is light and easygoing but deceptively so.

BB:)
 
Today I read the first paragraph of Cormac McCarthy's The Road and I'm not sure I'll ever be the same again. What a beginning. Not sure if I'm exactly looking forward to the rest of it, but I can't wait.
 
Orang Utan said:
Today I read the first paragraph of Cormac McCarthy's The Road and I'm not sure I'll ever be the same again. What a beginning. Not sure if I'm exactly looking forward to the rest of it, but I can't wait.
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What a beginning - what a book - will be interested to hear what you make of it.

I just finished All the Pretty Horses by him. Wow. In many ways he reminds me of Annie Proulx - the sparse dialogue, the dialect, the landscapes, the language itself actually reflecting those landscapes, the changing of cultures through time, and they both write about an area of the world that massively interests me

I'm gonna start the next book in the trilogy tomorrow. Want to digest this one first
 
I've just finished The Secret History by Donna Tartt and started The Little Friend....I've been reading a lot more fiction recently, mainly because the library of the school that I work in is really good (unlike Lambeth libraries :mad: )......I've also recently read Archangel and Fatherland by Robert Harris...really pacy stuff and hugely enjoyable....so far this year the best has been Relish, the biography of Alexis Soyer, Victorian chef who invented the cafetiere. Highly recommended.
 
The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy

I was gonna try and read the trilogy in parts, in between other books so I wouldn't use up all that brilliance at once, but just couldn't help reading the first page...
 
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