Question What are you reading?

[MK Shrimper]

****ing hell. Shouldn't have finished The Road ahead of a day at work, I feel shattered now.

When you refer to *that* scene, there were at least three bits that I found particularly harrowing (but superbly delivered by the author). To which are you referring?

Ahem

  Spoiler:  

The just delivered dead baby, gutted and roasted on a spit

Now I feel depressed :sad:

 

[Uncle Leo]

****ing hell. Shouldn't have finished The Road ahead of a day at work, I feel shattered now.

When you refer to *that* scene, there were at least three bits that I found particularly harrowing (but superbly delivered by the author). To which are you referring?

Ahem

  Spoiler:  

The just delivered dead baby, gutted and roasted on a spit

Now I feel depressed :sad:

Ah yes. That was pretty awful too. :'(

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Ah yes. That was pretty awful too. :'(

That was the scene I meant.

 

[MK Shrimper]

That was the scene I meant.

Yes, not a book I think I'll re-read anytime soon.

 

[SonicShrimper]

God, this audiobook of Dracula is awful. I get that it's Victorian but does everyone have to sound like such a prat that they may as well stick their stakes up each other's arses? JUST STAKE THE EVIL ******* ALREADY!

 

[Napster]

Second book of Danny Baker's - it's brilliant, there was one piece in particular which had me in fits of laughter. The pages on Gazza were good as well.

Just read a rubbish crime book The Jigsaw Man - cliched, formulaic and predictable

Now reading one book which is incredible - House of Leaves by Danielewski.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Second book of Danny Baker's - it's brilliant, there was one piece in particular which had me in fits of laughter. The pages on Gazza were good as well.

Echo that. If true (I'm sure it is) then its a terrible shame he couldn't be just Paul Gascoigne in the spotlight but had to play up to his image.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

God, this audiobook of Dracula is awful. I get that it's Victorian but does everyone have to sound like such a prat that they may as well stick their stakes up each other's arses? JUST STAKE THE EVIL ******* ALREADY!

Perhaps you should just read the novel instead? :unsure:

It's a wonderful read.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Perhaps you should just read the novel instead? :unsure:

It's a wonderful read.

I got bored of it IIRC. Not good with classics. :blush:

 

[Uncle Leo]

I got bored of it IIRC. Not good with classics. :blush:

I read it about 20 years ago and loved it. But a mate read it more recently and said he couldn't get on with it at all.

 

[MK Shrimper]

I read it about 20 years ago and loved it. But a mate read it more recently and said he couldn't get on with it at all.

I think my young mind was warped by Hammer....

 

[SonicShrimper]

Perhaps you should just read the novel instead? :unsure:

It's a wonderful read.

Tried. Can't deal with all the diaries and telegrams. And it still sounds stupid and poncy. Whixh is why I prefer the Dresden Files or the first four Department 19 books (the finale was kinda flat) for my vampire fic.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Currently enjoying Jon Savage's 1966.Probably the best book on pop music published this year.

 

[SonicShrimper]

So there's a Crackanory audiobook you say? And it's free on Audible? I'm having that, thank-you very much!

 

[Berrichonne shrimper]

So there's a Crackanory audiobook you say? And it's free on Audible? I'm having that, thank-you very much!

Hey eh big guy what part of the title of this thread passed you by,I'm thinking it was the word READING.

 

[BrettieAngell]

Future Crimes by Marc Goodman, a book about the Internet and Technology and how vulnerable as a society we are and will be in the future. Certainly makes you think!

 

[SonicShrimper]

Hey eh big guy what part of the title of this thread passed you by,I'm thinking it was the word READING.

Audiobook. Yes, it's of a tv show but they read stories on it. Bit of a grey area probably but oh well.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Currently reading 'Tales of Ordinary Madness' a book of short stories by Charles Bukowski. He's such a sick ****.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Currently reading Stalin's Englishman:The Lives of Guy Burgess.Andrew Lownie's wonderful biography.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just picked up Kevin Barry's Beatlebone, a fictional account of John Lennon's trip to his small island off the west coast of Ireland.Fascinating.