Question What are you reading?

[Tangled up in Blue]

It was fantastic.

Understand it took KI more than 10 years to write The Buried Giant.Is it better than his early work?

 

[Napster]

Understand it took KI more than 10 years to write The Buried Giant.Is it better than his early work?

It’s very very clever. More so than when I was reading it if that makes sense, because it was deceptively simple as an allegorical journey. Not read many of his earlier ones so can’t comment but it’s a fantastic piece of work

 

[Napster]

Now reading Roth’s American Pastoral which is very impressive.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

It’s very very clever. More so than when I was reading it if that makes sense, because it was deceptively simple as an allegorical journey. Not read many of his earlier ones so can’t comment but it’s a fantastic piece of work

I'm a great fan of KI 's early work.Not so sure about this one but might give it a try.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Now reading Roth’s American Pastoral which is very impressive.

Certainly much better than the recent film.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started Eric Lerner's Matters of Vital Interest.His memoir of a 40 year friendship with Leonard Cohen.Interesting but too much Zen in it for me.

 

[LCBB72]

I am reading Exodus From The Alamo By Phillip Thomas Tucker , puts a whole new slant on the battle at The Alamo , John Wayne must be turning in his grave .

 

[RHB]

War of the Roses - Stormbird. Book one of four by Conn Iggulden. Historical novel of the two royal families that plunged England into 30 years of civil war. Nobody does historical novels like Conn.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Raja Shehadeh's Going Home:A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation. A love letter to Ramallah.Beautifully written.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Curently enjoying Salmon Rushdie's Quichotte.An elegant ****- take of modern day America and much else.

 

[kaymac]

I am reading Exodus From The Alamo By Phillip Thomas Tucker , puts a whole new slant on the battle at The Alamo , John Wayne must be turning in his grave .

What does it say about the fate of Davy Crockett?

 

[mattytheshrimper]

I'm reading or I should say listening to Micheal Owen's book. Quite enjoying it actually, more than I expected.

 

[LCBB72]

What does it say about the fate of Davy Crockett?

Not what you see in the films , since the Battle of The Alamo Mexican reports have been ignorned what happend . Phillip Tucker spent a lot of time going over them and has come up with a complete different version .

 

[kaymac]

Ah, have seen a few documentaries and all pointed to him (and others) meeting his end in a rather undignified manner, contrary to the American idealistic belief of a heroic death.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

I'm reading or I should say listening to Micheal Owen's book. Quite enjoying it actually, more than I expected.

Not a popular man in Newcastle apparently.

 

[LCBB72]

Ah, have seen a few documentaries and all pointed to him (and others) meeting his end in a rather undignified manner, contrary to the American idealistic belief of a heroic death.

Mexican officers remember six Texans be found hideing in a room who were killed were told that one of there names was Cockett who said to Santa Anna that he would take any message he wanted to take to Sam Houston .

 

[kaymac]

Ties in with what I've seen and read before, apparently there were (verified) papers left by a Mexican officer that pretty much confirmed Davy C's actual fate which far from the glorious ending / the myth that prevails in the USA.

 

[LCBB72]

Ties in with what I've seen and read before, apparently there were (verified) papers left by a Mexican officer that pretty much confirmed Davy C's actual fate which far from the glorious ending / the myth that prevails in the USA.

It is very dangerous to say these things in Texas .

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started Kerry Hudson's Lowborn:Growing up,Getting Away and Returning to Britain's Poorest Towns*.

A moving and harrowing indictment of childcare provision in the UK.

Incidentally*,one of the 3 towns mentioned in the book is Great Yarmouth,which I have very happy memories of,from regular,annual visits to the Norfolk Broads back in the 60's.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Just started Kerry Hudson's Lowborn:Growing up,Getting Away and Returning to Britain's Poorest Towns*.

A moving and harrowing indictment of childcare provision in the UK.

Incidentally*,one of the 3 towns mentioned in the book is Great Yarmouth,which I have very happy memories of,from regular,annual visits to the Norfolk Broads back in the 60's.

Went there in Easter and like many English seaside towns, it's hugely in decline.