Question What are you reading?

[Napster]

I quite enjoyed it. All makes perfect sense at the end mate.

Bloody hope so. Just persevered again. The tiger's made a friendly noise.

 

[loz]

Metroland by Julian Barnes. heavy going initially as the main characters are so annoying, but starting to get into it more now.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Bloody hope so. Just persevered again. The tiger's made a friendly noise.

Wait until he reaches the "island". ;)

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Reading V For Vendetta. Great stuff.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Hated Tokyo Year Zero. Repetition, repetition, repetition. Christ, get another style.

Ha.
That's the only one of his books I haven't read(so far)!

 

[MK Shrimper]

Ha.
That's the only one of his books I haven't read(so far)!

It's put me off him for life.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Yep. My grandmother is Austrian and I studied German for A Level so this was as much as anything else an exercise to prove to myself that I can still understand it! I'm yet to see the film but will allow myself to do so once I've finished the book.

The trouble with reading in foreign languages I find is that you really have to make sure that you're awake otherwise you end up not really taking it all in and having to re-read stuff you'd already gone over!

You're obviously more concencious(sp?) than I am.Although my Spanish,French(and Catalan)are pretty good I usually only read newspapers,Govt forms etc in these languages rather than books.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Metroland by Julian Barnes. heavy going initially as the main characters are so annoying, but starting to get into it more now.

I loved this book.Read it when it first appeared in paperback and have read pretty much everthing JB has done since.The film(while nowhere as good)has a certain amount of period charm as it was filmed sometime after the book came out.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Currently reading Andrea Gillies Keeper which is an account of dealing with someone with Alzheimer's.Since my mother-in-law has this awful condition I'm interested in anything I can learn about it.
One of the best things I've read on this difficult topic since John Bayley's Iris.

 

[GrumpyBlue]

The woman who walked into doors & Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle - in the wrong order !

 

[Rob Noxious]

Currently reading Andrea Gillies Keeper which is an account of dealing with someone with Alzheimer's.Since my mother-in-law has this awful condition I'm interested in anything I can learn about it.
One of the best things I've read on this difficult topic since John Bayley's Iris.

It's my bread and butter. As Morrissey once said, "just ask me ..."

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

It's my bread and butter. As Morrissey once said, "just ask me ..."

Might get Josy to drop you a line.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Currently reading Tony Parsons Men from the boys.Enjoyable.I know he's not exactly flavour of the month with the Newsnight arts crowd and he doesn't know the difference between less and fewer but I've always found his stuff to be a good read and this is no exception.

 

[Bluesmanager]

Just finished up Changes by Jim Butcher last night. As it's book 12 in a (reportedly) 20 book long series (the other 7 should be published over the next 7 years), I won't try and explain much about the plot (it's complicated. Extremely).

However, the book itself has a remarkably simple plot when boiled down to its most simple terms. Harry hitherto hidden for her own safety daughter has been kidnapped. Harry wants her back.

In traditional Harry Dresden fashion, things go tits up from there. Epically.

A great book, can't wait for the next one. Or the look on my mother's face when she reads it.

 

[Napster]

Oh Ive read loads, currently reading a Lee Child and a boring Scandinavian crime thriller.

 

[steveo]

Lee child – top writer.

What one you reading?

 

[Napster]

Lee child – top writer.

What one you reading?

Tripwire. Ive read One Shot and Bad Luck and Trouble - only recently came across him, but it's fantastic stuff.

 

[osymandus]

Aleister Crowley and the Ouija board jerry Cornelius . Amusing read not a fiction. Drags a little in the middle .

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Presently in book reading limbo awaiting the arrival of books I ordered from the library & amazon. So picked up 'Livability' a book of short stories from my bookshelf this morning to pass the time until they arrive.

 

[steveo]

Tripwire. Ive read One Shot and Bad Luck and Trouble - only recently came across him, but it's fantastic stuff.

Although its not essential, try and read them in order of publication if you can.