Question What are you reading?

[Tangled up in Blue]

I know it's bad form to quote myself, but this is a brilliant book, especially if you're around the same ages as the main characters. Haven't devoured a book like this in ages.

I'm glad you did.I've just ordered a copy.I hadn't realised it was by The Starter for Ten guy which I thought was brillant(the novel not the film).

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

I'm glad you did.I've just ordered a copy.I hadn't realised it was by The Starter for Ten guy which I thought was brillant(the novel not the film).

I loved Starter For Ten.
I was reading a Noam Chomsky book and it was taking months so I started One Day for a little light relief and had finished it two days later. His 'The Understudy' is more of the same but again an engaging and easy read.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Currently reading Simon Pegg's 'Nerd Do Well' :thumbsup:

I LOVE Simon Pegg. Sorry, I'm in enthuse mode today so why not spread the love.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, follow up to The Kite Runner.

More Afgan misery thanks to those Taliban jokers.

I just finished this, and obviously LOVED it. I'm paying my eldest daughter to read it now so that she has a greater sense of what other peoples lives are like. I'm actually paying her to not use her mobile for a month and to read instead but 'Hotel For Dogs' doesn't count so I'm allowed to chose a couple.
Myself - just started 'Room' by Emma Donoghue about a 5 year old who has never left the room he was born in.

I HATE the Taliban more than I hate anyone. My love phase just ended.

 

[Napster]

Room got a lot of critical acclaim. Let us know what it's like.

Currently reading Dark Origins by Anthony Zuiker the guy who created CSI. It's OK - bit formulaic, but gripping enough to keep me interested. Picked up a Greg Iles, a Karin Fossum and a new horror The Passage by Justin Cronin from the library. Also just read 3 new Lee Childs i hadnt read before

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Room got a lot of critical acclaim. Let us know what it's like.

Currently reading Dark Origins by Anthony Zuiker the guy who created CSI. It's OK - bit formulaic, but gripping enough to keep me interested. Picked up a Greg Iles, a Karin Fossum and a new horror The Passage by Justin Cronin from the library. Also just read 3 new Lee Childs i hadnt read before

1st few pages are just weird, written in the language of the 5 year old. I suspect it will build up to something nasty....

 

[MK Shrimper]

Room got a lot of critical acclaim. Let us know what it's like.

Read it some months ago, very good read once you get past the 5yr old narration. Recommend it.

 

[canveyshrimper]

Room got a lot of critical acclaim. Let us know what it's like.

Currently reading Dark Origins by Anthony Zuiker the guy who created CSI. It's OK - bit formulaic, but gripping enough to keep me interested. Picked up a Greg Iles, a Karin Fossum and a new horror The Passage by Justin Cronin from the library. Also just read 3 new Lee Childs i hadnt read before

Naps you may like an author called Stuart Neville, I read his first novel Twelve and am racing through his second book - Collusion.

 

[Napster]

Naps you make like an author called Stuart Neville, I read his first novel Twelve and am racing through his second book - Collusion.

Thanks. will check him out.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Tried to read Rant by Chuck Palahuniak. Failed.

 

[Napster]

Reading Nudge, which is excellent. Oh and a Lehine novel.

 

[BrettieAngell]

The Taking of Pelham 123 by John Godey, I've never seen the film but I'll be watching it when i've finished the book which is pretty good so far!

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Tried to read Rant by Chuck Palahuniak. Failed.

Rant is the point where I fell out of love with Palahniuk, haven't read any of his newer books.


Finished Pegg's 'Nerd Do Well', would highly reccomend it. Mainly concentrates on his childhood & teenage years, lots of interesting touchstones for those that grew up in the 70s/80s, and a great insight into the the films/tv etc that had an effect on him. It tend to jump around a fair bit though which made following the timeline of his life tricky at times, and I would have liked more about making Spaced. Really entertaining though, funny and plenty about Star Wars (how good the originals were and how disappointing the prequels were).

Also read Daniel Clowes' (ghostworld) graphic novel 'Mister Wonderful', enjoyable read but nothing special, about a 40-something loser out on a blind date.

 

[Eastblack]

Just finished Don't Look Back by Karin Fossum, which was pretty good. Today I got The Pyramid which a collection of Wallender short stories. Helps paint the picture of Wallender and why he's such a tortured soul.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Room got a lot of critical acclaim. Let us know what it's like.

Finished it last night, took about 100 pages before the 5 year old narration stopped getting on my nerves but once that beds in its a pretty unique way of writing / subject matter. You are never quite sure where it is going, the pace is pretty steady but has its twists. A difficult book to write as she must really have had to get into the head of the characters to think what they would think.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan.Excellent jazz novel set (mostly)in pre-war (and wartime)Berlin and Paris along with the present day.Much of the jive talk between the band members is hilarious and the story is deeply moving.This should make a superb film.How many novels have you read where Louis Armstrong is one of the (minor)characters?:thumbsup:

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan.Excellent jazz novel set (mostly)in pre-war (and wartime)Berlin and Paris along with the present day.Much of the jive talk between the band members is hilarious and the story is deeply moving.This should make a superb film.How many novels have you read where Louis Armstrong is one of the (minor)characters?:thumbsup:

I don't think jazz novels are as popular as jazz mags. Sorry, couldn't resist.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

I don't think jazz novels are as popular as jazz mags. Sorry, couldn't resist.

While Half Blood Blues could be enjoyed by any non-jazz fan I suspect any porno merchant would be rather disappointed.:winking:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Leaving the Atocha Station.A novel by Ben Lerner.Very much a portrait of an American poet as a young man in Madrid.Laurie Lee he's not.But there's some good description here of literary(and pothead) life in Madrid,Granada and Barcelona.His first hand account of the Madrid bombings is beautifully written.

 

[BrettieAngell]

Dean Koontz -Relentless