Question What are you reading?

[Uncle Leo]

Now on to Austerlitz by WG Sebald, having just finished Anatomy Of England by Jonathan Wilson

 

[Jam_Man]

Re above: Good lord - I can do the Harry Potter series in a day, estimating (never tried it and still only on book 2) I could do Game of Thrones in a week if I pushed it, but I probably never will.

Got another book to get on May 1st - the last in the Kane Chronicles series from Riordan. Hehehe... been waiting for this.

The series or the first book ?

Thats about 4,500 pages in paper back if you mean the series. Even if you read for 8 solid hours a day thats more than a page a minute !

I read a fair bit and a book a medium book a week is do-able, bit more for GOT And Feast for crows though which were bigger.

 

[Bluesmanager]

Series. I had a reading age of 18 in year six, and like I said, I can do the entire Harry Potter series in a day. Probably underestimated GOT though - 2 weeks the entire series if I pushed it, but probably more likely to be three.

 

[Dick Bate's Protege]

Series. I had a reading age of 18 in year six, and like I said, I can do the entire Harry Potter series in a day. Probably underestimated GOT though - 2 weeks the entire series if I pushed it, but probably more likely to be three.

Me too, I was ploughing through Spank, Playboy and Readers Wives by Year Six.

 

[Bluesmanager]

Not that kind of reading age.

 

[Jam_Man]

Yeah but that means at the age of 18 your reading age is 73 so youll need bifocals at least, more likely youll have cataracts?

Reading age surely doesnt mean you can read more than a page a minute though. 3 weeks sounds more realistic but all depends on how many hours you read for and the text size etc.

Harry Potter I imagine are more readable than the GOT books, never read them though.

 

[Bluesmanager]

I'm a very quick reader (to the point where, from Goblet of Fire on, we got 2 copies of the Harry Potter books because everyone else read so slowly that I got my Hulk on).

As for the readability - god yes.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just finished Walter Isaacson's huge biography of Steve Jobs.This is a cracking read for anyone interested in IT,Business or just good writing.I've never bought an Apple product or signed up to the cult of Apple /Jobs but's there's no doubt he was a fascinating if flawed character.A true child of the counter culture.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Noah Hawley's The Good Father.This is an excellent novel which reads like a thriller.Superficially, it covers the same sort of territory as, We need to talk about Keven,but's it's an original work in it's own right.Contains a wealth of detail about America's political assinations too.

 

[Bluesmanager]

I'm a very quick reader (to the point where, from Goblet of Fire on, we got 2 copies of the Harry Potter books because everyone else read so slowly that I got my Hulk on).

As for the readability - god yes.

Got the last Kane Chronicle today (modern day Egyptian gods stuff). It's 405 pages long. I read all of it in a grand total of about 3 hours.

Damn, I'm good.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Got the last Kane Chronicle today (modern day Egyptian gods stuff). It's 405 pages long. I read all of it in a grand total of about 3 hours.

Damn, I'm good.

Have you thought about a job in a circus :stunned:

Here, going to give The Great Gatsby a go.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Have you thought about a job in a circus :stunned:

Here, going to give The Great Gatsby a go.

Good choice.:thumbsup:

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past".

 

[Bluesmanager]

Have you thought about a job in a circus :stunned:

Here, going to give The Great Gatsby a go.

It's a gift. I follow the Tao of Peter Parker and therefore believe that such gifts should not be wasted at the circus.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Have you thought about a job in a circus :stunned:

Here, going to give The Great Gatsby a go.

Highly recommended. In fact, I think I ought to re-read it in order to better appreciate it.

 

[Bluesmanager]

is it a freebie on the kindle? might look into it.

 

[MK Shrimper]

is it a freebie on the kindle? might look into it.

Virtually. 49p.

 

[Jam_Man]

Just finished Walter Isaacson's huge biography of Steve Jobs.This is a cracking read for anyone interested in IT,Business or just good writing.I've never bought an Apple product or signed up to the cult of Apple /Jobs but's there's no doubt he was a fascinating if flawed character.A true child of the counter culture.

Yep found it a really good read as well.

Not a big fan of the guy to be honest, think he was a bit of a ****, but an interseting **** nonetheless.

The history aspect of home computing was really interesting.


Currently reading Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. Lots of it seem familiar, think I may have already read it.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Finally finished Jonathan Wilson's Brian Clough: Nobody Ever Says Thank You, it's beast and my reading time has been very restricted lately. Excellent read though which I thought was pretty balanced between the positive & negative images of Clough, very knowledgable and entertaining stuff.

Realised I haven't really read any novels so far this year so I'm just starting Thomas Cobb's Crazy Heart, then it'll be onto HST's Rum Diary.

 

[Perth Bambi]

Having a break from my usual reading. Going to either start on The Hunger games or game of thrones series. Which should i go for.

 

[Pubey]

Hunger Games