Question What are you reading?

[Bluesmanager]

Both are violent, Hunger less so but it's definitely more psychological, Game of Thrones is way longer (like, the entire Hunger Games series fits into the first Game of Thrones novel long) and harder to read just becuase of the size of the things and the amount of characters involved.

Both are bloody good though.

Just finished Bobby Robson's autobiography (got it for a quid on clearence from Waterstones, bargain!) - bloody brilliant, he was a remarkable bloke, and as it happens a not too shabby writer. Better than that **** Paolini and his Inheritance bollocks at any rate. Well, to be fair, it wasn't bad, just badly written and deriative.

Now onto Michael Grant's Gone. Looked good from the Kindle preview.

 

[Dick Bate's Protege]

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.

Im up to date on the Game of Thrones series, which now totals 5 books, around 6000 pages with a promise of 3000 more in the final two to come and about 1000 characters in total. In short it's a tough read, but rewarding if you stick at it.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Currently reading Stephen Armstrong's The Road to Wigan Pier Revisted.Harrowing stuff.IMO,it's shameful that so little has changed 75 years after Orwell wrote his masterpiece.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Finished Crazy Heart (decent) and The Rum Diary (bloody marvellous), and now started Haruki Murakami's 'Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Really enjoyed The Great Gatsby - totally different from what I thought - so may stick with some American classics. Hemmingway any good?

 

[canveyshrimper]

Hemingway is good IMO but a bit of an acquired taste, Death in the Afternoon is great. John Steinbeck is pretty good too. Avoid The Pearl, this was a set book for my O Level and I hated it with a passion.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Really enjoyed The Great Gatsby - totally different from what I thought - so may stick with some American classics. Hemmingway any good?

One way of getting into H.would be by reading his Paris memoir A Moveable Feast.The Old Man and the Sea is brillant too. Fiesta aka The Sun Also Rises is also wonderful (though a little dated now).Some of the short stories are timeless and A Farewell to Arms remains a triumphant anti-war novel and love story combined.For Whom the Bell Tolls is also a classic depicting the Spanish Civil War.

 

[Napster]

I've just read 2 horrors, both quick reads:

Susan Hill, Small Hand - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/sep/25/small-hand-susan-hill-review
Christopher Fowler, Hell Train http://www.thisishorror.co.uk/read-horror/book-reviews/hell-train-by-christopher-fowler/

 

[Greebosan]

Just read a couple of Grishams having avoided him like the plague previously. Very easy reading, but both have had unsatisfactory endings - they just seemed to sort of tail off leaving outstanding questions.

 

[Bluesmanager]

with regard to previous comment regarding my reading speed - according to this: http://www.staples.com/sbd/cre/mark...arch-centers/ereaders/speed-reader/index.html I can read 350 words a minute the same as 11th grade students, and can finish War and Peace in 27 hours 53 minutes, Harry Potter 1 in 3h 39m (total bollocks, I can do it faster than that and cheat the test just because I'm a total Potterhollic), The Lord of the Rings in 22h 43m (NEVER EVEN TRYING to do that! I'm not that bonkers), and can read 4.6 books on my Kindle for every recharge.

 

[Napster]

with regard to previous comment regarding my reading speed - according to this: http://www.staples.com/sbd/cre/mark...arch-centers/ereaders/speed-reader/index.html I can read 350 words a minute the same as 11th grade students, and can finish War and Peace in 27 hours 53 minutes, Harry Potter 1 in 3h 39m (total bollocks, I can do it faster than that and cheat the test just because I'm a total Potterhollic), The Lord of the Rings in 22h 43m (NEVER EVEN TRYING to do that! I'm not that bonkers), and can read 4.6 books on my Kindle for every recharge.

I can read 642 words a minute according to that link

:winking:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

John Lanchester's The Debt to Pleasure.Wickedly amusing and great fun to read even if you're not a foody.Written by a confirmed francophile.(My thanks to Yogi for reminding me that JL had written other good stuff before Money).:thumbsup:

 

[MK Shrimper]

For Whom the Bell Tolls is also a classic depicting the Spanish Civil War.

Chose that, and he certainly has a somewhat awkward style of prose IMHO, though I'm nearly on chapter 3 so must have something. :winking:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Chose that, and he certainly has a somewhat awkward style of prose IMHO, though I'm nearly on chapter 3 so must have something. :winking:

Interesting choice.Bit dated perhaps.Gary Cooper played the lead role in the film.H.at his best(as he is here in parts)was always a great story teller.

 

[ldnfatso]

Just started The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole. Ages since i read it before and still quite funny.

 

[Bluesmanager]

There's more after that, right up to his thirties.

The one in his thirties isn't as funny. Not sure whether that means it's not as good or not though.

 

[Dick Bate's Protege]

Still ploughing my way through The Stand by Stephen King. Brilliant read so far, but it's long, long, long. Stopped halfway through to quickly read Barca by Graham Hunter which was really interesting if a little suckass.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Still ploughing my way through The Stand by Stephen King. Brilliant read so far, but it's long, long, long. Stopped halfway through to quickly read Barca by Graham Hunter which was really interesting if a little suckass.

Barça.Don't you know where the cedilla is on your keyboard? :unsure::facepalm:

 

[Dick Bate's Protege]

Barça.Don't you know where the cedilla is on your keyboard? :unsure::facepalm:

Deary me, you must be so bored. Go and get yourself a good hard shag (And I don't mean with Mr Palm and his five friends).

 

[Napster]

Still ploughing my way through The Stand by Stephen King. Brilliant read so far, but it's long, long, long. Stopped halfway through to quickly read Barca by Graham Hunter which was really interesting if a little suckass.

It is long. But it's worth it. I inadvertently picked up the extended version. :stunned: