Question What are you reading?

[Pubey]

Read loads of them last year. Started to feel a bit samey, but did enjoy them for an easy read.




My missus read that on holiday last week. Says she loved it and loved the male character and was going to get the next one. I have no idea what she was talking about.


Reading Beyond Band of Brothers by Dick Winters at the moment. Incredible story and new angle of the Easy Company story from the man himself.

Lots of middle-aged women reading it on the tram to work, supposed to be some kinky book for women, but also crappy Twilight-fan fiction. Sounds absolute guff to me!

 

[Bluesmanager]

You're male. Of course you think it's guff.

 

[Pubey]

You're male. Of course you think it's guff.

Seems to polarise readers too

http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/0099579936/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Sounds fascinating. Can you give us a report when you finish it.

Stevo,
I've read the essay on the The Broomway (if that's what you mean).It's an excellent first hand account called Silt and written by Robert Macfarlane.It's taken from a forthcoming(June) Penguin book of his called The Old Ways.If you google The Broomway you'll find a recent(and interesting)Echo article about the footpath.Apparently, it's the "deadliest" path in Britain and "unearthly" because of the extreme tidal conditions there.Certainly not a walk to be undertaken lightly.Apparently it's very easy to actually be walking out to sea when you think you're walking back to land because of the disorientating lights from Kent.
If you've ever walked out to the Ray then you'll know how quickly the tide comes back in through the channels and gullies below ground level.This is apparently much worse in this stretch at Fisherman's Head in Foulness.Great read.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Also got bored with "On Reading" banging on about bloody verbs and grammar :zzzzz:

So, another Hemmingway - Old Man and The Sea. Already prefer it to FWTBT, but lets see how this pans out.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Also got bored with "On Reading" banging on about bloody verbs and grammar :zzzzz:

So, another Hemmingway - Old Man and The Sea. Already prefer it to FWTBT, but lets see how this pans out.

Ah, read that many years ago, used to have a composite book of Hemmingway novels but my former father in law appropriated it and I never got it back. I remember thoroughly enjoying that one.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Also got bored with "On Reading" banging on about bloody verbs and grammar :zzzzz:

So, another Hemmingway - Old Man and The Sea. Already prefer it to FWTBT, but lets see how this pans out.

Wonderful book.Recommended it to our 18 year old daughter who was asking me about Hem. in the week.Try and get a copy of the film(starring Spencer Tracey )if you can.:thumbsup:

 

[MK Shrimper]

Wonderful book.Recommended it to our 18 year old daughter who was asking me about Hem. in the week.Try and get a copy of the film(starring Spencer Tracey )if you can.:thumbsup:

Shall do mate, cheers.

 

[Bluesmanager]

Also got bored with "On Reading" banging on about bloody verbs and grammar :zzzzz:

So, another Hemmingway - Old Man and The Sea. Already prefer it to FWTBT, but lets see how this pans out.

Front part's more for writers, the second part (the bit written after his crash) is more interesting.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Front part's more for writers, the second part (the bit written after his crash) is more interesting.

Yeah really enjoyed the mini-biog. Never knew he was such an addict. I shall flick through and read the rest.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Lionel Asbo: State of England by Martin Amis.Easily Britain's greatest living writer(along with Julian Barnes).This book is hilarious.:thumbsup:

 

[OldBlueLady]

So...I've begun the path along the Grey trilogy and all I can say at the moment is Oh. My. God!!!

 

[Bluesmanager]

So...I've begun the path along the Grey trilogy and all I can say at the moment is Oh. My. God!!!

Assuming that's the trilogy I'm thinking of, the rest of that sentence, I hope, consists of: "HOW THE HELL DID THIS CRAP GET PUBLISHED?!?!?!" As a writer, I wonder the same thing.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Finished Murakami's 'Hard-boiled Wonderland & the End of the World' a few weeks ago, which was brilliant one of his best, a surreal thriller of sorts and I especially enjoyed the way the two strands of the story were brought together. But I did find the ending a bit disappointing.

I've been trying to get stuck into Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw's 'The Quantum Universe' but with limited reading time it's made getting my maths impaired head round some of it has been tricky, that and getting distracted by superb 'The Blizzard' (quarterly football magazine). So I'm going to abandon it for now until I can devote more time to it - it is very well written though and would reccomend it.

Think I'm going to order a couple of graphic novels (bio of Hunter S Thompson & a Pekar) and try getting them delivered to the new amazon locker in Rayleigh. Then get stuck into Murakami's latest IQ84, I picked up the paperback for £15, it's 900+ pages and was £20 each in 2 hardback volumes last year, so I got a bargain!

 

[Pubey]

Assuming that's the trilogy I'm thinking of, the rest of that sentence, I hope, consists of: "HOW THE HELL DID THIS CRAP GET PUBLISHED?!?!?!" As a writer, I wonder the same thing.

Ha!

My wife will read any trash, but even she gave up on them. Complete pile of crap, and the author must be laughing all the way to the bank.

 

[Napster]

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Just finished Jo Nesbo's The Headhunters - bit formulaic, but good fun, and should be a great film. Here's the trailer

[video=youtube;lstA1-opBz4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lstA1-opBz4[/video]

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Paul Krugman's (Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics) excellent "End this Depression Now!"
Dedicated "To the unemployed,who deserve better."

 

[Napster]

Paul Krugman's (Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics) excellent "End this Depression Now!"
Dedicated "To the unemployed,who deserve better."

:hijacked::hijacked:

stick to the politics thread.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

:hijacked::hijacked:

stick to the politics thread.

It is a book you know.:smile:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Alan Hollinghurst'sThe Stranger's Child.Simply wonderful.(Some might find it a bit too gay I suppose).