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Question What are you reading?

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MK Shrimper said:
Game Of Thrones. It's actually pretty boring and kudos to HBO to making it must see TV.
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Haha. I thought that as well when I started it, but **** me it's intense now I'm on book 4, Feast for Crows. You think someone's going to be the main character, but whoops, they're murdered. Or kidnapped. Or married off.

It's incredibly richly-layered, well-paced, superb characters, and intensely plotted. I;ve not seen the TV dramatisation.
 
MK Shrimper said:
Game Of Thrones. It's actually pretty boring and kudos to HBO to making it must see TV.
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How very dare you. Heathen!

Its far better than the TV shows, you get far more depth and time with each character, plus they miss big chunks out on the TV.

Stick with it.

As Naps says, its unlike any story IVe read, no character is safe, the ones you think are the main characters arent, the characters you think are evil sometimes arent completely, the good ones are flawed.

Its a a great series, found it started rambling a bit in the last book but loved them.
 
Been a while since I've posted in this htread, since then I've read 'Will Oldham on Bonnie Prince Billy' which is a fascinating book, WO being interviewed by his friend Alan Licht. Reveals so much about this normally elusive artist, alot of great insights into the way he approaches songwriting & recording and playing live, great anecdotes inc recording with Johnny Cash. I would have like more on his role in Old Joy but that's just me.

Then I read several graphic novels, Harvey Pekar's 'Huntington, West Virginia - On The Fly' which I loved, new Pekar is always a treat. Then Beyond Palomar by Gilbert Hernandez, my first 'Love & Rockets' g.novel, which was very good but quite different, and then 'Gonzo: A Graphic Biography of Hunter S. Thompson' which redresses the balance from portraying him as a "drug-addled clown" by concentrating on his working life and what drove him. A good overview don't expect too much in the way of going in depth.

Now re-reading On The Road in anticipation of the film finally coming out in Sept. After that it'll be another Pekar (Not The Israel My PArents Promised Me) followed by that Murakami behemoth IQ84.
 
How I Killed Margaret Thatcher.Anthony Cartwright.
Just started reading this novel.Even after just 50 pages I'd say it's destined to become a classic of modern, regional,working class literature.The early pages remind me a lot of Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.

(Postcript)The whole book is a wonderful child's eye view of growing up in the Thatcher years with an excellent final twist in the tale,(which I won't reveal here).
 
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BarnaBlue said:
How I Killed Margaret Thatcher.Anthony Cartwright.
Just started reading this novel.Even after just 50 pages I'd say it's destined to become a classic of modern, regional,working class literature.The early pages remind me a lot of Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clarke Johnny Ha Ha Ha.
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Is that like Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha?
 
Just started reading The girl with the dragon tattoo. So many Swedish names I cant remember who is who.
The bloke has just moved onto the island - is it worth persevering with?
 
Onto the final one of the 50 Shades trilogy, have to say book 2 was a massive improvement on book 1, and book 3 is also an improvement on the other 2. Still total ******** though, Ana is still going on about her inner goddess and having very noisy orgasms whenever her (now husband) "50 shades" so much as looks at her. I think the authoress must have been on a massive fantasy trip!
 
OldBlueLady said:
Onto the final one of the 50 Shades trilogy, have to say book 2 was a massive improvement on book 1, and book 3 is also an improvement on the other 2. Still total ******** though, Ana is still going on about her inner goddess and having very noisy orgasms whenever her (now husband) "50 shades" so much as looks at her. I think the authoress must have been on a massive fantasy trip!
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All the way to the bank presumably.:winking:
 
Skulduggery Pleasant: Kingdom of the Wicked.

Derek Landy, you are an utter ******* for writing such a good book. One does not end a chapter on a bitch of a cliffhanger and start the next by having a zombie's head in a jar (long story) make a Doctor Who reference. It is both hilarious and too awesome for words.

Also, your publishers and Britain's booksellers are *******s. £14.99 RRP! Bugger that! You're lucky it had £4 off or i'd have told you to bloody jog on!
 
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