Question What are you reading?

[Uncle Leo]

This.

 

[prawntobewild]

Have finally finished Melvyn Bragg's Credo - Very long book (although I did spend several nights in bed over Christmas with Edgar Allen Poe to beak it up a bit - this really upset my Mrs. )
If you like passages of Religious Contemplation with deep feeling of lost love & sacrifice this is the book for you .If not & you are down to your last 2 books & this is one of them - read the other one first.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

This.

Thoughts? I'm finding it a fascinating read full of insight into the world of pro cycling, but a little dry. Obviously it's ghostwritten but I was still hoping to get more of Wiggo's unique & entertaining character.

 

[prawntobewild]

After my long battle with Credo - I have just finished "Edge of Honour" by Jack Higgins - took about 4 hours & is a fast paced tale of family shenanigans & a rather beastly international plot. Simple to read & normally I would diss it due to the almost childlike scenarios that occur but after Credo It's just what i needed.

Have now gone onto started "Bonecrack" by the late Dick Francis - good old honest skullduggery blended in with the dodgy world of Horse Racing & associated burger preparation.

 

[Dick Bate's Protege]

The Mission Song - John le Carre

Set around East Congo, as good as you'd expect from le Carre.

Thinking of giving The Passage by Justin Cronin a go next, but not sure if I'm going to like it; bit removed from my usual type of book.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Thoughts? I'm finding it a fascinating read full of insight into the world of pro cycling, but a little dry. Obviously it's ghostwritten but I was still hoping to get more of Wiggo's unique & entertaining character.

As we discussed on Twitter I found it ok, but only that. There are plenty of really good cycling books out there and this falls short of that level.

Enjoyed the Paul Weller reference in the last couple of pages though - did you spot it?

 

[Earls Hall Blue]

To Kill a Mockingbird.

Not sure why I decided to read this but I'm enjoying it.

 

[OldBlueLady]

To Kill a Mockingbird.

Not sure why I decided to read this but I'm enjoying it.

One of my all time favourite books :thumbsup:

 

[Mad Cyril]

Clojure programming.

Gripping.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

The Long Voyage.Jorge Semprun.
Another Xmas present from one of our daughters.
Primo Levi territory.Interesting.

 

[MK Shrimper]

One of my all time favourite books :thumbsup:

To Kill a Mockingbird.

Not sure why I decided to read this but I'm enjoying it.

Brilliant book and like OBL one of my faves too.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Brilliant book and like OBL one of my faves too.

Boo Radley didn't do it.:winking:

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

As we discussed on Twitter I found it ok, but only that. There are plenty of really good cycling books out there and this falls short of that level.

Enjoyed the Paul Weller reference in the last couple of pages though - did you spot it?

Can't say I did *scurries off*


Now started reading Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale', first on my reading female author's NY resolution, seems interesting so far.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Can't say I did *scurries off*


Now started reading Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale', first on my reading female author's NY resolution, seems interesting so far.

It's a wonderful book.Film wasn't bad either.

 

[MK Shrimper]

It's a wonderful book.Film wasn't bad either.

Film is pretty pedestrian Barna. Haven't read the book however.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Film is pretty pedestrian Barna. Haven't read the book however.

Thought it was a reasonable adaption. though certainly nowhere near as good as the book.Not much of a SF fan anyway tbh,unless we're talking about an obvious masterpiece like Bladerunner.Incidentally the film of that was much better than the Philip K. Dick novel it was loosely based on.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Thought it was a reasonable adaption. though certainly nowhere near as good as the book.Not much of a SF fan anyway tbh,unless we're talking about an obvious masterpiece like Bladerunner.Incidentally the film of that was much better than the Philip K. Dick novel it was loosely based on.

Agreed, I found the story dull as ditchwater and gave up.

Plenty of other sci-fi greats Barna, though this isn't the thread for it.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Extreme Metaphors.Interviews with J.G.Ballard 1967-2008.Absolutely fascinating.
While (as I've said elsewhere) I'm not a huge SF fan, I've always found Ballard's dystopias much more like an alternative future reality than anything else in contemporary fiction.

 

[Dick Bate's Protege]

The Fourth Estate - Jeffrey Archer.

Excellent parody of the Murdoch/Maxwell battle for Media supremacy.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

'Sins of the Assassin' - Robert Ferrigno. A solid follow up to the epic 'Prayers for the Assassin'.