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Just finished two books
The Forgotten Highlander - Alistair Urquhart ( WWII Singapore Pow...amazing read!)
The Duchess - Geeky train book about William Staniers Pricess Coronation Class locomotives
Just starting 'Spitfire' the biography by Jonathan Glancey..
The Belgian Hammer...again. I'm finding I read some cycling books with a slightly different slant since Lance gate.
Trying to find my copy of 'As I walked out one summer morning'.
Just finished At the Loch of the Green Corrie by Andrew Greig - a fantastic, thoughtful and evocative book. Hard to fit into any kind of genre really. Best thing I've read in ages.
I recently read Train Dreams and found it simple, stripped down, sad... and a bit lacking in anything else. Disappointing.
I enjoyed Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie - a series of essays on 'nature' or 'travel' but so much more than that, she shows you a different way of looking at the world around you.
Really liked the first 2 books of IQ84, and looking forward to the 3rd. I am a fan of Murakami though, and always get totally drawn in to his slightly off-kilter worlds.
In the end, [i]Train Dreams[/i] wasn't perhaps quite the book I thought it was - works well as a short story, though.
Really liked the first 2 books of IQ84, and looking forward to the 3rd
I enjoyed the 3rd part of [i]IQ84[/i] most of all. Not quite as good as some of his other stuff, imo, but still enough to leave you at a slight angle to reality.
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn. So, so wrong.
Brilliant.
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn. So, so wrong.
Woah... been meaning to read that for years.
Largely because it inspired one of my favourite ever records (and John Peel Festive Fifty winner in 1992!) - Bang Bang Machine's [i]Geek Love[/i].