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I am trying to read Two books One Auto biography of Eric Sykes and Mick Imlah Selected Poems.
Only thing is having Dyslexia I am constantly struggling to find
where I am on the page and having to go back as i seem to
read something that is not there.
Apart from that Two good books
I'll give paint by numbers a go next !
1Q84.
2/3rds of the way through the book 1&2 volume.
It's very... long. And slightly odd. It's holding my interest though.
war of the worlds.
Just finished 'Paper Towns' by John Green.
Excellent.
batman "the dark knight returns" 😉
just finished solaris by lem.def reccomend.
The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest. Not bad at all.
Nothing intellectual ......
Just the new Alan Sugar book; [i]'The Way I See It: Rants, Revelations And Rules For Life.'[/i]
The Fry Chronicles - Stephen Fry's book
Orbus by Neal Asher. I love his books but I've almost read them all now 🙁
Bonfire Of The Vanities by Tom Wolfe. interesting.
#5 in Steve Erikson's Malazan books.
Really impressed tbh. Something to be said for waiting till these mammoth series are complete, then just reading them in order. You forget what's happened if you're waiting 3 years for the next one to come out.
Rob Roy & William by Martin Evans.
How I won the yellow jumper.
Just started it but pretty funny so far 😀
#5 in Steve Erikson's Malazan books.
A monstrous series steeped in all kinds of colourfully weird shit. IMO you don't 'have the time' to figure everything that's happening - you just go with the flow. Cracking read in parts.
Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding here. Strangely not nearly as 'clever' as the first book, so may give it a miss if it doesn't pick up.
Saxon, check out LOOKING FOR ALASKA. it isn't as awesome as papertowns, but by far better than everything else he has written.
I am about 30 pages into JOHN DIES AT THE END/ David Wong and half way though Parrot in the Pepper Tree/ Chris Stewart
Grantway, if you want a drill to the brain... Check out HOUSE OF LEAVES by Mark Dan..Z...something
"Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer.
Excellent reading whether you are a climber or not.
Also dipping in an out of "We Need To Talk About Kevin" by Lionel Shriver but finding it a little tough to get into.
David Wong
Is he not a bit like Gaiman?
Managing my Life- Alex Ferguson
The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
Nothing To Envy by Barbara Demick. Very good yet a bit disturbing.
the counterlife - philip roth.
it's keeping me engaged....
[i]Paintwork[/i] by Tim Maughn. Interesting series of short stories involving Grafitti and high tech. Slightly cyberpunk in feel, and set in Bristol, which is neat.
Just bought three Tim Powers ebooks, [i]The Drawing Of The Dark, The Anubis Gates[/i] and [i]On Stranger Tides[/i],
(which might sound familiar to some), and I'm trying to decide which one to read first. Haven't read any of them in ages,
eeny, meeny, miney...
Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K Jerome.
The first Game of Thrones book.
"Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer.
Great read, though some of it is hotly contested by other accounts.
God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
The Mammoth Book of new Sherlock Holmes Adventures
Bad Blood by Jeremy Whittle
This is what having a Kindle and a Nespresso machine does for you!
David Wong. Is he not a bit like Gaiman?
Dont think so. David Wong is one of the editors of cracked.com I believe he has only had the one book... and it is more of a glorious gush of conscious thought in no conscious order. Makes sense though.
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
S'okay, but I'm struggling to see what all the fuss is about.
Creg - Member"Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer.
Excellent reading whether you are a climber or not.
Have a read of this when you've finished it:
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As Grum says, you really need to know both sides to the story.
just read Fall of Giants by Ken Follet.
it's probably the biggest novel i've ever read - 900+ pages, but it took me very little time to get through as i couldn't put it down.
The Restoration Game by Ken Macleod. Not really sure what to make of it yet, seems to be a bit of a return to form but it doesn't really seem sure what it wants to be.
My left foot by Christy Brown . I have been meaning to read it ever since i saw the film 2O years or so ago and its really good.
The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
Well worth a read as well as another a few years later.
Currently reading Band of Brothers---fills in some gaps in the DVD series.
Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde.
Enjoyable, witty, funny, entertaining stuff. Perfect for whiling away a few hours on a plane.
Ulysses, although I'm just about to give up on that. Got to about page 200 and it's just painful.
The Brentford Triangle and the antipope
Just started Notes from a small island
Sex, lies and handlebar tape - just got to the bit where it's revealed he nailed his daughter in law with consent from his wife.
Just finished Jill Homer's book about riding the Tour Divide, so good I'm just about to start her book about the Iditarod Trail in Alaska.
Just finished Daphne du Maurier Rebecca, which was fantastic.
Now reading J. D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
Been catching up on some books I should have read years ago. Which included Catch 22, Fahrenheit 451 and 100 years of solitude.
All of which I enjoyed apart from Catch 22, which I realise puts me into a minority.
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Its very long. Its very grim. Its good enough to keep me reading.
Dividing the Great
Been catching up on some books I should have read years ago
Yeah me too, although I'm checking out authors that I've not bothered with before.
Currentlty reading Iris Murdoch's "A Severed Head" which is great.
Before that I read The Great Gatsby which I also enjoyed.
Don't forget to check out project gutenberg if you're after classics for free, I might have a go at few of the greek classics next.
Bit of trash called Black Rabbit Summer by Kevin Brooks.
I like trash occasionally.
Dracula
Ok but a little slow going. My internal reading voice keeps using Keanu Reeves' accent from the film 😀
All of which I enjoyed apart from Catch 22, which I realise puts me into a minority
I thought it was alright but somewhat overrated and could have done with some editing.
'Quicksilver' by Neal Stepehenson, excellent
Just finished Catch 22 some 20 years after I first read it. Bonkers and brilliant.
Dark Matter before that. Scary.
And before that I had a Robert Rankin fest.
This
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Sobering stuff