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The original Flashman, after a recommendation on here. Really enjoying it so far, not the sort of thing I'd usually read so that's nice too.
Did the same recently for the same reason!
Joe abercrombie...half a king trilogy
Hemingway's old man and the sea
Just finished [i]Tree of Smoke[/i] by Denis Johnson and it was disappointing - Big book on Vietnam and the fog of war.
If someone from the rank and file had written it you'd say it was brilliant - some exceptional writing. But Johnson writing blistering prose isn't news - what we're waiting for is him stepping it up to the large canvas-masterpiece, as befits his talent. Signs are that this isn't going to happen - he hung his balls out in tackling such a played out subject, but he's too much of an artist to get involved with the nuts and bolts artisan-ship of making a big narrative work. Result is a v uneven, creaky book.
Just waiting to start Harvard Press' biography of Nikola Tesla.
Also, has any read Don Quixote? Readable by a normal human?
I'm just at the end of an Iain M Banks marathon with the Hydrogen Sonata while battling with The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Power, Sex, Suicide by Nick Lane which is about the evolution of Mitochondria.
Part 2 of the Border Trilogy by McCarthy, "The Crossing". Incredibly absorbing (so much so that I just told my son the plot as I was putting him to bed!)
Imagine only reading [url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/i-dont-understand-the-appeal-of-reading-fiction ]non-fiction[/url] and missing out on stuff like that! Bonkers.
Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris, wasn't sure at first but chapter two and I'm in
also Charly Wegelius' biog which is good
The Book of the Bothy - Phoebe Smith
Getting some ideas for wee trips away.
Dictator....Robert Harris... Just finished.......I found it very difficult to put. down.
Been reading Pandora's Star but kind of lost interest . Now on Dusk by Tim Lebbon. Not far enough in to make a judgment but I do like his other Noreela stuff
[url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Long-Walk-Story-Freedom/dp/1845296443 ]The Long Walk[/url] - a quite horrific WW2 account of escaping a Gulag by making it from Siberia into Asia.
[url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Lie-Tree-Frances-Hardinge/dp/144726410X ]The Lie Tree[/url] - Costa Winning effort from Frances Hardinge. Her work is incredibly inventive, quite literally painting through words.
Rereading the Spike Milligan war diaries, usually do this every 2-3 years, currently in Italy.
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Sister lent it to me and thought it might be a bit 'girly'
Best book i've read in months
The Crippled God by Steven Erikson. Ten books in and I still don't know what's going to happen. Brilliant writing.
Matt
Just finished Lita Ford: Living Like A Runaway (her autobiography).
You'd think being the story of the former Runaways guitarist and her life in the music scene, it would be mostly name dropping, sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. Well, it is!
Probably need to read something more intellectual next, but seems to be mainly paint charts at the moment Mrs Feet has dictated a LOT of decorating 😐
re reading Dreams of Leaving by Rupert Thomson just to see if it's a good as I remember it.
It is 😀
The original Flashman, after a recommendation on here. Really enjoying it so far, not the sort of thing I'd usually read so that's nice too.
Did the same recently for the same reason!
Flashy's? I kinda enjoyed the film, tried three of the book, didn't enjoy them at all (didn't get the draw of a cad tbh).. But we're all different luckily.
Just finished Jason m. Hough Dire Earth series which I enjoyed & another of Edward w Robertson's follow up to the breakers series , & now trying out Paul Drakers Pyramid lake.. Seems kinda predictable(ish) but have given up on a lot worse
Just finishing Lanark by Alasdair Gray. Strange, wonderful and sad. And occasionally annoying.
'Tortilla Flat'
Also re-reading 'Snow Falling On Cedars'
The Long Walk - a quite horrific WW2 account of escaping a Gulag by making it from Siberia into Asia.
Good heads up that looks like a corker. That's now in my holiday pile.
Mrs Zip wants to know what people are reading that's like Rory Clemence or CJ Samson? ( both previous recommendations off here)
Vulcan 607
Skunk works by Ben Rich
LA Requiem by Robert Crais.
Part 2 of the Border Trilogy by McCarthy, "The Crossing". Incredibly absorbing (so much so that I just told my son the plot as I was putting him to bed!)
Imagine only reading non-fiction and missing out on stuff like that! Bonkers.
Cheeky! 😆
Just finished A song of Shadows - John Connolly and will start The Martian tonight .
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett. Only just started dabbling with his stuff, and this is a brilliant send up of religion.
It's got to be about the best of the disc world books.
Just finished Bruce by Peter Carlin (Springsteen bio).
Now on the current edition of Granta.
War of the Worlds
The Invisible man
Bleak House
Just keeping up to date with the modern stuff..
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor. The first part of his account of a solo walk through pre-war (1933) Europe starting in Holland and (in the second book) eventually reaching Greece. Beautifully written evocation of a world substantially wiped away in WW2.
He went on to have a leading role with the Greek resistance in occupied Crete during which he captured a German general. An amazing life well lived.