What Book Did You Read Last Night??? (3 Viewers)

[Cornu Ammonis]

I got four pages into Jane Austen's Emma before I had to stop. I started Gravity's Rainbow but never finished it. I keep meaning to go back to it. I think that's it for books I never finished.

I would like to finish the book I'm currently reading but I've left it on my desk in work. Here's a picture of it to give me something to do while I'm on the train:

 

[nooleen]

ooooh
is it good? i've only just started watching true detective, i love all that southern shit, such a mad place

 

[rettucs]

I got four pages into Jane Austen's Emma before I had to stop.

I had to do that for one of my leavings. Could never understand why anyone would read it of their own free will.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

ooooh
is it good? i've only just started watching true detective, i love all that southern shit, such a mad place

Yeah, not as Southern Gothic-y as True Detective or as deeply layered but well worth a read. Have about 50 pages left and dying to finish it. Might pop into work on Sunday to pick it up...

 

[ilovehoovering]

Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe. I've heard that his last few books weren't great and that this is seen as a bit of a return to form. It's no What A Carve Up! but is a pretty entertaining and easy read. A British civil servant is plucked from his desk and dull family life and deposited in Brussels to oversee the running of a British pub at the World's Fair in 1958.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

The Good Father by Noah Hawley. Hawley wrote the whole of Fargo’s first season and that show’s structure was more novelistic than any other, True Detective aside. This book is written from the point of view of an affluent doctor whose son has been arrested for shooting a presidential candidate. Brilliantly written, with loads of interesting tangents on gun culture and mass shootings/assassinations. Very impressive.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

It made me really dislike myself and everyone around me too. So, for that, it's well done. It's rare I don't finish something I start but I just couldn't with this one.

Did you not recommend that to me?

 

[Jill Hives]

Did you not recommend that to me?

No. Must have been one of your friends.

 

[washingcattle]

The Good Father by Noah Hawley. Hawley wrote the whole of Fargo’s first season and that show’s structure was more novelistic than any other, True Detective aside. This book is written from the point of view of an affluent doctor whose son has been arrested for shooting a presidential candidate. Brilliantly written, with loads of interesting tangents on gun culture and mass shootings/assassinations. Very impressive.

Sounds like a less jewish American Pastoral.

If Hawley can hold his attention on one subject for more than a page i'll give it a read.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Sounds like a less jewish American Pastoral.

If Hawley can hold his attention on one subject for more than a page i'll give it a read.

Ha, yeah, he goes on tangents quite a lot in this, but they're always interesting.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel by Max Blumenthal.

This is a very engrossing blood boiler, grim and sad as fuck

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising by Patrick Cockburn

Very interesting and topical, puts a bit of context on the current unpleasantness. The outlook is poor. It repeats itself a bit and seems slightly thrown together (possibly to get it out while ISIS are still hot) but very readable.

 

[hydromancer]

I read some of this last night which I picked up in Dublin during the summer fairly interesting and even fun but mostly I have just read the early autobiographical or circumstantial parts of the book about Dr J. Dee who lived in the 1500's and was a visitor of Queen Elisabeth's court also a little information on well known biblical ideas.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Best book that's gonna be released this year (or any)

 

[Hector Grey]

Best book that's gonna be released this year (or any)

Now, there's a book. Off to Amazon with me.

 

[sleepy]

I finished reading Stoner by John Williams last night. Best book I've read in ages. Loved it.

 

[nooleen]

The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising by Patrick Cockburn

Very interesting and topical, puts a bit of context on the current unpleasantness. The outlook is poor. It repeats itself a bit and seems slightly thrown together (possibly to get it out while ISIS are still hot) but very readable.

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should've called it 'on the sunni side of the street'

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Or 'Look! The Sunnis rising'

 

[nooleen]

or Sunni Side Up
Sunni Days Are Here Again
Sunni Outlook

etc. etc.

 

[St. Fechin]

The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising by Patrick Cockburn

Very interesting and topical, puts a bit of context on the current unpleasantness. The outlook is poor. It repeats itself a bit and seems slightly thrown together (possibly to get it out while ISIS are still hot) but very readable.

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Blurb:
"In this explosive new book, renowned
Middle East correspondent Patrick
Cockburn analyzes events leading up to
the seizure by jihadis of a vast territory
spanning the Iraq-Syria border."


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