What Book Did You Read Last Night??? (2 Viewers)

[GO]

I reread Fahrenheit 451 this week..prolly 20 years or more since I first read it.I enjoyed it!

 

[Jim Daniels]

Picked up two pocket sized oldies for €7 from The Secret Book and Record Store

 

[rettucs]

reading The Goldfinch. So far its great but I think it will take me til about May to get through it all.

finished this. Its grand and all but jaysus it goes on a bit.
Found this my kindle so reading it now;

about one-third through it and generally its very good (if a tad tedious at times)

 

[eoinzy2000]

Boleno - 2666. Took a long time, only found out at end it was a posthumous release of 3 book series. and 3 big feckers too!!!! Class book.
Onto Unbroken now for some lightness after that.

 

[eoinzy2000]

Billy Idol takes all the drugs and has sex with everyone for about 15 years and then....stops. Ridiculous, highly quotable, very clever and very dumb at the same time, much like his music really. Entertaining stuff.

Yeah, read that recently. Its kind of like a holiday read. Tabloidy sorta shite. Thats DEFINITELY the last musician bio im ever reading though. They're nearly all the same, egomaniacs. I found it a nice break in between books written by people that can write though (not that I can tell the difference much!!).

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Boleno - 2666. Took a long time, only found out at end it was a posthumous release of 3 book series. and 3 big feckers too!!!! Class book.
Onto Unbroken now for some lightness after that.

great book. one of my favourites.

 

[pavlos]

Recently read Under The Skin by Michel Faber and The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, both highly enjoyable.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Recently read Under The Skin by Michel Faber.

Mad how different the book and the film are.

 

[pavlos]

Mad how different the book and the film are.

Not seen the film yet - any use?

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Not seen the film yet - any use?

Yeah, best film of last year. I thought the film was miles better than the book but it is an adaptation in the loosest sense only.

 

[pavlos]

Yeah, best film of last year. I thought the film was miles better than the book but it is an adaptation in the loosest sense only.

Sound. Must give it a watch so. I was wondering alright, based on the trailer.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Sound. Must give it a watch so. I was wondering alright, based on the trailer.

yer man's new one sounds good

The Book Of Strange New Things - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[pete]

Amazon product ASIN 0141186674

because of the TV show pilot amazon made

Amazon product ASIN B00RWYOWEM

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Guantanamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi

Harrowing

 

[pete]

Amazon product ASIN 0141186674

because of the TV show pilot amazon made

Amazon product ASIN B00RWYOWEM

Finished this a few days ago. Probably going to make a great TV show, but the book felt unfinished.

 

[Lili Marlene]

I am re-reading Alan Garner's Stone Book Quartet which I read a few years ago for college and could barely follow at the time.

Reading with a bit less pressure now and it's really blowing me away. It unapologetically drops in all the language (jargon?) of stonemasonry and just expects the reader to go along with it.

It's probably everything an MFA program would discourage in writing and all the better for it.

The Stone Book Quartet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[eoinzy2000]

Unbroken has got the shittiest, most disappointing last third and especially ending of any book I've ever read. The first half or 2/3rds was good. Avoid it....... Actually, if you have to read any of it, read the first half then put it down.

 

[Jim Daniels]

Got through my life without ever reading this. Picked it up today for the bargain price of 3 shillings and 6 pence

 

[CinnamonBoy]

Thin Lizzy biog by Alan Byrne

 

[nooleen]

Got through my life without ever reading this. Picked it up today for the bargain price of 3 shillings and 6 pence

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i have a little illustrated pocket-sized version of that printed in 1910 that i got for £6, with a little gold embossed picture of the red queen on the front; it's very satisfying.

this address is stamped on the inside:

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