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

[hugh]

I'm totally addicted to these novels. I read the first one on a recommendation. Enjoyed it but wasn't overly enamoured. Starting on the second one anyway and then lost it somehow. Got a loan of it, started again a few weeks later, and was hooked halfway through.

It's basically a very long four part quasi-autobiographical novel told from the point of view of a woman growing up in a poor part of Naples and specifically her lifelong friendship/enmity with a chiildhood friend. This doesn't sound very exciting but it really is.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Oh yeah been meaning to read some of them. Will have to give her a shot.

 

[IFF]

i have "my brilliant friend" as the second on my to be read next

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

 

[Lili Marlene]

Finally got around to reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

600+ pages of MEHHHHH

I might have liked it if I discovered it as a teenager and the man has got more ideas on a page then I'd have in a decade but he really doesn't do anything with the material, everything is so woefully underdeveloped and surface level.

It's a pity, I liked the lead in it and some of the less fantasy sections of the book were quite enjoyable, just all the Gods stuff was such badly thought out nonsense. bah.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

My old flatmate wrote a memoir which is getting rave reviews in the British papers. Crazy reading it because I remember loads of the bits that took place in our flat.

 

[Lili Marlene]

and the memoir is called?



(FFS m8)

 

[travispickle]

I was reading A Brief History of Seven Killings, over Christmas but gave up on it.
Then read Ishiguro's The Buried Giant which I loved and at the weekend read Our Souls at Night (Kent Haruf) which was just a really lovely read.
Onto another Haruf novel now called Plainsong. I've a feeling I'll be searching out more of his stuff.

 

[hugh]

I was reading A Brief History of Seven Killings, over Christmas but gave up on it.

Just started this yesterday Liking it so far ...

 

[Lili Marlene]

My currently reading list is up to 9 books!

Time to start finishing something I started...

 

[travispickle]

Just started this yesterday Liking it so far ...

I liked a lot of it but I got a bit bored by it. The constant moving between a very large character list didn't really help. It became more of a chore so I gave up!

 

[hugh]

I liked a lot of it but I got a bit bored by it. The constant moving between a very large character list didn't really help. It became more of a chore so I gave up!

Yeah I can understand that. It's a bit of a monster. It seems like one those books that you have to really throw yourself into ... we'll see how it goes.

 

[GO]

The Power Of Now

Its great.New Age Zen for beginners!

 

[Lili Marlene]

The Power Of Now

Its great.New Age Zen for beginners!

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you're better than that!

 

[GO]

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you're better than that!

Ha..I honestly don't know what to say about that..haha

 

[Lili Marlene]

Sorry, I got a serious personal bugbear in self-help books. If it works I should leave you be!

 

[travispickle]

Plainsong - Kent Haruf
I'm on a bit of a Haruf reading bender now! Lovely stuff.

 

[rettucs]

Giving this a go.

 

[IFF]

I liked a lot of it but I got a bit bored by it. The constant moving between a very large character list didn't really help. It became more of a chore so I gave up!

I finished it in December and it was ok. The first section was good but for me, lost momentum in the third and forth section recovered it somewhat. For me, the third section was a drag.

I hope to finish "my brilliant friend" by Elena ferrante this weekend and my next read is "a whole life" by Robert seethaler.

 

[Jim Daniels]

my next read is "a whole life" by Robert seethaler.

That's getting nice reviews. It's on my list too