Just finished Desolation Angels and wanna get my hands on something different to read. Could anyone recommend a good book or author? I normally read Burroughs, Thompson, Kafka but want to try something different. Any help would be very appreciated.
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yes tis very good - Baudolino is really good too, very funny. I've had a copy of Name of the Rose for years but haven't gotten around to reading it yet, anyone like/dislike it?THRILLHO said:Currently rocking Foucault's Pendulum. It's like a better-written Da Vinci's Code.
THRILLHO said:Currently rocking Foucault's Pendulum. It's like a better-written Da Vinci's Code.
Love that book can highly recommend it great story!hop said:yes tis very good - Baudolino is really good too, very funny. I've had a copy of Name of the Rose for years but haven't gotten around to reading it yet, anyone like/dislike it?
Fansap. said:Read the Da Vinci Code a few weeks ago. Good story- but it kinda reads like a movie script.
I though Foucaults Pendulum was really boring. Gave it up after about 100 pages. I know Eco knows his stuff and so on but jesus how about a decent plot and some characters you might actually care about. Loved Name Of The Rose though ....THRILLHO said:Currently rocking Foucault's Pendulum. It's like a better-written Da Vinci's Code.
Yeah, what I failed to mention was that this is about my third time making a start on this book, and only the first time I've made it past the hundred-somethingth page, and now the story is opening up properly. It seems as though he stops his flurry of bullshit description at about page 120, and starts introducing some story elements. Which is nice.hugh said:I though Foucaults Pendulum was really boring. Gave it up after about 100 pages. I know Eco knows his stuff and so on but jesus how about a decent plot and some characters you might actually care about. Loved Name Of The Rose though ....
what thrillho said - foucault really gets going after a while, to the point where it becomes a page turning thriller - completely different to how the book starts offhugh said:I though Foucaults Pendulum was really boring. Gave it up after about 100 pages. I know Eco knows his stuff and so on but jesus how about a decent plot and some characters you might actually care about. Loved Name Of The Rose though ....
Never saw what the fuss was about with A hundred years of solitude,Fansap. said:Am half way through the sound and the fury by Faulkner. Has anyone else tried to read it? Bit of an intense first chapter but am kinda getting the hang of it. Recently finished A Hundred Years of Solitude. Amazing book.
Yeah Umberto! Stop trying to fucking show off and tell the fucking story!!hugh said:I know Eco knows his stuff and so on but jesus how about a decent plot and some characters you might actually care about
i don't get what you mean egg, i don't think an editor cutting out bits would make it a better read - his writing style is less plot/story driven than a lot of stuff i've read, and he has a tendency to go off on tangents that don't appear (initially) to have anything to do with the story as such, but for some editor to cut all that out would be completely missing the point no? as in, the theme of FP deals with how all the many multi-layered theories and falsehoods all become truth in the telling (& believing) because any core truth is lost in the sheer volume of information - its like a sort of self-referential pisstake that it rambles at timesegg_ said:Yeah Umberto! Stop trying to fucking show off and tell the fucking story!!
Sorry. Umberto Eco annoys me with his deliberate cleverness. What was the point of the whole magnet-points-north scene in The Name of the Rose? I like a lot of the book but that bit was just dumb. Liked parts of Foucault's Pendulum but overall it was a let down - the guy is badly in need of good editor (FP would have been much better if it was half the length) and ego surgery
I love Bryson. Notes From a Big Country is pretty good too. I haven't read a book of his I haven't liked, even the one on language, Mother Tongue I think it was.avernus said:Im reading 'Notes from a small island' - Bill Bryson. was on a plane last week, wedged in my a haep of business men...and I had tears pumping down my face as I snorted laughing.
I don't think so.hop said:for some editor to cut all that out would be completely missing the point no?
That's exactly my problem with it. I think FP has some really (for me) eye-opening ideas, and there's some real humanity in it too but it's submerged under mountains of bollocks. If the bollocks is the point then Eco is just a bullshit-artist, but I think rather that the ideas and the humanity are the points and his writing style just gets in the way.its like a sort of self-referential pisstake
i see what you mean - i don't think the bollocks is the sole point, rather that its a style of writing which, for me anyway, reflects the main theme of the book. it doesn't get in the way of the story but i see how it could (i actually find the bollocks really interesting in a nerdlinger kind of way)egg_ said:That's exactly my problem with it. I think FP has some really (for me) eye-opening ideas, and there's some real humanity in it too but it's submerged under mountains of bollocks. If the bollocks is the point then Eco is just a bullshit-artist, but I think rather that the ideas and the humanity are the points and his writing style just gets in the way.
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