What Book Did You Read Last Night??? (4 Viewers)

[Lili Marlene]

I've never really checked it out but I'm guessing I should.

Eh, it's more or less just a list of things you're currently reading and recommendations you don't pay any attention to.

It's mostly used to see what your friends are reading so you can go "of course they're reading that".

very little in terms of hilarious status updates though so that's something.

10/10 great website

 

[rettucs]

Before the Fall

Just started this. Total page turner.

 

[travispickle]

I took a mini-break from Moby Dick to read All Quiet on the Orient Express by Magnus Mills, which is great fun; really surreal and brilliant. Highly recommended.
I'm now on a 2nd mini break to read Graham Greene's, Our Man in Havana.
Then it'll be back to that bloody whale.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Bloodtide by Melvin Burgess

Has an interesting narrative technique where it switches back and forth between first and third person depending on the chapter, like the book is breathing in and out or something.

oh yeah and also:

Spoiler

Dystopian post-apocalyptic future! Rival fiefdoms murdering each other in a never ending power struggle!! Teenage incestuous sex!!! Genetically engineered half humans!!!! Shapeshifting body swappers!!!!! Half robot half organic Norse Gods!!!!!! DIALECTS!!!!!!!

all that and it came out in 1999.

Very... uh... busy.

 

[travispickle]

Following my re-read of All Quiet on the Orient Express, I picked up the new novel by Magnus Mills, The Forensic Records Society - another great read. Highly recommended.

 

[hermie]

Just finished this

Very good. Also recently got through Noam Chomskey's Who Rules the World, as well as Murukami's 1Q84 (Books 1 & 2) and Junot Diaz's The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, while leafing through some of Hemingway's collected stories. About to re-read Hunger having picked it up 2nd hand recently:

 

[chris d]

PCs for Dummies. A total breeze!

Alan Partridge - Nomad. Really disappointing. Didn't recognise the character at times. A lot of name dropping minor british celebrities as 'the joke', instead of making any efforts to create something funny. Massive let down as a follow up to the excellent We Need to Talk About Alan.

 

[travispickle]

Finally finished Moby Dick. Now onto The Heart is a lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Finally finished Moby Dick. Now onto The Heart is a lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers.

What did you think of The Dick*?


*Just trying something out.

 

[ilovehoovering]

Dog Rounds - Death and Life in the Boxing Ring by Elliot Worsell. A boxing journalist interviews boxers who have killed or almost killed opponents in the ring. The premise of this book really appeals to me as a fan of fighting but the book itself isn't great. A better writer could probably do the subject more justice.

 

[hugh]

Jeff Vandermeer is excellent. Not sure this reaches the heights of the brilliant Southern Reach trilogy but it's still the smartest and most engaging and relevant contemporary "SF" that I know of.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Jeff Vandermeer is excellent. Not sure this reaches the heights of the brilliant Southern Reach trilogy but it's still the smartest and most engaging and relevant contemporary "SF" that I know of.

Is this new? Didn't like the second and third Southern Reach books as much as the first which is amazing

 

[hugh]

Yeah it is new. Agree with you about no.2 SR but I thought the final one was great. I liked 2 more in retrospect though.

Film of Annihilation (directed by Alex Garland) due out next February.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Yeah it is new. Agree with you about no.2 SR but I thought the final one was great. I liked 2 more in retrospect though.

Film of Annihilation (directed by Alex Garland) due out next February.

Oh yeah looking forward to that

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Jeff Vandermeer is excellent. Not sure this reaches the heights of the brilliant Southern Reach trilogy but it's still the smartest and most engaging and relevant contemporary "SF" that I know of.

Just read a couple of reviews of this. Sounds great. Going to pick it up next week.

 

[travispickle]

What did you think of The Dick*?


*Just trying something out.

I thought it was great actually. It's tough going in parts, and it's quite long winded, but I really enjoyed it even still. The writing is terrific. Have you read it?

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I thought it was great actually. It's tough going in parts, and it's quite long winded, but I really enjoyed it even still. The writing is terrific. Have you read it?

Yeah, I read it when I was 17 or 18 and loved it. I've been meaning to read it again.

 

[rettucs]

Before the Fall

Just started this. Total page turner.

wouldn't recommend this. Got very dull after a while and the good bits were too few and far between.

Reading this now

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

wouldn't recommend this. Got very dull after a while and the good bits were too few and far between.

Reading this now

Full of lols?

I bet no one has ever made that joke before.

 

[ilovehoovering]

just finished A Very English Scandal by John Preston - "The shocking true story of the first British politician to stand trial for murder". It was great! There's going to be a BBC miniseries next year.