What Book Did You Read Last Night??? (8 Viewers)

[7 - No tomorrow]

Looking forward to starting this.

What did you make of it?

I enjoyed the hell out of it.

He's written a great American novel.


Didn't make the Booker shortlist though.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

so so. some good ideas but i found myself losing interest towards the climax. most of the main characters are really irritating

 

[Mitchum]

I enjoyed the hell out of it.

He's written a great American novel.


Didn't make the Booker shortlist though.

I still haven't started it!

Just finished 'Absurdistan' by Gary Shteyngart. Great laugh.

 

[Moods For Mallards]

Just finished 'Absurdistan' by Gary Shteyngart. Great laugh.

A gas book, genuinely funny. I should go get the Russian Debutante's Handbook for me holliers, actually.

I'm reading Judging Dev.

 

[Mitchum]

Be careful you don't pick up 'The Russian Debutante's Handjob' by Jerry Shteynfarb.

He sleeps with all his students you know.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

i've read two books of his "everyman" and "plot against america". i must say i liked both and in the future will buy more of his stuff. maybe i'll try pastoral next

just finished the plot against america last night - deadly stuff. before i started i thought it would probably be the last roth book i'd read as i wasnt too keen on the others i read but i might read more

 

[Reets]

finish revolutionary road by Richard Yates yesterday, suddenly fancy working a newyork office in the 1950s, smoking & drinking too much, and having an affair with a guy called george.

 

[Wobbler]

Reading Experience by Martin Amis at the moment. Very much enjoying it, even if sometimes I feel like I don't understand it.

 

[muffin]

Read Candy Girl by Diablo Cody which I liked..
Youth in Revolt by C.D. Payne which was like Adrian Mole but stranger and so deadly..
I'm now almost finished the new David Sedaris which I'm digging a lot..
I'm also working through Bitchfest which is a collection of articles from Bitch magazine which is class..

 

[David Kronenbourg]

just finished the plot against america last night - deadly stuff. before i started i thought it would probably be the last roth book i'd read as i wasnt too keen on the others i read but i might read more

the plot against america is a fantastic book. everything else i've read of his has left me cold. boring and bitter. started the broom of the sytem the other night. rip david foster wallace. one of a kind writer

 

[Mitchum]

Reading Experience by Martin Amis at the moment. Very much enjoying it, even if sometimes I feel like I don't understand it.

I love that book. I've read it about four or five times at this stage. It's so honest and sad and angry...

 

[Mormon Nailer]

the plot against america is a fantastic book. everything else i've read of his has left me cold. boring and bitter. started the broom of the sytem the other night. rip david foster wallace. one of a kind writer

I like American Pastoral as well but the Zuckerman stuff does nothin for me.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

I read most of this last night.

Brilliant

Every home should have a copy.

He talks about "the daily mails ongoing ontological campaign to divide all inanimate objects in the world into those that can either cause or cure cancer."

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

the plot against america is a fantastic book. everything else i've read of his has left me cold. boring and bitter. started the broom of the sytem the other night. rip david foster wallace. one of a kind writer

bitter. i liked I Married A Communist and The Human Stain at the start of each but by the end i disliked the angry bitter characters so much that i couldnt enjoy the books at all.

 

[hermie]

excellent book. extremely bleak though, very different from the film

 

[david jatt]

"The Untouchable" by John Banville. Took me a few weeks to get through it, but worth the effort as however dense his works, Banville's prose is a thing to admire.

 

[david jatt]

"the second plane" by Martin Amis. alot more balanced then i thought it would be or am i missing something.

 

[sugar_referee]

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Deadly. Even if you know nothing about Henry James , which I don't.

 

[Gambra]

Just got this (version I have has a far cooler cover) in HMV for €13. Two entries in so far, pretty great.

 

[Gambra]

I read most of this last night.

Brilliant

Every home should have a copy.

He talks about "the daily mails ongoing ontological campaign to divide all inanimate objects in the world into those that can either cause or cure cancer."

He writes the Bad Science column for the Guardian doesn't he? At least half his colum every week is devoted to whatever cod science Daily Mail has made up this week.