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

[piratecore]

I just finished it a week or two ago. I enjoyed the shit out of it. So much so I'm now getting stuck into The Beautiful and The Damned.

the "holocaust" described at the end of the book should have involved the extermination of a good deal more extremely irritating denizens of the new york described in the pages of said tome.

 

[Cormcolash]

and finished the Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien, which is a truly amazing piece of writing.

I read At Swim Two Birds recently, it's fucking amazing, takes a bit of perseverance to get into though.

 

[Cryptid]

Maybe something by Joseph Conrad.

Have you read Heart of Darkness? I thought it was very good. Apparently it's quite different to anything else he wrote. Must read some more of his stuff.

 

[hermie]

Have you read Heart of Darkness? I thought it was very good. Apparently it's quite different to anything else he wrote. Must read some more of his stuff.

Yes, that's excellent alright. I wouldn't say it's all that different to much of what he writes. I'm currently re-reading the Secret Agent. Astonishingly relevant still

 

[hermie]

I read At Swim Two Birds recently, it's fucking amazing, takes a bit of perseverance to get into though.

I struggled with it I have to say. It's not without it's moments but I couldn't really say I enjoyed it.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

the great gatsby was on my english course in college but i didnt like it at all (or the english course either...)

i started at swim two birds twice but never finished it. i will have another go as i loved the poor mouth and the third policeman

 

[IFF]

ii started a day and a night and a day by glen duncan yesterday

 

[Reets]

I reread the Great Gatsby a few months, hated it the first time but loved it the second.
beautifully descriptive book, cant recommend it highly enough, made me wish i still smoked though .

 

[Cryptid]

i started at swim two birds twice but never finished it. i will have another go as i loved the poor mouth and the third policeman

That's the exact same as me. Scary. What type of bicycle do you own? I've also read a bit of the Dalkey Archive, which is good, but I never finished it for some reason. Some of Myles Na gCopaleen worth a read, although a knowledge of Latin would help.

 

[Richie]

At Swim Two Birds is actually better if you dip in and out of it instead of reading the whole thing through cover to cover, I found.. The 'plot' is so ridiculous and hard to follow that it sort of gets in the way of just enjoying the language and humour.

 

[Cormcolash]

I probably just loved it because my super-intelligence meant I could enjoy it more.

 

[MDR]

I finished Amongst Women by John McGahern last night. A keenly observed portrait of the type of domestic tyrant that seems to populate Irish households. Petty passive agression and domination by guilt. A very powerful book - dark but very deep.

I am now reading Fatherhood by Bill Cosby, which is an absolute riot.

 

[Moods For Mallards]

Have you read Heart of Darkness? I thought it was very good. Apparently it's quite different to anything else he wrote. Must read some more of his stuff.

I didn't particularly enjoy Heart of Darkness.
The most instantly satisfying Conrad book I've read is The Secret Agent.
Nostromo is pretty meaty and satisfying.

 

[Squiggle]

I also prefered the Secret Agent to Heart of Darkness, although I enjoyed both very much.

I enjoyed At Swim Two Birds much more when I gave up trying to figure out what the hell was going on.

I'm currently reading The Wind in the Willows.

 

[magicbastarder]

currently reading why beauty is truth - a history of symmetry. firing up some old brain cells i haven't used in 15 years in the process.

 

[rettucs]

currently reading 'Pillars of the Earth' by Ken Follett.

not what I'd usually go for. It was given to me by someone who asked my opinion on it. Its very compelling, 100 or so pages in. I quite like it.

 

[Cormcolash]

Anyone who didn't get At Swim Two Birds is a Sassenach

 

[hermie]

Anyone who didn't get At Swim Two Birds is a Sassenach

I didn't say I didn't get it, I said I didn't enjoy it

 

[piratecore]

just started reading world war z. far from your average horror fiction, brilliantly written and just class in general. get it now but not off amazon lol.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

this thread has made me curious about flann o'brien. im going to pick up some of his stuff in the library today