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Arrived today at work, promptly forgot to bring it home, but on a quick scope it looked as good as Cornwell usually delivers, this time the events surrounding the Battle for Poitiers in the 100 years war.
The French will inevitably take the thrashing they always deserve...
So what do STW bookworms read these days, other than fifty shades of jey?
Chavs - The Demonisation of The Working Class by Owen Jones. Interesting stuff. Just finished Hombre by Elmore Leonard...somewhat different but a great read nonetheless....
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Wolf Hall - brilliant
The Seventh Scroll, Wilber Smith
The Story of India, Michael Wood
Sacrament - Clive Barker - very good
Scotland - A New History by Micheal Lynch
All I will say is "they started it"
avdave2 - Member
Wolf Hall - brilliant
Thanks for that, I might give that a glance next, looks interesting, having dropped history at O level I seem to have an inexhaustable appetite for historical novels, hence Cornwell, he does spice them up with a bit of popularist blood, guts and shield wall action, but you do get the gist of what went on during the period.
You've gone too far this time, Sir! - Danny Bent.
I might give that Clive Barker book a read next, used to read a lot of his stuff.
2 good non fiction reads if you are into the subjects:
Rip It Up And Start Again, Post Punk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds
Racing Weight by Matt Fitzgerald
Demons - Dostoyevsky
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The former has the better plot and more believable characters.
Still half way through two books: Moby Dick, and: The Villain. Both good but I've just lacked time to press on
Tyler Hamilton - the secret race
Interesting stuff...
Ken Kesey - Sometimes a Great Notion
Just finished Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos - a fasciniating read about the development of numbers and maths,
and
The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter. Very interesting idea but a bit long winded.
currently reading The Picture of Dorian Grey
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Just finished 3rd Game of Thrones. Pondering next choice - on ereader there's next Game of Thrones, War Horse and The Sea (2005 Booker Prize winner). Also got Whiskey Galore, Pillars of the Earth (watching it on telly, missed first run) and something (can't remember the title) by Christopher Brookmyre in real books
Gave up on Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" - just got bored. Now half way through the rather less prestigious Nick Hornby, "Juliet, Naked".
It's alright.
Just finished God is not Great by Hitchens-first bit of his stuff i've read, will read more.
just starting Wilderness Dreams by Mike Cawthorne, cos i'm in Jordan and missing Scotland...
Still reading the Screwtape Letters.
Post captain - second of the Jack Aubrey novels by Patrick O'Brian.
Master and commander is the first one..
Only 19 more to go after this one...
I have 4 books on the go at the moment:
The Testament of Jessie Lamb - Jane Rogers
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Things We Didn't See Coming - Steven Amsterdam
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Noe of which I would describe as a page turner and all vaguely Sci Fi but interesting enough !
9% of the way through The Hydrogen Sonata (Culture 10) - Iain M Banks
Getting going with The Mongoliad book 2
Dipping in and out of Militant Modernism by Owen Hatherley and The Information by James Gleick.
Embassytown - China Mieville. Only just started it but signs are good.
[i]Gravity's Rainbow[/i] by Thomas Pynchon.
Wildly entertaining.
Struggling to finish chapter 1 of The Casual Vacancy.
Lehrter Station, which doesn't seem a patch on it's predecessors.
King Rat, china Mieville. Just started, adn not sure which way it's going to go, to be honest.
9% of the way through The Hydrogen Sonata (Culture 10) - Iain M Banks
Are we going to see the imminent demise of 'on page...' or 'just finished chapter..'?
Didn't realise there was a new Culture novel out either. Might jump it to the front of the queue.
Is the new Iain Banks in paper back or e-book ? Yay !
Let us know how the J K Rowling works out. Brave lady I reckon, hope it's good, she isn't exactly low profile if it's a turkey. (and I agree with her about Scotland should stay in the union but that's another thread much shoutier than this one)
You've gone too far this time, Sir! - Danny Bent.
Good luck with that - I gave up halfway through. The guy just annoyed the hell out of me, and he managed to make an incredible journey sound repetitive and boring.
Just read the Penal Colony by Richard Herley - very good.
Reading Dividing the Great at the moment by John Metcalfe. Seems pretty good so far
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks, moving stuff
Just finished Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan (been meaning to read it for ages, was brilliant) and Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (enjoyed it but not as much as The Corrections, which I adored).
Just started The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (to my shame I've never read it).
Waiting for The Deadman's Pedal by Alan Warner to come out in paperback.
Just started The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
There is very little to match it, it's without doubt one of the best books I have ever read and his other work is pretty special to.
Re-reading Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy. Which I love, but I just got to the bit in Blue Mars where I always totally lose interest, then immediately forget about when it gets brilliant again 200 pages later.
avdave2 - Member
Just started The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
There is very little to match it, it's without doubt one of the best books I have ever read and his other work is pretty special to.POSTED 1 MONTH AGO #
You were not wrong, my good man. Woah.
Now into Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo.
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
Wishing it would end but want to finish it!
Next in queue, Animal Farm - George Orwell, because Ive never read it and feel that I should have by now!
Annapurna by Maurice Herzog rivetting story of the first ascent of Annapurna. The prose is a bit dated at times., but what a story They didn't need to be told to MTFU
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after 4 volumes, taking a break from the game of thrones saga, now reading
(romance of) the three kingdoms by lee guang zhong.
I've finished Wolf Hall which was excellent and now it's another John Steinbeck, Cannery Row, a recommendation from on here. 2tyred I enjoyed if that's the right word East of Eden just as much as The Grapes of Wrath. I think alongside Robertson Davies Steinbeck is my favourite author.
Big fan of Paul's, although he passed away in June12... 😥
Still I've enjoyed all his works, it's the kind of stuff I like reading, archeological treasure hunting, political intrigue , secret sects, police blunders.. Blah blah
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Extreme Metaphors - Interviews with JG Ballard 1967-2008.
I'm proof reading a book a friend wrote as well as another book on cyber-warfare.
The first is pretty funny. The second is quite serious.
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Just read this sat by the pool and sat at the beach in Benidorm last week. Dad passed it on to me, realised just how lucky we really are today. should be read in schools to open their eyes about what can and has happened!!!
"Damned" by Chuck Palahniuk
Love all his stuff - not much of a story to this one (yet), just a bunch of ideas about how hell is. Great ideas though - including The Sea of Wasted Sperm 🙂
Just finishing Wolf Hall, really enjoying it. I'm only reading fiction in 2012 after years of politics and history. Next up The Great Gatsby, then probably Bring Up the Bodies.
Book of the year for me so far is Matterhorn, no contest.
Next up The Great Gatsby, then probably Bring Up the Bodies
I really want to read Bring up the Bodies as well but I don't want to have too long a gap after reading that before she writes the third.
Game of Thrones - 4 maybe 5 but can't actually remember which one! - it's the one in which they all die IIRC. 😀
The Enchanted Wood - Enid Blyton
Waterlog by Roger Deakin, diary of wild swimming in various UK locations. Fabulous, buying a wetsuit...
I really want to read Bring up the Bodies as well but I don't want to have too long a gap after reading that before she writes the third.
I can tell you how it all ends if you like?