What Are You Reading 2

[Who's Wee Dug]

Blimey, not much reading being done by the forum members this week, though I imagine you all have jobs and families to be seeing to. I really must see about getting one of those at some point

I finished "Something Wicked This Way Comes" and it was wonderful, just a sublime piece of writing. I hope to write a review that will do it justice.

I'm 200 pages into Mankell's "Firewall" but I'm taking a break to dive into some fairy tales with "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" tonight.

What a job or a family Stripey.

 

[stripy_tie]

Blimey, not much reading being done by the forum members this week, though I imagine you all have jobs and families to be seeing to. I really must see about getting one of those at some point

I finished "Something Wicked This Way Comes" and it was wonderful, just a sublime piece of writing. I hope to write a review that will do it justice.

I'm 200 pages into Mankell's "Firewall" but I'm taking a break to dive into some fairy tales with "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" tonight.

What a job or a family Stripey.

The first, I'm lucky enough to have more than plenty of the second.

 

[Catch-up]

I would like to be doing more reading. Can't find anything I enjoy lately.

 

[Bouncy Castle]

It's okay Bouncy.Chris already sent me the ebooks.But thanks anyway

Damn. I was hoping to get rid of them!!

 

[chris.ph]

im still wading my way thru the anita blake books im upto about 18ish at the moment

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

I've finally finished Reamde by Neal Stephenson, a long book but pretty good, intense in places and a page turner I might be voting for it in the Hugho's at the Worldcon.

 

[Bouncy Castle]

im still wading my way thru the anita blake books im upto about 18ish at the moment

Ah yes. Aren't they the ones that get more and more porny as the series goes on?

 

[chris.ph]

yes

 

[Bouncy Castle]

A box of kleenex with every copy?

 

[chris.ph]

im having a break from the filth and im reading a crown imperilled by raymond e fiest

 

[meerkat]

The Devil's Deciples by Susanna Gregory set in Cambridge in the 1350's.

 

[stripy_tie]

I finished Mankell's "Firewall" the other day, it was pretty good if somewhat dated. Technology themed novels tend not to age very well but the quality of the writing did a lot to disguise it.

I've nearly finished "Hell's Angels" by Hunter S. Thompson and it's very good, at times it doesn't string along quite as well as a book should and that a lot of it was pieced together out of old articles written for newspapers and magazines at the time is obvious.

However the narrative of Thompson's experience riding with the Angels gives more than enough backbone to the story and any tangents are always reigned in before they become too distracting. Like all of his work it's pretty hilarious at times too.

After this I'll probably get around to reading Gaiman's "Coraline" just for a change of pace.

 

[author3]

I was reading Skulduggery Pleasanteath Bringer but it was so bad I had to put it down which I hardly ever do.At the moment I'm reading A Trick of the Dark by B.R. Collins so far so good

 

[stripy_tie]

I read "Collected Folk Tales" by Alan Garner last night; it was very good if a bit of a mixed bag "Great Head and the Ten Brothers", "The Smoker" and "Loki" stand out as particularly excellent while "Father, Wait for Me" was simply horrifying.

This afternoon I read "The Chrysalids" by John Wyndham and it's undoubtedly his masterpiece, I couldn't do it justice without going on and on here so I'll save it for whenever I get around to writing proper reviews for all these books. I'm sure I'll get around to it at some point.

Tonight I plan on reading "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness, I'm hoping it will live up to the great promise of it's blurb.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

You must be a very fast reader Stripy.

 

[stripy_tie]

You must be a very fast reader Stripy.

Cheers Dug. I generally am; I sometimes let myself get distracted by the Internet too much (like right now) though I'm hoping to get through at least a hundred this year.

 

[Bouncy Castle]

Women's Murder Club #2

 

[Antiq]

Carry on, Jeeves
Just finished a P D James book, which was only ok, and found a new detective I could really get to like - Matthew Shardlake (author C J Sansom).

 

[author3]

Women's Murder Club #2

Is that 2nd Chance?Haven't read that one yet but it's on my to read pile

 

[stripy_tie]

"A Monster Calls" more than lived up to expectations, all the elements of the story were weaved together so elegantly and the prose was simple yet beautiful. The illustrations were stark and sublime and I took the time after reading it to just flip through and look at them alone.