What Are You Reading? 3

[Tonyblack]

I'm on my second Hornblower book. I enjoyed the first one. Each chapter is a separate adventure. It's almost like a series of short stories rather than a novel.

 

[=Tamar]

Contagious - Why Things Catch On, by Jonah Berger (2013). It's about what elements make something go viral, get real word-of-mouth advertising, become fads - and some reasons why some things didn't catch on that people hoped would.

 

[Bouncy Castle]

One of the tie-in novels (book 3) from the Castle TV series.

 

[chris.ph]

the last harry dresden book other than the short stories

 

[Alanz]

Wahtever are you going to do when you've finished it Chris : , No more harry Dresden

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Until the next one is written, and Alex Versus is Dresden's London equivlent.

 

[chris.ph]

he wrote some scifi so i will read those next then maybe anna rice

 

[Alanz]

I'm still getting through Sir Terry's Books, then i'll read any books about Magicians or Dwarfs etc..I liked the Shannarra series

 

[Bouncy Castle]

Until the next one is written, and Alex Versus is Dresden's London equivlent.

I got a couple of those, and have really struggled to get through the first third of book 1. They're both sitting in a cupboard somewhere.

 

[Catch-up]

Haven't read those. I think of Peter Grant as Dresden's London equivalent. Looking forward to the next book in that series!

Just finished The Demonologist by Andrew Pyper. Really good! Would make a great scary movie. I'm going to try his other books.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Until the next one is written, and Alex Versus is Dresden's London equivlent.

I got a couple of those, and have really struggled to get through the first third of book 1. They're both sitting in a cupboard somewhere.

They are on my to be read soon list just trying to catch on the Sookie books, I have the 1st three, Jim Butcher recomends them.

 

[janet]

Decided to stop cheating over the 'to read' pile, which has reached monolithic proportions, and just read the one on the top each time. So just started Tony Hawks's Round Ireland with a Fridge. Not far into it and chuckled a few times. Promising?

 

[Tonyblack]

I've always meant to try some of his books as I think he's generally very funny. His website is a scream when he posts letters from barely literate people who have mistaken him for the famous skateboarder.

I've posted this link before, but it's well worth a revisit.

 

[Penfold]

Very much worth a read Janet. The follow up, "Playing the Moldovans at Tennis" where he has a bet that he could beat the entire Moldovan football team at tennis (based on the theory that people that are great at one sport aren't necessarily good at others) and has to track them down individually to challenge them is also full of chuckles.

 

[Sandman]

Currently reading Ernest Hemingway's "Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises" for my university course.

Don't know if there are any Hemingway fans out there, but he's definitely not my cup of Rosy Lee...
I've got To Kill a Mockingbird going on along the side as well, however, and that's definitely worth a read if you haven't read it yet!

 

[Tonyblack]

Currently reading Ernest Hemingway's "Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises" for my university course.

Don't know if there are any Hemingway fans out there, but he's definitely not my cup of Rosy Lee...
I've got To Kill a Mockingbird going on along the side as well, however, and that's definitely worth a read if you haven't read it yet!

I love To Kill A Mockingbird! One wonders what Harper Lee might have created if she'd written another book.

 

[Sandman]

I love To Kill A Mockingbird! One wonders what Harper Lee might have created if she'd written another book.

Indeed, although I'm sure that she probably knew what she was doing when she stopped at one.

 

[Tonyblack]

It would certainly be a hard act to follow.

 

[KnightOfFewWords]

I love To Kill A Mockingbird! One wonders what Harper Lee might have created if she'd written another book.

It's a great book - I only read it for the first time earlier this year. My personal interpretation of it that it represents Scout's recollection of events written at a much later date, and as such is a not completely accurate version of events.

On writing another, one quote on her wiki page says: 'Two reasons: one, I wouldn't go through the pressure and publicity I went through with To Kill a Mockingbird for any amount of money. Second, I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.' Another thing to bear in mind is that the story is semi-autobiographical, drawing heavily on Harper Lee's experiences growing up. According to Truman Capote, they knew a real man who used to leave things hidden in trees, as Boo Radley did.

 

[Ghost]

as I've been off line this week I've been catching up on my reading and lapsed into my old habit of speed reading
starting off the week with The contortionist handbook by Craig Clevenger then The burglar diaries by Danny King and I started Other People's Money: The Rise and Fall of Britain's Boldest Credit Card Fraudster by Elliot Castro last night

it only now reading what I've typed that I'm seeing a reoccurring theme