What Are You Reading? 3

[MongoGutman]

Reading Ian Fleming's Diamonds are Forever

...there's a shelf outside the Union Street theatre whwere people just leave and pick up books... free book exchange... and I got this there, read Thunderball recently too... I find Fleming's work kinda basic - spoiled by the movies I guess - no gadgets, more like hard boiled detective fiction, not very sophisticated.

 

[Sjoerd3000]

Sean Connery is so good at doing accents . . . NOT!

I was just checking the wiki entry for The Hunt for the Red October and it says this:

Connery continued using the heavy Russian accent he perfected for the motion picture.

Proof that you can't believe anything on wikiepdia

 

[Penfold]

 

[Yennorks]

Reading now, Slip of the keyboard, and then it is Biography of Anthony Hopkins

 

[chris.ph]

sir anthony hopkins was born just down the road from where i used to live

i dont know what it is with port talbot, there seem to be an awful lot of brilliant actors from there..... it must be something to do with the fumes from the steelworks

 

[Tonyblack]

Definitely the fumes, chris.

 

[Jace]

Still reading House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski.

I'm now also reading Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice and The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare.

 

[Ghost]

I've started The Little Friend by Donna Tartt and this time I will finish it. The last time I started reading this was when I broke my back and was unable to sit still for long periods of time and didn't make it past page 187
And on the Manga side of things I've finished the Juni Itou back catalogue
or at least the works that have been translated
and I am about half way through The horror mansion good stories terrible artwork :|

 

[Dotsie]

I've started A Game of Thrones again, cos I forgot what happened in it by the time I came to read A Clash of Kings

 

[Sjoerd3000]

Lots of people died

 

[MongoGutman]

Just finished Trouble is my Business by Raymond Chandler. A collection of four Philip Marlowe Novelettes. I didn't mean too = a forty year old crumbling paperback just sort of fell into my lap so I thought I'd give it a go and I enjoyed it immensely, even though I had to apply selotape liberally to hold it together, so much so that having finished it I immediatly went out and bought another Chandler book - The Little Sister. I hadn't read Chandler since my teens and I think maybe I was too young to appreciate him then. The hard-boiled detective genre may be a little formulaic Chandler does it to a tee, evokes the 40s era and locale apparantly effortlessly, crisp dialogue, well drawn characters - I think I'm going to be walking down some mean streets for the next few months.

 

[Catch-up]

Almost finished with Foxglove Summer and really enjoying it!

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Just finished Trouble is my Business by Raymond Chandler. A collection of four Philip Marlowe Novelettes. I didn't mean too = a forty year old crumbling paperback just sort of fell into my lap so I thought I'd give it a go and I enjoyed it immensely, even though I had to apply selotape liberally to hold it together, so much so that having finished it I immediatly went out and bought another Chandler book - The Little Sister. I hadn't read Chandler since my teens and I think maybe I was too young to appreciate him then. The hard-boiled detective genre may be a little formulaic Chandler does it to a tee, evokes the 40s era and locale apparantly effortlessly, crisp dialogue, well drawn characters - I think I'm going to be walking down some mean streets for the next few months.

There have been some excellent fantasy books based on the same style as Raymond Chandler's detective genre namely Glen Cook's Garrett, P.I. series starting with Sweet Silver Blues, and Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden series. Both got Chandler's Philip Marlowe type spot on.

 

[=Tamar]

Currently rereading a 1960s trilogy by Alexei Panshin, the Anthony Villiers stories.

 

[The Mad Collector]

Continuing my Shakespeare run so just started King Lear. I'm appreciating the plays so much more now then when I had to read them at school.

 

[Tonyblack]

Continuing my Shakespeare run so just started King Lear. I'm appreciating the plays so much more now then when I had to read them at school.

Nothing like having to study something in school for putting one off something. It was years before I could bear to listen Greig's "Peer Gynt".

 

[Dotsie]

I love Shakespeare, and I loved reading the plays at school. Mr Dotsie was so scarred by the experience though that he won't even talk about books he's reading now

I love saying "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!", especially on days like today, cos it sounds so delicious :shifty: He had a good way with words.

 

[raisindot]

I love saying "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!", especially on days like today, cos it sounds so delicious :shifty: He had a good way with words.

Ohhh! I thought that line originated in a Seth Rogan film! :dance:

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

It did! just happened that Shakespeare guy wrote the script a few centuries earlier.

 

[Sister Jennifer]

Continuing my Shakespeare run so just started King Lear. I'm appreciating the plays so much more now then when I had to read them at school.

Never a truer word was spoken.

I'm reading the comic novel Watchmen. It's hard core but good.