What Are You Reading? 3

[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.

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".

I still can't face To Kill a Mockingbird no matter how many people tell me it's good I just hate even the concept of reading it again

Almost finished King Lear, Hamlet is next

By the way, this is the printed version I am reading, just holding the books is a pleasure they are so beautiful and they are a true joy to read

http://www.foliosociety.com/pages/crafting-letterpress-shakespeare

 

[Ghost]

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".

I still can't face To Kill a Mockingbird no matter how many people tell me it's good I just hate even the concept of reading it again

Anything by John Steinbeck three months reading and dissecting of mice and men and then another three months doing the same to the pearl killed any joy I might have had for that writer

 

[phalarope]

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".

I still can't face To Kill a Mockingbird no matter how many people tell me it's good I just hate even the concept of reading it again

Anything by John Steinbeck three months reading and dissecting of mice and men and then another three months doing the same to the pearl killed any joy I might have had for that writer

And me, Ghost. Same for Hemingway.

 

[Tonyblack]

I'm currently reading "Thinking About it Only Makes It Worse", by David Mitchell.

 

[Dotsie]

I got two thirds of the way through that Tony, and it turned out he was right so I gave it a break! Actually I think it was fine, just the politics chapter was starting to get me down a bit. But he is funny.

 

[janet]

Whit by Iain Banks and it's the first of his books that I've tried. Won't be the last I'm thinking but it depends what turns up in the charity shops. I've decided to make every other book I read something by an author I've never read before or a genre I've never tried before.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

That's Iain's fiction Janet my favourite is "The Business", his SF is when he Iain M Banks.

 

[janet]

Yep, I'm thinking of having a go at his SF stuff. What do you recommend? Shame he's no longer with us

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

I've not got around to reading any of his Culture novels except for the The State of the Art, which has three short Culture stories in it but also a mix of other stuff science fiction, horror, dark fantasy. And The Algebraist is SF but not Culture although a bit similar in concept.

 

[chris.ph]

the chronicles of st mary by jodi taylor......... i laughed out loud three times in the first chapter........ thats unheard of

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

I've got the 1st one on Kindle Chris, not started it yet, reading the latest Thraxas and the Ice Dragon, might start that one next.

 

[Dotsie]

Yep, I'm thinking of having a go at his SF stuff. What do you recommend? Shame he's no longer with us

Consider Phlebas is the first culture novel and very good, or Player of Games is a good intro as well.

Whit is one of my favourite books, I even made Pooh read it

 

[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

Oh god I've finally finished that brick of a book it was alright well written but a huge amount of the sub-plots could've been cut without affecting the main book and even then the book finished without the main plot being fully resolved and that being said...
I'll never read that book again
after all that I needed a change of pace a different style of book something less brick like
but something perhaps more painful and poignant
The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes
by Anna McPartlin

Here is a truth that can’t be escaped: for Mia ‘Rabbit’ Hayes, life is coming to an end
…Rabbit Hayes loves her life, ordinary as it is, and the extraordinary people in it. She loves her spirited daughter, Juliet; her colourful, unruly family; the only man in her big heart, Johnny Faye. But it turns out the world has other plans for Rabbit, and she’s OK with that. Because she has plans for the world too, and only a handful of days left to make them happen. Here is a truth that won’t be forgotten: this is a story about laughing through life’s surprises and finding the joy in every moment.

 

[janet]

Yep, I'm thinking of having a go at his SF stuff. What do you recommend? Shame he's no longer with us

Consider Phlebas is the first culture novel and very good, or Player of Games is a good intro as well.

Whit is one of my favourite books, I even made Pooh read it

I'll look out for Consider Phlebas then. Thanks Dotsie. I really like Isis Whit

 

[Catch-up]

I'm reading The Empty Throne by Bernard Cornwell, and it's really, really good!

 

[AgnesOgg]

Witches abroad, the book that started it all for me. It is the same book I bought over twenty years ago, with loose pages, not only sligthly foxed, but also catted and badgered, but I can not imagine buying a new copy. I adore the book, I adored the man and now I seem to be crying again.

 

[MongoGutman]

Iain (M) Banks was a great writer; difficult to get into mind, you don't get hooked on page one I found, takes a little effort but well worth it.


Currently reading: - Conan's Brethren, an omnibus of stories by REH featuring other heroes and adventures than those of the big Cimmerian.

The Dirty Streets of Heaven by Tad Williams, a fantasy about angels and demons set in current times - it's leaving me a bit cold to tell the truth but I'm wading through it.

The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler - another case for P.I. Phillip Marlowe. Good Stuff.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Currently reading: - Conan's Brethren, an omnibus of stories by REH featuring other heroes and adventures than those of the big Cimmerian.

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The Dirty Streets of Heaven by Tad Williams, a fantasy about angels and demons set in current times - it's leaning me a bit cold to tell the truth but I'm wading through it.

It's the best of the three I think 2nd one is a bit of a filler "Happy Hour in Hell" 3rd Judgement Day is Ok just, overall a bit disappointed with that trilogy as I really like Tad Williams.

 

[Sjoerd3000]

Rereading Interesting Times. The first of Terry's books I read in English (the first Discworld book I ever read was Feet of Clay)

 

[MrsWizzard]

I'm currently on The Vampire Armand in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. But I've paused that for a moment to re-read The Color of Magic for the nth time, my absolute favorite of PTerry's. The brilliant snark of Rincewind connected with 12 year old me back then and he does a good job with 21 year old me now.