So what Books are forumites currently reading?

stubs

Northwind wrote:

stubs wrote:

Just started The Evolutionary Void by Peter F Hamilton book 3 of the Dreaming Void trilogy. So far I have read 1400 pages of the trilogy only 700 to go. Boy oh boy does this guy need an editor so far the story could have been cut in half and it still would have been too wordy.

Yah, it's all gone a bit Robert Jordan I think, too successful for the publishers to dare edit him properly. I gave up after the commonwealth ones.

He also writes excruciatingly bad sex scenes I have a strong suspicion he has never actually done the beast with 2 backs with a lady or even a ladyboy. When I have waded through the overlong sentences, pointless characters, subplots that go nowhere and the aforementioned bad sex I will send all 3 books to Oxfam so some other poor sod can waste a couple of months.

Gazlar

Just reading Capital by John Lanchester, about a fictional London street, i also have his book Mr Phillips for after that

Woodmonkey

Just finished "the hundred year old man who climbed out a window and disappeared" enjoyed it.

Gazlar

Woodmonkey wrote:

Just finished "the hundred year old man who climbed out a window and disappeared" enjoyed it.

That was next on my to buy list for after the ones I've got on the go, glad its good

Northwind

I've got that one to read as well, good stuff.

welshkev

I've just read james pattinson, private no.1. very good

i'm now reading skagboys. a prequel to trainspotting

FatMikeUK

Just bought a Kindle so went wild and downloaded a whole bunch of the free classics. Mostly books I've been meaning to read for ages but just haven't got around to. Recently finished "Three Men in a Boat", very funny and surprisingly relevant to modern cycling adventures. Well worth a read. I also ripped through "Tom Sawyer" which was pretty good. I've got to say though I didn't think it was quite as impressive as our American friends would have us believe, but it was worth a read. Now I'm just starting "The Picture of Dorain Grey".

Kowalski675

I got a boxed set of all the Song Of Ice And Fire (Game Of Thrones) series, so currently reading that. Few pages of book two left, then onto book 3 (there's seven in all). V. good so far, liking it.

Gazlar

As mentioned, I'm onto Mr Phillips now (another John Lanchester) I think it may be Welshkevs biography as the description is.....

"One warm July morning Mr Phillips climbs out of bed, leaving Mrs Phillips dozing. He prepares for his commute into the city - but this is no ordinary Wednesday. It is a day on which Mr Phillips will chat with a pornographer, stalk a tv mini-celebrity, have lunch with an aspiring record mogul, and get caught up in a bank robbery. It is, as Mr Phillips comes to realise, the first day of the rest of his life - whether he wants it to be or not. All this is both better and worse than being at work. So why is Mr Phillips, a cautious middle-aged accountant, not behind his desk calculating the financial consequences of redundancies or recommending the savings to be made from more responsible use of yellow sticky note pads?"
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levolon

reading the latest Scott Mariani book "The Armada Legacy " 8th in the Ben Hope series .
ace read these and best read in order , Ben Hope is an ex SAS guy who finds people who have been kidnapped etc, but the way he does it is just ...... well ill let you find out for yourselves

thekickingmule

As I'm commuting by train now, I'm managing to read quite a bit!

Currently reading 'The Shack' by William P. Young, about a bloke whos daughter is kidnapped and murdered and never found, and he then meets God and has a long talk with him. To be honest, it's a bit rubbish but good, but more rubbish really.
I've also read recently 'Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal' by Jeannette Winterson (good book but a bit weord in places), 'The Vanishing Act' by Mette Jakobson (Fantastic book about a tiny island where a girls mother vanishes, and she's the only one that believes she's alive. It's a bit heart wrenching in places) and 'The Tent, The Bucket and Me' by Emma Kennedy (This book actually made me laugh out loud on a packed train! It's about her growing up and how every single holiday is a disaster in some way, starting with a trip to Wales. I cannot recommend this book enough!)

Woodmonkey

Just finished "free country, by George mahood" easy reading about two guys who start at lands end in their pants and cycle to John o groats, without spending a penny. They have to blag everything including bikes.

stubs

Treasure Island by R.L.Stevenson. Got it free with my Galaxy tab and absolutely loving it. Aar Jim Lad you be a moity fine read Aaar shiver me timbers.

welshkev

Gazlar wrote:

As mentioned, I'm onto Mr Phillips now (another John Lanchester) I think it may be Welshkevs biography as the description is.....

"One warm July morning Mr Phillips climbs out of bed, leaving Mrs Phillips dozing. He prepares for his commute into the city - but this is no ordinary Wednesday. It is a day on which Mr Phillips will chat with a pornographer, stalk a tv mini-celebrity, have lunch with an aspiring record mogul, and get caught up in a bank robbery. It is, as Mr Phillips comes to realise, the first day of the rest of his life - whether he wants it to be or not. All this is both better and worse than being at work. So why is Mr Phillips, a cautious middle-aged accountant, not behind his desk calculating the financial consequences of redundancies or recommending the savings to be made from more responsible use of yellow sticky note pads?"
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bg13

Just finished some Sherlock Holmes short stories and am ploughing through some old Andy McNab books.

Woodmonkey

Just finished the hanging shed by Gordon ferris, good read if you like Ian rankin's inspector rebus. Just bought the much hyped gone girl, time to see if it lives up to the hype

Kowalski675

I like Rankin, I've read all his books. Just about to start book 4 of the Game Of Thrones series.

Woodmonkey

Are the new rebus ones any good?

Kowalski675

Woodmonkey wrote:

Are the new rebus ones any good?

Standing In Another Man's Grave? I didn't think the plot was among the best ones, but the writing's classic Rankin, with Rebus as bristly as ever, with Siobhan and Cafferty in there too (I named two of my Isis' kittens Rebus and Cafferty a few years back, lol), with a cameo from Malcolm Fox. Rankin had said he wouldn't bring Rebus back, but it seems Fox hasn't captured people's imaginations in the same way (plus the character has a time limit since apparently - unbeknown to Rankin when he first penned him - officers only spend a couple of years or so in the complaints, it's not a permanent position). Luckily for Rankin the change in retirement age regulations has allowed Rebus to apply to rejoin the force (succesfully, it would seem:)

http://www.ianrankin.net/pages/content/ ... PageID=183

Woodmonkey

'Gone girl' is a good read,
Just finished 'the rum diaries' by Hunter S Thompson, made me feel like my life is boring, so I went and bought some rum!

Gazlar

Just started Charlotte Street by Danny Wallace, a story about 30 something man stalks woman

wmorgs

Reading again after 5mths smoke free aagghhh

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Allen-Carrs-Eas ... roduct_top

Kowalski675

Finished book 4 of Game Of Thrones series last night, starting book 5 tonight.

Anonymous

something's things to with the things im studying later this year so.

English literature
psychology
history

YeehaaMcgee

Just finished Pratchett's "dodger", and ACD's first Sherlock Holmes book, "a study in scarlet".
Both good reads.
I'm also in the middle of reading "the twelve" by justin Cronin, about a post-apocalyptic world, and on the ride to work I've decided to go for something a little different on audible, so I'm listening to "some kind of fairytale" by Graham Joyce.
Enjoying it so far, but the narrator needs shooting. It's like having a book read to you by the Cineworld automated voice system, just... terrible.

Kowalski675

I read Dodger a while back - got all Pratchett's books, started reading his stuff 25 years ago (Christ, where did quarter of a century go...)

YeehaaMcgee

It's a good little whimsical read, isn't it? I was pleasantly surprised after being dissapointed with "the long earth".
I actually got the book a long time ago, with the intention of reading it whilst out in the alps, but I never got round to it.

97th choice

Reading 'the long earth' right now....things are currently going very slowly, in a balloon.

Need some ideas for holiday reads - dean koontz, lee child, Robert crais would be my typical authors, although koontz has gone a bit shit.

YeehaaMcgee

There's a follow up to the long earth coming out in the next few days I believe, which would kind of make sense that it was really a setup for what follows.

Kowalski675

YeehaaMcgee wrote:

It's a good little whimsical read, isn't it? I was pleasantly surprised after being dissapointed with "the long earth".
I actually got the book a long time ago, with the intention of reading it whilst out in the alps, but I never got round to it.

Aye, Dodger was a decent read. I was a bit puzzled by The Long Earth, it just didn't really seem to go anywhere. As far as his Discworld stuff goes, I keep buying them, but I've been a bit underwhelmed by them for a few years now, I prefer the earlier ones. Wonder how long he'll be able to continue writing for, given his condition.