Stickied What are you reading right now?

[IanH]

There's no need to justify reading multiple books at once Oaf. Just as you'd mix up current TV shows or create a music playlist, the written word is also for enjoying different texts simultaneously. Many classical books (and more contemporary - Green Mile by Stephen King for example) were written in parts as serials, and would be released in magazines / newspapers more or less as the author penned them. I think the idea of having to remain loyal all the way through a book to be quite a modern trait.

I almost always have a serious book, some running / motivational / autobiography / essays book, and something in spanish all going at the same time. I don't want to take the same book out for a quick twenty minute read between classes as what I will settle down with in my luxurious bubble bath on a Friday evening with my cava and pork scratchings.

Oh, and are you off on holiday soon Oaf?

 

[Veggie Legs]

I can usually manage one fiction and one non-fiction at the same time too, it's nice to have a change especially if you're reading for long periods of time. I think I'd struggle with two fiction books though.

 

[Oaf]

Ah, cheers guys. Now that I can see other people do it I don't feel like such a weirdo.

But yeah, like you guys, I don't really mind the idea of doing an autobiography along with a fiction. Although... I do usually find myself of a very "one at a time" mind when it comes to this stuff. I usually only have one video game on the go at a time and I tend to watch TV shows on a season by season basis (As in I'll watch a season of something, then a season of something else, then go back to the first) unless it involves things bringing out new episodes on a weekly basis.

 

[RavenBish]

Just finished Shantaram and really enjoyed it. A bit long-winded in places but its a great story.

Apparently being made into a film with Jonny Depp, who sounds like the worst actor they could have cast in the role.

I might be wrong but I think he actually co-bought/bought the story, so no surprise he's cast himself.

 

[shane]

I might be wrong but I think he actually co-bought/bought the story, so no surprise he's cast himself.

Yeah I think I read the same. Theres now been some sort of problem, hes pulled out and Joel Eggerton is the one being discussed. Makes a bit more sense though I reckon it would have been better turned into a one off series rather than a film.

 

[mistermagic]

RIP Terry Pratchett.

 

[Meadow]

RIP Terry Pratchett.

Indeed. Tonight I'll pick one of his books off the shelf and re-read it for the umpteenth time.

 

[Greenacres]

Just finished Shantaram and really enjoyed it. A bit long-winded in places but its a great story.

Apparently being made into a film with Jonny Depp, who sounds like the worst actor they could have cast in the role.

I loved it too, great book, could easily have read the same amount again. Fortunately there is a follow up book coming out soon, at least according to an e-mail I received from Waterstones, it is called "The mountain shadow". I'm not sure when it will come out, but I will definitely get myself a copy. As for the film, glad to hear that it is being made. I think there were plans to shoot it a few years ago, but that had to be put on hold when the strikes it in Hollywood. Hopefully the film will be as good as the book.

 

[mowgli]

The Leopard Sword by Anthony Riches. This is the 4th book in his Empire series about The Roman army on Hadrian's wall and his best yet i can hardly put it down, have the next 3 to read after this and there's another coming out soon.

 

[Murphy]

Not a book of fiction at all, but David Goldblatt's The Game of Our Lives is brilliant if you're interested in how football has changed/developed in the past 20 or 30 years and slightly beyond in this country. Really is extremely interesting and fascinating stuff, very up to date as well as it was only released 5 months or so ago.

Elsewhere, read Lolita the other month for the first time as well and thought it was very 'good', if that's the right term to use for it.

 

[SUTSS]

Goldblatt's The Ball is Round is the best football book I've read. Has a real knack of bringing the social history of the game alive.

 

[Pagnell]

Just finished reading The Mechanical by Ian Tregillis. A fantastic book, much like the books of his first trilogy, The Milkweed Triptych.

9/10

Highly recommended.

 

[mnb089mnb]

Just finished reading The Mechanical by Ian Tregillis. A fantastic book, much like the books of his first trilogy, The Milkweed Triptych.

Genuinely unsure which accounts on here are parodies.

 

[lordofthepies]

The Accidental by Ali Smith. Not sure yet if the book itself is really annoying or if she's very good at writing really annoying characters.

 

[smat]

The Accidental by Ali Smith. Not sure yet if the book itself is really annoying or if she's very good at writing really annoying characters.

HATED THAT SHIT

Shut it down, pies.

 

[lordofthepies]

I will not abandon a book halfway through. Especially if it's a quite short one.

I think I'm quite likely to come to the same conclusion though.

 

[lordofthepies]

Yeah, I didn't like it much.

I started World War Z several minutes ago. This should be more fun.

 

[Techno Natch]

It's a good book a d qyite easy to read. I should read it again at some point.

I'm about 150 pages in the "Last Argument of Kings" it's all gone a bit like game of thrones so far this book. Still good though.

 

[Oaf]

Last Argument of Kings is a great end to a very good trilogy. Feels absolutely like the right way for the story to end.

 

[silkyman]

Just finishing the latest Robert Rankin and have just bought Look Who's Back, but I think that will have to wait while I revisit the Discworld for a while.

 

[shane]

About to read High Rise by Ballard.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

Good choice Shane. Saw the other day that Ben Wheatley is directing an adaptation of it, which piqued my interest.

 

[Christian Slater]

Fatherland by Robert Harris.

Just finished Latitude Zero, which was excellent.

 

[shane]

Good choice Shane. Saw the other day that Ben Wheatley is directing an adaptation of it, which piqued my interest.

Thats what got me on to it as well. Tom Huddleston to star apparently.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

That was the plan but he picked up 2 yellers against Leicester and is suspended, so I'm guessing probs be David Meyler instead now?

 

[shane]

I've realised my error and not taken your joke well regardless.

 

[Techno Natch]

I just finished The First Law Trilogy. I throughly enjoyed it.

Spoiler

What a c*** Bayaz turned out to be. No happy endings here and it left me feeling a bit disheartened when I finished it.

I think I slightly preferred the second book but all three were good.

I see he released three more books in that world:

Best Served Cold (2009)
The Heroes (2011)
Red Country (2012)

Are they worth getting? It will be a while before I read any of them as I fancy a change now, Robert Enkes book is next for me.

 

[Ginola14]

That Robert Enkes book is a really good read. Very sad but very enlightening.

 

[mowgli]

Waylander by David Gemmell. My favourite fantasy writer and this is one of his early books from 1986, fast paced and hard to put down.

 

[Veggie Legs]

Finished Railsea by China Mieville the other day. Apparently it draws a lot from Moby Dick, although I haven't read that so I couldn't say how close the parallels are. Anyway, I enjoyed it, maybe not as much as some of his other work, but it features the usual imaginative world building and weirdness that Mieville is best at.

Now started The Steep Approach To Garbadale by Iain Banks, I'm expecting it to be as good as his other books that I've read.