CosmicFuzz wrote:OMG it really is! Loved it. So compelling. Now, what to read next? |
The 'Read 52 Books in 2015 Challenge' Thread • Page 4
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faux-C 11,204 posts
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JoelStinty 9,530 posts
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Registered 8 years agoWell book one is down. A delicate truth by John le carre. I might start from the beginning with his work thinking about it. Enjoyed it. Took me a while to get into it but it eventually got it hooks into me.
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Book One Down
Stephen Kings Revival. It was o.k. Very Lovecraftian story but pretty hard to recommend. If anyone wants to read it I'm happy to pass it on via the thread.
On to Embassytown by China Mielville now. -
Week 2
Week 2 begins. So far I've read 4 books and will finish at 5th either today or tomorrow. Then I'll move on to the more challenging reads. Might be off work today because of the stormy weather so may even get more reading done. -
CosmicFuzz 32,632 posts
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Registered 15 years agoWeek one is over!
I finished Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut yesterday. Really did not like it by the end. I loved Slaughterhouse Five, and for the first half of Cat's Cradle I kept wondering when it was going to pick up, then realised it wasn't. It's about a scientist who creates ice-nine, a compound that turns water to ice at room temperature. It's dangerous though, as it would freeze oceans etc if used improperly. A writer tries to learn more about it.
Only that's just the set up. The meat of the story is the writer on a tropical island. Nothing really happens, which is fine, only I didn't get on with Vonnegut's writing style this time. He does great vague, meandering chapters that can be very funny, but here I was just largely bored. I wanted to know more about the ice-nine plot I guess, rather than learn about an island culture.
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CosmicFuzz 32,632 posts
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Registered 15 years agoOh! Also finished Horns the week by Joe Hill, so I'm at two. -
GuiltySpark 6,790 posts
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Registered 17 years agoIf anyone's looking for a short horror/sci novel with gut punches ahoy, then if you haven't already, read I Am Legend. -
jonharrispro 563 posts
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Registered 12 years agozoolophage wrote:
What have you done! Im going to have to join this now. DAMN YOU! If im honest I have set myself a target of 10 books on Goodreads and will be chuffed if I can get that far. Unfortunatley I've set myself a poor starting book with Steven Hawkings' A Brief History of Time'!
Week 2
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I really should finish Proust. Can I do one book in the year?
It's just so... long...
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Dgzter 3,736 posts
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Registered 12 years agoRedSparrows wrote:
Remembrance of Things Past? Yeah good luck with that
I really should finish Proust. Can I do one book in the year?
It's just so... long....gif)
book 1 killed me a few years back - fantastic mind.
Think I've made a school-boy error in my early-year choices: dual-wielding Don DeLillo's Underworld and Philip Pullman's edition (really an intro and minor commentary) of Paradise Lost.
Fun times
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@RedSparrows No you have to finish it in under an hour according to Leolians_brother.
I'm onto my second novel, and it's a proper adult book too(I think?). High-rise, J G Ballard. Quite good, too. It's still not 2 thousand pages long though.
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jonharrispro wrote:
Just try to enjoy reading more regularly so that it becomes a habit, if you want to, of course. Two of the books I've read were very short (a novella and a book of poetry) so it's not very impressive really.
zoolophage wrote:
What have you done! Im going to have to join this now. DAMN YOU! If im honest I have set myself a target of 10 books on Goodreads and will be chuffed if I can get that far. Unfortunatley I've set myself a poor starting book with Steven Hawkings' A Brief History of Time'!
Week 2
Week 2 begins. So far I've read 4 books and will finish at 5th either today or tomorrow. Then I'll move on to the more challenging reads. Might be off work today because of the stormy weather so may even get more reading done. -
Wacko_AK 212 posts
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Registered 14 years ago1 Book for me on week 1:
Saints of the Shadow Bible by Ian Rankin
I'm not a fanboy of the Rebus series but I always enjoy it, it just happened to be in my local library so took a punt on it.
It's as well written as ever but I sometimes wonder if you get more out of it if you know Edinburgh (I worked there for a few years so know it well enough).
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Registered 18 years agoI read The Drop by Michael Connelly. Standard fayre really, decent pace and plot, enjoyable if that's what you like (as I do) but ain't going to win many awards other than crime fiction. I did pick up the next in the series though, so it did something right (and since binning paper books from the library I'm well behind with my favourite authors). -
CharlieStCloud 5,812 posts
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Registered 11 years agoFinished this book the other day:
The Narcissism Epidemic
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JuanKerr 37,710 posts
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Registered 15 years agoLeoliansBro wrote:
Oooo, thanks for the reminder - I've got these sitting on my bookshelf. Need to read them this year.
Foundation trilogy. Asimov being dry, so that later when he turns interesting it seems all the better. Three whole books as well.
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CharlieStCloud 5,812 posts
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Registered 11 years ago@LeoliansBro
I was only jesting with you, hence the exclamation mark!
As for books, I am halfway through The Martian given that it is a surprisingly popular choice on here. I like it however, a part of me thinks the journey would be more interesting if it was just about one man on Mars without any contact from Earth and where I am up to, it is hard to see it not being a predictable ending.
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CosmicFuzz 32,632 posts
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Registered 15 years agoLeoliansBro wrote:
Really? I enjoyed it quite a bit! Have you read any other Joe Hill?
CosmicFuzz wrote:
What did you think? I couldn't stand it .
Oh! Also finished Horns the week by Joe Hill, so I'm at two. -
faux-C 11,204 posts
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Registered 17 years agoCharlieStCloud wrote:
I was disappointed when the Earth bits started appearing but by the end I found they added to the tension and I was glad they were there.
@LeoliansBro
I was only jesting with you, hence the exclamation mark!
As for books, I am halfway through The Martian given that it is a surprisingly popular choice on here. I like it however, a part of me thinks the journey would be more interesting if it was just about one man on Mars without any contact from Earth and where I am up to, it is hard to see it not being a predictable ending.
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Fuck it, I'm gonna finish Down and Out in Paris and London by the end of the weekend. Then it's on to a book I got from t'interwebs, should have arrived by then, then I'm gonna cream my way through the Magic Mountain. I need to finish that too, it's bloody brilliant and deserves my time.
/getspumpedforreadingbooyah
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book 1 killed me a few years back - fantastic mind.Sometimes posts may contain links to online retail stores. If you click on one and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. For more information, go here.
