It really surprised me how good it was.
It was beautifully written and painted a vivid picture of the era.
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The GOT Book Club
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It really surprised me how good it was.
It was beautifully written and painted a vivid picture of the era.
Just found this review of “To Kill A Mockingbird” on Goodreads:
I find this a lot with books that get lots of critical praise.
They often feel like they are meant for people who like to sit and stroke their chins in quiet contemplation after finishing to ponder the 'real' meaning of the story lol
That's why I asked about 'Piranesi' earlier in the thread. The plot sounds great, but the amount of literary awards it's won is ringing my pretentious alarm bells.
From 2 minutes onwards. Nail on head
100% this. Another one to avoid is The Bee Sting, 700 pages of pretentious crap imo, up for awards also,shockingly bad.
I'm getting predictable
Another Slow Horses epic. Loved it.
Little tale on my next book.
My mother bought me " the accidentally footballer " Pat Nevin autobiography bought about two years ago.
She lost it in the house and on our weekly phone call she always mentioned not being able to find it.
She passed last autumn and during the house clearance the book was located and posted to me over Xmas.
So it's my next read, it better be good!.
Yeah, I’ve heard a few people say less than favourable things about that one.
I’ll leave it for the type of people who pretend they have finished Finnegans Wake and will argue it’s anything other than James Joyce trolling anyone who tries to read it
On the flip side, I’ve actually ordered a copy of ‘Piranesi’ as I’ve heard enough people saying it’s quite good in an ethereal, liminal sort of way, which sounds like my thing. Besides, I think it’s only like 200 pages, so not too hefty.
About 300 pages into this one which is the first book in Robert Caro’s planned five-volume biography of LBJ (he’s still writing the fifth volume). It’s been his life’s work over the past forty years. Meticulously researched and really gets into what fueled LBJ and what an odd person he was.
50p in the local charity shop. Don’t think it’s ever been read judging by the condition.
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Got that lined up on the bedside table. Trying to get back into reading regularly, used to set a rule that I'd read 2 modern fiction followed by a 'classic '.
50p in the local charity shop. Don’t think it’s ever been read judging by the condition.
It worked well, read the likes of old man and the sea, great gatsby, far from the madding crowd.... came unstuck when I tried to read Ulysses, James Joyce, quit about 50 pages in.
Gone back to reading stephen king, reacher series, harlen coben etc now, much less taxing!
Yeah, I've got a stack to get through myself, so not sure where in the backlog this will come.
I've upped the amount I want to read recently, as it's best way to keep myself from wasting my lunchbreaks on social media.
I've added a mix of 'classics' and more challenging reads in there between regular novels. Going through Foucaults Pendulum by Umberto Eco atm which is fairly dense, add 1984 to that and I recently picked up a copy of Gravitys Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon as my big challenge for the year.
Also have Jurassic Park on the list as well for the contrast
As for Joyce, I've mentioned him earlier in the thread. I had a peruse of Finnegans Wake in the library a few years ago and took like half an hour to get 3 pages in before returning it to the shelf. I'm convinced (as were a fair few of his contemporaries) that it's some sort of wind-up.
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I'm glad u said that as I thought I was half intelligent until I tried ulysses!
Michael Crighton has done some absolutely outstanding books... believe it or not, the one about a talking gorilla (that got made into a crap film) was amazing. That and another one called Airframe, I think. Its about an issue on a US commercial plane. Sounds boring but it was quality.
I'm also a massive fan of the Harry Bosch crime series set in LA. Author is Michael Connelly.
There is also a series of crime books mixed with a supernatural element by a guy called John Connelly . Worth a try if that's your bag.
Game of thrones series... I'd seen the TV program first which normally spoils things but they were very good.
Conn Iggulden? Really enjoyed his stuff too for something a bit different
Cracking book this . Half way through. An unbelievable athlete with an amazing story outside athletics
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Fabulous book. How right wad he...
50p in the local charity shop. Don’t think it’s ever been read judging by the condition.
This is the book that the excellent series on Apple TV, Blackbird, was taken from.
Whilst serving his sentence, convicted drug dealer, Jimmy Keene, is persuaded by the FBI to befriend and try to get serial killer, Larry Hall, to open up to him about other murders he’s suspected of.
This book was much better than I thought it would be, well written and gripping.
Recommended if you like true crime or if you enjoyed Blackbird.
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I once heard some litsy scholar claim that Finnegans Wake was Joyce's revenge upon the English for trying to eradicate the Irish language. Pretty flimsy hypothesis but I like it.
One good thing about the book (which I've never read in full) is that regardless of what page you open it to, it'll make just as much sense as opening it to any other page. It also demands to be read aloud and seems to make a bit more sense when you hear it. I used to keep a copy in the bathroom. My housemates were probably wondering who I was talking to in there.
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Just finished Olga Tokarczuk's novel (and philosophical treatise) Flights, which was excellent if not as blew-my-hair-back outstanding as her doorstop of a historical novel, The Books of Jacob. The latter is probably the best novel I've read in the past five years. I read both in English translated from Polish.
Just started Solenoid, a surrealist novel by Mircea Cartarescu, in English translation from the original Romanian. So far so good.
Just started Solenoid, a surrealist novel by Mircea Cartarescu, in English translation from the original Romanian. So far so good.