Richey Edwards Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 2 hours ago, JamesP_81 said: Just finished Klara and the Sun. I know that over the next few days I'll have all sorts of hidden meanings unravel in my head about the story . I see there's a film of it planned for release later in the year , interested to see how that portrays it. I finished that a couple of days ago. I thought it was excellent. I have started reading Slow Horses. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murphy1970 Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 The Fisherman - John Langan Horror novels are coming back into fashion and this is an excellent read. There’s an emotional depth to it that makes you care deeply for the protagonists and the scary bits work. Shades of Lovecraft, essentially in the setting and one character, with nods here and there to Moby Dick too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 8 hours ago, Richey Edwards said: I finished that a couple of days ago. I thought it was excellent. I have started reading Slow Horses. Been watching the TV show. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 15 hours ago, scottsdad said: Been watching the TV show. Been putting money on them 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murphy1970 Posted July 13 Share Posted July 13 Can’t really recommend this enough. Having grown up in Ayrshire in the 70s it really resonated with me. Niven perfectly captures it. It’s autobiographical, but not an autobiography, as it’s as much about his younger brother and their fractious relationship as it is about himself. Hits all the right notes. Funny when needed whilst the subject matter, coping with suicide in the family, is as bleak as can be 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quentin Prankett Posted July 16 Share Posted July 16 Only a Factory Girl by Rosie. M. Banks. Fairly light reading but a pleasant enough story. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH33 Posted July 16 Share Posted July 16 Matthew Perry's autobiography. I've the last chapter to go bit I've given up. It's shit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted July 16 Share Posted July 16 10 hours ago, Quentin Prankett said: Only a Factory Girl by Rosie. M. Banks. Fairly light reading but a pleasant enough story. You should try The Courtship of Lord Strathmorlick by the same author. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig fae the Vale Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 My book club decided to do a Smut Month for some reason, so I've been reading Icebreaker by Hannah Grace. The sex scenes are truly horrendous, but the book itself is actually quite good fun, with engaging characters. Found myself quite enjoying it as a whole. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Accent-Unknown Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 Currently trying to get through Alan Moore's mammoth novel Jerusalem. 1293 pages. 10 chapters in, at least 5 different time periods and 10 different main characters. I think I'm enjoying it but also baffled at where this is actually going. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Accent-Unknown Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 (edited) On 11/07/2024 at 13:17, Richey Edwards said: I finished that a couple of days ago. I thought it was excellent. I have started reading Slow Horses. Did you finish Slow Horses? what did you think? I liked it but also had no interest in reading the sequels because I don't see how the premise works beyond the first novel. Edited July 22 by Accent-Unknown 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Count Mongo del Fantastico Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis. A novel written in 1935 during the rise of fascism across Europe about how it could also quite easily happen in the USA. Novels written in 1935 should not really still feel relevant, but here we are. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 On 16/07/2024 at 21:22, RH33 said: Matthew Perry's autobiography. I've the last chapter to go bit I've given up. It's shit. I know what happens. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 5 hours ago, Accent-Unknown said: Did you finish Slow Horses? what did you think? I liked it but also had no interest in reading the sequels because I don't see how the premise works beyond the first novel. I did finish the first book and enjoyed it, and started the second book in the series. However, it is starting to get stale now tbh. The premise has limited mileage. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ya Bezzer! Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 (edited) 'On The Marble Cliffs' by Ernest Junger. Yes, the Ernest Junger who wrote the famous WW1 novel 'Storm of Steel'. First of all Ernest Junger is a very interesting character. An extreme right wing bigot who hated the Nazi's because they weren't aristocratic enough, cultured enough, or intellectually coherent enough. Fair to say he was a pretty difficult fellow to pin down and one who was one of life's ultimate contrarians. As regards the novel, it reads like one third Teutonic fairy tale, one third Greek myth and one third David Lynch fever dream. It's high brow, sophisticated, cultured, written in beautiful lyrical prose and one of the most violent books I've ever read. The story concerns a romanticised Mediterranean world, a sort of idyllic Aeolian paradise, which comes to be threatened by evil forces from the North marshalled by the heinous Head Forrester (read Hitler). Short and great and therefore recommended (if you like that sort of thing). Edited July 22 by Ya Bezzer! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 Working my way through the new Irvine Welsh crime series book and Ray Lennox is in a relationship with a very open minded lady who is a concrete scientist. @Melanius Mullarkey She sounds quite the catch. Irvine been lurking on P&B IMO. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 2 hours ago, Shandon Par said: Working my way through the new Irvine Welsh crime series book and Ray Lennox is in a relationship with a very open minded lady who is a concrete scientist. @Melanius Mullarkey She sounds quite the catch. Irvine been lurking on P&B IMO. Hang on, she’s not also addicted to fags is she? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 On 23/07/2024 at 23:23, Melanius Mullarkey said: Hang on, she’s not also addicted to fags is she? Turns out her business partner/investor is also into concrete and has an abandoned concrete factory. This is the lair in which he carries out all his heinous sex crimes and murders. Definitive proof that Welsh reads P&B and has you marked as one for the watching. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 Just finished The Dark Forest, the 2nd book of The 3 Body Problem series. Genuinely one of the most thrilling, and best story written books I've ever read. Absolutely brilliant, it the next is anywhere near as good I'll be ecstatic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonnieMurdo Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 All Quiet on the Western Front 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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