Ira Gaines Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 The Girl on the Train is fucking tremendous btw. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 So aye, into the final act now. The style is iffy, but it's a tremendous story. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 Just finished Chris Brookmyre's "Dead Girl Walking" featuring the return of Jack Parlabane. Liked the way it jumped from what Jack was up to then what was happening through the words of one of the girls. A book I didn't want to put down and a recommended read. Also notable for including the words cockwomble and fuckpuddle. If you like Chris Bookmyre's work this one won't disappoint. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WullieBroonIsGod Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Finally got round to reading Sex Lives of Siamese Twins. Basically Irvine Welsh having a mid life crisis on paper. Awful 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karpaty Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 I've never really been into books but currently reading Cocaine Diaries by Paul Keany. If anyone remembers Banged Up Abroad, there's an episode where a 45 year old Irish guy goes to smuggle 6 kilos of gear for 10 grand. He gets 8 years bird in Venezuela. I'm only half way through it but I'm engrossed. If anyone knows more stories/books like that I would love to get a look at them of them. As I say I couldn't tell you the last time I read a proper book but I'll have this one done by the end of the week. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locheedfcno1 Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Book called marching powder is really good. The jail is one mad place 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karpaty Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Yes this one says a lot about Los Teques. Lot of mental detail. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 The Girl on the Train has gotten off to a flyer. The pace isn't incredible, but there doesn't seem to be much waste either. The lead character in particular is brilliant. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 (edited) I'm reading Perfidia at the moment. I've loved the other three I've read - LA Confidential, White Jazz and The Black Dahlia - and this one's interesting in that it gives the background to many of the central characters in those books. However, it reads like he's just compiled his own notes into an epic novel. There's an awful lot of psycho-babble from Kay Lake which is incredibly hard to get through, and seriously tempting to skip. Think I might go for the audio book version, because reading it's a struggle. Also got American Tabloid at the same book shop raid, so I'll go on to that next. The sequel to American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand is a bit experimental. It's all written in very short sentences, usually 3 or 4 words, and had a few people criticizing it, even Ellroy said he wouldn't do it again. It's a bit like Irvine Welsh's dialogue, takes a chapter or so to tune in, but I think it's his best book. Edited August 23, 2015 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H_B Posted August 24, 2015 Author Share Posted August 24, 2015 The sequel to American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand is a bit experimental. It's all written in very short sentences, usually 3 or 4 words, and had a few people criticizing it, even Ellroy said he wouldn't do it again. It's a bit like Irvine Welsh's dialogue, takes a chapter or so to tune in, but I think it's his best book. I'm trying Finnegan's Wake, just to see if it's as terrible as I'd heard. It is. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 I'm trying Finnegan's Wake, just to see if it's as terrible as I'd heard. It is. I've never got past page one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WullieBroonIsGod Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 I picked up a Peter James book (Dead Man's Time) somewhere recently, and only just found it again when looking for something new to read. Really enjoyed it and am now looking at the series he has on the detective protagonist (Roy Grace) Worth a go for crime fans (whether the books get very formulaic like Jeffrey Deaver's I've still to find out) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H_B Posted August 24, 2015 Author Share Posted August 24, 2015 I've never got past page one. I read Portrait of an artist.... and was feeling in a Joycean mood. But I am coming round to the view that this was just an utter f**k you to the literary critics. No wonder his patron was raging with him when he produced this drivel. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 So Anyway by John Cleese, decent enough autobiography but disappointingtly it stops as the Pythons starts, then jumps 40 years for one chapter about last year's live shows. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bold Rover Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 I recently finished A Moveable Feast, a collection of memoirs of Ermest Hemingway. Now, I know we're all supposed to revere this great man, but I haven't really enjoyed nor admired any of the three or four of his books I've read. He was certainly a bit of a lad and got around a bit, in so many ways. But I'm Hemmed out and won't be giving him any more of my time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 I've never really been into books but currently reading Cocaine Diaries by Paul Keany. If anyone remembers Banged Up Abroad, there's an episode where a 45 year old Irish guy goes to smuggle 6 kilos of gear for 10 grand. He gets 8 years bird in Venezuela. I'm only half way through it but I'm engrossed. If anyone knows more stories/books like that I would love to get a look at them of them. As I say I couldn't tell you the last time I read a proper book but I'll have this one done by the end of the week. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 I'm trying Finnegan's Wake, just to see if it's as terrible as I'd heard. It is. Dubliners is stunning. A masterpiece. Finnegan's Wake is just unreadable. I want to try The Cold Six Thousand because I really liked American Tabloid. But for the sake of my soul, I'm going to read John Le Carre's A Delicate Truth. That's an absolute cracker, with proper syntax and everything. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattBairn Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Exoskeleton by Shane Stadler. A man convicted of rape is given the choice to take a sentence of 1 year in a new experimental sentence instead of a 25 year sentence. Mix of technology (Sci-fi ish), horror and mystery. I thought it was great. Read it only 2 or 3 sittings. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScotlandGer Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 The Spy who came in from the Cold - John Le Carre Wow, just wow. Quite why I've never read le Carre before now baffles me. Brilliant. Finished it in, more or less, one go when travelling on a long(ish) train journey. Absolutely hooked. I'd seen the recent film of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and thought it was brilliant, but I'm not entirely sure I really understood what happened (I think some double-crossing was involved, like spies n' stuff) but knew it was based on le Carre's novel. I had been stuck for something to read so ducked into a Waterstone's and was about to pick up Tinker, Tailor when I spotted a 'staff recommendation' tag which said to start with Spy in from the Cold for le Carre novels. Not only is it a cracking read, but it sets up the character of Smiley for Tinker, Tailor. So, I'd second this recommendation. I've now picked up Tinker, Tailor and I'm a few chapters in (and it confirms my first thoughts, that it's definitely all about double-crossing by spies n' stuff, I think). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrooge1928 Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 There are two Smiley books before The Spy Who Came In From The Cold - Call For The Dead, about a security vetting which went wrong, and A Murder Of Quality, about a death in a public school. Both excellent, although they don't have the bone-dry humour that runs through the Tinker Tailor trilogy. I agree the recent Tinker Tailor film was good, but the Alec Guinness tv series was outstanding. All the episodes are on YouTube. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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