KnightswoodBear Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Right, a challenge for the P&B literati. I'm off to Spain for a week of lounging by the pool and generally doing f**k all before parenthood destroys changes my life forever. I'm looking for suggestions to put on my kindle for the week. I'll download the first 4 or 5 suggestions and take them with me. (Assuming I get any) Over to you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T_S_A_R Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 ernest hemingway - The Sun Also Rises 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 The divine comedy by Dante He'll was really good, purgatory was interesting, gave up on paradise 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bold Rover Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Right, a challenge for the P&B literati. I'm off to Spain for a week of lounging by the pool and generally doing f**k all before parenthood destroys changes my life forever. I'm looking for suggestions to put on my kindle for the week. I'll download the first 4 or 5 suggestions and take them with me. (Assuming I get any) Over to you. Free or nearly-free to kindle: Dickens' novels - I'm presently working my way through David copperfield - it's wonderful, but taking me ages. (You know, I read that flaming book when I was at primary school.) Also - Mark Twain - can't go wrong - clever and funny. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkfish Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Arthur C Clarke - The City and the Stars. A hopeful one about the human spirit: should console you that species you're contributing to may have a positive future! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightswoodBear Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Cheers guys. That's me sorted. And I've got the Alan Partridge audiobook for the plane 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcor Roar Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 Now reading 'If On A Winter's Night A Traveller' by Italo Calvino, too early to qualitatively rate it, "meta" though. I read this a couple of months ago. It's good but bizarre. I picked it up without knowing what it was about. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthAyrshireKillie Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 I've just finished Stephen Kings book about JFK. Really enjoyed it a have to say! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 Mysteries by Knut Hamsun. Norwegian modernist writer (who predates what we consider literary modernism) who ended up supporting Hitler. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeeperDee Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, tremendous book. Sent from my GT-I9505 using Pie & Bovril mobile app -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunning1874 Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 Restarting the Song of Ice and Fire series, to contain my sadness at the next book not being anywhere near coming out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 Nixon and Kissinger by Robert Dalek. Nothing to do with Dr. Who and everything to do with Dr Kissinger. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa Cuddy Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 Two books by Dani Amore, Death By Sarcasm and Murder With Sarcastic Intent. The titles hooked me. They sounded like they'd be clever, satirical and sarcastic. They weren't. This is not sophisticated humour really. Not entirely unenjoyable, very easy to read, I finished each book within a few hours. I'd imagine that, generally, women would enjoy these far more than men would (the protagonist is a 'ballsy' female PI), but it wasn't dry or sarcastic enough for me. The main character is supposed to have a knack for the witty, biting put-down but I think I could do it better. If you want to lose a few hours in an easy reading, cheap-on-the-Kindle story, go for it. If you want clever storytelling in the vein of Hiaasen, don't bother, you'll end up disappointed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mighty meadow Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 Read another 2 Gordon Ferris novels. The Hanging Shed - I didn't realise Bitter Water was the follow-up to this so I've read them in the wrong order which spoiled it slightly but still a great read with the author's description of post war Glasgow again being the high point. (7.5) Truth Dare Kill - Set in London this time which was a bit of a let down. Not quite as good as the previous 2 I've read but still worth a read. (6.5) Also read Chamber Music by Tom Benn, set in gangland Manchester, ok in bits but overall not for me. (3) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkfish Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 We Others - Steven Millhauser. One of the best collections of short stories I've read. A kind of mix of Ray Bradbury and someone like John Cheever. Excellent. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkfish Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 Nixon and Kissinger by Robert Dalek. Nothing to do with Dr. Who and everything to do with Dr Kissinger. Any good? His Lyndon Johnson book is very interesting. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 Supergods by Grant Morrison, which is a lot more fun than The Art Of War and Mysteries. Morrison mixes his memoirs of writing comics with the history of the field, in a manner that would be reminiscent of Stephen King's Danse Macabre and On Writing if Morrison was a whining little tosspot with nothing of interest to say about either. He's not, though, so it's proving a fun read, even if he is being far too polite about Alan Moore and his work given some of the crap Moore's been spouting about him lately. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcor Roar Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 Mysteries by Knut Hamsun. Norwegian modernist writer (who predates what we consider literary modernism) who ended up supporting Hitler. Hunger is a good one. Total nut job. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundermonkey Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 Finally got round to picking up The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Excellent. I'm reading Huckleberry Finn before going back to the Millennium trilogy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mighty meadow Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 Anybody read the 'Odd Thomas' books by Dean Koontz? Picked up the 1st one in the library the other day. Halfway through and pretty much enjoying it but wondering if he can keep up the standard with the rest of the series. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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