[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Just finished 'The Ruins' that I picked up at BHF shop in London Road for £1.50. Heart sort of sank when I realised it was by Haywards Heath guy Mat Osman, bass player with Suede. To be fair, there's some small patches of decent writing in there. But mostly not.

Just about to embark on revisiting this cheap local cash-in after many a year. Quite looking forward to it actually

Will report back

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As promised, just reporting back on GULLHANGER. Sad to say it's aged about as well as 20 year old milk. It's still as trite and shite, annoying and cloying as it was in 2002. All the Falmer For All players of the time get a name-check and it is a sort of half-arsed semi-record of the Double Championes season written by a guy who clearly just started following the Albion so he could whip it up into some kind of book deal. Had to bail out after a couple of dozen pages. It's a Poundshop Fever Pitch and - unless anyone wants it (let us know soonest) - my copy will be going on a long overdue trip to landfill next binday

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

Not 'a reader' really, but if I hear about a book that sounds like it has a wow factor I'll give it a go...

Sorry if fixtures but "Piranesi" by Susanna Clarke is brilliant...

Evokes images that could be musically John Foxx or cinematically Last Year at Marienbad

 

[amexer]

Agent Sonya Ben Macintyre What a life these spies led

 

[AstroSloth]

Just started reading Dune by Frank Herbert.

Watched the movie last year and thought it was really good but only just got around to picking up the books.

 

[Don Quixote]

Dissolution - CJ Sansom

 

[Braggfan]

Just started reading Dune by Frank Herbert.

Watched the movie last year and thought it was really good but only just got around to picking up the books.

I love Dune, and would recommend it to anyone who's a sci fi fan.

I'd also recommend Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy, which is another epic sci fi tale.

Anyone looking for a shorter sci fi tale, I would recommend Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, which was one of the best things I read last year.

 

[The Clamp]

One of my favourite writers. This one doesn’t disappoint.

 

[slartibartfast]

I love Dune, and would recommend it to anyone who's a sci fi fan.

I'd also recommend Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy, which is another epic sci fi tale.

Anyone looking for a shorter sci fi tale, I would recommend Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, which was one of the best things I read last year.

Have you read Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time? Very good, - Ive recently finished the second in the trilogy now too.....

 

[Braggfan]

Have you read Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time? Very good, - Ive recently finished the second in the trilogy now too.....

'Children of Time' was the last book I read actually and it was excellent. I thoroughly enjoyed that. He's a very clever and elegant writer. You should definitely check out Elder Race if you like his writing.

I do plan to read the rest of the Children of Time series, but I'm currently reading Becky Chambers 'A closed and common orbit', the second in her Wayfarer series. I think I'll alternate between the two trilogy's until I finish them both.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Just finished The Gallows Pole. Amazing book. 10/10

 

[Barry Izbak]

Sigma protocol. Robert Ludlum.
Found it in a charity shop.
20 years old but fantastic

 

[Beach Hut]

India's Unending Journey - Mark Tully

 

[Don Quixote]

Fingersmith - Sarah Waters

 

[Beach Hut]

The Rhine - Ben Coates

 

[Thunder Bolt]

As promised, just reporting back on GULLHANGER. Sad to say it's aged about as well as 20 year old milk. It's still as trite and shite, annoying and cloying as it was in 2002. All the Falmer For All players of the time get a name-check and it is a sort of half-arsed semi-record of the Double Championes season written by a guy who clearly just started following the Albion so he could whip it up into some kind of book deal. Had to bail out after a couple of dozen pages. It's a Poundshop Fever Pitch and - unless anyone wants it (let us know soonest) - my copy will be going on a long overdue trip to landfill next binday

Books are paper so should be recycled or donated to a charity shop.

 

[GingerBeerMan]

Interesting, I’ve still to read a good 300 pages of the good stuff then. So many new characters are introduced I feel like I need to remember them as no doubt some will become pivotal..

A TV series of the book has been released on Amazon. I've only seen the first episode, wasn't blown away but it would have to go some to match the book.

 

[BrightonCottager]

Rebirding by Benedict Macdonald, winner of the 2020 Wainwright prize for nature writing. Bring back the eagle owls. I'm also always reading a Portuguese language guide / instruction manual in a desperate attempt to learn it.

 

[Beach Hut]

Red Dust (A Path Through China) - Ma Jian

 

[Beach Hut]

Dispatches From Pluto - Richard Grant

 

[Slum_Wolf]

Butler to the World - Oliver Bullough