The Modfather
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[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?
- Thread starter Lady Buck
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Yeah, but with the way SASTA is she may be waiting a long time for a train to throw herself under; so he may have a chance
Keira Knightly did look good on the film poster ....
DumLum
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Do you not sit on the toilet? Averaged about 5 books a year while dropping the kids off at the pool.
Don Quixote
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- Nov 4, 2008
- 8,362
Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks
Honestly mate it doesn't pay off.
I feel like I have to stick it out until the whale turns up at least
Bombadier Botty
Complete Twaddle
- Jun 2, 2008
- 3,258
Too many bad reviews put me off ever wanting to bother with it.
BrightonCottager
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How can you spend less than 1p on a book?
Anyway, I just finished the brilliant 'A brief history of seven killings'.
Ah well the the whale is there the whole time
Yes sorry for being negative - I always like to see it through once started too.life is too short for badly reviewed anything is my philosophy.
Bombadier Botty
Complete Twaddle
- Jun 2, 2008
- 3,258
All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr. Pretty darn peachy so far, great writing.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
Just finished reading the Man Booker International Prize winner 2016. The Vegetarian by Han Kang.
A short-ish novel that starts simply enough. A Korean housewife who has a dream and through that decides to stop eating meat. The book then gets quite dark very quickly. Mental illness, social mores breaking down in a ritual-heavy culture like South Korea, sexual abuse of the mentally ill - it's all there.
The first Korean novel I've ever read and I wonder if they're all this intense. Having seen a fair few Korean films I think it might be true. For all the subject matter it's very well translated so is a quick read, difficult to feel affinity with any of the main protagonists but some of the concepts introduced are very novel and thought-provoking.
Highly recommended and deals with self-harming much better than the grief lit that was short-listed for the main Man Booker Prize last year.
A short-ish novel that starts simply enough. A Korean housewife who has a dream and through that decides to stop eating meat. The book then gets quite dark very quickly. Mental illness, social mores breaking down in a ritual-heavy culture like South Korea, sexual abuse of the mentally ill - it's all there.
The first Korean novel I've ever read and I wonder if they're all this intense. Having seen a fair few Korean films I think it might be true. For all the subject matter it's very well translated so is a quick read, difficult to feel affinity with any of the main protagonists but some of the concepts introduced are very novel and thought-provoking.
Highly recommended and deals with self-harming much better than the grief lit that was short-listed for the main Man Booker Prize last year.
Algernon
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http://www.amazon.com/Aftermath-Flying-Magazine/dp/083064282X
Flying doesn't scare me. It's the crashing I'm not so keen on.
Flying doesn't scare me. It's the crashing I'm not so keen on.
Tom's Midnight Garden, by Philippa Pearce - have read it before, and have read it aloud to all my children - but still a brilliant book.
Ah, good book. My heart sinks when I see "International best seller" but I was impressed with this
I'm reading Joseph Roth's The Emperor's Tomb, thanks to the recommendation from [MENTION=24816]Guy Crouchback[/MENTION] (whatever happened to him?)
Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
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2/3 of the way through the much lauded The Handmaid's Tail by Margaret Atwood and quite underwhelmed so far.