[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[Marshy]

Finders Keepers - Stephen King

The man knows how to write.

 

[studio150]

Lost Soldiers - James Webb

 

[Icy Gull]

Presumed Innocent by Scott Thurow. Slow starter but very well written and gathers pace well

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

 

[northstandsteve]

Tom Bale, crime writer and local guy, Terrors Reach and before that Skin and Bones. Both highly recommended.

 

[Beach Hut]

William Boyd - A Good Man In Africa

 

[Doonhamer7]

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think By Hans Rosling - a must read for anyone in a position of influence, power in government or private industry

 

[Lurchy]

Edge: Leadership Secrets from Footballs’s Top Thinkers by Ben Lyttleton.

Finding the bits in there about Potters time at Ostersunds really interesting.

 

[Jolly Red Giant]

'Limerick Soviet 1919: The Revolt of the Bottom Dog' by Dominic Haugh (I read history books).

 

[wunt be druv]

The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli.

 

[Mr Cleansheets]

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Read Pillars of the Earth years ago - can't believe I only just got round to this. Epic.

I honestly could not understand the fuss over POTE. Started well but was way too long, repetitive and VERY predictable. I am just amazed it is so popular.

Then again, people keep reading the crap that Dan Brown has been pumping out since The Da Vinci Code, so why should I be amazed?

 

[cardboard]

Our House - Louise Candlish

Lots of twists. Good read.

 

[GOM]

I honestly could not understand the fuss over POTE. Started well but was way too long, repetitive and VERY predictable. I am just amazed it is so popular.

Then again, people keep reading the crap that Dan Brown has been pumping out since The Da Vinci Code, so why should I be amazed?

Very popular crap though. One man's crap etc....

 

[ATFC Seagull]

I honestly could not understand the fuss over POTE. Started well but was way too long, repetitive and VERY predictable. I am just amazed it is so popular.

Then again, people keep reading the crap that Dan Brown has been pumping out since The Da Vinci Code, so why should I be amazed?

I've not read any of the Dan Brown books but surprised you'd put POTE and its sequels in the same category. Not sure what you mean by predictable, it isn't designed to have massive plot twists or anything of the like. I think he does a great job of recreating the time and place in particular. Each to their own.

 

[Mr Cleansheets]

I've not read any of the Dan Brown books but surprised you'd put POTE and its sequels in the same category. Not sure what you mean by predictable, it isn't designed to have massive plot twists or anything of the like. I think he does a great job of recreating the time and place in particular. Each to their own.

Predictable in that he set up the same problem and resolution to that problem multiple times. How many convenient fires were there?

As I said, I really liked the set up and atmos - if he'd shortened the book by about 150 pages I'd probably remember it a lot more fondly. In truth I wasn't comparing POTE with Dan Brown's post Da Vinci drivel (especially Inferno, my god what rubbish) but more the popular phenomenon.

This is what I thought of Inferno https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1087231296

 

[Norman Potting]

Just about to start reading the Eddie Izzard bio. "Believe me".

 

[ATFC Seagull]

Predictable in that he set up the same problem and resolution to that problem multiple times. How many convenient fires were there?

As I said, I really liked the set up and atmos - if he'd shortened the book by about 150 pages I'd probably remember it a lot more fondly. In truth I wasn't comparing POTE with Dan Brown's post Da Vinci drivel (especially Inferno, my god what rubbish) but more the popular phenomenon.

This is what I thought of Inferno https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1087231296

I was completely unaware that there was any sort of comparable hype between Pillars of the Earth and the Dan Brown books. But then, that might be because I was 4 when Pillars of the Earth was published!

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Just finished Black Summer by MW Craven. I smell a TV mini series on its way....

 

[Goldstone1976]

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Very interesting and educating, nice listen (audiobook).

One of the handful of wines that can lay claim to being the greatest wine of the 20th Century.