What Book Are You Reading?

Not something I would pick on my own. Given to me by a friend.

Haim

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Originally posted by Haim Ronen:

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Originally posted by Diccus62:
Just finished this and again it's excellent. Synopsis supplied by Play.com (but much better than it sounds IMO)

I really liked his "Ice Cream War".

Haim

i'll have to try it, cheers

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Originally posted by munch:
Hi Haim, What did you think off Trinity?
Regards munch.

Hi Munch,

"Trinity" felt like "Eternity" laboring through its 800 pages.

The topic was very interesting since I know very little about Irish history. I did not like the writing of Leon Uris, especially the last fifty pages which seemed to be written in a big rush during a taxi ride to the publisher.

What did you think of it?

Regards,

Haim

What no one reading Harry Potter and the Writer Laughing All the Way to the Bank?

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Originally posted by BigH47:
What no one reading Harry Potter and the Writer Laughing All the Way to the Bank?

I'll put my hand up to this one ... picked up a copy at my local Tesco's just after midnight and finished around 9 o'clock this morning! I must remember to pop back down to Tesco's and see if I can get a life ...

Duncan

P.S. I thought it was excellent ... sorry!

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Originally posted by BigH47:
What no one reading Harry Potter and the Writer Laughing All the Way to the Bank?

My wife won one in Sainsbury's yesterday and promptly gave it to our oldest - Flipendo

Lindsey Davies - The Silver Pigs Book 1 in the Falco series

Salman Rushdie - Fury

Invisible man by Ralph Ellison(1952)

Ralph (Waldo) Ellison (1914-1994)


African-American writer, teacher, whose novel INVISIBLE MAN (1952) gained a wide critical success. Ellison has been compared to such writers as Melville and Hawthorne. He has used racial issues to express universal dilemmas of identity and self-discovery but avoided taking a straightforward political stand. "Literature is colorblind," he once said. Many artists of the Black Arts movement rejected Ellison for his insistence that America be a land of cultural exchange and synergy. Talented in many fields, Ellison also was an accomplished jazz trumpeter and a free-lance photographer.

"''I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." (from The Invisible Man, prologue

Steve - Glad to see that someone else likes Richard Brautigan. His are among some of the only books that I keep, as I usually get rid of a book as soon as I've finished it. Before Amazon I used to not be able to find his stuff over here and had a friend who would bring them over for me.
The photo on the cover of yours is the classic shot in front of the statue in Washington Square in San Fransico (opposite a great Italian restaurant I once went to).
Try Sombrero Fallout if you haven't already.

Bring The Noise by Simon Reynolds. 20 years of writing on hip rock and hip hop. Great reminder of what a good music writer he can be in comparison to the rest of the laziness out there.

Mike

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Originally posted by Rasher:
Steve - Glad to see that someone else likes Richard Brautigan. His are among some of the only books that I keep, as I usually get rid of a book as soon as I've finished it. Before Amazon I used to not be able to find his stuff over here and had a friend who would bring them over for me.
The photo on the cover of yours is the classic shot in front of the statue in Washington Square in San Fransico (opposite a great Italian restaurant I once went to).
Try Sombrero Fallout if you haven't already.

Rasher - I need to admit reading him at University many years ago as part of a modern American literature course. It has taken me a quarter of a century to prise open any of the books I read at that time again. But now I'm on a roll (still on the B's though!).

"The Tin Roof Blowdown" by James Lee Burke. The latest novel about Dave Robicheaux, Louisiana policeman and recovering alcoholic. I love this author's writing. His descriptive powers are extraordinary and his characters have real depth. This is set during Hurricane Katrina, and is very dark indeed.

I've been reading "The Adventures of Captain Underpants" with my son. We really like the Fart Humor. It's a gas!

I am afraid I failed with The God Delusion. Dawkins is writing for the ready converted atheists, and ultimately his mind is no less closed than the religious zealotes he is poking fun at. His arguements are largely reasoned, but he over eggs the case. It is possible to respect peoples' views even if one does not agree with them. The trick is to understand why they hold them, and then you begin to see that they may have a point, even if you still don't agree with it!!

That is called tollerance, of which there is not enough in the modern world...

Fredrik

Fredrik - I think the word Tolerance is so inadequate (negative/reluctant) in this sense, we should say Embrace .

Rasher wrote:

"Fredrik - I think the word Tolerance is so inadequate (negative/reluctant) in this sense, we should say Embrace."

Dear Rasher, I quite agree. Tollerance is a starting point alone! Fredrik

"A Suitable Boy" by Vicram Seth.

John Grisham - The Lincoln Lawyer

LOL John Grisham 'The Summons'

sheesh, sounds like a monday at my office. stick to robt. ludlum ....

I've just finished 'Kokoda' by Peter FitzSimons (about the Aussies v. Japanese on the Kokoda Trail in Papua)
and also finally got round to reading "High Fidelity' by Nick Hornby.

I'm just getting into 'The Naked and the Dead' by Norman Mailer. I never knew it was a war novel or I would have read it long ago!