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
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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.
GT49er
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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.