What are you reading at the moment?
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posted at 25/9/2004 1:34 PM BST
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Total posts: 227330
First post: 2/3/2003 Last post: 14/4/2009 |
I just about managed to finish the one from Marie Claire, but it was tough going, and very predictable I thought, the only way I could finish it was to speed read through a lot of the paragraphs. inca.x. |
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posted at 26/9/2004 1:09 PM BST
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Total posts: 8421
First post: 21/7/2003 Last post: 29/5/2009 |
Finished 'After you'd gone' (loved it) on Friday, and started Lorelei's Secret (probably love it more!)... Both books were recommended by Poppy (the bagger, not my cat!)
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posted at 29/9/2004 12:37 PM BST
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Total posts: 1451
First post: 4/4/2003 Last post: 13/3/2008 |
Just finished Da Vinci Code - thought it was a good story but agree with everyone that terribly written. Was diverting though and I got through it at a cracking pace :D Just started "The Mitford Girls" Biography by Mary Lovell - I have wanted to read this for sometime as I want some background on them before I read Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh's Letter (which I have got) and her fiction. |
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posted at 2/10/2004 7:51 PM BST
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Total posts: 346
First post: 9/1/2004 Last post: 17/2/2005 |
Ooh, I really wanted to read those Waugh - Mitford letters too. Not quite in the mood for that sort of book at the mo, but would be great to know what you think of them. Noticed there are a few Mitford biogs about, wasn't sure which one to go for. Have you read Jessica's Hons and Rebels? Found it a fairly easy read, interesting change from eccentric aristo to political activist. Nancy's novels are fun, but wasn't so keen on Don't Tell Alfred. I think she maybe overused the same set of characters (from Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate). ********** I didn't finish Filth. Will probably go back to it in a bit. The narrator's (a brutish Scottish policeman, Bruce Robertson) inner dialogue gave no hint at all that he was capable of the level of thought that some of his public utterances displayed. In the narrative, he's simply a misanthropic boor, yet he can speak to other characters like a very wily political operator who knows the language of officialdom better than most. And some of that really should be apparent elsewhere. It's many years since I read Trainspotting, but I seem to remember it being believable that Renton was someone who could start talking about philosophy if he felt like it, but not so here. ********** Just finished The Rum Diary by Hunter S Thompson. A damn good read, as his books nearly always are. (Wasn't sure about Generation of Swine tho.) It's a novel he wrote several years before most of his other famous publications, and only rediscovered and published in the late 90s - there is a lot of his characteristic style there, but some paragraphs and pages seem more normal, less vicious - to use one of his favourite words. This makes it slightly more laid back, less intense to read than much of his other stuff. He probably made a good choice in sticking to reportage - characterisation isn't really his strong point, and there are several versions of HST wandering about the pages. However, if it was all written at the age of 22, hes done a brilliant job of conveying the jadedness of someone nearly ten years older with a career that hasnt gone anywhere fast enough. Bet it had some pre-publication revisions really. For some reason the quote on the front cover is from the Mail on Sunday of all things. V much doubt the author would approve of that paper. Apparently the book is going to be filmed with Johnny Depp in the lead role. Will be interesting to see what they do with it: theres a lot of un-PC material on male-female relations thats very much of its time; not sure how keen Hollywood would be; yet to change it would be to lose the relative moral ambiguity of the characters and change this into a more straightforward story. (Hell, thats what films usually do though isnt it?) And it may be difficult to put across the narrators mixture of involvement and detachment without having a lot of voiceovers. |
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posted at 3/10/2004 1:35 PM BST
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Total posts: 346
First post: 9/1/2004 Last post: 17/2/2005 |
Read Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding. Most waffle about it is posted in specific thread under book title. Bizarrely, has features in common with the above - journalist, beaches Carribbean / Central American locations, lust for inappropriate people. Usually try to avoid reading books like that straight after one another as I visualise similar locations & don't remember the books distinctly. However, this time the styles are sufficiently different for it to be OK. Started Douglas Coupland's Miss Wyoming. Have a bad cold, so am sitting about reading lots of unchallenging books. |
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posted at 4/10/2004 10:52 AM BST
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Total posts: 3374
First post: 9/1/2004 Last post: 21/11/2009 |
Same here bachelorette. Am sitting her sniffling, feeling sorry for myself. Finished The Time Traveler's Wife. Think I liked it. It was lovely in parts but then it became a bit gushing and over sentimental. Managed to read The Restaurant at the End of the Universe in a day yesterday. My brother in-law lent me the omnibus so I keep going back to that. Think I'll read The Bride Stripped Bare next only because the person who lent it to me keeps asking me whether I've read it yet. |
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