What are you reading?

[Del191229]

Read Shuggie Bain, what won the Booker.

Good book. Not worthy of the Booker though.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

How's it going?

Just got a email about a delay. Really annoying.

Reading Coulthard-Clark’s Iron Kingdom work on the rise and fall of Prussia in the interim.

 

[Sopwiths North]

Reading Charlotte's Web again, after 43 years.

Still .

🕷🕸

 

[andana]

Inland Tea 0breht. Good.

 

[Hojuman]

Started Robert Jordan's / Brandon Sanderson's W.O.T. 14 months ago. Starting book 14 today.

 

[Zondor]

Kama Sutra. :stern look

 

[KillaKanga]

Kama Sutra. :stern look

Did you have a stern look at any positions pages in particular?

 

[andana]

Warlight Michael Ondaatje
excellent

 

[ferball]

I'm not reading it yet but I can't wait to read The Dawn of Everything by David Wengrow and David Graeber (who died about a year ago, RIP.)

 

[andana]

All The Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr won Pulitzer Prize for fiction 2014

Easy read, I guess the prize was for the effort more than anything else.

 

[Luke72]

All The Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr won Pulitzer Prize for fiction 2014

Easy read, I guess the prize was for the effort more than anything else.

I really enjoyed that one.

 

[fnarr fnarr]

Moved stuff out of my storage unit, and grabbed this out at random. Published after the 1995 season. No doubt intended as a light read focusing on footy's failures, but most of the anecdotes had been done to death even in 1995, and there are so many spelling/editing errors that the book should induct itself.

 

[AnEmptyChair]

The Things They Carried

Had it on the shelf for ages and I've heard incredible things, so I thought I should finally get around to it.

 

[CharlieMortdecai]

I have already read Herodotus. A fascinating and truly exceptional people the Persians.

I know you know this, and it's not what you meant, but Herodotus made everything sound fascinating and exceptional, what with all those flying snakes and gold-digging ants the size of dogs!
I like Thucydides' little swipe, where he says WTTE of "my history might be boring at times, but that's because everything in it is true".

 

[Hojuman]

Anyone done the The Book of Malazan series ?

 

[Val Keating]

Can’t believe I only just found this thread. I asked for book recommendations in the media and entertainment thread.

Just finished killing Thatcher and Babel.

Just started the second apocalypse series by Bakker.

I mostly do audiobooks.

 

[Hojuman]

Jus

Can’t believe I only just found this thread. I asked for book recommendations in the media and entertainment thread.

Just finished killing Thatcher and Babel.

Just started the second apocalypse series by Bakker.

I mostly do audiobooks.

Just finished the Prince of Nothing series by Bakker ( books ) Good read.

 

[Val Keating]

Jus


Just finished the Prince of Nothing series by Bakker ( books ) Good read.

They’re the first 3 books of the second apocalypse… I think

 

[travelli]

Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follet. It's 40 years old, still an excellent read.

It has started my new enthusiasm about medieval cathedral architecture. Yes I am an intense nerd.

 

[Hojuman]

They’re the first 3 books of the second apocalypse… I think

I have a large Fantasy collection. Gimme a chance tomorrow and l'll give some recomm's.

 

[Val Keating]

I have a large Fantasy collection. Gimme a chance tomorrow and l'll give some recomm's.

I finally stumbled across the grimdark genre.

I want it dark and full of treachery. I want something that’ll have me peal clutching. Doesn’t have to be fantasy, it can be historical fiction, or any fiction.

After listening to so many non fiction books that I have to go back and re listen to because they are so dry, I lose track, then I listened to the reformatory and I was hooked.

 

[Possession]

Dostoevsky, or the North Melbourne Bigfooty board?

 

[Val Keating]

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Dostoevsky, or the North Melbourne Bigfooty board?

Maybe Solzhenitsyn would be more appropriate for North fans since the 90’s.

 

[BoomerRoo]

Anyone done the The Book of Malazan series ?

Yep, enjoyed them lots. Took me a few chapters to get into it's groove, but can highly recommend them. Steven Erikson certainly is an interesting writer, but in a good way.

LOVE my fantasy genre Hojuman, I've a ridiculous amount of books in my library now

I'm a big fan of Raymond E.Feist

 

[Disco Dew]

I'm a big fan of Raymond E.Feist

Oh I hear ya.