Discworld binge, just finished Moving Pictures. I think I'd call that one an off-day by Sir Terry, but still reasonably enjoyable.
Picked this up and set it down several times the opening is so slow - How Old Was Lolita by Alan Saperstein. But finally finished it. Very bizarre book about a group of yuppies during the 80s. The mc Roger has clues that his wife is having an affair with his brother who has crashed at their house and rather than confront them just keeps compiling evidence in order not to upset their lives. Odd book in which the mc literally doesn't act. Another odd twist is that the yuppies hearing about some Muslim terrorist attacks that effect their jobs and travel plans want to create a 'cute' anti-terrorism kit.
I haven't seen the Stardust movie and might watch it after finishing the novel. I don't usually get interested in a book if I've already seen it in movie or tv form, but just knowing it was adapted onscreen usually makes me curious about the book.
Nearing the end of Doug Naylor's The Last Human - the fourth book in the Red Dwarf series. I will then be getting stuck into McCarthy's The Road.
The Road is a very easy read - the easiest McCarthy I've tried to get into. Fair warning: it is BLEAK. Right now, I'm dipping into a volume of Theodore Sturgeon's short stories.
True Grit. I'm trying to picture Mattie and Rooster as describe in the book but I keep bouncing back to Hailee Steinfeld and Jeff Bridges.
I'm working on reading (very very slowly) The Brothers Karamazov. I read The Idiot over my last semester of school to wind down at night and finished it in good time for a thick ole' Russian novel. I love me some Russian novels even if they can get long and boring. It's the epic themes and emotions and deep down, I'm just a moody Slav myself
Just finished Captain Cook by Alan Villiers. On the inside of the back cover there is a synopsis of The Loneley Sea and the Sky by Francis Chichester. Must get a copy of that, I thought. Then my wife comes back from a church sale with a copy of that self same book! One of life's true coincidences.
Red Dwarf series? Is that related to the tv show Red Dwarf at all? May have to look into that. Currently reading The Dairy of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith and it.....it just is. It`s not overly terrible, but it`s not all that great either. It`s said to be this great humor and satirical book but I'm finding it just meh. It`s meant to be a satire of the life of the Victorin middle class, so maybe it would have seemed more,funny if read in it`s time.
Yes, the very same. The first (Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers) is the strongest, but they're all good. A lot of the stuff in them is taken directly from the tv scripts, so if you know the show well enough, it's just like watching a scene from a particular episode. I read this many years ago and quite enjoyed it.
Diary Of A Nobody is one of the greatest books ever written, but to be more sympathetic, I have not myself, got myself through Three Men In a Boat, as of yet, so...so. ...Augustus Carp is good if you like DoaN.
I'm reading "The Celtic Twilight" which is Yeats relating tales the Irish 'peasantry' have told him. A lucky find in Oxfam this morning. I tried and failed with this. I wanted to like it. It sounded like it should be right up my street.
Conrad, Victory Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros Meadows, An Accident of Stars Cooper, Over Sea, Under Stone Austen, Persuasion (just started)
The Red Knight by Miles Cameron. I find my fantasy choices to be very hit and miss as far as what I enjoy but this is right up my street. A large cast of interesting characters in a world I want to know more about. Magic features but so far hasn't been central.
By Naomi Klein, or is there another one? I thought it was rather insightful. Merchants of Doubt is another book that might bother you, but well worth reading.
Finished The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. It's the third after The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It was as good as the first. But I tried the middle book, The Girl Who Played with Fire and gave up after the fourth chapter. It was too much like the other two books and became tedious. But now I have a copy of the last book in The Fifth Wave series, The Last Star, and I'm ecstatic.