What are You reading right now

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 09 Nov 2006, 23:56

tom nimmo wrote:Bellybabe. You thought the Shadow of the Wind was appalling!!!. I read it recently and everyone else I know who has read it has thought it was fantastic. May I recommend "A Million Little Pieces" by James Frey. This is the most powerful and honest 'rehab' book I have ever read. If you work anywhere within the field of addictions and their consequences then this book is essential reading. It's brutally honest and a very moving story. I have a copy which I would be prepared to lend if I was guaranteed to get it back.

It was the number of cliches in just one page that put me off, so no, I haven't read it. I have read the James Frey though. I liked Augusten Burroughs' Dry too.

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 10 Nov 2006, 03:07

tom nimmo wrote:Porty. I don't yet know what I don't know but I do know that I don't know if I would get it back if I lent it, don't you know.
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No, I dont know. How could I know the consequenses of an action that you took, not knowing what the consequences would be?. I dont know if you are deliberately targetng me because I dont know? Only you know, the real story of what I dont know.

I spoke to someone else that I know, who said they know, but they dont know who it is? Where do we go from here? I think I know, however if you know, then who knows who got to know first? No knower can know any more than knowers that know it all. Thats all I know and there is no knowing back back for me.

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 10 Nov 2006, 10:00

Just started Pet Sematary by Stephen King.

So far so good!!!
I'm new to Stephen King (Late developer). This would be the third book of his I've read, the other two being short stories (Different Seasons) and a book of four novellettes (Four Past Midnight).

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 10 Nov 2006, 11:51

I was obvioulsy a bit tired and emotional last nigt. sorry.

tom nimmo · Post by **tom nimmo** » 10 Nov 2006, 13:39

Porty. I ain't surprised that you were tired last night. Posting at 2.07am???? I read your response and I now know that I already knew. I take it you sleep during the day and POP does all the work?
Black Mamba. My first Stephen King book was 'Salem's Lot' and it scared me ****less. It's the only book I have ever re-read (apart from Thin Lizzy biogs) and it still works. If you like horror fiction I would recommend 'The Trickster' by Muriel Grey.

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 10 Nov 2006, 15:30

Tom I think that was actually 3:07 !! I used to love Stephen King books but now I avoid like the plague. He spends too much time developing characters whose only purpose appears to be having their character developed. I find it tedious.

tom nimmo · Post by **tom nimmo** » 10 Nov 2006, 18:06

Jings crivens and help ma boab Porty. You are up posting to POL at 3.07am!!! Why not try reading yourself to sleep. May I suggest the High School thread? I am nodding off in no time after just a page or two. If there is ever a film made of the 'debate' I wonder who would play you. There is a touch of Sly Stallone's 'Rambo' about you but he is probably a bit too much on the sensitive side to make a good job of it. Any ideas for the rest of the cast? Even though I only have a small part (in the High School debate) I would hope to be played by Samuel L Jackson due to the uncanny resemblance we have to each other. In the style of his character in 'Jackie Brown' where he knows what is required "when you just have to blow away every m**********r in the room" would be most appropriate.

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 10 Nov 2006, 19:55

tom nimmo wrote:Why not try reading yourself to sleep. May I suggest the High School thread? I am nodding off in no time after just a page or two.

Me too

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 10 Nov 2006, 20:14

Porty wrote:Tom I think that was actually 3:07 .

Porty, old fruit, have you changed the GMT thingy in your profile - the time of that Rumsfeldesque post shows up as 2.07 on my version of the Forum too!

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 10 Nov 2006, 21:39

Ian Rankin -Naming of the Dead. Set last year in the G8 broohaha, was it really over a year ago?Brings it all back, eldest Clanger was living in Stirling and couldn't get any rest with the helicopters and protesters around so thought she'd come home for some peace, straight out Waverley station into the riot.
Like the way Rankin has woven people and events into the narrative while keeping the mystery going

rapunzell · Post by **rapunzell** » 10 Nov 2006, 22:44

The White Nile; a documentary of the exploration and events of a century of Nile exploration and East African warfare. Political bickering, righteous European missionaries, Scottish scientific explorations, slave trading and malaria..

mr magnolia · Post by **mr magnolia** » 11 Nov 2006, 00:01

Bellybabe wrote:I read the first page of The Shadow of the Wind. The writing was so appalling that I knew I wouldn't even make it to the second page. Shame because it sounds like a good idea for a story. But no doubt there'll be a film.

I got quite a lot further than the first page, but it took a long time, and eventually it all died a death well before the end.

It's now on a small pile of reject books that includes 'Cloud Atlas'.....

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 11 Nov 2006, 00:39

SoupDragon wrote:Ian Rankin -Naming of the Dead. Set last year in the G8 broohaha, was it really over a year ago?Brings it all back, eldest Clanger was living in Stirling and couldn't get any rest with the helicopters and protesters around so thought she'd come home for some peace, straight out Waverley station into the riot.
Like the way Rankin has woven people and events into the narrative while keeping the mystery going

BC is reading that at the moment, will get it soon to read I hope.

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 11 Nov 2006, 00:40

mr magnolia wrote:
Bellybabe wrote:I read the first page of The Shadow of the Wind. The writing was so appalling that I knew I wouldn't even make it to the second page. Shame because it sounds like a good idea for a story. But no doubt there'll be a film.
I got quite a lot further than the first page, but it took a long time, and eventually it all died a death well before the end.

It's now on a small pile of reject books that includes 'Cloud Atlas'.....

Oh well, maybe I won't attempt to read then ....

Marguerite-the-Poet · Post by **Marguerite-the-Poet** » 11 Nov 2006, 19:54

What am I reading right now? The messages on the forum.

As far as books go, I'm re-reading The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard and The Wisdom of Menopause by Christiane Northrup, M.D.

I finished reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins and admit I have mixed emotions about it. The science is fine but at times he swings a baseball bat that bruises me.

Cleopas · Post by **Cleopas** » 11 Nov 2006, 20:57

I'm reading "52". It is in fifty two weekly parts.

Marguerite-the-Poet · Post by **Marguerite-the-Poet** » 11 Nov 2006, 21:18

Cleopas wrote:I'm reading "52". It is in fifty two weekly parts.

It figures! It's a no brainer.

Izzie · Post by **Izzie** » 11 Nov 2006, 22:06

Just been given Ian Rankins The Naming of the Dead it is about the G8 Summit

Not sure about it but I will start it tonight maybe

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 11 Nov 2006, 23:35

Izzie if you read and liked any of the previous Rebus books you'll like this one. I've not long finished it, enjoyed it too.
Can see him building up to the last Rebus which I believe is next year.

Cleopas · Post by **Cleopas** » 11 Nov 2006, 23:39

I have to get Jordan's latest ... book 11 of the Wheel of Time ... and several other books in several other series I'm enjoying!

I SOOOOOOOOOOO dislike Rebus novels! Not a Rankin fan!!

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 11 Nov 2006, 23:48

Cleopas wrote:I have to get Jordan's latest ... book 11 of the Wheel of Time ... and several other books in several other series I'm enjoying!

I SOOOOOOOOOOO dislike Rebus novels! Not a Rankin fan!!

Had to google , thought the Jordan you meant was the model Katie Price!
Robert Jordan's books sounds intruiging ( and there's dragons? ). Might add to my Xmas list.

Suppose not everyone likes Rebus but i've been reading them for years.

Cleopas · Post by **Cleopas** » 11 Nov 2006, 23:51

Interesting reply, SD. Especially in light of my quizzes.

Yes, there are Dragons in Jordan's books ... but they like rendering people into food. Don't believe I've seen soup for Dragons mentioned ... but I MIGHT be wrong.

bearcub · Post by **bearcub** » 12 Nov 2006, 03:11

Cleopas wrote:I have to get Jordan's latest ... book 11 of the Wheel of Time ... and several other books in several other series I'm enjoying!

I SOOOOOOOOOOO dislike Rebus novels! Not a Rankin fan!!

I sooooooo gave up on Jordan's Wheel of Time a while ago, loved the first half-dozen (or so), but totally gave up after book 8...or was it 9...whatever.

He really saw the $ signs before his eyes from a never-ending series!

Cleopas · Post by **Cleopas** » 12 Nov 2006, 19:27

Yeah ... book 9 was just treading water and went nowhere! But I'm a completist and therefore have to have them all.

Edding's latest is due out soon too. Not his best work ... but I have all the rest.

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 12 Nov 2006, 22:56

Just started Selling Olga by Louisa Waugh - stories of human trafficking and resistance

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 12 Nov 2006, 23:52

tom nimmo wrote:Porty. I ain't surprised that you were tired last night. Posting at 2.07am???? I read your response and I now know that I already knew. I take it you sleep during the day and POP does all the work?
Black Mamba. My first Stephen King book was 'Salem's Lot' and it scared me ****less. It's the only book I have ever re-read (apart from Thin Lizzy biogs) and it still works. If you like horror fiction I would recommend 'The Trickster' by Muriel Grey.

Thanks I'll give it a go. Is it Muriel Grey of the Munro Show? I read her book 'The First Fifty' She was pretty entertaining. I've just started reading Stephen King. I don't normally read that sort of thing. My youngest son has just got me started. I usually read Crime/Mystery novels.

tom nimmo · Post by **tom nimmo** » 13 Nov 2006, 20:43

Hey Black Mamba. Yes, she is the same Muriel Grey. I love crime fiction too. James Lee Burke for his Robicheaux stories and everything Robert Goddard has written.

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 13 Nov 2006, 22:03

Taking you at your work on the Muriel Gray book.
I just bought it on ebay (signed proof copy).
Looking forward to it. It sounds good.
Have you ever read any Lee Child books?

Cleopas · Post by **Cleopas** » 13 Nov 2006, 23:15

I've read many, many Stephen King books ... and never been scared by any of them. Like James Herbert and Clive Barker, these writers are really recreating the old EC Gaines horror comics of the early 50s and 60s (Dad has 100s of them) ... and they're fun to read ... but I agree that King and the others develop characters only enough to make you not care when they get topped. John Saul's books are very similar, but his characters are usually unpleasant children and teens who need culling.

Muriel Grey gets on my wick something chronic!!!!

tom nimmo · Post by **tom nimmo** » 14 Nov 2006, 20:44

You don't hang about do you Black Mamba. I know what Cleopas means with his/her comment about the lovely Muriel and it took me a few pages to disassociate her from the book. Forgive me, but I've never heard of Lee Child. If you recommend something I will try and get it from the library. This thread works for me as I really enjoy finding new authors and I am even considering joining the library book club. Thanks.

bearcub · Post by **bearcub** » 14 Nov 2006, 21:30

Black Mamba wrote:Have you ever read any Lee Child books?

I've read all his "Jack Reacher" books (don't know of any others that he's written?). I enjoy them, fairly easy reading in a sort-of 'boys-own', 'James Bond' type vein with a moody, "invincible" hero. Wouldn't be surprised if a film studio isn't thinking about trying to move the character to the silver screen.....

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 14 Nov 2006, 21:52

Scotland on Sunday

Cleopas · Post by **Cleopas** » 15 Nov 2006, 01:22

Tom Nimmo wrote:

... know what Cleopas means with his/her comment about the lovely Muriel and it took me a few pages to disassociate her from the book.

His, dammit ... HIS ... !!!!

Are we going to go through this AGAIN???

Quote from the movie "Car Wash" ...
"I'm more of a man than you'll ever be ... and more of a woman than you'll ever get!!"

Pure class and genius!!

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 15 Nov 2006, 11:08

tom nimmo wrote:You don't hang about do you Black Mamba. I know what Cleopas means with his/her comment about the lovely Muriel and it took me a few pages to disassociate her from the book. Forgive me, but I've never heard of Lee Child. If you recommend something I will try and get it from the library. This thread works for me as I really enjoy finding new authors and I am even considering joining the library book club. Thanks.

Hope the link below helps. The book that got me started on Lee Child was The Visitor.
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/lee-child/

You might also enjoy Lisa Gardner. She's the best female crime writer I've ever read.
http://www.lisagardner.com/

Cleopas · Post by **Cleopas** » 15 Nov 2006, 11:18

I have some cool ideas for a fantasy novel ... I've worked out a language, calendar, plot, pantheon, chapter headings, a few twists ... but after several false starts, realised I'm not a novelist

Besides, I have too much going on at the moment and am researching other stuff ... my novel ideas are lying in a file on my backup and I have a hard copy file somewhere (when I get to dealing with that stuff) ...

The thing is ... if anyone fancies themselves as a writer and would like to collaborate (ie ... you write and I'll keep coming up with the good stuff!) ... let me know and I'll be happy to share the ruminations of my warped imagination.

Maybe PMs would be better so you don't fall over over in the mad rush to get your paws on original material??