Picked up any good reads at the bookstore?

[mids]

I've just finsihed The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters. One of the best ghost stories I've read. An absolute corker of a book.

[anonymousandy]

I'm not here, but I'm halfway through The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - the new David Mitchell, which is excellent so far, although perhaps doesn't yet quite have the impact of Ghostwritten or Number9Dream.

Best reading at the moment, though, is this brilliant new blog I've just discovered, where the author seems to match my opinions very accurately:

indolentcyclist.blogspot.com/

[mids]

Blog you say? Hmmmmm, sounds anti-semitic to me...

[feral]

I dont think I'd want to have something called a blog .
It sounds like something some of the posters on here would spew up in a vain attempt to be insulting

[anonymousandy]

I think Melanie Phillips might call it anti-semitic. But then, she managed to call William Hague and David Cameron's anti-Israeli...

[yord]

Rogets Thesaurus , loads of good words but so far not a dinasuar in sight

[mids]

Melanie Phillips? She's got a blog. So I've heard. She's no Sarah Waters, mind.

[policecar]

that indayglo cyclist blog is terrifying

[auldhippy]

The Dictionary, wonderful vocabulary, lousy plot though.

[Repat Van]

I don't buy books. I do however use the library and would like to ask anyone who has not yet read 'The 19th Wife' why they have not done so?

[Minge är en jävla besserwisser]

"The maintenance of headway" Magnus Mills - worth a read.

[mids]

Jun 2, 2010 17:06:10 GMT Repat Van said:

I don't buy books. I do however use the library and would like to ask anyone who has not yet read 'The 19th Wife' why they have not done so?

Yeah sorry I should have included the liberry as well as the bookstore.

[Muz]

Jun 2, 2010 16:18:32 GMT policecar said:

that indayglo cyclist blog is terrifying

Too many commas.

[lala]

There's a much better blog here: lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/. Guaranteed not to mention cycling, at least not very often. The best bit is, you've already read most of it, as a lot of it is just re-heated stuff posted here, with occasional bits about New Zealand that you wouldn't be interested in.

[lala]

Currently reading:

Les Miserables by Voctor Hugo
If This Is A Man by Primo Levi
Cypress Grove by James Sallis

None of them from a book shop, I must point out. The first two picked up at a second hand book sale, Cypress grove from the library.

[Minge är en jävla besserwisser]

Currently reading:

Les Miserables by Voctor Hugo
If This Is A Man by Primo Levi
Cypress Grove by James Sallis


Bullshit, you've got Jeffrey Archers new one on the go haven't you?
Poser. Come on confess.

Either that or this:

www.amazon.co.uk/Crystal-Katie-Price/dp/0099497875/ref=pd_sim_b_6

A glittering and sexy story of passion and betrayal and one woman's search for true love. Crystal is beautiful, talented and ambitious. All her life she has dreamed of making it as a singer. After years of trying to break into the music industry her chance finally comes when her girl band enters a TV reality show contest. But Crystal has a secret. She's fallen for the wrong man and this one mistake could cost her everything - her friendships, her fame and her chance of ever finding love again...

[lala]

I didn't say I was ENJOYING Les Miserables. I'm on about page 450, out of 1,450. Apart from a damn good description of the Battle of Waterloo, I can't see any reason why I should read the remaining 1,000 pages, because it really is over-wrought guff.

And the Waterloo sequence doesn't actually have any relevance to the plot at all. Hugo only stuck it in because he wanted to write about Waterloo. Still, given how dull the rest of it is, you can understand why he wanted to let slip the dawgs of war for a bit.

I read one Archer book, once, so I could decry his worthlessness from a position of authority. My eyes still haven't forgiven me. My brain isn't so bothered. It committed suicide after about page 5.

[Minge är en jävla besserwisser]

I didn't say I was ENJOYING Les Miserables. I'm on about page 450, out of 1,450. Apart from a damn good description of the Battle of Waterloo, I can't see any reason why I should read the remaining 1,000 pages, because it really is over-wrought guff.

In the same way I'm currently reading Nostromo and have been for about the last three years.
Well apart from the description of waterloo.

[mistressdao]

I am listening to The Last Seret of the Temple by Paul Sussman and Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir. My reading of text is confined presently to legal text books

[lala]

Ming, you are a cultureless moron. If you can't read Nostromo, you don't deserve to have eyes. What's the point in learning to read if you can't be arsed reading the best book ever written? Seriously, go and live in a cave, dress in furs and gnaw on dead mammoths. That's all you're good for.

Nostromo is the best book ever written. Just to make you sick, I read it this year. Re-read it this year.

Seriously, start again. Spread over three years, it won't make any sense at all.

You may have noted the quote from Conrad in my signature. You should also know I named my first born spawn Conrad, in honour of the master.

P.S. Heathen.