Books - What are you reading?

The Narrow Road To The Deep North has been sat on the shelf for a while, maybe I'll read that next.

Loved it, a real page turner. The sort of fiction that got me thinking about both the world and my good self.

Just finished a book called 'The Leviathon', loosely about witches and things, set into the 1600's. Picked it up thinking it was something else (Essex serpent). Anyway, really enjoyed it and it's slowly building 'dread'. Not my usual genre, but really enjoyed it.

I've been informed this is 'Lovecraft style', so I've picked up Call of Cthulu and other stories on give that a read.

Anyone get any recommendations on this theme?

The second and third books of the three body problem are vast improvements on the first IMO. It was only someone telling me that that got me through the first book.

Neil Stephenson’s Snowcrash is worth a read if you like William Gibson

Am I the only one that enjoyed the first book? Haha

Just finished this, picked it up on your recommendation. And yeah, agree, it was excellent. Across the spectrum of action adventure, history and devastating personal loss. I would have liked another chapter on the end.

Thanks!

The Tunnels of Cu Chi is also worth a read for some more vietnam history. As is Dispatches (Michael Herr iirc).

The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson is an absolute classic of that Lovecraft style if you've never read it? It's a real trip (ever so slightly ruined by old fashioned prose) I think I've read it at least four times, do it in a day 👌

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Good to hear, yeah agree about the ending. It's definitely a realism ending rather than m exciting one!

@EB, thanks I'll check that out!

Sounds fun. Great cover as well!

Yeah considering it was written in 1908 it's very influential and almost predicts psychedelic states

Well worth a read!

I should also add that it's a book that has weirdly stayed with me over the years hence I suppose the repeat readings, and is genuinely quite scary and unsettling in places!

Ordered from WoB. Ordered The Fisherman by John Languan at same time which was recommended also in a similar vein.

Excellent I hope you enjoy it!

The Fisherman sounds great might check that out

Mr Wilder and Me: Jonathan Coe

I’ve read and enjoyed a few of Coe’s
So far for me this is On a par with What a Carve Up! Maybe not as acerbic, but giving us the history through the narrative. It goes from widescreen to play for today in its focus. Really bloody good so far

Finished.

Spoiler alert!

That was a whole lotta revenge going on, one thing I don't get at the end is how the Count drags out M's happiness, almost to the point of suicide. Ego on overdrive right there.

By my bedside today;

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How does His Dark Materials hold up? I used to love that series as a kid.

It’s much less adventure story and much more rally against the church, strangely it no worse for that.

I need some book recommendations for a holiday I’m about to embark on.

Ideally;
Very funny
Spy/thriller/political
Dark humour
Eloquently written

Imagine combining Mick Herron, Tom Sharpe and
Nigel Williams and that’s what I’m looking for.

Interesting! Maybe I'll reread it.

Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut?

Or any of the better Pratchett's? Ticks most of those boxes.

Any and all Vonnegut!

Joseph Wambaug
Don Winslow