Books - What are you reading?

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Christ, I'm struggling with Hunger.

I just can't stand the main character. I've got zero sympathy for him. I just want him to get on and starve to death and for a character with a little humanity to appear...

I'll plow on and hope I latch on to it.

that's why I liked it.. I really loathed him

I lost my copy of London Fields halfway through and never read the rest. I recall the main guy in that being a total cretin (and the love interest being a babe).

Christ, I'm struggling with Hunger.

I just can't stand the main character. I've got zero sympathy for him. I just want him to get on and starve to death and for a character with a little humanity to appear...

I'll plow on and hope I latch on to it.

Strange. I bloody loved it and definitely felt sympathy for the main character. Upset to hear what you found out about old Knut though.

just finished

good, but depressing, and now started

Bought this today, first book purchase in far too long. Written by that guy who did the TV show a while ago, built his dream bike (Rourke) and travelled all over to the components manufacturers, including Campagnolo.

Yet to start it though.

It was a god awful bike he built... And he was fucking annoying..

Agreed on the bike. Chap in Foyles said he was in there to do a book-signing, along with his bike, which apparently looked much nicer in the flesh.

@hearsay

It was a god awful bike he built... And he was fucking annoying..

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as good as "Tender is the night"?
Just about to start The Great Gatsby....

just finished

good, but depressing, and now started

Just finished Hans Fallada's 'The Drinker'

An autobiographical account of alcoholism then being put in an asylum was never going to be anything other than bleak I suppose... Like the teutonic existentialism of Hesse but without all the flowery tributes to nature or more poetic bits... far more grating-you can't help but get increasingly frustrated with the main character and his misanthropic, egocentric views as he fucks everything up and blames everything on other people, but then he's so pathetic and his life becomes so shit in prison and in the asylum you can't help but reserve a base level of pity.

Very good but glad it is finished-though I'm intrigued enough by Fallada to read 'Every Man Dies Alone' as it is supposed to be excellent, but might leave it a few months till I've read something a bit more upbeat-next on the list is Adolfo Bioy Casares 'The Invention of Morel' for a bit of magical realism...

Just reading Winter's Tales by George Mackay Brown. Beautiful work but I'm going to stop reading it and save it for Winter. Can highly recommend it though.

Another nod for Hunger. Incredible book.

Reading more Louis L'Amour. He's not a great writer, but it's become a bit of a guilty pleasure.

Bought this today, first book purchase in far too long. Written by that guy who did the TV show a while ago, built his dream bike (Rourke) and travelled all over to the components manufacturers, including Campagnolo.

Yet to start it though.

I'm pleased to say I thoroughly enjoyed this. Small enough to gobble up in a single-sitting, but I did it in a few sessions.

Well written if a little repetitive; I could have subbed it better. Very well researched though, I've learned plenty of the history of the bike I didn't know. His passion is nicely evident throughout. Recommended.

About to start Galaxy In Flames:

Advice.. We are driving to the French Alps Saturday.. During a similar trip last year we listened to Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Anyone have any good recomendations for audio books.. Being a pseudo intellectual I lean towards Joyce or Proust et al but realise this isn't really entertaining for a 10 hour trip across France so looking for something more of a "pot-boiler" but have no ideas whatsoever.

sorted.

I knew you'd come up with the goods Luci..

Have some rep

Just finished **Naïve. Super **by Erlend Loe. A very nice, chilled, engaging novel. I don't like to describe a book as 'nice', but it is, and that's no insult.

I'm on with The Waterproof Bible by Andrew Kaufman. I'll let you know...

Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke

£3 in HMV, read it loads of times when I was a kid, not read it for 20 years. Enjoying it up to now, very believable description of mankind's first interaction with an inhabited alien world.

Advice.. We are driving to the French Alps Saturday.. During a similar trip last year we listened to Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Anyone have any good recomendations for audio books.. Being a pseudo intellectual I lean towards Joyce or Proust et al but realise this isn't really entertaining for a 10 hour trip across France so looking for something more of a "pot-boiler" but have no ideas whatsoever.

We went to a charity shop before our last holiday and loaded up on noir tapes, collected raymond chandler stories and the like. Long journeys are good for perfecting your impressions of them too....