Books - What are you reading?

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New David Millar OK so far

Saturn's Run - Scifi by John Sandford who does the prey detective novels.

It was reasonable but not particularly gripping. Those who are keen on hard sci-fi may like it a bit more.

Read these two books in November. Probably wont make my 52 books in a year target, but enjoyed both of these.

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skoob books up in the brunswick is heaven

Just started this. Always promised myself I'd read it.

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Just started reading Vincent Bugliosi's "Helter Skelter," his account of the Manson family murders. He was chief prosecutor in the Manson case. Very exact and painstaking account of the circumstances and evidence in the case so far.

Here is a short video excerpt from an interview with Manson just to remind us of the crazycrazycrazyfuckingcrazy that he is:

https://youtu.be/k9QXY80OxS0

Must use that when I'm next interviewed for a job.

I'm lolling just imagining the scenario. :-D

great read. well worth it

Thought I'd try some Dostoevsky, working my way through The Gambler. Not sure whether I'm enjoying it or not at the moment.

"You've got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em..."

Just finished Engleby by Sebastian Faulks.

Curious book, very well-written, I think. From my experience (not of myself) the narrator seriously lacking in social skills was very accurate. But there were bits that seemed a little bit American Psycho where I felt it was basically Faulks getting stuff off his chest/showing off about music and using the narrator as a conduit.

I'd definitely recommend it though.

That's not crazy - crazy is incoherent, unintelligible, disconnected. If you label him crazy you absolve him of all responsibility for his actions. He's just egocentric and incredibly unpleasant, maybe delusional, but people who believe in astrology are delusional too.

I bet it's an interesting book though, if a little ghoulish.

I'm reading the Alan Clark Diaries: Volume 2 - Into Politics.

Can anyone recommend any poetry books? It's for my gran who's not doing great at the minute so nothing too dense and nice pictures is a bonus!

Spike Milligan?

She's not really into comedy unfortunately! I might just go and have a look round waterstones and see which has the prettiest pictures, ha ha.

Just made the mistake of downloading the audiobook of Steven Pinker - The Better Angels of Our Nature on a whim... 36 hours... it better be good.

60% of the way through Game of Thrones full set ebook. Trying to avoid spoilers in real life is hard.

Holiday reading:
Jon Krakauer - Into Thin Air
Phillip Roth - The Human Stain
Graham Greene - The Heart of the Matter

Anyone read?

Into Thin Air is brilliant. Tense and vivid. Was thinking about it yesterday when I watched the Epic of Everest

I haven't read Into Thin Air and I don't want to. Scares me. I really liked Into the Wild though, much more interesting and nuanced than the film and fascinating research.

I've read Heart of the Matter, and I'm a huge fan of Graham Greene, but that book isn't one I have particularly strong memories of. Greene is pretty much a guarantee of a gripping, readable book though I think.

Shameless plug for my mum's collections of poetry, literally published from her kitchen table.
http://www.lautuspress.co.uk

I thought that The Human Stain was excellent