What Book Are You Reading Now?

Rudi

Anchor
Try that for a brilliant second person novel

Anchor

Rudi If Welsh likes it. Cheers Rudi.

Have you read Ablutions?

otis

This and then this

Rudi

Anchor Not read Ablutions, but it's gone on the list

Anchor

Rudi it enlightened me to what 'around the world' is if nothing else.

CBIT

On the home straight now

Under-the-ground

Just finished a book on MI9 . Interesting

Djpekingman

Under-the-ground Is that a motorway in Scotland?

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Bod
Read Notes From A Small Island and enjoyed it. Yep, he does come across as smug but he does throw a little bit of wit in occasionally too.
Had his audio book for long driving journeys also but his voice bored me.

Anchor

Rudi I just had a look for this. I have read it. I need to find my copy and re read it.👍

Anchor

Just boshed this out.

Re read. Had largely forgotten it but a tremendous read. The human condition at the fore.

Under-the-ground

Djpekingman about the people who helped people escape in Ww2

oneallanclarke

880 pages and after 4 days I'm 400 pages in and loving it. It's a modernised Great Expectations/David Copperfield which begins with a terrorist explosion, has Las Vegas professional gamblers, the Mob and teen drug experimentation (so far) alongside the young hero making his way among tragedy, eccentrics, grotesques, reversals of fate and coincidences. Tartt does it brilliantly. I just looked at some reviews from when it came out 10 years ago and one or two criticised it for long-windedness, but to me that's a major part of the charm. I read The Secret History a long time ago and quite enjoyed it but this is a whole order better.

Young_Marxist_at_Tescos

Anchor “We have the same blood. We just use it differently” Think this was one of the best lines in it.
Didn’t like the film at all btw.

Anchor

Young_Marxist_at_Tescos Not seen the film. I was going to give it a spin.

I see French Exit has had the film treatment also.

Under-the-ground

oneallanclarke a great novel. The writing is superb

Jon

Anchor I enjoyed it. I think I’m thick at times. The human condition bit just went completely over my head.

Jon

Can’t seem to post a link to it but there’s a podcast Once Upon A Time At Bennington College.
Dona Tartt didn’t take part in it and there’s been some controversy surrounding it but I think a fair bit of Secret history is possibly based around characters from the school. There was definitely a cult of a certain professor up there at the time she was there.
Might find it interesting. What a collection of writers were up there at the time. Trying to remember why I didn’t finish listening to it.

Foxy_Dread

When absent I read two novels, never got to post about them here. Life regrets.

Bod

Very good, but I think a bit more was needed in parts, seemed to skip through some of his business deals

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