What Book Are You Reading Now?

Jon

Giving this another go in advance of the movie coming out soon.

Under-the-ground

Death in afternoon. Ernest Hemingway . I like some of his work. This was good. Great writer but flawed human. Back to the book. To write so detailed as this is mind boggling. My dad to me to a bull fight in Portugal as a kid. This brought that memory back. Made me want to go to one in Spain but I not to sure I will. Doesn’t seem right. To me a sign the book was good.

Anchor

Under-the-ground For whom the bell tolls. Detail! About a Brazilian pages and only covers three days.

It put me off Hemmingway, put it that way.

Bod

Under-the-ground how do you find his writing, his description of things and events is very short and the sentences are short as well. I remember reading Farewell to Arms and thinking how basic his writing was. A unique writer.

Under-the-ground

Bod I thought for whom the bell tolls wasn’t good. The old man and the sea on the other hand. Excellent . Yes I like his writing

Djpekingman

I read most of Hemingway years ago. I love his style of short clipped sentences in that as he manages be so descriptive in so few words. I know he was perhaps not the greatest human being, and wrestled with depression most of his adult life culminating in blowing his head off a la Kurt Cobain, but the power of his storytelling lives on. I might even indulge in them all again.

otis

About to start

Anchor

If you like something a bit different, a bit unusual, a bit out of the ordinary then I suggest Influx Press. I liiiiiiiiiiike it.

https://www.influxpress.com/

Percival Everitt a fav and just picked up some Joel Lane re issues.

Bod

Kevin_Stapleton

Bod That's on the list - I'll be interested in what you think of it.

Kevin_Stapleton

One of his Not-set-in-rural-Scotland books, I'm not sure what to make of it.

Anchor

Absolute gem of a book. Love William Boyd and this is right up there. Just falls of the page. Set in 68. Around the year of birth for a lot of us.

Odd_Job

Anchor our English Teacher put us onto William Boyd - ‘A Good Man In Africa’, read pretty much everything of his since, a fantastic story teller

Under-the-ground

Anchor did he write any human heart?

Yes he did. I loved that book.

Just finished my life in dire straits by John Isley. Really easy read. I have always been a bit partial to them . Was pretty good .
Got a bit “which was nice” at the end. But how they got started was really good. Literally playing in front of 2kids at a Deptford council estate to having Bob Dylan wanting to meet you in LA in less than a year.,

Anchor

Odd_Job Read everything he's done. Love his sprawling 100 year epics. He's a new un out.

Anchor

On to this now.

Anchor

Under-the-ground It's ace. I've not read a duff book by him. Tremendous writer.

CBIT

Next one for the pile

90Piesanhour

CBIT Was Dean Cavanagh not 'Glamorous Hooligan', once of this parish?

Cooley

CBIT Can you give it to me once you’ve finished? Thanks. 👍

Under-the-ground

Just finished under fire by henri barbuse. A novel originally French about ww1.

One of the best books on war I have read. If there is another war after this the we have forgotten.

The last few pages of this book are excellent. The grind of existence in those conditions really hit me. Very hard to take, but worth it for the end.
It wasn’t the Germans who were the enemies. The depressing thing is we have remembered nothing.

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