What Book Are You Reading Now?

Young_Marxist_at_Tescos

Anchor He’s something beginning with C

Kevin_Stapleton

More Irish short stories. 'The Alps' is as enjoyable a story as I've read in a long while.

Anchor

Young_Marxist_at_Tescos I have a viewpoint on Bruce. Reconvene when your done. As most Welsh characters

Under-the-ground

Jon just finished that mountains of the mind. You can tell how much he loves Mallory. The last two chapters are great. An interesting book though.

Just saw a Norwegian woman broke the Nepalese blokes record & did all 14peaks in just over 3months. I know you haven’t got the romanticism of Mallorys time, but the mountains are still some place . Not for mortals like me.

Jon

Under-the-ground I’ve got a free Audible credit and a 3 1/2 hour solo car journey coming up in two weeks. You can’t beat a physical book but I’m sorely tempted.

Mountains. I was over in REI, big outdoors store over here, buying some lights for the bike this evening and saw this. I’ll end up buying it at some point.

fuzzy

Just finished Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not". Nobody writes like that these days do they?

Anchor

Failed with for whom the bell tolls. Doubt I'll revisit

Anchor

Kevin_Stapleton Finished the If no one speaks. Fucking hell. That's how to finish a book. Lots of grit. Loved it. 👍

What else have you read of his?

90Piesanhour

Anchor Fantastic book.

Anchor

90Piesanhour Couldn't get on with it. Gave up after 250 pages.

fuzzy

Anchor Think my favourite by Hemingway is A Moveable Feast which is basically his memoirs of living in Paris in the 20s as a young man, knocking about with people like F Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. It's brilliant, fascinating and occasionally very funny. After that, I love The Old Man and the Sea by him.

Bod

Anchor I've read A Farewell to the Arms, it was ok, but his writing style is very unique he seems to use very simple sentences, with plain words and uses 'and' a lot. I couldn't get on with it. Did you find that

Under-the-ground

fuzzy I love old man & the sea. For whom the bell rolls was a bit too dry.

Not long finished death in the afternoon pretty good. I love his fascination with F Scott Fitzgerald, who he seemed to revere.

Djpekingman

Rather partial to a spot of old Ernie. Been a while since I last read 'em. Must revisit.

Anchor

Bod yeah. Just went on and on and on. And on. What was it. 48 hours over 600 pages or summat.

fuzzy

Under-the-ground They were both top pisspots. Scott Fitzgerald more so. There's a funny recount in A Moveable Feast where they go on a road trip together. Like a 1920s Withnail and I.

fuzzy

From interviews with 21 surviving WW1 veterans. All gone now of course. Life was so very different for them. I find it interesting that pretty much all of them say things like "it's no use dwelling on these things, you have to always look forward".

90Piesanhour

Got this for my birthday. More interesting than it might sound:

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/430111/footnotes-by-vybarr-cregan-reid/9780091960209

Rudi

Give that a go after, Pies.

Under-the-ground

fuzzy I wish I could remember the title of the book about Hemingway’s boat. The boat was just the back drop & went on about how he destroyed his children & relationships because of the boozing and his twisted male ideals. It was very good.

As an aside his wife who was the war correspondence had a house a few miles away from me. Monmouthshire. She was in Bristol, travelled over the water & bought the house. Some of her extended family are still here so I am led to believe

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