What Book Are You Reading Now?

Anchor

I might get this today.

Looks interesting.

Kevin_Stapleton

Anchor I've got that on the Next Few Months List at book group.

Under-the-ground

Jon i agree with all those comments on the bunnymen. Les Patterson playing bass from the bottom up, rather than the top. Gave that circular motion to them. It hurts my head.

Them & joy division / new order drum & bass imho. Then the Mondays later on. The smiths weren’t bad either. But I think the bunnymen could go anywhere they wanted & had adventure about them. What gives them their mystery.

Harvest

Young_Marxist_at_Tescos I read that last year. Good book but goes off on some right tangents. I like the way the stories all interweave and come together.

Rudi

Been a lot of hype about this - Netflix adaptation with Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington due in December. It's that rarest of beasts, the literary page turner. I devoured it in two sittings, and it's been years since I did that with any book. Totally gripping and unsettling. Proper eerie n'all. A couple of scenes put a genuine chill up the spine. It's the gradual accruement of subtle detail that ratchets up the tension. Highly recommended.

Anchor

Rudi Just bought. thanks for the reco.

💪

CBIT

Rudi You should post more

Young_Marxist_at_Tescos

CBIT Seconded

MolOverBeethoven

Turns out I'd already read the first one, called Gatekeeper, but I read it again and it was as entertaining again.

Just finished this. A first novel and a delicious peek into the underbelly of LA with a cracking soundtrack. You'll have to read it to see how that makes sense.

https://independentbookreview.com/2023/08/21/book-review-the-loneliest-places/#:~:text=The%20Loneliest%20Places%20is%20a,surprisingly%20tenacious%20and%20insightful%20investigator.

Under-the-ground

Jon just been thinking about this over the weekend & your comments on their talent. From this second book they seem as if they had no idea.

They genuinely seemed surprised when the world opened up & were fawned over by arty types worldwide. Mad, shit kickers one minute pissing about then changing the world with their music.

New order & joy division fall in the same category for me anyhow.

That meet me in the bathroom film they have a bit with Interpol & they are all excited about going to Liverpool & Manchester, like I would be about going to New York. I love all these links

otis

Under-the-ground does the 2nd book mention about mac going off on his own thing?

I will be buying it soon but thought I'd ask

Under-the-ground

otis no it stops before ocean rain

otis

Under-the-ground

Under-the-ground so may be another then ,cheers utg

Under-the-ground

Just finished sinead O’Connors book rememberings.

Was pretty sobering. To say she had a traumatic childhood is an understatement. Still doesn’t take away from the sadness of her passing.

Anchor

Under-the-ground I'm gonna get this for my wife for Christmas. Then I can read it.

Desperately sad her childhood - in the name of a god ffs.

otis

The boys from biloxi

Love a bit of Grisham now and then

fuzzy

I read it about 25 years ago but couldn't remember a fucking thing about it. I don't particularly like the characters very much but some paragraphs are so well written I read them 2 or 3 times. Other bits are a bit garbled and I can't work out what the fuck he's on about. The good bits outweigh this though.

Harvest

fuzzy Did you find it in a skip?

CBIT

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/10/author-mick-herron-slough-house-slow-horses-spy-fiction-secret-hours-interview

fuzzy

Harvest I was reading it in the bath on holiday. I ruin books but they're meant for reading I guess 😆

Kevin_Stapleton

Woop woop.

Actually very good, even though a lot of the clinical stuff goes Whoooosh over my head.

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