What book are you reading now / or recommend?

I bought a book before flying back from the states recently. Arrival. It had the picture of the big rock suspended in the sky - looks intriguing. And it was the only thing in the airport shop that didn't look crap.

I start reading the first chapter about the Tower of Babylon, seems like a weird start to the movie and I'm trying to picture how this could be filmed and the chapter is way too long.

Next chapter was about a guy who becomes really intelligent. Seems to be weird to have 2 intros that are so different and so long. This Arrival movie must shrink these down to a few mins each and therefore why am I reading every minute detail?

Next chapter is about a marriage going downhill and again too detailed and I'm nearly halfway through the book with not a sign of a feckin big rock in the sky. WTF is this movie like.

Next chapter .... I read the back cover of the book again. A collection of short stories by the guy who's short story was the basis of the movie Arrival. Ahhhh for feck's sake!!!! I've been dooped by a false marketing cover into buying this stupid feckin collection of not short enough stories.

Feckers.
 
Anyone read anything decent recently?

Love having a good book on the go but can't decide what next for the kindle.
 
SWP's back said:
Any quick one line synopsis?
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The Good Father
by Noah Hawley (Goodreads Author)
3.65 · Rating Details · 6,135 Ratings · 975 Reviews
An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.

As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. He lives a contented life in Westport with his second wife and their twin sons—hard won after a failed marriage earlier in his career that produced a son named Daniel. In the harrowing opening scene of this provocative and affecting novel, Dr. Allen is home with his family when a televised news report announces that the Democratic candidate for president has been shot at a rally, and Daniel is caught on video as the assassin.

Daniel Allen has always been a good kid—a decent student, popular—but, as a child of divorce, used to shuttling back and forth between parents, he is also something of a drifter. Which may be why, at the age of nineteen, he quietly drops out of Vassar and begins an aimless journey across the United States, during which he sheds his former skin and eventually even changes his name to Carter Allen Cash.

Told alternately from the point of view of the guilt-ridden, determined father and his meandering, ruminative son, The Good Father is a powerfully emotional page-turner that keeps one guessing until the very end. This is an absorbing and honest novel about the responsibilities—and limitations—of being a parent and our capacity to provide our children with unconditional love in the face of an unthinkable situation.
 
SWP's back said:
Anyone read anything decent recently?

Love having a good book on the go but can't decide what next for the kindle.
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The Stars My Destination. It's a 50 year old sci fi novel and it's fantastic. Best described as The Count of Monte Cristo in space, but that isn't doing it justice.
 
Uncle Wally One Ball said:
The Good Father
by Noah Hawley (Goodreads Author)
3.65 · Rating Details · 6,135 Ratings · 975 Reviews
An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.

As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. He lives a contented life in Westport with his second wife and their twin sons—hard won after a failed marriage earlier in his career that produced a son named Daniel. In the harrowing opening scene of this provocative and affecting novel, Dr. Allen is home with his family when a televised news report announces that the Democratic candidate for president has been shot at a rally, and Daniel is caught on video as the assassin.

Daniel Allen has always been a good kid—a decent student, popular—but, as a child of divorce, used to shuttling back and forth between parents, he is also something of a drifter. Which may be why, at the age of nineteen, he quietly drops out of Vassar and begins an aimless journey across the United States, during which he sheds his former skin and eventually even changes his name to Carter Allen Cash.

Told alternately from the point of view of the guilt-ridden, determined father and his meandering, ruminative son, The Good Father is a powerfully emotional page-turner that keeps one guessing until the very end. This is an absorbing and honest novel about the responsibilities—and limitations—of being a parent and our capacity to provide our children with unconditional love in the face of an unthinkable situation.
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Looks great mate cheers.
 
stony said:
The Stars My Destination. It's a 50 year old sci fi novel and it's fantastic. Best described as The Count of Monte Cristo in space, but that isn't doing it justice.
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Does a 50 year old sci fi book stand up in 2016 bud?
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
I was handed 'A Tale of Two Cites' when I got off the tube in London on Monday. It was International Book Day. The woman who gave it me seemed impressed that I knew the opening line. I walked away feeling like a pseudo-intellectual. If only she knew how completely lacking in culture I really am.

I've tried Dickens before and found it a little hard going and unfortunately that remains the case. I got about four pages in and got bored. I do really wish I could enjoy it.
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Maybe try David Copperfield and/or Great Expectations? Both flow a little easier in terms of narrative I think.
 
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