What Book are you Reading.................RIGHT NOW!!!

[salfordtrueblue]

The girl with the dragon tattoo....just started.
just finished......Beneath the skin (very good)

 

[mackenzie]

The girl with the dragon tattoo....just started.
just finished......Beneath the skin (very good)

I found the first couple of chapters a bit dry and off putting but then it gets into its stride.

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

Just finished Shantaram - brilliant but long

Starting Marks of Cain next

 

[bluezi]

Mr Nice. aka Howard Marks.
autobiography of the drug runner/importer from oxford uni.

brilliant.

Read Mr Nice while on holiday in Pakistan, thankfully the customs men didnt think i was trying to get some insperation from it..

Waiting for the next Mark Billingham "Tom Thorne" series due out in August.. And going out to buy "The Ghosts of Belfast" by Stuart Neville. supposed to be awsome.

 

[LongsightM13]

The last fiction book I read was Child Of God by Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country For Old Men, The Road, All The Pretty Horses etc, to complete the set. An amazing writer. To have you rooting for a hillbilly necrophiliac serial killer takes some skill!

 

[salfordtrueblue]

The girl with the dragon tattoo....just started.
just finished......Beneath the skin (very good)

I found the first couple of chapters a bit dry and off putting but then it gets into its stride.

I,m glad you said that,im struggling through it at mo...

 

[mackenzie]

I found the first couple of chapters a bit dry and off putting but then it gets into its stride.

I,m glad you said that,im struggling through it at mo...

Stick with it. I nearly put it to one side too. Then it starts to get more flowing after about Chapter three, and it is almost like a different writer.

EDIT.....just to add that there has been some debate as to how much input the late author's long term partner had in his works.
This reminds me of Wuthering Heights. There has been much conjecture over the years that the first couple of chapters were not written by Emily Bronte but her brother Branwell, and that she carried on with the story when he went into decline.

Interesting, although I am not suggesting that Larsson didn't write the books as such (after all he was still alive when the Trilogy was given to the publisher), more that such rumours about the authorship of books are no different now to years ago.

 

[LongsightM13]

Isn't this so much more civilised than 20-odd threads about twatting video games? Is it an age thing? Do young 'uns still read books?

 

[mackenzie]

Isn't this so much more civilised than 20-odd threads about twatting video games? Is it an age thing? Do young 'uns still read books?

LOL!! I agree.

The book thread on here is always like an oasis of calm and peace.

 

[lee-mcfc]

where's wally

 

[andy h]

Mckenzie, have you seen the film of "dragon tattoo"? Must admit I missed it. It didn't stay long at my cinema and it slipped under my radar. Seems to have gotten good reviews. Luckily the DVD is out in July. Think that the second film is due in August?

Note your comments re the fact that some have questioned whether he has written them. Also, I understand that his family have stuck their oar in about the royalties and that his partner of 20 years is being frozen out Stories like that make me sick.

 

[mackenzie]

Mckenzie, have you seen the film of "dragon tattoo"? Must admit I missed it. It didn't stay long at my cinema and it slipped under my radar. Seems to have gotten good reviews. Luckily the DVD is out in July. Think that the second film is due in August?

Note your comments re the fact that some have questioned whether he has written them. Also, I understand that his family have stuck their oar in about the royalties and that his partner of 20 years is being frozen out Stories like that make me sick.

Missed the film too andy, but will be getting the DVD. Not sure I really want to see Salander on screen though, as I have this image of her in my head that I don't want threatened.

Apparently the author didn't leave a will that meant much? And everything went to his Dad (who he had a difficult relationship with) and his brother (I think, may be wrong). And now his partner is refusing to hand over the beginnings of the fourth book that she has on his laptop, because of the fighting over his estate.

Sad really. And sad he didn't really get to see what enjoyment his books have given to so many people.

 

[andy h]

Isn't this so much more civilised than 20-odd threads about twatting video games? Is it an age thing? Do young 'uns still read books?

Here, here. I like coming on here for the good stuff. Some of the tosh on here is just embarassing (i expect people will now tell me that if I don't like it then f**k off).

Before the two Millenium books I read "Last Night in Twisted River" - the latest John Irving. I just love his books. Great characterisation. He just keeps getting better though the constant re-emerging themes do get on ones tits somewhat. Any other Irving fans on here?

 

[without a dream]

Isn't this so much more civilised than 20-odd threads about twatting video games? Is it an age thing? Do young 'uns still read books?

Yeah, well some do anyway. All my family including me read loads, doesn't stop me playing xbox though ;)

I'm currently working my way through 'Sustainable Development in Practice: Case Studies for Engineers and Scientists' A book written by one of my lecturers that she's shamelessly plugged throughout the course, with exams coming up I thought I better give a go. It's boring as anything, made even worse by the big pile of books I've got stacked up to read for pleasure and won't get round to for a while yet :(

 

[lee-mcfc]

tbh iv never read a book in my life (well finished one)

 

[mackenzie]

where's wally

Probably on another thread, talking about theirself as per. ;-)

-- Wed Apr 28, 2010 10:25 pm --

tbh iv never read a book in my life (well finished one)

How old are you lee?

You need to get a book where the subject matter really interests you. Doesn't have to be fiction.

Then you get the bug.

I read non fiction a lot (won't tell you the subject matter, it will no doubt bore you to death) but seriously, get something you know you will interest you and take it from there.

 

[lee-mcfc]

where's wally

Probably on another thread, talking about theirself as per. ;-)

haha , i was joking anyways;)

How old are you lee?

You need to get a book where the subject matter really interests you. Doesn't have to be fiction.

Then you get the bug.

17 , iv got one book in my room which is ...................................................katie price :)

 

[mackenzie]

Probably on another thread, talking about theirself as per. ;-)

-- Wed Apr 28, 2010 10:25 pm --

haha , i was joking anyways;)


How old are you lee?

You need to get a book where the subject matter really interests you. Doesn't have to be fiction.

Then you get the bug.

17 , iv got one book in my room which is ...................................................katie price :)

Well....it's a start! ;-)

 

[lee-mcfc]

17 , iv got one book in my room which is ...................................................katie price :)

Well....it's a start! ;-)

haha

i think i might buy myself a book something to do with crime i have an interest in that

 

[Elvis sings theBlues]

House of Cards about the collapse of Bear Sterns bank in the US

Would you beleive that in a four day period in March 2008 they had $18bn (that's $18,000million!) of their cash assets walk out the door as their clients pulled their money out,

They went from a share price of $175 per share in early 2007 to being forced by the US Govnt into selling themselves to rival J P Morgan for $4 per share in April 2008

it's mindblowing how these financial markets work, and it's our pension funds and savings they gamble with!