Dan Brown's inferno.
No-one took my hints for my birthday last year, so I forked out the princely sum of £3 and bought a copy from Tesco yesterday.
I'm on chapter 6 so far.
This is no great feat of reading; each chapter appears to be about 3 pages long. ::)
I've not read that one.
I've read all his others, but I'm not a fan of his work
I just finished The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Very interesting read.
Now I'm back to Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. I've vowed to finish that book even if it kills me.
Quote from: drac on May 19, 2014, 08:28:36 am
I've vowed to finish that book even if it kills me.
Good luck with that. It killed me.
Quote from: Ian on May 19, 2014, 16:09:40 pm
Quote from: drac on May 19, 2014, 08:28:36 am
I've vowed to finish that book even if it kills me.
Good luck with that. It killed me.
Ah, so you've joined me in the ranks of the undead? That explains so much! ;)
Quote from: drac on May 20, 2014, 03:31:21 am
Ah, so you've joined me in the ranks of the undead? That explains so much! ;)
And yet so little.
I'm ploughing away through Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra. Very heavy going from an obvious nutter.
Three Men in a Boat (to Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K Jerome.
Never read it before.It's brilliant! :D
Stephen King- Full Dark, No Stars. A damned sight more cheery than bloody Nietzsche.
Ray Meats - My Outdoor Life. God, but he comes across as pompous. He flushed out Raoul Most, you know. Oh yes he did. Moat had 'stepped in his world' ( some woods), and 'crossed a line' and 'now it was going to end'. What a crock of old bollocks.
Lies of Locke Lamorra, by Scott Lynch.
I finally have the last book in the trilogy, and I need to re-read before starting it
Quote from: Lisa on September 15, 2014, 12:59:13 pm
Lies of Locke Lamorra, by Scott Lynch.
I finally have the last book in the trilogy, and I need to re-read before starting it
Are they any good?
I like them, I like the language the Author uses in them. I think it would make a good film, with some obvious tweaks.
I'm just hope he hasn't forgotten how to write, there was a very long gap between the 2nd and 3rd books. I'd given up hope of it ever being done.
They look promising. I could do with some new books.
I always need new books ;D
Bill Bryson- America one year 1927, fascinating book, it's the year Lindbergh flew the Atlantic
Quote from: Lisa on September 15, 2014, 13:14:46 pm
I always need new books ;D
I need space to put them, too. :-[
oh thats a major problem.
I have books double stacked and all over the place, but I can't face throwing them out or giving them away.
Have to do somethign
Quote from: Lisa on September 15, 2014, 13:28:10 pm
oh thats a major problem.
I have books double stacked and all over the place, but I can't face throwing them out or giving them away.
Have to do somethign
I'm thinking of making bookshelves out of my books.
I'm re-reading Clive Barker's Weaveworld. Haven't read it in years, and it's from the period before he went first commercial, and then mad.
Red Seas Under Red Skies. Scott Lynch.
I treated myself to all the Jack Reacher books I haven't read, in eBook format, so I'm working my way through those.
Got three books on the go at the moment. Make Me, by Lee Child, The Commodore, by Patrick O' Brian, and Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer.
Still on the war of the roses but also baking through the ages
too busy to busy to read any fiction at the moment :'(
Quote from: Lisa on November 21, 2015, 10:50:38 am
too busy to busy to read any fiction at the moment :'(
Is it possible to be so busy?
can't relax enough to concentrate on anything besides paperwork :'(
Websites trying to find out hot to claim my Civil Service pension. It's all gobbledegook so far.
Going to attempt the Book Thief later...
Re-reading James Clavell's Shogun. Forgot how good it was. Good writing, but without neglecting story, as so many authors do.
Ah, I don't know... A book? Brenda Crumpet? Bernard Cornwell, that's it. Fighty stuff, with swords. Perhaps.
Private Eye
Some Andy McNab novel, that one of the kids got me for Father's day. Can't remember what it's called. First Shot? Big Shot? Ah, Remote Control, that's the one.
Noting. I have run out of books to read. I need to find a new author, quick sharp.
Re-reading the Dark Tower trilogy. I can't believe they're making a film of it with Idris Elba as Roland. Not because he's black, but because he's a terrible actor.
Ooo I like idris
Quote from: Lisa on July 21, 2016, 18:53:45 pm
Ooo I like idris
You can hear his London accent in everything he does, though. Big flaw in an actor.
3 sisters
Queen Victoria book. I have never been a royalist. But what an arrogant bunch of tossers they were.
The city who fought
Man out of Time by Jason Ayres. Third of a trilogy about what happens when a time bubble appears when a tunnel is built under the new HS2 train line, exposing the bubble to 2 unsuspecting boys...
It
Launch
The Confession of Fitzwilliam Darcy. Interesting slant on Pride and Prejudice
Ooh
Lady Chatterleys lover
Brideshead revisited
The Reginald Perrin Omnibus
nothing at the moment.
i need something new to read.
Some murder mystery or other. So boring I can't even remember what it's called. But too many characters and too many murders. I think it was a deal of the day and no wonder ::)
mistress of the empire
Phillipa Gregory - The White Queen
The boy who gave his heart away. True story about organ donation. Have been amazed at the co ordination to get an organ and person together.
course work :-\
A really boring book of rules and regulations.
Quote from: Ian on June 14, 2017, 18:56:47 pm
A really boring book of rules and regulations.
You have a need to do that?
Rule no. 1 is do things your way until someone tells you to do it another way.
Rule no. 2 Do it their way until they get bored and the do it your way
The Nest
The Rowan
Some Mills and Boon chicklit. I was bored with highbrow and it's too hot to think ::)
The life and loves of Louis X1V
KIlo Class
Food Factory
I need new stuff to read
Try
Footfall is a 1985 science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. The book depicts the arrival of members of an alien species called the Fithp that have traveled to our solar system from Alpha Centauri in a large spacecraft driven by a Bussard ramjet. Their intent is conquest of the planet Earth.
Best not Wiki it. Far too many spoilers there.
also
The Road to Gandolfo. ok to wiki
Cheers Fred. I'll go look
Joan and Better the divine feud
It's really good. The lengths those old movie stars would go to in order to upstage the other
Riders by Jilly Cooper . Not my usual fare and I won't be bothering with any more of them.
Finally ordered those two books fred
Take a Break Fiction Feast
A woman of substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford
The Barchester chronicles . Thought it would be boring but I'm really enjoying it. No violence, no horror , kidnap or torture.
Samuel Peepes diary and loving it
News that W, despite showing the first 3 series, has decided not to show series 4 of a scifi cult hit.
What series taf
And are you reading it on the TV?
Quote from: Lisa on October 11, 2017, 11:00:55 am
What series taf
The Strain.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2654620/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Poirots finest cases
Ladies of letters. Really good
kilo class
Quote from: fred on November 18, 2017, 19:21:31 pm
kilo class
The Weightwatchers' book? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Return to Oz. Its quite dark, full of dwarves, talking animal, magic, politics and tick tick machines.
Quote from: El on January 13, 2018, 13:08:33 pm
Return to Oz. Its quite dark, full of dwarves, talking animal, magic, politics and tick tick machines.
::) ::)
Magician
Three things about Elsie
three on the go:
Battlefield Earth
Noble House
Moonrise
Not what i should be
April fools day. Really enjoying it.
Quote from: El on March 16, 2018, 10:03:33 am
April fools day. Really enjoying it.
Finished it. I was skriking buckets at the end.
I'm going to miss that book.
Will start Wolfe Hall tonight.
a guide to the zombie apocalypse
Thirteen about a court case. A bit too grisly for mr
The Seagull
The clan of the cave bear
to be followed by
the valley of horses
the mammoth hunters
the plains of passage
The shelters of stone
Council and Assembly emails saying that all questionnaires posted regarding several subjects have been "accidentally deleted" and it's too late to resubmit them.
This is what is called "public consultation". Maybe too many people were against their plans? >:( >:( >:(
Murder on the orient express
Allan Bennett plays . 10 of them and 3 are good. Last time I buy an omnibus or collection of stories
Royalty by some American. Dysfunctional is putting it mildly they should be on Jeremy Vile
Jane Seymour third wife of Henry 8th
Fred Dibnah
Just finished Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult
An Expert in murder by Nicole somebody or other. It's good too, half way through and I still don't know whodunit.
Burt Reynolds biography.
Email from SWALEC gas
QuoteAs you're on our standard variable tariff your prices are now capped. There has
also been a change to the way your Direct Debit discount is calculated. The
annual fixed discount of £40 a year no longer applies. From 1 January 2019, your
new discount will vary depending on how much energy you use, where you live
and your meter type. The discount will be automatically applied to your standing
charge and unit rates.
In other words, this "capping" has increased my gas bill by £40 a year!!! :grumpy:
Blott on the landscape. Not my usual type of book but really enjoying it.
I love Tom Sharpe
Mary Queen of Scots. Very good. Oooooh but they were devious swines with their codes and messengers. I didn't know about paintings having these wierd clues in them. Plus what they would do for their religion.
Me? I'd swap and change to whatever suited. No way would I burn or be tortured for want of signing a piece of paper.
PIP assessor's report. Lies, lies, lies and omissions. I'm mad as hell. >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
Pol's Assessor's report was "she looked OK, so she has no disabilities".
The DWP Decision Maker's report based on that is lie after lie after lie.
I have taken my time to rip both to shreds for Mandatory Reconsideration, but I suspect we will have to take it to Tribunal.
The Godfather
Not that kind of love
About a woman who has treatment for breast cancer and her journey through chemotherapy. She still died. Said she felt fine till she started treatment.
After my sister in law also endured a horrendous time from prognosis to death. ( she actually wished for death many times). I simply do not wish to know.
I've had quite a few mammograms and a recall once which turned out to be a cyst.....I've made my mind up never to have another one.
Wolf Hall
Rolling Stones biography
The Familiars. It was about the witches of Pendle Hill and the unfair trials that were done on suspicion and gossip. One of those books that you listen to for just one chapter more and before you know it, I'm still listening to it at 2am.
Car insurance quotes.
Highway code
Quote from: Lisa on September 03, 2019, 16:50:17 pm
Highway code
Time to write L and R on the back of your hands....
Yup
Cain and Abel very good
Marie Antoinette
Tai Pan
Greatest trials at the old Bailey. Starting in 1907, showing how evidence etc has moved on.
Shower installation instructions. For an "easy fit" model it's a PITA.