Yup, starting it tonight!The Daddy wrote:New Pullman came out yesterday. I shall be getting on that ASAP. The last book was top tier.
Facewon wrote:Doing Ursula le guin The Disposessed at home. Hella fun.
dynamiteReady wrote:Have started reading Yanis Varoufakis' Adults in The Room. I'm not all that far in, but it's a confusing read for a left-leaning UK national... Not in terms of writing... His writing is excellent. He makes some exceptionally complicated ideas very clear, with a variety of unforced and lucid references. And while his vanity shines bright in this, he comes across as nice enough. In addition to that, the writing is generally objective and detailed enough to allow him his somewhat frequent indulgences. What is a bit confusing, is his opinion of the EU project... From what I've managed to glean so far, he essentially believes that the EU, as it stands, is a piece of shit, and that leaving it is not the worst idea. But he also strongly believes it can be reformed, and feels that UK would be the best country to lead the change (not any more! - rofl)... Interestingly, one of the primary reasons why he himself argued against a 'Grexit' (ugh!... fucking buzzwords... obvs' a 'Greek exit from the EU'), was because of the difficulty inherent in ditching the Euro and reintroducing the Drachma... That would be a problem that the UK obviously wouldn't have. But then the other key reason, was that the country had fuck all money in the first place,ergo, fuck all to build onand needed to solve that problem first. Whereas right now, the UK is more than just relatively stable... It's near enough a model economy, believe it, or not... To say the book is really telling me something new is a bit of a stretch. I mean, some of these issues are encoded in the UK's current political schism. But with the way the world is right now, I probably was looking for a detailed explanation of global macroeconomics (for dummies). And this book seems pretty good for that.
Dark Soldier wrote:Reading my first Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale. Fuck me that lass can write.
After that it's a re-read of Lovecraft, first time.in 15 years.
Lord_Griff wrote:The testament and Girl, Woman, Other jointly won the Booker prize. I will no doubt pick these up as I too have heard good things. Interestingly the author of Girl, Bernadine Evaristo, intimated that there win was a result of having 4 women and only one man on the judging panel. Which got me thinking about the objective determination of the quality of writing and whether it even exists? I mean, if the judges were B&B member the winner may likely be a colouring-in book...
pantyfire wrote:Oooh, I've just finished working on the latest Reacher hardback, Blue Moon, and it's sitting on my desk.davyK wrote:Finished the 3rd Jack Reacher novel. Tripwire Dependable stuff this. I've enjoyed this series so far. This sees Reacher more as a detective than a strongarm. Also dips into his history more. Seems to be a transitional book for the character. Good stuff. So easy to read and an interesting bad guy. Felt a bit more "filmic / movie-esque" but that is no bad thing. The books so far have covered different skill sets (prev book about marksmanship) and it is filling the Reacher character out nicely. I can see why there are 22 of these things as each so far has felt sufficiently different. I'll keep going with the series which is a rare thing for me. I'm reading them in sequence but I'm leaving a gap between them so they don't merge into one.
I was going to read it but wasn't sure book 23 (?) was a good place to start or not.
The synopsis struck me as a bit violent A-Team meets The Littlest Hobo.
hylian_elf wrote:The Travelling Cat Chronicles
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