theboyangel Posted May 14, 2010 Share Posted May 14, 2010 Just started to read 'The Night Sessions' by Ken Macleod - pretty good beginning and enjoyable so far!I absolutely LOVED Macleod's "Fall Revolution" quartet. The "Engines of Light" trilogy was not quite as good, but still enjoyable. But "Newton's Wake" I thought was terrible - gave up on it before the end. And I've read nothing by him since. Cheers mjm!!! If I enjoy this then i'll check out the fall revolution quartet as reccommended Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted May 14, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted May 14, 2010 Just started to read 'The Night Sessions' by Ken Macleod - pretty good beginning and enjoyable so far!I absolutely LOVED Macleod's "Fall Revolution" quartet. The "Engines of Light" trilogy was not quite as good, but still enjoyable. But "Newton's Wake" I thought was terrible - gave up on it before the end. And I've read nothing by him since. Cheers mjm!!! If I enjoy this then i'll check out the fall revolution quartet as reccommendedCaveat: It's a very loose "quartet". More like four separate novels that have some slightly obscure cross-referencing. Macleod himself says you can read them in any order, but I went with publication sequence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pelle Posted May 14, 2010 Share Posted May 14, 2010 Bought a "new" Stephen King short story collection yesterday. "Everything's eventual". Read the first two stories and they were good. As expected. I like his short stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 7, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 7, 2010 Can't put down James Ellroy. I'm working through The L.A. Quartet - I've now read The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere and L.A. Confidential and just started White Jazz. Absolutely fantastic. Then I'm going on to the Underword USA trilogy (American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand and Blood's a Rover), and I also have Dick Contino's Blues and Clandestine on the shelf. (I did have a short break to read Hemingway's Across the River and into the Trees though!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 The Crossing by ol' Cormac 'I love life' McCarthy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 7, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 7, 2010 The Crossing by ol' Cormac 'I love life' McCarthy.It's a toss-up between McCarthy and Ellroy who's the most brutal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted June 7, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 7, 2010 My friend has a trilogy by Cormac McCarthy. Was thinking of borrowing it for my holiday in Tenerife, is that a good call? I think The Crossing is one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 Aye its the Border Trilogy, very good but not holiday reading, not at all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 7, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 7, 2010 My friend has a trilogy by Cormac McCarthy. Was thinking of borrowing it for my holiday in Tenerife, is that a good call? I think The Crossing is one of them.Yep. The "Border Trilogy": All the Pretty Horses The Crossing Cities of the Plain (make sure you get the one by McCarthy, not that of the same name by Marcel Proust!) Possibly an acquired taste. Read the first few pages of "Horses" first and see if you like it. (I do). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 7, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 7, 2010 Aye its the Border Trilogy, very good but not holiday reading, not at all!Why not? If a book's good it's perfect on holiday, surely? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted June 7, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 7, 2010 Doesn't bother me what the book's about, as long as its good it's holiday reading. I shall borrow that off him then. I love the films No Country for Old Men and the Road, but i've never actually read any of McCormac's books so I'll give these a whirl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted June 7, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 7, 2010 Blood Meridian (by McCarthy) is a cracking read too. Although the writing style did take a little while to get into. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 For some people, however I like 'light' reading on holiday. Brainless thrillers by Grisham and the sorts, that's holiday reading IMO. I'd prefer not to have pictures of babies bashed against rocks whilst i'm sitting on the beach! Although that said, The Border Trilogy is not as grim, and the first one especially has an awesome expansive western vibe to it, so they'll not be as bad on holiday as Blood Meridian and the likes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted June 7, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 7, 2010 For some people, however I like 'light' reading on holiday. Brainless thrillers by Grisham and the sorts, that's holiday reading IMO. I'd prefer not to have pictures of babies bashed against rocks whilst i'm sitting on the beach! Although that said, The Border Trilogy is not as grim, and the first one especially has an awesome expansive western vibe to it, so they'll not be as bad on holiday as Blood Meridian and the likes. Yeh i do know what you mean to be fair CED. I've just been to Morocco for a week and must admit in 39 degree heat I ended up reading Chris Moyles' autobiography. One of the worst books I've ever read (and I like Moyles) but it was such light reading it was easy for that kind of environment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 7, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 7, 2010 For some people, however I like 'light' reading on holiday. Brainless thrillers by Grisham and the sorts, that's holiday reading IMO. I'd prefer not to have pictures of babies bashed against rocks whilst i'm sitting on the beach! Although that said, The Border Trilogy is not as grim, and the first one especially has an awesome expansive western vibe to it, so they'll not be as bad on holiday as Blood Meridian and the likes. Yeh i do know what you mean to be fair CED. I've just been to Morocco for a week and must admit in 39 degree heat I ended up reading Chris Moyles' autobiography. One of the worst books I've ever read (and I like Moyles) but it was such light reading it was easy for that kind of environment.Memo to self: Never go to Morocco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted June 7, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 7, 2010 It was so hot the pages were falling out of our books because the sun was melting the glue! Anyway, once I'd finished off Moyles I moved back to Crime and Punishment, so I like to think I balanced out quite nicely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 That happened to me in Spain, massive heatwave and I had the Lord of the Rings with me, the glue melted and the book fell apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted June 8, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 8, 2010 Just finished Soccernomics... very good read. It's only comparatively recently (within the lifetime of a majority of posters here) that football could be called a global game... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pelle Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Reading Jeffrey Deaver now. Rather good. Don't remember the name of the book, but it's the one about the illusionist. Trying to find "The Bone collector" but as it is the first one I guess it'll be hard to find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Just started reading this... Some of the stuff the Russians did was horrifying. Easily as bad as the Germans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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