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Originally posted by gt3 View PostIs excellent. It took me a bit of time to get into the mindset, but once I did it was really mind bending twisty thriller stuff. Did you watch the BBC adaptation of it?
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Originally posted by ad hoc View Post
here you go gt3. Part of my one man failing campaign to make the Books forum an easier place to browse by having (imagine this) more than one thread! https://www.onetouchfootball.com/for...china-mieville
I'd support different threads for different books if you want to try again. Personally, I'd love a comprehensive non-fiction books thread. Or, you know, a bunch of separate ones. I'm easy.
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View Postad hoc, I fear that the weird stigma on starting nil threads may be inhibiting posters from following your lead.
Might a genre-based approach be more successful? The football book thread seems to be doing ok.
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View Postad hoc, I fear that the weird stigma on starting nil threads may be inhibiting posters from following your lead.
Might a genre-based approach be more successful? The football book thread seems to be doing ok.
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I have to say, I do like the 'rolling conversation' style of this thread. Probably aided by my not liking to talk long or deep about books, but more enjoy saying that I loved it and you might too, or I hated it and you should avoid it. I get a lot of book recos from these pages, but I don't really want an in-depth review.
You know those public radio shows where they talk about a book for a whole hour? Or where they talk to the author of the book for a whole hour? Yeah....shoot me.
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I'm with WOM...I like the way I can just dip and out of this thread and the serendipity of coming across something I might not ever have thought of reading. I don't always know what I'm in the mood for reading, so I wouldn't automatically go to a genre thread as opposed to this...
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Just finished The Spider and the Fly by Claudia Rowe. An interesting true crime story about a serial killer in Poughkeepsie, NY.
Kendall Francois is a massive, gentle-giant African American man who never quite fits in anywhere. In his late twenties, he kidnaps and murders 8 white prostitutes and stashes their bodies in the attic of the family home. It's a tale of murder obviously, but also of family dysfunction and odd dynamics. Told through 10 years' worth of conversations between Francois and Rowe - a newspaper reporter - it's a tale about each of them in turn; his life story mirrored against her own troubled one.
It's not a perfect book, and it has a few bumps along the journey, but it's a story worth knowing.
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Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View Post
That ['Independent People' by Halldor Laxness] is a genuinely wonderful book. You should love it.
Since then I've read Jon Ronson's 'So You've Been Publicly Shamed', which was very well-researched, honest, funny and thought-provoking, and made me glad that, as far as I can remember, I've rarely or never piled in on anyone on Twitter who tweeted something stupid.
Now I'm reading 'Iron Towns' by Anthony Cartwright, set to jump high into my list of all-time top 5 football novels. He's a superb writer, though barely known as far as I can tell. Met him last year at a literary event - modest, friendly, low-key bloke. No one else read this?
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Finished Maps and Legends yesterday, and started The Golden Atlas by Edward Brooke-Hitching, which is a potted history of global exploration told through brief overviews of key figures in various periods, illustrated with loads of beautiful old maps.
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Originally posted by RobW View PostFinished reading The Prize after nearly two months. Back to fiction for the rest of the summer I think. Started Laurent Binet's The 7th Function of Language.
Anyhow, i've started ready 'Dispatches'. Not sure why it's taken me so long to get around to it.
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Have been reading JG Ballard's The Terminal Beach a collection of his early short stories. I'm not always a big short stories fan. Some have been really good, others less interesting to me. I didn't know much about Ballard before starting this, I haven't read any of his other stuff before and I only really knew about Crash.
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Originally posted by imp View Post
God, how I did. It's shot in to my top 10 novels of all-time. What an incredible, epic, evocative, all-encompassing work of fiction. I really did not want it to finish.
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Put a hold at the library on Underland by Robert Macfarlane after I read some rave reviews of it. It's a new book, so I only get 2 weeks for it, and I was a bit afraid that I wouldn't be able to finish a 425 page travel/nonfiction book about exploring places underneath cities and natural places...god, how wrong I was. It's fascinating, gripping stuff. My palms were sweating and I was short of breath as he described squeezing through some passages in the Paris catacombs, and I just finished an astonishing chapter about a river that starts in Slovenia then goes underground as it passes into Italy near Trieste. He's a really gifted writer, I'm putting all of his previous books on my to-read list after finishing this.
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I love Ballard and have been gradually buying/reading his early stuff. My most memorable experiences, borrowed in my teens from public libraries, were High Rise and Concrete Island
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