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What book are you currently reading?

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MPH1 said:
Not started reading them yet buy my other half has just finished reading the Millenium trilogy (Girl with The Dragon Tattoo, Girl Who Played With Fire and Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest) and reckons they are some of the best books she has ever read so I'll be giving them a go next.
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I don't usually go for "blockbuster" books (I've never read a Dan Brown book) but I've virtually finished The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. I can't believe the hype surrounding this book. It's a fairly good read, and is quite well written , but it doesn't come anywhere close to meeting expectations. Basically just a bog standard crime thriller.
 
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I've just finished reading the Millennium Trilogy and found them good page-turners, but some of it didn't flow with weaknesses in the writing style. Wondering if this is because it was written in Swedish and translated or if it had to do with chopping one book into 3?

Reading In The Kitchen by Monica Ali.
 
Jblazingphoenix100 said:
^not irrelevant..shakespeare tells you about love, betrayal and other highs and lows in life..also creativity with words <3
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Also surely you had to read other things for English lit, as the Shakespeare is an essential part of the curriculum along with other novels.
 
kate said:
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I've just finished reading the Millennium Trilogy and found them good page-turners, but some of it didn't flow with weaknesses in the writing style. Wondering if this is because it was written in Swedish and translated or if it had to do with chopping one book into 3?
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It could well be. The same is true of the couple of Henning Mankell books i've read.

Are the 2nd and 3rd better than the first?
 
The 2nd was exciting, the 3rd had "holes" and bits in it that made you think the translation just isn't getting this over lol. Think the author died before the books were published, maybe if he'd hadn't gone n' snuffed it they'd have been better!

Want to watch the films now.
 
jblazingphoenix100 said:
I havn't decided yet... he seems to be a very strange writer - one chapter buggd th shit out of me, then the next was pretty fascinating, only read 4 chapters so far...has potential, coz whilst being annoying in part it's prtty interesting too...
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Ta for that - thought I'd look it up on Amazon, where there's this review:

Best book ive ever read.

My life has improved 100% since reading this book WHY?
I'll tell you why:

2 years ago I wanted to have a sex change because I felt like a little girl in a mans body, I just didnt know who I was.
I was so low that 1 day i was just about to chop my pecker off when i stumbled across a book called 'shrooms'.

I read it and every page sprung sheer delight and optism into my mind, until eventually I took some magic mushrooms.

It made my mind feel free and i had such a good time it made me realise I was actually a man and had a mans mind and I no longer wanted to be a woman.
SO tbh reading this book saved my life and i dont know many books that can do that.
So please, please, please buy this book for the sake of a better life,. AMEN

8o
 
kate said:
The 2nd was exciting, the 3rd had "holes" and bits in it that made you think the translation just isn't getting this over lol. Think the author died before the books were published, maybe if he'd hadn't gone n' snuffed it they'd have been better!

Want to watch the films now.
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I hope Lisbeth is as fit in the films as i imagine her to be! :)
 
welshmick said:
I'm reading

PAPILLON by Henri Charriere.

Enjoying very good !
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One of the best I have ever read. I've never bothered watching the film cos I know it can't compare.

The sequel is OK but not as interesting as the original.

A lot of people say he made the stories up but I don't care. It's an great story anyways.
 
Jblazingphoenix100 said:
I havn't decided yet... he seems to be a very strange writer - one chapter buggd th shit out of me, then the next was pretty fascinating, only read 4 chapters so far...has potential, coz whilst being annoying in part it's prtty interesting too...
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This is actually a pretty accurate review of Shrooms.

Overall though, I'm not sure it's worth it.
 
Just got "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut - I LOVE Vonnegut so I reckon I'm in for a good read - anyone read it?

Also I just finished "We need to talk about Kevin" which I thought was very very good indeed. Got that terrible empty feeling when I finished the last page. If you like books with real emotional insight then I couldn' recommend it more.
 
"Pimp"

Iceberg Slim

Many years since I read this last but picked up a copy the other day.

Revisiting "Matter" Iain M banks as I started it and put it down a number of times.
 
The Technologys of the New World Order & 2000ad a book about the Illuminati......conspiricy theorys...great way of feeding you paranoia :)
 
Just starting focusing my reading for my dissertations on Japanese masculinity a couple of weeks ago. Last book I read was Salaryman Masculinity: continuity and change in hegemonic masculinity in Japan that was pretty well written for ana academic book, which do tend towards being a bit dry.
 
Me, Cheeta by James Lever. The 'autobiography' of the chimp who played Cheeta in the Tarzan movies. Very funny, parodies the bitchy style of Hollywood autobiographies. Lots of debauched behaviour including the chimp doing coke off the breasts of Hollywood starlets.
 
amnesiaseizure said:
Just got "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut - I LOVE Vonnegut so I reckon I'm in for a good read - anyone read it?

Also I just finished "We need to talk about Kevin" which I thought was very very good indeed.
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Cat's Cradle is my partners favourite book. Ever. And she reads about 100 books a year.

She loved We need to talk about Kevin too.

This doesn't mean I want to fuck you though.
 
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