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  • What have you read recently?

JonQPublik just out of interest Jon, but how do you tear through so many books so quickly. I don’t think I’m a slouch but you’re lightspeed in comparison.

    Wally I don’t watch TV much, and not much streaming (The Rings of Power and Wednesday were the last things I enjoyed)

    No kids. No wife (or husband).
    No one to get in the way of reading 4 hours at night. Sometimes more.

    What have you read recently? I got asked this at a job interview a few years back. The interviewer said that you can tell a lot about a person by what they read. I told them that I had read an article from a woman entitled “learning to appreciate the taste of your own shit” her boyfriend liked to clean up in her mouth after they had done anal. Suffice to say, I didn’t get the job.

      Wally

      2 minutes into the interview I knew that I didn’t want the job. The guy interviewing me was a horrible cunt, I wanted to punch him in the face, his questions were stupid, so I thought why not make this more fun.

      Fucking hell, The Rings of Power too 😆

      Dubman

      Paper Cuts - How I destroyed the British music press and other misadventures… by a former NME writer, Ted Kessler
      Bobby Gillespie’s memoir
      The Border - A Journey Around RussIa… a travel writer’s experiences travelling through countries bordering Russia…Russia has been engaged in its nasty imperialism for centuries as you’ll learn here

        Just finished Heat 2. Bloody brilliant

        Stephen King - End of Watch

        I’ve been reading King for 30 years. A lot of great stories in that time. This however is comfortably in his worst 3 novels. Absolutely rotten, a preposterous storyline with very annoying characters.

        I’ve got a George Orwell book lined up next - The Road to Wigan Pier - which I read many years ago and was quite good I think

        That’s The Wolf done. Enjoyed it and bought The Spider. 8 battle lines / 10 - cheers for the recommendation. 👍🏻

        Iain M. Banks - Matter. The 8th book in The Culture-series, and my least favorite so far. 600 pages, and quite little happened in it. Still in the top class in sci fi, so only not so good if you compare it to other Banks’ books, and not other scifi.

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          Homegrove All about the ideas that one, ideas over story. Still boss though.

          Almost finished Heat 2 and really enjoying it. They way its written you can just picture the scenes/lighting that Mann would use.

            7 days later

            Iain M. Banks - Surface Detail. Woah. That was pretty amazing. 600 pages, of which I did half today. Now my arse hurts from sitting down reading it.

            One more Culture-book left. But before that some horror again, Gus Moreno - This Thing Between Us.

              I’m about 80% of the way through Irvine Welsh The Long Knives his latest release which is a follow up to Crime.

              It’s alright but definitely not a classic 🫤

              Dubman The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

                C_J
                Cheers bud. I’ll add to the list.
                Has anyone read..Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by
                Gabrielle Zevin

                Here’s one to get your teeth into chaps, takes 3000 pages to get going mind