What have you read recently?

Smallman1

Along_the_Wire Anyone read Resolution,

I haven’t Grant.

Hope that helps!

bosstrabs

Euro 88 by Steven Scragg, who is a thoroughly overrated football writer.

Dubman

Along_the_Wire
Been watching the second series on ITV. It’s also very brutal

Homegrove

I reread Jeff Vandermeer’s Area X-trilogy (Annihilation, Authority and Acceptance) because he’s got a new Area X-novel coming out next month. It’s one of my favorite books ever (I count it as one, as it’s all one story really, and I own it as an omnibus-edition), just really good deeply unsettling stuff. Garland’s movie adaptation of Annihilation has almost nothing in common with the book, except the fucked up mood and female characters. But I love the movie too. They are just two completely different things.

Wally

‘When the sparrow falls’ by Neil Sharpson - best book I’ve read in years. Superb.

Homegrove

David Morrell - First Blood (1972). I’ve been reading this every few years since I was a teenager. It’s a masterpiece.

LT42

I just finished reading Anne Frank’s Diary. What a mad book. Its painfully obvious that on some occassions their terror and fear was caused not by the sound of the SS trying to push open doors downstairs but instead it was the sound of Mr Dussel having an extremely niche wank in one of the cupboards. He got away with it too.

C_J

Along_the_Wire yeah. I thought it was pretty shit.

Along_the_Wire

C_J The ending wasn’t the best, but it was classic stuff I thought. I honestly thought it would end worse than it did with the main guy being a Hearts’ fan.

Homegrove

Ian Rankin - Midnight and Blue. Rebus number 25 was a good comfort read, nothing new here though, despite Rebus being in a very different location then usually.

Homegrove

The Fireman by Joe Hill. I bought it when it was published in 2016, and never read it until now. It’s Hill’s most like father like son-book (his father being Stephen King). 750 pages long (it took me 13 days to read it) and it’s about a plague, end of the world sort of thing. Hill must’ve figured everyone would compare it to The Stand anyway, so the book is full of fun references to it. A must read if you love that book (many believe it’s King’s best). In this book however the plague is dragon scale like spore that grows on people and will burn them to death by spontaneus combustion if they don’t learn to control it. Like with The Stand in this one the fellow survivors are the thing worse than the plague, and the real danger. I liked it a lot.

gcw

Homegrove ill check that out. The Stand is one of King’s top 3 IMO

LT42

Just finished Blood Meridian for the 1st time and loved it, its so random at points but he manages to capture how dark and smelly those times were supposedly. Going to do No Country for Old Men next as I love that story and environment too.

Millsy

LT42 brilliant book. Some writer.

gcw

LT42 I’ve tried twice to read this and can’t get past about 40 pages or so. Strange really as I can follow The Road and No Country for Old Men easily, just not this. Haven’t the foggiest what is actually going on. That said, it is one of those books that you know is very well written.

LT42

gcw I wasn’t sure at first but once I got used to the rhythm of it it became very enjoyable

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