Thread: What book are you reading right now?

Originally Posted by FailSafe

Perhaps, but at least I've never had a thread merged- deleted, yes, MKP'd, sure, but merged- it's just shameful...

OI! I asked for it to be merged because Neo had started a similar thread -- it's called common courtesy - somehting a guy wearing his undies over his lycra oants wouldn't understand

Originally Posted by FailSafe

Oh, Christ, not your little league story again- yes, I've heard this before, and I apologize to everyone who's forced to once again read it.

I notice a distinct lack of respect for my feat . . .

Originally Posted by FailSafe

I'm gonna look Ben Liston up and see if it's not too late.

He's still there and he also plays in a band . . . our Elementary School class rocked big time!

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Victorian era prose takes some getting used to though.

Yea, I don't think I could endure a whole book of it

Originally Posted by OckerRocker

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Victorian era prose takes some getting used to though.

Yea, I don't think I could endure a whole book of it

If the plot and characters are developed well such as in "David Copperfield", it's no bother.

I have a copy of "Oliver Twist" as well and got 1/4 of the way into that before putting it down for 'later'. Dickens descriptions of endemic poverty in Victorian England are very stark and one wonders how the lower classes survived.

Shantaram

Originally Posted by good2bhappy

Shantaram

A right load of shite!

Sorry, but that's a chick's book and way too long. The main character doesn't come off as 'genuine' at all.

can go with that but like the marathi and urdu
memories

Originally Posted by OckerRocker

By the way, I forgot to add a photo of Life of Pi. Anyone else read it?

It's discussed here from post 173.
https://teakdoor.com/arts-and-enterta...reading-4.html



I was just reading ''Life of Samuel Johnson'' by James Boswell.
from project guttenburg , for out of copywrite books.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1564
It was ok but for some reason last week I googled it, and came across this :


''The biography takes many critical liberties with Johnson's life, as Boswell makes various changes to Johnson's quotations and even censors many comments. ''

And Now I haven't been able to pick it back up....

Originally Posted by good2bhappy

Shantaram

I started reading it about 8 weeks ago.
I'm up to where he's living in a slum ,.
He's been in India for months now and still hasn't had a shag ,which seems unrealistic ; he better get shacked up soon if he wants me to finish the book.

Originally Posted by OckerRocker

OI! I asked for it to be merged because Neo had started a similar thread -- it's called common courtesy - something a guy wearing his undies over his lycra pants wouldn't understand

damn . . can't edit. Corrections added.

Originally Posted by blue

It's discussed here from post 173.

Thank you, Blue. Perhaps I should look at the thread from page one.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Dickens descriptions of endemic poverty in Victorian England are very stark and one wonders how the lower classes survived.

The human surplus was always used as cannon fodder for expansionism, more so than in other countries . . . and let's not forget setting up penal colonies in far-away lands (no, I have zero Brit nor Irish blood in my veins)

But yes, quite amazing how anyone could have lived there - and when you include the English weather and food (if they had any)!!!

Alistaire Cook's 'Letters from America'. Marvelous 60 year journey into understanding what goes on betwen us Brits and the USA

Originally Posted by OckerRocker

But yes, quite amazing how anyone could have lived there - and when you include the English weather and food (if they had any)!!!

Yes terrible conditions, I remember whilst at college reading
''The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 by Friedrich Engels''
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17306

I think it was that book thats describes the adulteration of food , and it
makes McDonalds chicken nuggets look wholesome ( well almost).

On the other hand conditions were not so rosy for many in Australia 100 years or so ago.
Whilst there , I visited a museum in Kalgoorlie set up to show how gold miners lived .
A very harsh life for the man and wife - stinking hot - no refrigerators ,or washing machines -shoveling dust out of the house etc .

Well, some girl on a swiss forum is selling the trilogy of 50 Shades of Gray for 20 francs. When i thunk that to get all three would cost me at least 100 francs. I jumped at the chance.... not heard back from her yet...

Update - she called and we are meeting in the pub to descretely hand over said books!!

Hey, if every woman and some men have read those books and the author has made millions. Who am i to poo poo the literary content...

Look at JK Rowlings.

Oryx and Crake and Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood.

Originally Posted by patsycat

Well, some girl on a swiss forum is selling the trilogy of 50 Shades of Gray for 20 francs. When i thunk that to get all three would cost me at least 100 francs. I jumped at the chance.... not heard back from her yet...

Are most of the pages stuck together......?

Originally Posted by jizzybloke

Originally Posted by patsycat

Well, some girl on a swiss forum is selling the trilogy of 50 Shades of Gray for 20 francs. When i thunk that to get all three would cost me at least 100 francs. I jumped at the chance.... not heard back from her yet...

Are most of the pages stuck together......?

At least, the girls don't need to lick their fingers to turn the pages.....

It's a new BOXED set, posh. Weighs a ton.

Originally Posted by patsycat

Hey, if every woman and some men have read those books

Not me, I'm pleased to say. Just started The Children's Book by AS Byatt.

I've been reading Joseph Anton: A Memoir. An autobiographical book by Salman Rushdie.
It's a good read, funny in places and not so funny to see the British government washing their hands of him and pandering to the Muslims.

Joseph Anton: A Memoir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Steve Jobs biography. Interesting read and characters.

The startup of a firm like Apple and the whole personal computer industry in silicon valley in the 70s and 80s is an engaging story.

Should have made for a good movie but apparently the movie (Jobs - 2013) sucks.

Originally Posted by patsycat

Update - she called and we are meeting in the pub to descretely hand over said books!!

Hey, if every woman and some men have read those books and the author has made millions. Who am i to poo poo the literary content...

Look at JK Rowlings.

Do you own a thimble?

Not sure whether it's been mentioned before but one of the funniest books you'll ever read is 'The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared' by Swedish authour Jonas Jonasson.

Amazon.com: The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared: Jonas Jonasson: Books

The title is the story of Alan Karlsson who's had enough of his old people's home and disappears on the eve of his hundredth birthday.
What develops in a hilarious tale with lots of adventures in the present and flashbacks to his colourful and interesting past which sort of is a history lesson in itself.

Witty, quirky and I loughed out loud several times. It's one of those stories you just don't want to end.

Stephen Hunter's "The Master Sniper"

"It is the spring of 1945, and the Nazis are eliminating all the witnesses to their horrible crimes, including Jews and foreigners remaining in the prison camps."

Hunter is an excellent author.