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What’s everyone reading?

High praise indeed. I'll put it on my list.

Yep, it’s stone cold brilliant.

Reads like a novel at times with its narrative threads and descriptiveness.

The quality of writing is excellent, the characterisations are real and distinct and the way the plot plays out is enthralling.

It must be a year or so since I read it but I still think about it pretty regularly.
 
Just read this one - it's a captivating book about Everest and one of its greatest mysteries. I've never really been into books about mountain climbing, but this was an exciting read. Finished it way too quickly.

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Any title in particular?

I’ve heard lots of good stuff about Blood Meridian (don’t know if that’s earlier or later tbh) but I’ll give him a rest for a while and maybe go back another time - I’ve got plenty on my to be read list already.

Can’t really go wrong. Blood Meridian is a tough read but great. Suttree is the lightest and probably my favourite. All the Pretty Horses and the Crossing brilliant too. Those are my four favourites.
 
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Not really feeling this. I don’t read much sci-fi and now I remember why.

Maybe it gets better but after 130 pages I’m rushing to finish it and onto the next one.

Shame, it’s well reviewed, but horses for courses I guess.
 
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Not really feeling this. I don’t read much sci-fi and now I remember why.

Maybe it gets better but after 130 pages I’m rushing to finish it and onto the next one.

Shame, it’s well reviewed, but horses for courses I guess.

Bin it off, life is too short to waste on books you are not enjoying.

My Kindle is half full of books I bought and started, the latest is Rushdie’s Satanic Verses, gave up before half way, it’s not doing it for me.
 
Bin it off, life is too short to waste on books you are not enjoying.

My Kindle is half full of books I bought and started, the latest is Rushdie’s Satanic Verses, gave up before half way, it’s not doing it for me.

Yeah, I know the feeling but somehow I feel guilty about it!

I’ll be done by the weekend, and maybe it’ll pick up. The bits in the ‘real’ world are ok, it’s the bits in the game that are jarring.
 
Bin it off, life is too short to waste on books you are not enjoying.

My Kindle is half full of books I bought and started, the latest is Rushdie’s Satanic Verses, gave up before half way, it’s not doing it for me.
I started Midnight's Children but gave up as well. It is something I rarely do but it really didn't tickle my fancy.
 
Yeah, I know the feeling but somehow I feel guilty about it!

I’ll be done by the weekend, and maybe it’ll pick up. The bits in the ‘real’ world are ok, it’s the bits in the game that are jarring.
I've started 2140 by the same author about a flooded New York (not even fiction any more!). Too early for a judgement but it is easy reading so far.
 
Working my way - again - through all 12 of the Flashman books by George MacDonald Fraser.

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Hilariously good fun. A Scots author extrapolating the bully character from Tom Brown's Schooldays into a scandalous, libidinous career as England's most decorated - and undeserving - military hero in the 1800s. Fraser liberally and gleefully takes the piszs on England's military, political and social cultures but also provides some acute historical observations in the real-life scenarios his Flashman character navigates.

Quality reading.
 
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