What are you reading?

[darkside lightside]

I started Ulysses a few days back. Not sure, exactly, why.

it's brilliant - 'Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead' - for some reason i always remember that.. useful to have read homer's 'odyssey' (at the risk of sounding tw@ttish) which in any event is a good read

[Cap'n Grumpy]

[useful to have read homer's 'odyssey'

I hadn't realised that Homer Simpson was a published author - DOH!

[moondance]

[useful to have read homer's 'odyssey'

I hadn't realised that Homer Simpson was a published author - DOH!

And I didn't realise that Mr Simpson had ever been in Belfast

[goodaine]

'The Other Daughter' by Lisa Gardner - one of those you can't put down

[Ithryn]

The latest in a pile of rugby auto biographies.

Kenny Logans very good.

Recently finished Axel Foleys which was a great read.

[Rooster]

The Last Fighting Tommy, the autobiography of Harry Patch the last veteran of the WW1 trenches who died earlier this year.
Great book and a great insight to first world war.

[Cap'n Grumpy]

Anniversary edition of Mein Kampf..............a bit deep

Bit of a struggle, is it?

[Cap'n Grumpy]

Can we believe you?

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

[Rooster]

Ja.....................

He's reading the German version

[Glynncommando]

Currently reading the biog of Blair Mayne - "Paddy Mayne" by Hamish Ross.
GC

[Glynncommando]

"The girl who kicked the hornet's nest" by Steig Larrsson. Third and final episode in the "Milennium" trilogy. And the best of the three. As i've probably alluded to before - Larrsson met an untimely end before publication of these books, thus never got to see the results of his labour bear fruit. A superb series. Highly recommended crime thrillers. Loved them all.
GC

[semi mental]

aye i've just started the girl with the dragon tattoo GC, panning out fairly nicely.

[darkside lightside]

aye i've just started the girl with the dragon tattoo GC, panning out fairly nicely.

i quite enjoyed girl with dragon tattoo, but 2 things annoyed me (i) the translation, i thought it was fecking horrible!! (ii) the bit at the end where the hero (cant remember his name) launches his critiques of capitalism and all that good stuff, and the scales fall away from everyone's eyes, and it all gets lapped up by all and sundry - tiresome, simplistic wish-fulfillment stuff (the authors a rumpled journalist of a certain age - guess what the hero's a rumpled journalist of a certain age, who is cool, and gets to shag hot birds, and plays the long game, and scores with a massive expose! and into the bargain gets to air his views on why everything is rotten in corporate-land, and everyone listens! and everyone agrees! and nobody points out he's talking ballsocks!!)

anyway. maybe i'm being a little harsh, i'm looking forward to reading the next one, hopefully there's more whodunnit, and less preaching.

[Glynncommando]

aye i've just started the girl with the dragon tattoo GC, panning out fairly nicely.

i quite enjoyed girl with dragon tattoo, but 2 things annoyed me (i) the translation, i thought it was fecking horrible!! (ii) the bit at the end where the hero (cant remember his name) launches his critiques of capitalism and all that good stuff, and the scales fall away from everyone's eyes, and it all gets lapped up by all and sundry - tiresome, simplistic wish-fulfillment stuff (the authors a rumpled journalist of a certain age - guess what the hero's a rumpled journalist of a certain age, who is cool, and gets to shag hot birds, and plays the long game, and scores with a massive expose! and into the bargain gets to air his views on why everything is rotten in corporate-land, and everyone listens! and everyone agrees! and nobody points out he's talking ballsocks!!)

anyway. maybe i'm being a little harsh, i'm looking forward to reading the next one, hopefully there's more whodunnit, and less preaching.

DL, Probably not a huge surprise that the hero is a socialist reporter with a conscience as Larrsson himself was such a reporter. You'll be glad to know that in the second installment ("Girl who played with fire") the emphasis focuses on Lisbeth Salander to a far greater degree rather than Kalle Blomquist...and in the final installment she occupies pride of place in the novel. I think her character is a truly unique heroine/anti-heroine in the thriller/whodunnit genre. Kind of forgave some of the clunky dialogue etc - reckoned it was down to the translation too. But would far rather have read it in clunky English than Swedish
GC

[browner]

"A little history of the world"..by E M Gombrich.

History "lite"...puts all those names and events you've heard of into order and context without melting your head.

Thanks to Foyle's bookshop in St Pancras.