Paging the book club

Lozzo wrote

42 years ago I first read LOTR. I couldn't put it down.

The Hobbit I read 25 years after, I weren't that impressed. Star Wars
Syndrome possibly.

 

Champ wrote

Only the precocious ones itywf. Anything outside the A stream would
have a job understanding the words used. imo.

I have no shame about being a ukrmer.

 

You mean the ones clever enough to be able to use a dictionary. SOP,
at least it was when I were nobbut a lad.

 

Landranger 183 covers Yeovil and Shepton Mallet
and is much better than 47, though I'd go for
203 if you want a happy ending.

 

gomez wrote

Actually no I don't as it goes. I mean the ones who are already reading
at adult levels, complete with the man years of naturally acquired
vocabulary and casual familiarity of some of the odder ways in which we
manipulate our wonderful native tongue and such like.

 

like the dilemma when #2 son finally decided at the age of 9 that books
might be worth bothering with: he'd found Stephen King. i was torn
between horror (of a type unintended by said author), and relief that he
was actually reading anything.

 

Champ says...

I rarely read fiction, on the bedside table at the moment is the
Machine Mart catalogue, but various bike manuals take up residence
there from time to time.

 

Bear says...

 

Can you "have a turd"? You can have a crap or a shit or a poo
but I've never heard of a turd in that context.

What about Jeffrey Archer? Are his books good in the smallest room
or does the print come off on your bum?

 

You have just witnessed an example of the evolution of the English
language, live.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember saying
something like:

I've never read a JA novel I didn't wish I hadn't bothered to.

 

Oddly enough, I first read them at almost exactly those respective
ages. Could be why I continue to re-read them both every couple of
years.

 

all his three books are good. And rather than start with a good one,
and then go off the boil, he started with a good one, and has just
gotten better and better.

 

"Mount Toberead"

I enjoyed Ghostwritten, but I don't know if I've read any of the
others.

I looked for the sequel to Rotter's Club last week, and couldn't find
it. Still not out in paperback?

Tempted by Saturday, but also want to wait for paperback.

 

I hated The Hobbit and LOTR.

 

He only has the three out so far - the two already mentioned and
"Number9Dream". It's very good, but you might be put off by the Walter
Mitty/Cyberpunk chapter, though if you could get through that, you'll
enjoy the rest of the book. It's at least partially a tribute to the
work of Haruki Murakami, if that helps.

apparently not.

<wha?...googles>

Oh, Ian McEwin. Never got around to reading any of his, or if I have, I
can't remember.

You'd probably enjoy the book I've just finished, John Lanchester's
"Fragrant Harbour".

 

Yeh. I go through phases of reading books avidly, sometime one a
night. At the moment I am off reading.

 

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Of course, the same could be said for you and Blaney...

Soy.