UKRM Book Club

After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0747268169

Really, really enjoyed it. My kind of nov. I'll probably read it
again in a couple of weeks.

 

Thanks, I'll counter it with The Bookseller of Kabul - Asne Seierstad

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844080471/darkwings-21

A cheapy at the moment, worth a read.

 

Cool, I've got that in my basket. I'm just waiting for the TT game
for the PS2 to be out, then I'll ship a load together (my stuff goes
via the States so the postage is hefty).

 

I can never do that. I remember books to well and have to give it a
good couple of years between readings.

Current one on the go is the last part of Peter Hamilton's Night's
Dawn Trilogy, it's 6 years since I last read it and I can still
remember what's going to happen next.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

The Last Grain Race, by Eric Newby.

Fascinating with moments of humour.

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Dave

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I sobbed and sobbed then sobbed some more when I read it. Not cried so
much at a book since Ender's Game and Atonement. And funnily enough
Tony Parson's Man and Boy which I'd got for a light read on an
airplane - cue other passengers checking I was OK.

I have the copy of Colour of Memory now but it still hasn't got to the
top of the reading pile. Which keeps growing and hasn't gone down for
nearly a week now. I'm in an odd mood.

 

I have a feeling I've bought that but not shuffled it to the top of the
pile yet. I'll rectify that.

 

I do it a fair bit. When I'm enjoying a book, I race on and read for
narrative. Then I got back and actually read the thing.

There are certain phrases, certain sentiments, certain /things/ that
as I read them, I know I'm going to want to go back and drink it all
down again.

 

<amazoned>

Cheers.

 

Yeah, me too.

Hang on - what am I saying? No, no, no tearfulness here... far too
manly for all that. Good clean fun, that's where it's at, jumpers for
goalposts,

Oh, read it. There's a great, great passage at the end of the chapter
where there's been a pub fight. 150 words of genius.

 

Jeez, I read a book and forget it instantly. Wish it were otherwise.

I remember impressions and was surprised by Alexi Sayle's The Dog
Catcher, a collection of shorts ..

<pause>

I enjoyed it, but it was probably too short for an airport delay.

 

Just done that - to that end I recommend

The Log from the "Sea of Cortez" - John Steinbeck

 

Hated it. Stopped half way through.

 

Heard him on the radio. Tosser.

 

Ben Blaney secured a place in history by writing:

Oh yes. I actually liked Man and Boy, which really annoyed me, because he
is, without question, a tosser.

 

<amazoned>

 

Prolly the only book I've ever done that with is "Thor" by Wayne
Smith. Out of print now, and it may have been the only book he ever
wrote. I finished it, turned back to page 1, and started all over
again.
It wasn't a great book, not even a good[1] one, but some of the
descriptions of how a dog might perceive the actions of a human
impressed me. I read it again, trying, like Rabbi Ben Ezra, to suck
all the juice from it.

[1] If you're a critic. My defintion of a good book is one I enjoyed
reading. And yes, I know nothing about wine (or art) either