[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[rcf0712]

Got The Quarry for Father's Day, last Iain Banks I'll ever read which is such a shame.....

 

[skipper734]

Just got into the latest Lee Child - Never Go Back.

Am halfway through. Up to his usual standard. I have erased from my mind the filmic debacle with the midget.

 

[Footsoldier]

Just about to read the last chapter in this. Brilliant read.

 

[Beach Hut]

I see Bryson has a new book out shortly, will wait for the paperback version.

 

[Spun Cuppa]

Just finished Kerouac's On The Road (second read, and took it in more), and will now delve into Sillitoe's The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner and accompanying short stories and poem

 

[catfish]

Just finished Kerouac's On The Road (second read, and took it in more), and will now delve into Sillitoe's The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner and accompanying short stories and poem

Sillitoe is a damn good writer - I've read most of his novels and short story collections and feel he should have a bigger reputation than he does.

 

[catfish]

just started on Steve Hamilton's latest Alex McKnight novel Let It Burn. A series really worth checking out.

 

[XYZ123]

Just finished Kerouac's On The Road (second read, and took it in more), and will now delve into Sillitoe's The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner and accompanying short stories and poem

I'm not an advocate of 'beat generation' literature. I find the poetry created in 1950's counter culture America dull and unappealing however revealing it certainly is. The first novel I read from this demographic was Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs and it confirmed my theory that i've always maintained that there's nothing more boring than someone else's drug stories/experiences - it's tedious. On The Road, however, i enjoyed as far as it kept me entertained. I really do understand why people perceive this to be a seminal work in literature; i guess it just doesn't float my boat, as it were.

 

[Spun Cuppa]

I'm not an advocate of 'beat generation' literature. I find the poetry created in 1950's counter culture America dull and unappealing however revealing it certainly is. The first novel I read from this demographic was Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs and it confirmed my theory that i've always maintained that there's nothing more boring than someone else's drug stories/experiences - it's tedious. On The Road, however, i enjoyed as far as it kept me entertained. I really do understand why people perceive this to be a seminal work in literature; i guess it just doesn't float my boat, as it were.

I know what you are saying, it's just that Beat writing should (if you so wish?) be taken in the context of when it was written. Early post-war USA, and the rest of the world, was going through massive changes, and this maelstrom heralded the genesis of critical theory and debate, due to the dismantling of the class system here, and the beginning of free-thinking enlightenment (fuelled by hallucinogens in some cases) over there

 

[pauli cee]

.....crazy diamond, biography of syd barrett, brilliant read

 

[Turnstile Ted]

Night comes to the Cumberlands. Real interesting read about the coal mining industry in the State of Kentucky.

 

[Marshy]

Operation Mincemeat - Ben Macintyre

A True Spy Story during World War 2.

JUst started it but already hooked.

 

[seaford]

Just reading The Shining ahead of the new Stephen King coming out "Doctor Sleep", which is a sequel to The Shining.

 

[sams dad]

The Mayor Of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy

 

[XYZ123]

I certainly appreciate the context, however, it doesn't grab me and fully absorb me in the way I know it does for others. It is, for sure, an important era in literature that has to be valued for that very fact but it doesn't appeal to the senses the same way other prose does. A matter of taste, i'm sure.

 

[Frutos]

"I Am Pilgrim" by Terry Hayes

 

[tinycowboy]

Re-reading The Wasteland - TS Eliot. Won't take long - less than 500 lines long, but dense with meaning. But what exactly DOES it all mean??

 

[Norman Potting]

"Misfortune" by Wesley Stace, aka "John Wesley Harding" talented songwriter born in Hastings. Have only just started it.

Bizzare plot premise, but then his most recent novel -"By George" has a ventriloquists dummy as one of the key characters who occasionally chips in to the narrative!

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I'm saving myself for the new Bond book, Solo by William Boyd (in the style of Ian Fleming).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24227999

 

[mlg57]

Got The Quarry for Father's Day, last Iain Banks I'll ever read which is such a shame.....

Just recently finished "consider phlebus" and yesterday "The Player of Games" both brilliant Iain M Banks books and I'm looking forward to more.