Just finished Treasure Island and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo about to start The Girl who played with Fire.
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Slowly making my way through MC Beaton's Highland Christmas, part of the Hamish Macbeth series.
Quote: roscoff @ September 1 2013, 10:04 PM BSTJust finished Treasure Island and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo about to start The Girl who played with Fire.
I read Treasure Island for the first time recently and loved it. Then against Harridan's good advice I read Robinson Crusoe which was indeed one of the most tedious books I've ever encountered.
Passages of my own term paper...it's shite.
Just finished 'Of Love and Hunger' by Julian McLaren-Ross. I'd never really heard of him until I heard a program on Radio 4 describing his bohemian lifestyle.
A really enjoyable gritty unsentimental read. I wish it had been made into a film.
I also recently read and enjoyed Of Love and Hunger.
Just finished Transit by Anna Seghers - set in Marseille in 1940. Put me in mind of The Outsider!
Cinema As Heresy, a book about the life and works of Pier Paolo Pasolini by Naomi Greene
I've ordered up Nine Stories by JD Salinger. I imagine it'll be very different to The Catcher in the Rye, but I've heard good things about it.
Just finished 'The First Men In The Moon' by H.G. Wells.
It was aces.
'The Chess Men' - Peter May. Third in the trilogy. Makes me long for a holiday in Lewis. Haven't been there since '66 before most of you were born.
When the Devil Drives - Christopher Brookmyre. I love his books.
Quote: AJGO @ September 2 2013, 11:55 AM BSTI read Treasure Island for the first time recently and loved it. Then against Harridan's good advice I read Robinson Crusoe which was indeed one of the most tedious books I've ever encountered.
Honestly, don't you know I'm always right? 
It's a dreadful book, isn't it? Endless detail about fruit storage and tree felling topped off with colonialist, puritan preaching. Blech.
I'm currently reading 'Byron in Love' which is a bit of a sappy biography, but the only thing my local library had about Byron.
Quote: AJGO @ September 2 2013, 11:55 AM BSTI read Treasure Island for the first time recently and loved it.
Has anyone read the Andrew Motion sequel? Is it worth giving a go?
I am usually dubious of literary bodysnatching, but I do like a good pirate yarn.
Quote: Harridan @ September 19 2013, 10:02 PM BSTI'm currently reading 'Byron in Love' which is a bit of a sappy biography,
Given Byron's love life that sounds like a wasted opportunity.
Quote: Tursiops @ September 20 2013, 12:26 PM BSTGiven Byron's love life that sounds like a wasted opportunity.
The biographer keeps hinting at some kind of family curse and has written his childhood like a slightly lame Defoe/Dickens crossbreed.
Quote: Tursiops @ September 20 2013, 12:26 PM BSTI am usually dubious of literary bodysnatching, but I do like a good pirate yarn.
Did you know that yesterday was National Speak like a Pirate Day?