Off Topic: Read any good books lately?

Currently reading The Revenant, will then watch the film again.

 

Last 2 books read -

Catch 22
Birdsong


Both amazing, but both read before (about 10 years ago).

 

I'd be interested to hear your view on the book. Not read it, but loved the film.
Awesome in Blu-ray.

 

Catch 22 is a brilliant book, not read Birdsong yet

 

How can you read birdsong ... are you touched?

 

Both are excellent imo. Well worth a read if you haven't

 

Agreed, but Catch 22 is much better

 

@Skylarker I'm 3/4rs through its a very good book, nothing amazing but we'll worth a read. I loved the film my fav of last year easily.

 

Yeah, I read Birdsong a decade ago on holiday in Ireland and I was slightly disappointed at the TV version.

 

Just finished Peter Ackroyd's first part of the history of England, Foundation. Really good writer. Just got his book on Chaucer today and going to start that next week.

 

The Sister Brothers. Nice western (sort of).

 

As I have to read technical and forensic reports as part of my job, and I am on holiday at the moment, I am reading lighter stuff. Currently reading some Scandinavian crime novels. Finished Nightmare last night and now reading The Hypnotist.

 

Some of the best books I read:

Catch 22
Slaughterhouse 5
War and Peace
Martin Chuzzlewit
Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett

 

I wonder what 'Catch 23' is going to be like?

 

In the end, I read The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway while away on holiday. Never read one of his books before but it was an excellent read. Such a simple yet sophisticated writer, the narrative flows and carries you along like the gentle waves I was bobbing up and down on in my pedalo. Great characterisation and interactions, which is what drives the book. I'm going to have a look at what else he's written.

 

I'ii try that. My late dad was a fan of Hemingway, but I just never got around to reading any.

 

(free on kindle)

You start off thinking this is an easy read, what's the big deal. Then all of a sudden his simple, yet masterful use of language just takes you off into great detail and description, and it's like a brilliant actor who makes everything look easy. There's a great chapter where he describes the main character's journey on the back of an open truck with a bunch of country pissheads, along rural Spain, to a town outside Pamplona which I could read over and over again, it's that well written.

 

I'm just about to finish 'The Lightless Sky' (amazing btw) and I've just bought 'Orphan X' - The latter seems to be getting some fantastic reviews recently so thought I'd give it a go.

 

I saw a lady reading a book titled "The cold war and color line" inside the tube. Too scared to engage her in conversation.
Any one read the book before?

 

Old Man and the Sea - short story. Outstanding.