leemond2008 Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 HA, yeah definitely not my kind of book then. I'm not very good with autobiographys at the best of times, I can just imagine Neil Youngs to get rather tiresome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 28, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted November 28, 2017 I love Neil Young, and I really enjoyed Jimmy McDonough's biography of him, so I was really looking forward to getting the story from the (crazy) horse's mouth. I'm about six chapters in, and so far I think it's utter shite. As MrDuck says, there's a lot about cars (yawn) - and his feckin' Pono system (double yawn), and it seems to have been written by a semiliterate ten year old with ADHD. Sorry Neil, can't see me getting through this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDuck Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 2 hours ago, mjmooney said: I love Neil Young, and I really enjoyed Jimmy McDonough's biography of him, so I was really looking forward to getting the story from the (crazy) horse's mouth. I'm about six chapters in, and so far I think it's utter shite. As MrDuck says, there's a lot about cars (yawn) - and his feckin' Pono system (double yawn), and it seems to have been written by a semiliterate ten year old with ADHD. Sorry Neil, can't see me getting through this one. I really loved it.... but the wife thought much the same as you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 (edited) On 8/31/2017 at 20:17, leemond2008 said: Get yourself on Goodreads.com, its brilliant. I set myself a challenge of 30 books for the year, I'm currently on 23 and I'm 4 books ahead of schedule, last year I set the challenge of 25 books and I hit 35 The books I've read so far this year J.Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas - 1864 Charles Portis - True Grit - 1968 Albert Camus - The Plague - 1947 John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men - 1937 Truman Capote - In Cold Blood - 1965 Ian Rankin - Knots & Crosses - 1987 Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle - 1962 Oakley Hall - Warlock - 1958 Ian Rankin - Hide and Seek - 1991 Shirley Jackson - The Birds Nest - 1954 Ray Celestin - The Axemans Jazz - 2014 Zecharia Sitchin - The Lost Book of Enki - 2001 James Herbert - The Rats - 1974 S. Elliot Brandis - Young Slasher Ian Rankin - Tooth and Nail - 1992 James Hogg - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - 1824 Margaret Atwood - Oryx & Crake - 2003 Charles Bukowski - Post Office - 1971 Jim Al-Khalili - Aliens: Science asks: Is there anyone out there? Lauren Beukes - Broken Monsters - 2014 Graeme Macrae Burnet - His Bloody Project - 2014 Stephen King - It - 1986 Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian - 1985 Just thought I'd add to my list that I put up here at the end of August, since then I've read Stefan Grabínski - The Dark Domain Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita - 1955 Michael Connelly - The Crossing - 2015 Charlotte Dacre - Zofloya, or the Moor - 1806 Vladimir Nabokov - Bend Sinister - 1947 George Orwell - 1984 - 1949 Steven Hall - The raw Shark Texts - 2007 Stefan Kiesbye - Your house is on fire, your children all gone - 2011 Elliott Chaze - Black Wings Has My Angel - 1953 Paul Trmblay - A Head Full of Ghosts - 2015 Max Ernst - Une Semaine de Bonté - 1934 (this is a bit of a cheat because its just pictures) John Farris - Son of the Endless Night - 1985 I'm just about to get started on The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, and I've got another 3 books to choose from after that, one bog standard horror, one old book from the early 1900's called The Gollem and finally The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession. If I can get 2 of them done before the year is out then I'll be quite happy with how this years reading has gone. Edited December 5, 2017 by leemond2008 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 5, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted December 5, 2017 A bit heavy on the horror (one for the "things you don't get" thread, for me), but otherwise that's a very interesting list. I've put down the Neil Young, possibly never to be picked up again. Finished the Joseph Kanon, liked it a lot (generic postwar espionage stuff, but good). For the Christmas season only, I've gone all 'cosy crime': Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 14 minutes ago, mjmooney said: A bit heavy on the horror (one for the "things you don't get" thread, for me), but otherwise that's a very interesting list. I wouldn't say its overly heavy on the horror, the books in there that I would class as horror would be The Rats, Young Slasher, IT, Broken Monsters (bit of a weird one to put into a category so I'll stick it in horror), son of the endless night and head full of ghosts, I wouldn't really class the two Shirley Jackson books as horror but even if you do then that's only 8 out of 35. I have gotta admit though, I'm getting a hankering to get back into the horror stuff, after just finishing Son of the Endless Night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V01 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Just finished Artemis by Andy Weir taking me up to 48 books for the year, 2 ahead of schedule to my target of 50. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 5, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted December 5, 2017 1 hour ago, leemond2008 said: I wouldn't say its overly heavy on the horror, the books in there that I would class as horror would be The Rats, Young Slasher, IT, Broken Monsters (bit of a weird one to put into a category so I'll stick it in horror), son of the endless night and head full of ghosts, I wouldn't really class the two Shirley Jackson books as horror but even if you do then that's only 8 out of 35. I have gotta admit though, I'm getting a hankering to get back into the horror stuff, after just finishing Son of the Endless Night. I think the last book I read in that genre was William Peter Blatty's "I Am Legion" (sequel to "The Exorcist"), in about 1985. Before that, it was one of the volumes of "The Pan Book of Horror Stories", when I was at school, 1960s. Just a genre that has no appeal to me - so 8 out of 35 (nearly 25%) seems pretty high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 23 minutes ago, mjmooney said: I think the last book I read in that genre was William Peter Blatty's "I Am Legion" (sequel to "The Exorcist"), in about 1985. Before that, it was one of the volumes of "The Pan Book of Horror Stories", when I was at school, 1960s. Just a genre that has no appeal to me - so 8 out of 35 (nearly 25%) seems pretty high. I've not read Legion for years, I've actually been looking at it quite a bit just lately meaning to re-read t. Good sequel that was. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted December 5, 2017 Moderator Share Posted December 5, 2017 Just finished "Suttree" and like most Cormac McCarthy there are patches where it's like reading through treacle and sudden lines that are as beautiful as anything you'll ever read - the ability to make you sympathise with the dignity of a character that shits himself twice during the novel is quite something - in the end, time in Suttree's company had become something I was very comfortable with and it's a book I'd recommend to anyone. For me it's his second best after The Road and a book that will make you want to read it slowly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 Ordered myself couple of books off amazon for the festive season. Not up to the standards of the hardened readers on here, but something that can keep my attention. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens Bram Stokers Dracula 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 12, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted December 12, 2017 Good companion reading for Vikings S5: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 24 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said: Ordered myself couple of books off amazon for the festive season. Not up to the standards of the hardened readers on here, but something that can keep my attention. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens Bram Stokers Dracula Ruge, those are both excellent books - of good standard too! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 40 minutes ago, Rodders said: Ruge, those are both excellent books - of good standard too! Good to hear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 2 hours ago, Rugeley Villa said: Ordered myself couple of books off amazon for the festive season. Not up to the standards of the hardened readers on here, but something that can keep my attention. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens Bram Stokers Dracula I thought Bram Stokers Dracula was great when I first read it, that was years and years ago, I've been meaning to re-read it again I'm going to finish Picture of Dorian Gray tonight, its been fantastic, a wee bit ghey for the era it was first published but fantastic nonetheless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Just started on this the other day, half way in and it is one hell of an interesting read so far! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 8 hours ago, AvfcRigo82 said: Just started on this the other day, half way in and it is one hell of an interesting read so far! Sounds interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 13 hours ago, leemond2008 said: I thought Bram Stokers Dracula was great when I first read it, that was years and years ago, I've been meaning to re-read it again I'm going to finish Picture of Dorian Gray tonight, its been fantastic, a wee bit ghey for the era it was first published but fantastic nonetheless I was book hunting the other night, and was just typing in loads of random shit into amazon. I found loads of books that would interest me, and plenty of others that I might like. I'm hoping this is the start of me starting to read again, because I really feel like I'm missing out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 9 hours ago, Rugeley Villa said: I was book hunting the other night, and was just typing in loads of random shit into amazon. I found loads of books that would interest me, and plenty of others that I might like. I'm hoping this is the start of me starting to read again, because I really feel like I'm missing out. What sort of genres are you looking at? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 5 minutes ago, leemond2008 said: What sort of genres are you looking at? Basically ive found myself searching for books of films, like ben hur, Rosemary's baby, exorcist, etc any films I've enjoyed I've just searched for the book. I'm into old fashioned horror books like Dracula etc, also the occult like Dennis Wheatley. War, slavery, found myself searching for middle eastern novels, Egyptian and all that kind of thing.basically a wide scope. Not sure that answers your question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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