The BOOKS thread... what you reading?

[kabe]

Joe Abercrombie's First Law series, for the second time.  I've never lost my love for escaping into fantasy...and JA writes it so, so well.

[Whirlwind]

Just finishing up a new, well reviewed bestseller dealing with The Troubles:



The book is ostensibly about a missing person, sort of like a "Gone Girl" story; however, the book does cover all the "greatest hits" of The Troubles. I definitely see a movie in the making of this book. Has a suffering family countered with the "glamorous" bomb girl Dolours Price. A very easy and quick read. And very sad.

[Ghosttrain]

''greatest hits'' of The Troubles................what a Crass statement ..........

[Whirlwind]

''greatest hits'' of The Troubles................what a Crass statement ..........

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That's why I used "".

Any good writer (and reader) would know the term "greatest hits" is a very sarcastic use of the phrase. If you were reviewing a book about the Mafia, one could also say, "the book covers the "greatest hits" of the Mafia." The use of quotation marks around greatest hits makes the reader see the disgust the writer sees behind those hits.

I also used quotation marks when I wrote "glamorous" bomb girl Dolours Price. You can't see what those quotation marks are signifying? Let me clue you in: it is a disgust for anyone involved in those bad times...either side.

[Master Ray]

Big re-read of the brilliant 'Get In The Van' by Henry Rollins, a book I turn back to again and again.

[lostockboy]

Big re-read of the brilliant 'Get In The Van' by Henry Rollins, a book I turn back to again and again.

If you ever get chance to see his spoken word performances then do so as that guy can talk none stop but there's never a dull sentence.   

[Master Ray]

Big re-read of the brilliant 'Get In The Van' by Henry Rollins, a book I turn back to again and again.

If you ever get chance to see his spoken word performances then do so as that guy can talk none stop but there's never a dull sentence.

yup, seen three of them and I wish I'd done more.

[Wessexy Witch]

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

[Ghosttrain]

''No More Sad Refrains''by Clinton Heylin,biography of Sandy Denny one of ,if not the best female singer/songwriters this country ever produced (imho)...died far too young  ......

[Ghosttrain]

''Hell's Angels The Life And Times of Sonny Barger and The Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club''...a cracking,fast paced well written book.....far superior to the Hunter S.Thompson book (which is also a good read)..

[Whirlwind]

Just finishing up TEN MEN DEAD -- a detailed account of the 1981 Irish hunger strike. Sad.

But the book holds nothing back and does give accounts of what those who died on hunger strike did to get into prison. They weren't angels.

[Simon73]

La serva e il lottatore
La sirvienta y el luchador, 2011 (Novel)
di Horacio Castellanos Moya

not sure of the english title of this

great book scary stuff.....................

[Simon73]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horacio_Castellanos_Moya

[Ghosttrain]

All The Madmen by Clinton Heylin,tells the story of six stars who travelled to the edge of sanity.......some never made it back,an excellent well researched book as always with Heylin.....

[Whirlwind]

Just finished reading Irvine Welsh's TRAINSPOTTING series with the final two books:



I didn't like the direction Welsh took some of these characters (Begbie?); but the final two books were fun, easy reads and I am sad to see the Trainspotting characters' tales come to an end.