moniton Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 Yes, with a stoical nature I read the whole lot. Enjoyed the first part, with the boys breaking into the ball game but it was a no from me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 23 minutes ago, moniton said: Now onto "The Young Team" by Graeme Armstrong. I read that last year and thought it was excellent. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 13 minutes ago, moniton said: Yes, with a stoical nature I read the whole lot. Enjoyed the first part, with the boys breaking into the ball game but it was a no from me. No fucking way would I read a 1000 page book if I wasn't enjoying it. I would have patched it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 Yes, with a stoical nature I read the whole lot. Enjoyed the first part, with the boys breaking into the ball game but it was a no from me.I often quit books part way through if I think they're shite. The latest victim was Nostromo by Joseph Conrad, 120 pages or so was enough for me. No point wasting time on something you're not enjoying. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 I’ve only ever quit one book: “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 I finished "Dune" recently. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Are the sequels worth checking out? I'm tempted to pick up "Messiah". Even more recently I finished "The Expendable Man" by Dorothy Hughes. Really terrific. A 100% certified page-turner; I was totally pulled in and fired through it in two or three nights. I think I might have preferred it to "In A Lonely Place". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saigon Raider Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 I finish every book I start (now I think about it, I don’t really know why) except for Catch 22 - given up on it twice. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesP_81 Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 41 minutes ago, Saigon Raider said: I finish every book I start (now I think about it, I don’t really know why) except for Catch 22 - given up on it twice. Read catch 22 last year, thought it was excellent . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnash Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 1 hour ago, Saigon Raider said: I finish every book I start (now I think about it, I don’t really know why) except for Catch 22 - given up on it twice. I'm the same, the only book I've ever willingly ditched is Catch 22. Just couldn't get into it - a load of rambling nonsense. A major major major major disappointment. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesP_81 Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 Just finished Dave Grohl's The storyteller. Barely a chapter went by without me being inspired to dig out old records , go looking for obscure ones , pick up the guitar or get behind the drum kit. A brilliant read. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 3 hours ago, Saigon Raider said: I finish every book I start (now I think about it, I don’t really know why) except for Catch 22 - given up on it twice. I gave up on it twice as well. Finished Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh last night. It wasn't his best. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig fae the Vale Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 The Ghosts of Cathkin Park by Mark McEwan. Fascinating and horrifying in equal measure. Absolutely incredible how a club with the stature of Third Lanark just went to the wall due to crooks running the place. Well worth a read. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 18 hours ago, yoda said: I finished "Dune" recently. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Are the sequels worth checking out? I'm tempted to pick up "Messiah". Even more recently I finished "The Expendable Man" by Dorothy Hughes. Really terrific. A 100% certified page-turner; I was totally pulled in and fired through it in two or three nights. I think I might have preferred it to "In A Lonely Place". Worth reading the second at least to see how it subverts the white saviour trope that people were losing the head about a few months back. Whether you read the rest depends on whether you want to see how weird it gets. Definitely stop at the Frank Herbert books though don't read the ones written by his son. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 On 05/01/2022 at 18:28, mathematics said: I’ve only ever quit one book: “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand. I finished it. Well done. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 1 hour ago, Miguel Sanchez said: I finished it. Well done. Was it worth it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 12 minutes ago, mathematics said: Was it worth it? When ICTChris posted a thread about Zoom background bookcases I posted a picture with it visible and got no responses so on the whole probably not no. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul-r-cfc Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 I read that last year and thought it was excellent.Am about a third of the way through it and loving it as well. Had heard very good things from a lot of people. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 2 hours ago, paul-r-cfc said: Am about a third of the way through it and loving it as well. Had heard very good things from a lot of people. It was one of those books that was a page turner for me. I went through it quite quickly because I always wanted to see what would happen next. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig fae the Vale Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 The radium Girls by Kate Moore. A very interesting subject, but the book itself was too long and got very repetitive. Could have benefitted from a good editor. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 15 hours ago, NotThePars said: Worth reading the second at least to see how it subverts the white saviour trope that people were losing the head about a few months back. Whether you read the rest depends on whether you want to see how weird it gets. Definitely stop at the Frank Herbert books though don't read the ones written by his son. Awesome I'll pick up the second one and take it from there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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