On my Kindle, I'm currently reading Running With The Firm by James Bannon, which is a true life account of a young copper going undercover to infiltrate football hooliganism.
I don't have the remotest interest in football at all and the only violence I like is comic-book stuff, so on both counts this book should actually be of no interest to me at all. But it is a compelling, riveting read and I'm zipping through it. It's one of those books I don't want to end.
Just finished Murakami's masterful Wind Up Bird Chronicles (again) and started Lee Child's Personal. Something of a contrast but they both have a place by my bedside and in my affections.
In the pipeline is William Boyd's Solo and Yoko Ogawa's Hotel Iris, as well as the rest of her book of related short stories, Revenge.
Are you a regular reader of a Empire TG or did you just buy the April edition '15 for the Planet Of Apes cover?
I've been an Empire reader since issue 1 but I have to be honest and say I think the quality of the magazine has dropped so massively over the last few years, I'm now seriously thinking of no longer buying it.
I actually think Total Film is now a better read, especially since they got rid of the column by the unfunny Richard Ayoade.
But to be frank I can't recall when I last read either magazine from cover to cover. I especially hate the issues that have the "Top 100 " lists which are just the most dull page fillers imaginable.
Are you a regular reader of a Empire TG or did you just buy the April edition '15 for the Planet Of Apes cover?
I've been an Empire reader since issue 1 but I have to be honest and say I think the quality of the magazine has dropped so massively over the last few years, I'm now seriously thinking of no longer buying it.
I actually think Total Film is now a better read, especially since they got rid of the column by the unfunny Richard Ayoade.
But to be frank I can't recall when I last read either magazine from cover to cover. I especially hate the issues that have the "Top 100 " lists which are just the most dull page fillers imaginable.
Heh heh - "Planet of the Apes". Love a running gag.
I've been a sporadic reader since (dammit) issue 2 - Mrs TG bought me a subscription for Christmas, otherwise I suppose I've bought four or five a year on and off. I agree that the quality dropped considerably but I think it's steadily climbing back up again. They seemed to stop being critical and everything was a love fest for a while.
You'll know that they devote a small section to soundtrack CDs every month. One time, for several months in a row they didn't feature "proper" film music, just song scores, and I was moved to write to them. I was however roundly ignored - and probably rightly so, as I think I was probably more scathing than the occasion warranted.
I'm the type who'll read anything. I'll stop films to see what's written on a sign on a wall behind the main action, even if it's utterly irrelevant.
I'm the type who'll read anything. I'll stop films to see what's written on a sign on a wall behind the main action, even if it's utterly irrelevant.
Did you ever see that fast scrolling list in one Simpsons episode? I slowed down the playback and one of the things in the list was "IF YOU ARE READING THIS YOU HAVE NO LIFE".
I am getting close to finishing La Joven de las Naranjas a fantastic book about a teenage boy who finds his father's letters about a young woman he was enchanted by. It is very authentic and quite beautiful to read (in Spanish). I'm still working on La Bruja de Portabelo also in Spanish but the other was easier to get through so far.
Still working slowly on The Last Argument of Kings and not sure if I will really want to finish it. Everything moves so slowly and I don't particularly care for all the minute details that the author gets into so much. If anyone else has finished this one please let me know if it is worth finishing.
I'm the type who'll read anything. I'll stop films to see what's written on a sign on a wall behind the main action, even if it's utterly irrelevant.
Did you ever see that fast scrolling list in one Simpsons episode? I slowed down the playback and one of the things in the list was "IF YOU ARE READING THIS YOU HAVE NO LIFE".
Made me laugh.
Yep - that's funny, and the odd gem like that is what keeps me watching them.
Another addition to the pipeline today is Iain Banks's last book The Quarry. Not sure I'm looking forward to it, but I'll give it a shot.
Little Girl Lost by Richard Aleas. Nearly finished with this hard boiled detective novel. The debut novel by Aleas which earned him a Shamus nomination. Good stuff.
Little Girl Lost by Richard Aleas. Nearly finished with this hard boiled detective novel. The debut novel by Aleas which earned him a Shamus nomination. Good stuff.
Loved that book...a very nice mystery, but I haven't read his follow up novel although it is still on my bookshelf.
Also waiting on the shelf are the Hard Case Crime editions of the novels Michael Crichton wrote under pen names back in the 60's /70's. I read Binary and Drug of Choice, but the others are on my to-do list.
Little Girl Lost by Richard Aleas. Nearly finished with this hard boiled detective novel. The debut novel by Aleas which earned him a Shamus nomination. Good stuff.
Loved that book...a very nice mystery, but I haven't read his follow up novel although it is still on my bookshelf.
Also waiting on the shelf are the Hard Case Crime editions of the novels Michael Crichton wrote under pen names back in the 60's /70's. I read Binary and Drug of Choice, but the others are on my to-do list.
I grabbed a handful the Hard Case books for my nook a while back when they were on sale for $1.99. including titles by Gardner, Collins and Aleas.
I just finished a stunning novel called FINDING JAKE by Bryan Reardon. It is about a tragic school shooting, but equally important, it is about parenting. Those who have raised children constantly question their parenting decisions they made while raising their children and how those decisions affected their children. It is a scary and profound book with a real tragedy at its core.
