What book are you currently reading?

[Thomk]

In Leiston in Suffolk?

That's the one!

 

[compo]

That's the one!

Westward Ho, Leiston!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

That's the one!

One of my college lecturers was on the board of governors and we went on a field trip there. It was... interesting.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Our bookshelves would appear to have a lot in common. I have been a huge Mark Twain fan all my life.

Whenever I see a copy of Huck Finn in a second hand shop bookshop I buy it so I have a decent stock to give to friends. Twain and Wodehouse are the writers I aspire to, but will always fall short of. Hell, I've only just learned how to join words with a dash!

 

[hoopdriver]

Whenever I see a copy of Huck Finn in a second hand shop bookshop I buy it so I have a decent stock to give to friends. Twain and Wodehouse are the writers I aspire to, but will always fall short of. Hell, I've only just learned how to join words with a dash!

huckleberry Finn - the great American novel. My brother and
I gave read it so many times we can practically recite it

 

[Andrew_Culture]

huckleberry Finn - the great American novel. My brother and
I gave read it so many times we can practically recite it

Wonderful, I just looked on YouTube for clips of the Canadian / German dramatisation I remember from my childhood and found this interesting looking study guide thing (I haven't watched it all yet)


View: http://youtu.be/8sBQg4fZ-ho

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Just finished HHhH and have started on The Kindly Ones

 

[BrianEvesham]

The Shardlake series by C J Sansom

Dissolution by C. J. Sansom.

 

[Doseone]

Yes, he's hard work.

Except Ivan Denisovich, which is reasonably easy to read albeit the subject matter isn't.

I've just started Johannes Cabal The Necromancer by Jonathan Howard.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Just finished reading a book about John Gotti and either going to read the new Andy McNab or the new Jack Coughlin book next.

 

[nappadang]

Just finished HHhH and have started on The Kindly Ones

HhHH is sitting on my book shelf next in line to be read. Did you enjoy joy it?

 

[Bollo]

Made a start on August 1914 by Solzhenitsyn, bloody hard work unlike most of his other books that I loved. Vry unlike me I had to give up on it but will go back to it sometime. About to start on A Captain's Duty (about the captain of a ship that gets hijacked)

Aye. I've got a liking for Russian Literature and History (translated unfortunately) but Solzhenitsyn is a difficult one. The Gulag archipelago is one of my favourite books and full of bitterness and righteous anger, but away from his personal experiences I think he can be a pretty turgid writer.
Not everyone's samovar of tea, but Mikhail Bulgakov is the man. Anyone who has the cajones to write to Stalin asking to leave the country because his works kept getting banned has my admiration. Its still a bit of a mystery why Stalin didn't off him.

 

[Aperitif]

Aye. I've got a liking for Russian Literature and History (translated unfortunately) but Solzhenitsyn is a difficult one. The Gulag archipelago is one of my favourite books and full of bitterness and righteous anger, but away from his personal experiences I think he can be a pretty turgid writer.
Not everyone's samovar of tea, but Mikhail Bulgakov is the man. Anyone who has the cajones to write to Stalin asking to leave the country because his works kept getting banned has my admiration. Its still a bit of a mystery why Stalin didn't off him.

Stalin stallin'? I bet Mik was Stalinglad!

 

[Thomk]

One of my college lecturers was on the board of governors and we went on a field trip there. It was... interesting.

Gotta give me more than that...

 

[Mattonsea]

The Mistletoe Bride by Kate Mosse