What are you reading tonight?

[Dujon]

And Dujon, I've read the book. We're recommending it to Brucie.

My apologies to you both.

[Gary the Enfield]

Tell us, Monty - I'm beginning to think I've driven everyone out... By having time to read for the first time in a good while and inflicting my tastes on the forum...

Anyway - humour next off the Shelf of Shame... Howard Jacobson's The Finkler Question.

Today I'm reading OK magazine, followed by Chat, then Heat.

Did you know Jordan and Peter Andre had split up?

You at the dentists, Worthy?

[Worthy4England]

Tell us, Monty - I'm beginning to think I've driven everyone out... By having time to read for the first time in a good while and inflicting my tastes on the forum...

Anyway - humour next off the Shelf of Shame... Howard Jacobson's The Finkler Question.

Today I'm reading OK magazine, followed by Chat, then Heat.

Did you know Jordan and Peter Andre had split up?

You at the dentists, Worthy?

I just thought I'd broaden the base of the conversation to help William not to think he's driven everyone off.

[Lord Kangana]

OK is quite clearly low rent, tabloid tittle-tattle.

I'm a Hello man myself.

[TANGODANCER]

I'm reading the original Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. It's a paperback version, released after the TV series, that I was lucky enough to find on a second-hand bookstall.

[Montreal Wanderer]

I'm reading the original Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. It's a paperback version, released after the TV series, that I was lucky enough to find on a second-hand bookstall.

I've read it a few times - significantly heavier going than the Elizabeth Taylor movie I guess you meant the second 'authentic' tv miniseries, not the young Roger Moore.

[TANGODANCER]

I'm reading the original Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. It's a paperback version, released after the TV series, that I was lucky enough to find on a second-hand bookstall.

I've read it a few times - significantly heavier going than the Elizabeth Taylor movie I guess you meant the second 'authentic' tv miniseries, not the young Roger Moore.

Yes, I should have said " reading again" as I've read the book a couple of times in the past. The BBC did a six-part coverage in 1996 and it was that I was referring to. Steven Waddington did a great job as Ivanhoe ad I'd happily see it again if I could find it. Scott's novel actually covers the period historically quite well .

[CAPSLOCK]

Not hard to find

Dodgy

http://isohunt.com/torrents/?ihq=ivanhoe+bbc

Legally

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s?ie=UTF8&tag=f ... lla-search

[TANGODANCER]

[quote="CAPSLOCK"]Not hard to find

Dodgy

http://isohunt.com/torrents/?ihq=ivanhoe+bbc

Legally

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s?ie=UTF8&tag=f ... lla-search[/quote

Cheers CAPS. I'll be having that.

[clapton is god]

It took me months to read The Kindly Ones! Started it in June and just completed it this week. A mesmerising and harrowing tale of the value of human life told though the eyes of an SS officer through the war. Truly horrifying at times but an essential read I think. A very hard read though, and not just the subject matter. Only four chapters, around a thousand pages of small type face, very few paragraph breaks and I saw at least one sentence that went on for a page and a half before we eventually arrived at the full stop!

In contrast I finished that just in time to pick up Lee Childs latest book, Worth Dying For. Another Jack Reacher book and another fantastic easy going story. You'll love it Tango!

Next in line is the new Michael Connelly book, The Reversal, which should be winging its way from Amazon any time now. If you like the detective genre and you've not tried the Harry Bosch series you really should!

[thebish]

It took me months to read The Kindly Ones! Started it in June and just completed it this week. A mesmerising and harrowing tale of the value of human life told though the eyes of an SS officer through the war. Truly horrifying at times but an essential read I think. A very hard read though, and not just the subject matter. Only four chapters, around a thousand pages of small type face, very few paragraph breaks and I saw at least one sentence that went on for a page and a half before we eventually arrived at the full stop!

When I was at Oxford, a systematic theology lecturer was waffling on about german theologians, and remarked that when reading books or articles of german theology the sentences are like huge grammatical rollercoasters, you hold on tight at the beginning of each sentence and let it carry you up and down and through twists and turns until, several pages later, you come to a stop with white knuckles and a haunted look of fear and excitement glued to your face....

[William the White]

It took me months to read The Kindly Ones! Started it in June and just completed it this week. A mesmerising and harrowing tale of the value of human life told though the eyes of an SS officer through the war. Truly horrifying at times but an essential read I think. A very hard read though, and not just the subject matter. Only four chapters, around a thousand pages of small type face, very few paragraph breaks and I saw at least one sentence that went on for a page and a half before we eventually arrived at the full stop!

When I was at Oxford, a systematic theology lecturer was waffling on about german theologians, and remarked that when reading books or articles of german theology the sentences are like huge grammatical rollercoasters, you hold on tight at the beginning of each sentence and let it carry you up and down and through twists and turns until, several pages later, you come to a stop with white knuckles and a haunted look of fear and excitement glued to your face....

Are you sure it's not a mixture of joyous relief and fading boredom?

[TANGODANCER]

In contrast I finished that just in time to pick up Lee Childs latest book, Worth Dying For. Another Jack Reacher book and another fantastic easy going story. You'll love it Tango!
Next in line is the new Michael Connelly book, The Reversal, which should be winging its way from Amazon any time now. If you like the detective genre and you've not tried the Harry Bosch series you really should!

Like Michael Connelly and I'll certainly get the latest Reacher. Read all the rest, some more than once.

[Harry Genshaw]

Reading 'Cries unheard' the Mary Bell story by Gita Sereny. It happened before I was born so it's not a case I know much about. The authors style is beginning to grate a bit though.

[thebish]

It took me months to read The Kindly Ones! Started it in June and just completed it this week. A mesmerising and harrowing tale of the value of human life told though the eyes of an SS officer through the war. Truly horrifying at times but an essential read I think. A very hard read though, and not just the subject matter. Only four chapters, around a thousand pages of small type face, very few paragraph breaks and I saw at least one sentence that went on for a page and a half before we eventually arrived at the full stop!

When I was at Oxford, a systematic theology lecturer was waffling on about german theologians, and remarked that when reading books or articles of german theology the sentences are like huge grammatical rollercoasters, you hold on tight at the beginning of each sentence and let it carry you up and down and through twists and turns until, several pages later, you come to a stop with white knuckles and a haunted look of fear and excitement glued to your face....

Are you sure it's not a mixture of joyous relief and fading boredom?

no - he was genuinely excited by Rudolph Bultmann and Ludwig Friedrich Otto Baumgarten-Crusius

[Lord Kangana]

Anyway, at the moment I'm reading "Massacre at Montsegur". French book about religious tolerance or something.

[thebish]

Anyway, at the moment I'm reading "Massacre at Montsegur". French book about religious tolerance or something.

is it any good?

[Lord Kangana]

First 30 or 40 pages have been very readable. Its about an area I like and a subject that I'm starting to get into, so I s'pose I'm a little predisposed to give it a favourable review. Its worth a peek if you've nowt else lined up.

After that I've got a book about the English conquest of much of France to read. Can't remember what its called, something like "English Conquest" bizzarly enough.

[William the White]

I'm on p257 - 50 more to go - of Howard Jacobson's The Finkler Question. I was talking to my wife earlier, saying it was good, but I wasn't that interested in its major theme - What does it mean to be Jewish now? And I wasn't convinced by any of its triumvirate of leading characters. It's a comic novel that has made me smile, and nod at its wit and cleverness, and is a pretty good book, keeps the pages turning, all in all, ok. But I was surprised it had made the Booker shortlist.

(We do actually have this kind of conversation while making the evening meal - veggie chilli, Italian red).

So - what do I know?

It won the Booker prize. I haven't read any of the others on the shortlist - but if this is the best, it's not looking like a great year...

[Prufrock]

Anyway, at the moment I'm reading "Massacre at Montsegur". French book about religious tolerance or something.

When is it from LK. Is it a current French view on religious tolerance. Sort of thing that interests me too. Might get it on order from the library after Geoffrey Robertson's The Justice Game arrives.