What are you reading tonight?

[Wandering Willy]

Where do you lot find the time to read when on holiday? I take loads of books, and half the time don't even open the cover.

Perhaps they don't spend their time poncing around shopping for £400 jackets.

[Prufrock]

Where do you lot find the time to read when on holiday? I take loads of books, and half the time don't even open the cover.

Perhaps they don't spend their time poncing around shopping for £400 jackets.

Of a two-week holiday we'll probably give four or five days to going 'doing stuff', be it off in a coach, on tours, around archaeological sites or pissing monasteries. The rest is just by the pool. So from 10-5 the routine is pretty much 'read until I get too hot, clod myself in the pool/sea for half an hour to cool down, sit drying for 15 mins, repeat'. Unfortunately it was so hot and humid this time that I could only read about 15 minutes in every hour!

[William the White]

Off to Stratford on Avon tomorrow for a new production of Troilus and Cressida. Neither I nor my wife have ever seen or read the play, so spent much of this afternoon reading it aloud. Got up to the end of Act IV - one more to go tomorrow morn.

It's got an excellent comic character, the uncle of Cressida, and a totally stupid and doltish Ajax, who is only happy when fighting in a brainless and bloody manner. And high flown poetry bouncing between the two lovers in and out of bedroom.

So we're in with a chance of following the story, at least, come tomorrow.

For me, apart from any intrinsic pleasure, it's another one off the list - only seven more to bag the Complete Works...

[Harry Genshaw]

Off to Stratford on Avon tomorrow for a new production of Troilus and Cressida. Neither I nor my wife have ever seen or read the play, so spent much of this afternoon reading it aloud. Got up to the end of Act IV - one more to go tomorrow morn.

It's got an excellent comic character, the uncle of Cressida, and a totally stupid and doltish Ajax, who is only happy when fighting in a brainless and bloody manner. And high flown poetry bouncing between the two lovers in and out of bedroom.

So we're in with a chance of following the story, at least, come tomorrow.

For me, apart from any intrinsic pleasure, it's another one off the list - only seven more to bag the Complete Works...

Out of interest Will (& downright noseyness ), which is your personal favourite?

[William the White]

Off to Stratford on Avon tomorrow for a new production of Troilus and Cressida. Neither I nor my wife have ever seen or read the play, so spent much of this afternoon reading it aloud. Got up to the end of Act IV - one more to go tomorrow morn.

It's got an excellent comic character, the uncle of Cressida, and a totally stupid and doltish Ajax, who is only happy when fighting in a brainless and bloody manner. And high flown poetry bouncing between the two lovers in and out of bedroom.

So we're in with a chance of following the story, at least, come tomorrow.

For me, apart from any intrinsic pleasure, it's another one off the list - only seven more to bag the Complete Works...

Out of interest Will (& downright noseyness ), which is your personal favourite?

I'll never be able to decide that... I have a kind of shortlist of personal favourites, it's true... but, it seems to me, even the very worst of shakespeare (Henry VIII in my journey so far) has redeeming features of imagination or characterisation or poetry...

But my shortlist includes Macbeth, Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer's Night Dream and The Tempest... This shortlist is subject to constant additions and subtractions, often according to the productions I've recently seen...

Best I can do, HG...

[William the White]

I've just started The World That Never Was - a history of Anarchists and the secret agents that pursued them in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

I seem to be avoiding novels at the moment...

[BWFC76]

"Thundersqueak" by Ramsey Duke.

Certainly gets you thinking about Society and other things ....

[lovethesmellofnapalm]

"Bring up the Bodies" Hillary Mandel is my summer read
Brilliant

[TANGODANCER]

Just read " Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The lost years". Yet another band-waggon book that didn't need writing. Forget it.

[bobo the clown]

I've just read (re-read in 4 cases) the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. All 6 books of the trilogy. Even the Eoin Colfer one which did actually stand up to reading.

[Prufrock]

I've only read the first four. Never read anything as funny. The babel fish proving god exists and therefore doesn't exist then for an encore proving black equals white and getting run over on a zebra crossing bit will stay with me forever.

[TANGODANCER]

I'm reading The Ambler Warning by Ludlum. Must say the plot is very Bourne-ish up to now. Read quite a lot of his stuff since The Osterman Weekend which was long, long ago and far away.

[Worthy4England]

I'm reading The Ambler Warning by Ludlum. Must say the plot is very Bourne-ish up to now. Read quite a lot of his stuff since The Osterman Weekend which was long, long ago and far away.

Coulda sworn I posted a reply to this, once over. Looks like it disappeared.

The Ambler Warning is pretty good, like most of Ludlum's they're nearly all "Bournesque" - it wasn't entirely his own work, think it was finished off by Eric Van? Von Lustbader who now writes the Bourne stories or Gayle Lyndes who writes the other "Ludlum" books these days.

[Lord Kangana]

Try the where are you going thread. You're not mad yet.

[Worthy4England]

Try the where are you going thread. You're not mad yet.

Ahhhhh. Right.

[TANGODANCER]

I'm reading The Ambler Warning by Ludlum. Must say the plot is very Bourne-ish up to now. Read quite a lot of his stuff since The Osterman Weekend which was long, long ago and far away.

Coulda sworn I posted a reply to this, once over. Looks like it disappeared.

The Ambler Warning is pretty good, like most of Ludlum's they're nearly all "Bournesque" - it wasn't entirely his own work, think it was finished off by Eric Van? Von Lustbader who now writes the Bourne stories or Gayle Lyndes who writes the other "Ludlum" books these days.

I read The Road to Gandolfo once. It was so differernt I could hardly believe Ludlum wrote it.

[TANGODANCER]

Try the where are you going thread. You're not mad yet.

Ahhhhh. Right.

My fault Worthy for posting it there. If you're okay with it I'll delete those posts to save confusion..

[Worthy4England]

I'm reading The Ambler Warning by Ludlum. Must say the plot is very Bourne-ish up to now. Read quite a lot of his stuff since The Osterman Weekend which was long, long ago and far away.

Coulda sworn I posted a reply to this, once over. Looks like it disappeared.

The Ambler Warning is pretty good, like most of Ludlum's they're nearly all "Bournesque" - it wasn't entirely his own work, think it was finished off by Eric Van? Von Lustbader who now writes the Bourne stories or Gayle Lyndes who writes the other "Ludlum" books these days.

I read The Road to Gandolfo once. It was so differernt I could hardly believe Ludlum wrote it.

Yes - That one was a bit different and probably Road to Omaha too.

I've read quite a few of the ones authored by others after his death, generally I think they're a bit "mixed". Reasonable books in their own right, but not quite a precise and cleverly constructed as the ones by the man himself.

And yes no probs with deleting the other one.

[thebish]

I've just read the first of Edward Marston's Kings Evil series - very gentle, but enjoyable...

I picked them at random from the local library's ebook lending section... of course they come in epub format so you have to accidentally strip the DRM and convert them to mobi before you can load them on your Kindle - but - hey - that's what libraries are for isn't it? free books...

this is the blurb..

Set in 17th century Restoration London, this set of three colourful historical mysteries by Edward Marston is sure to enthral. Starring detective Christopher Redmayne and his friend Jonathan Bale as they attempt to unravel several complex and dangerous mysteries, The King’s Evil, The Amorous Nightingale and The Repentant Rake are packed with skilfully portrayed historical detail and are brilliantly evocative. Full of brutal murder, kidnap and plenty of excitement, crime is rife in London and it is Redmayne’s job to put an end to it.


he has quite a nice turn of phrase at times..

I quite liked - "The sun buttered the fields" f'rinstance!

[Harry Genshaw]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Family-Death-Fo ... 079&sr=8-1

Very good stuff

5 chapters into this. Beltin read so far..