What are you reading tonight?

[KeyserSoze]

Finished The Pyschopath Test by Jon Ronson this week. Very enjoyable and very readable book, though seems very skittish in terms of its stream of thought. Often jumps around without a seeming link. Well worth a read though, and now I'm currently ploughing through So you've been publicly shamed, his latest book.

Be interested to know what you think of this K. I read an extract from it in the Guardian a while back. Looks a good read

I was a little disappointed Harry, I have to say. Not because it's a bad book - still very readable and perfect travel reading - but because i'd also read the extracts that were published and had high hopes. However, as I found with The Psychopath Test, it's a bit all over the place. Lots of interesting ideas are brought up, discussed briefly then dismissed/never mentioned again, and that jars somewhat. It feels more like a collection of independent articles rather than a cohesive narrative.

Having said that though, it is still very readable and very interesting in places, so would recommend it.

[Bruce Rioja]

Ahead of Go Set a Watchman coming out, I'm currently re-reading Mockingbird, and what an absolute pleasure it is.

Michael Gove is a speccy cock!

[Hoboh]

One to read bish if your looking

Good vibrations, coast to coast by Harley.
Author Tom Cunliffe

[KeyserSoze]

Ahead of Go Set a Watchman coming out, I'm currently re-reading Mockingbird, and what an absolute pleasure it is.

Michael Gove is a speccy cock!

Wall Street Journal has just published the first chapter of Go Set a a Watchman, if you cannae wait.

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[Bijou Bob]

Ahead of Go Set a Watchman coming out, I'm currently re-reading Mockingbird, and what an absolute pleasure it is.

Michael Gove is a speccy cock!

I believe the bird dies in the end......

[Bruce Rioja]

Ahead of Go Set a Watchman coming out, I'm currently re-reading Mockingbird, and what an absolute pleasure it is.

Michael Gove is a speccy cock!

I believe the bird dies in the end......

If Scout dies at the end, I will track you down. You c*nt. You do understand this?

[Dujon]

My wife's sister and her husband were cleaning out their roof space a couple of weeks ago and this involved getting rid of 200 or so books. She kindly asked if I'd be interested in any. Being an insomniac who reads a lot I said "Yes, please". So they visited the weekend before last and brought with them 20 books they thought might be of particular interest to me. Among them were a few of interest and the others unknown, so they will be at the end of the queue.

The book I'm currently reading from that lot is John Wyndham's The Chrysalids. Now, I'm sure that I read this as a teenager but nothing, absolutely nothing, rings a bell. As TANGO mentioned a while ago, it's like reading a new book. Wyndham writes well and there's a fair bit of 'moralizing' in it; that though is its reason for existence. He combines a ripping yarn with a central idea built around differences between people and between beliefs. I like it.

[LeverEnd]

My wife's sister and her husband were cleaning out their roof space a couple of weeks ago and this involved getting rid of 200 or so books. She kindly asked if I'd be interested in any. Being an insomniac who reads a lot I said "Yes, please". So they visited the weekend before last and brought with them 20 books they thought might be of particular interest to me. Among them were a few of interest and the others unknown, so they will be at the end of the queue.

The book I'm currently reading from that lot is John Wyndham's The Chrysalids. Now, I'm sure that I read this as a teenager but nothing, absolutely nothing, rings a bell. As TANGO mentioned a while ago, it's like reading a new book. Wyndham writes well and there's a fair bit of 'moralizing' in it; that though is its reason for existence. He combines a ripping yarn with a central idea built around differences between people and between beliefs. I like it.

I read that as a kid as my dad had a few JW paperbacks from his teenage years. My favourite was The Kraken Wakes, but I also don't remember The Chrysalids. I should read more sci-fi as I love it on the screen, but it rarely occurs to me as a reading genre.

[Bruce Rioja]

Well, apparently 105,000 copies of Go Set a Watchman were bought/ordered/downloaded yesterday, and my hardback edition gets delivered today.
Can we have a 'no spoilers' policy on this one please?

[bobo the clown]

Well, apparently 105,000 copies of Go Set a Watchman were bought/ordered/downloaded yesterday, and my hardback edition gets delivered today.
Can we have a 'no spoilers' policy on this one please?

I don't know how much those who queued out & got their edition at midnight of the day of release paid ... but it was in Sainsbury's yesterday morning for £9.60.

Oh & Bruce ..... the Butler did it. The BLACK Butler.

[TANGODANCER]

Bought a couple of interesting books off a charity stall today: E.H Gombrich's The story of Art, 13th edition (seems to have been published about 1977). 500 pages and many illustarations. Not a one sitting read but a great reference work. and..
"Oh Help" The making of an Archbishop, by Mario Conte (Archbishop Emeritus of Glasgow) . Not a new work, written in 2001, but looks like a worthwhile read.
At 99p for the pair, how could I resist?

[General Mannerheim]

Ahead of Go Set a Watchman coming out, I'm currently re-reading Mockingbird, and what an absolute pleasure it is.

Michael Gove is a speccy cock!

Just read it myself for the first time on holiday. Amazing. I was properly mortified they found him guilty!!

[Bruce Rioja]

Ahead of Go Set a Watchman coming out, I'm currently re-reading Mockingbird, and what an absolute pleasure it is.

Michael Gove is a speccy cock!

Just read it myself for the first time on holiday. Amazing. I was properly mortified they found him guilty!!

I found the verdict to be sadly and awfully inevitable. Hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I did though, General.

[General Mannerheim]

I did. And I watched the Gregory peck film version ont flight home!

[clapton is god]

There was some considerable hype earlier this year about A Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks. I finally got around to reading it.

The book is an absolute gem. Beautifully written, almost poetic at times, and gives a solid insight into a sheep farmers life in the Lake District. It is full of joy and sadness and life and death. Well up to all the hype and well worth a read.

[Bruce Rioja]

Have any of you read a book called The Kitchen House? A colleague implores me to read it, but she's not someone that I'd normally turn to for literature recco's.

[Prufrock]

Week away I managed to finish The Social Contract by Rousseau that I've had staring at me for years and which took about two months to get through. At 140 pages! Interesting but, very heavy going. I then tore through Brideshead Revisted and absolutely loved it. Right up there I think as one of my favourite novels. Beautiful command of language, sharp, nostalgic, melancholic - brilliant. Scoop and The Loved Ones now on order.

Now catching up on a few issues of the LRB (we're into June so I'm feeling noble) before jumping into some Hitch with Love, Poverty and War.

[Vertigo]

Just finished Aussie Grit, the Mark Webber autobiography. Great read as an F1 fan. Also, it reignited and confirmed my unfavorable views toward Vettel, Horner and Marko, so that's a plus.

[Bruce Rioja]

50 pages in to Go Set a Watchman. Brilliantly written but no discernable tale as of yet. Oh, and Jem's dead. I expect we'll come to that bit.

[bobo the clown]

50 pages in to Go Set a Watchman. Brilliantly written but no discernable tale as of yet. Oh, and Jem's dead.I expect we'll come to that bit.

Spoiler Alert.

ffs. I may as well not read it now. How very dare you ?