What Are You Reading Now?

[The Good Michael]

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies- 50 pages is enough to read. It was fine, but the gag wore thin.

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter- Once again, the gag wore thin, but it was worth reading for the photoshopped pictures and some fun.


The Reapers are the Angels - Started out to be a good and unusual zombie book, but got a bit weird with a mutant human section. Still, at maybe 180 pages, why not?


Mike

[curious4]

What are you reading now?

Potemkin and Katherine the Great, by Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett and Great Tales of the Sea edited by William McFee (published sometime in the 1940s).

Personally I love ALL of Terry Pratchett´s books, but I suppose it depends on what kind of sense of humour you have - and you have to read a good deal between the lines.

Glad to see someone else has discovered The Uncommercial Traveller - hoping the chapter on Merchantile Jack etc will give me some support for my idea that "Jack" was a sailor.

Great thread this!

Best wishes
C4

[Robert]

You're welcome, Henry.

Dave, about 30 years ago I read some of Whitechurch's stories. I don't remember anything brilliant about them, but they were reasonable. You can hear a few here :

http://www.archive.org/details/BbcThrillingStoriesOfTheRailway05Eps

[Cogidubnus]

Rereading some of Edward Marston's Railway Detective series at the moment (helps to pass the time on buses) ... set in the 1850s with a Scotland Yard detective specialising in railway crime... not a bad read at all...

Dave

[Cogidubnus]

PS was an old boy of my school and always held up as something of an example to us...may have unfairly prejudiced me against him!
Dave

[Henry Flower]

Bartleby

Robert - thank you so much, I had no idea! Scofield is one of my very favourite actors, so I have to find a copy!

I'm indebted to you.

HF

[007]

Just read The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton this past weekend. Very good. Saw John Carter at the late show last night, so I'm thinking of rereading A Princess of Mars again.

[Robert]

Henry, there was a very good film with Paul Scofield :

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065452/

[Henry Flower]

Last night I re-read Herman Melville's great little novella Bartleby the Scrivener. Can't recommend it highly enough, a wonderfully comic but ultimately disturbing study of alienation and the strange world beyond normalcy.

[DVV]

Hi Beowulf, agreed, The Lodger is great. I can't think of a better novel inspired by JtR.

[Beowulf]

Well, I just started reading, (at night when I get home from work)The Lodger.

This book is great! I guess everyone has read it here? If not, I highly recommend to do so, because it does let you feel as if you are back in the day of the Whitechapel murderer, though a fictional take on it. Fog and made up persons and all, but with a very nice fact thrown in here and there and really absorbing, light reading.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could talk to some of the policmen's wives back then, to hear just what their husbands had to say after some of those ripper hunts?

[c.d.]

I just finished "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society." Set in London and the town of Guernsey in 1946. The whole book is a series of letters back and forth. The Literary Society is made up of the most wonderful characters who coped with the German occupation in World War II. Absolutely excellent writing. I really enjoyed it. Over 1,500 reviews on Amazon.

c.d.

[DGB]

Really excellent book. Have read all three in the series and eagerly await the fourth, later this year.

Anno Dracula by Kim Newman.

Delightful. And a much better bet for the identity of Jack than any artist - fictional character or no.

[Sally]

Anno Dracula by Kim Newman.

Delightful. And a much better bet for the identity of Jack than any artist - fictional character or no.

[Carol]

"The Life and Times of Sir Captain Reginald Hutchinson" by one Melvyn Fairclough.

You never cease to surprise me, mon ami.
Carol