[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[osgood]

Set the night 0n fire
Robby kreiger
very good

 

[Mexican Seagull]

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, a very spiritual book/also father son - stunningly beautifully written, one of those to enjoy a few pages at a time.

 

[jamie (not that one)]

On the Road, Kerouac. Sublime.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Going on the turn by Danny Baker. Enjoying it greatly.

 

[Barry Izbak]

Two weeks ago we were in Whitby and inspired by all the local connections, and never having read Dracula by Bram Stoker (or any other "classics") I bought a copy.

Its terrific. The language (1870s) is a bit hard to follow at times, but the story and the horror is really good. When I've finished it I'm going to look up a classic old movie version of this story. Perhaps Peter Cushing or Christopher Lee.

Are there any other classic novels that NSC would recommend?

 

[HantsSeagull]

Just finished Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris
and just starting To Catch a King by Charles Spencer

 

[Beach Hut]

China Road - Rob Gifford

 

[Farfocel]

Weapons of math destruction - Cathy o'neill. Examples of faulty algorithms used in US.

 

[Don Quixote]

False Gods - Graham McNeil

 

[Klaas]

Two weeks ago we were in Whitby and inspired by all the local connections, and never having read Dracula by Bram Stoker (or any other "classics") I bought a copy.

Its terrific. The language (1870s) is a bit hard to follow at times, but the story and the horror is really good. When I've finished it I'm going to look up a classic old movie version of this story. Perhaps Peter Cushing or Christopher Lee.

Are there any other classic novels that NSC would recommend?

It's good isn't it?
Give Wuthering Heights a shot. Also, a bit of Hardy, Return of the Native or Mayor of Casterbridge.

Oh and Dickens. Great Expectations?

 

[Gwylan]

Are there any other classic novels that NSC would recommend?

Try anything by Dickens. I found them a hard slog when I was young but have been reading them over the past few years and they're a great read. Pickwick Papers is very easy to get into and is the funniest but they're all well plotted with some comic moments in all of them.

Apart from that: Tom Jones is one of the most fiendishly plotted novels I've ever read ... but it all hangs together superbly. I'd also recomment Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone (one of the first detective novels) and The Woman in White, very atmospheric.

 

[Seagull on the Hill]

The stable boy of Auschwitz - Henry Oster
An autobiographical account of a Jewish boy's fight to survive the Holocaust.
Harrowing at times but ultimately uplifting.

 

[Beach Hut]

Slow Trains Around Spain - Tom Chesshyre

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Who isn't a sucker for books based in Brighton town? Mr Amazon just brought me this 400 pager written by Martin Webb, co-founder of the C-Side Leisure Group of local pubs, clubs and restaurants. Did I mention that his co-co-founder sits in my row in the NS, along with his son? Nice lads. Anyways, back to the book: will report back in due course

 

[Beach Hut]

Where the Indus is Young - Dervla Murphy

 

[amexer]

Stone Alone Bill Wyman

 

[sussex_guy2k2]

Dune - the sci fi fantasy books that they’ve started making films about.

I wasn’t too keen on the first film, although that was in part because of it being a Part 1, but the books are brilliantly written and thoroughly engaging.

 

[Beach Hut]

Turning Back the Sun - Colin Thubron

 

[Beach Hut]

An Island Parish - Nigel Farrell

 

[Swimboy64]

Legacy James Kerr