What are you reading now?

[Gozu]

Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson

It's funny I bought this Hunter S. Thompson book around the time I moved into my new place and it ended up in a pile of books that went untouched for about five years. A few months ago I stumbled across it to my surprise not even remembering buying it in the first place and excitedly began reading.

I have to admit despite my limited reading of Thompson's work I rate Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as probably my favourite movie and my brother and I spent years quoting lines from the movie at each other. Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro were fantastic in it. Now I realise Depp was playing a somewhat exaggerated version of Thompson but it was hilarious none the less and the real person became a fascination to me.

This book which was released in 2003 a couple of years before his death is more a loose collection of letters and stories from his life acting somewhat as a memoir with a focus on his rebellion against authority.

It was an interesting read but perhaps not essential reading for a HST fan but one story near the end about paranoid hallucinations he was having later in his life was quite sad.

[Jimmy_041]

An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942

by Peter Grose

Interesting read following my visit and Dad served in Darwin during WWII

[Magellan]

[Jimmy_041]

Just beautiful

[Magellan]

Just beautiful

I'm sure one of those 'recently discovered' poems was 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud'.

[Magellan]

[Wedgie]

The inspirational story of my favourite athlete in the last 20 years.

[mighty_tiger_79]

Mark Seymour
Thirteen tonne theory

Life inside Hunters.

[mighty_tiger_79]

George Orwell
1984

[Corona Man]

Got about a quarter of the way through this belter on the way to Singapore. Cracking read!

[DOC]

Only played 22 games for West Coast. An entire book is a bit over the top.

[DOC]

The English Girl by Daniel Silva.

So glad I found this author and this series of books (Gabriel Allon).

[Jimmy_041]

[Pseudo]

I'm learning some new swear words!

[DOC]

Putain me.

Any good or merde?

[Pseudo]

Currently 4 chapters in to "Prophet Song" by Paul Lynch.

It is a very hard book to read. Minimal use of paragraphs, and no use of quotation marks whatsoever. Any consecutive string of sentences might contain dialogue between two or more characters, mixed in with exposition. Much focus is required to work out who is saying what to whom. Because of this simple stylistic choice, what might have been an interesting novel just comes across as artsy fartsy claptrap.

Yet this work won the Booker Prize in 2023.

[DOC]

I’m surprised there are.chapters given there are no paragraphs.

Read your post and did a bit of research. I have to conclude that your artsy fartsy clap trap assertion is on the money.

I have just recently finished the first two books in the Cormaron Strike series by Robert Galbraith aka J K Rowling.

So far excellent.

[Pseudo]

Just finished "Exhalation" by Ted Chiang. Nine short stories of varying length. The shortest only 4 pages, the longest over 100. Each taking a philosophical concept from science(-fiction) and building a world upon it. Time travel, entropy, creationism, artificial life, parallel universes and free will.

There is a blurb on the front of the novel by Barack Obama, which reads "Will make you think, grapple with big questions, and feel more human". I have to agree with that.

[woodublieve12]

i would like to say reading, but i am listening to the game of thrones books. Up to the 4th book, half way through. Probably the weakest of them all so far. But enjoying it.