maxxi Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 Just finished 'Penguins Stopped Play' - by Harry Thompson and about to start reading the Jo Nesbo books on OH's recommendation... and in which I am hoping for lots of snow and frozen vistas because It's so.. so... exhaustingly... hot... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/6528-what-is-east-dulwich-reading/page/9/#findComment-478969 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peckhamgatecrasher Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 How did you find Ps stopped play? I started it but didn't get very far. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/6528-what-is-east-dulwich-reading/page/9/#findComment-479040 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxi Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 It meanders but has a lot of charm and the end is quite moving, I suppose it helps if you like cricket and/or Thompson. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/6528-what-is-east-dulwich-reading/page/9/#findComment-479089 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmora Man Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 The Smiley trilogy (again) after watching Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy last week. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/6528-what-is-east-dulwich-reading/page/9/#findComment-479110 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RosieH Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 mockney piers Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> If you've ever considered getting into sci-fi> /fantasy or horror but don't know where to start> (or are afraid to ask you saddo!!) then this handy> flow chart might help> http://www.box.net/shared/static/a6omcl2la0ivlxsn3> o8m.jpg> > http://flowingdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/> Books-partial-954x624.pngThat's all well and good Mockers, but do any of them come with the kind of dust jacket that don't make you look like a 45 year old computer programmer who lives in his mum's basement? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/6528-what-is-east-dulwich-reading/page/9/#findComment-479137 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huguenot Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 Piersy is a 45 year old computer programmer... well, very almost ;-)This one makes Le Carre look like Sebastian Faulkshttp://www.johnlecarre.com/images/94t.jpg Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/6528-what-is-east-dulwich-reading/page/9/#findComment-479209 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxi Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 Simple, take the fly leaf cover from this...http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Bq5axqTAy_4/ThGY-OEJ_eI/AAAAAAAAC0Y/_MYrMsEyPd4/s1600/odyssey1.jpg...wrap it around your novelette of choice and you can read anything unobserved - including modern fantasy classics like this...http://farm1.static.flickr.com/166/346052293_66cd5ce765.jpg Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/6528-what-is-east-dulwich-reading/page/9/#findComment-479214 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StraferJack Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 I too wondered what was wrong with being 45 or a computer programmer Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/6528-what-is-east-dulwich-reading/page/9/#findComment-479271 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankito Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 I am reading The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/6528-what-is-east-dulwich-reading/page/9/#findComment-479325 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RosieH Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 StraferJack Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> I too wondered what was wrong with being 45 or a> computer programmerNowt wrong with that young 'un - it's the combination of both of the above with living in your mum's basement... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/6528-what-is-east-dulwich-reading/page/9/#findComment-479340 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxi Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 ohhh... see, I thought "your mum's basement" meant something different altogether... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/6528-what-is-east-dulwich-reading/page/9/#findComment-479346 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RosieH Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Actually maxxi, have just noticed (how could I have missed?) the very fabulous Killer Dyke book cover, and believe me, if I owned a copy of that, I'd turn it into a dust jacket to cover my every read. It's ossom.However, I am reading Skippy Dies, which I am loving. Although the stuff on M theory means little to me, rather like same on the science thread. The hwever book made me want to go away and read about M theory, as it sounded interesting. The science thread has made me not want to. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/6528-what-is-east-dulwich-reading/page/9/#findComment-479431 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Have just finished The Psycopath Test by Jon Ronson, a very personal, if typically lighthearted and self-deprecating, journey into madness.It kicks off with the interesting idea that maybe society is so awful because it's psycopaths who inevitable rise to the top and they don't give a shit about anyone but their own egos.Instantly compellingly plausible but never satisfactorily pursued.Regardless it was very enjoyable, and that rare thing actually unputdownable as I ripped through it in two sessions!Ping for borrowage if it sounds your thing. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/6528-what-is-east-dulwich-reading/page/9/#findComment-513599 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jah Lush Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 I've gone mad for Christopher Brookmeyer. Love his work. Zipped through Boiling A Frog recently and now on Country Of The Blind. As the blurb says: "High octane political thriller doused in stinging satire." Great stuff. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/6528-what-is-east-dulwich-reading/page/9/#findComment-513616 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bon3yard Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Enjoying The Sisters Brothers immensely at the Moment. Sparse, flowing prose and a nicer pairing of Psychopaths you couldnt wish to be executed by. Darkly funny. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/6528-what-is-east-dulwich-reading/page/9/#findComment-513630 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Random capitalisations Bon3yard. Are you Justin Cronin?Incidentally, I quite enjoyed Cronin's overlong, stephenking-a-like, vampire novel with failed literary pretentions (and random italics and Capitals), in a sort of throwaway fashion. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/6528-what-is-east-dulwich-reading/page/9/#findComment-513634 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bon3yard Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Theres Certainly Nothing Random About Your Pedantry. My Apologies Sire. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/6528-what-is-east-dulwich-reading/page/9/#findComment-513646 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 it was really just a bad link, apologies, no offence intended (plus i'l give that book a go, sounds good).Mind you, I could warm to being called sire ...... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/6528-what-is-east-dulwich-reading/page/9/#findComment-513654 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peckhamgatecrasher Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Stayed up ridiculously late last night to finish The Black House by Peter May in one sitting. Crime novel set on Lewis with gaelic for beginners glossary. I felt like I was in an Alba thriller. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/6528-what-is-east-dulwich-reading/page/9/#findComment-513665 Share on other sites More sharing options...
katie1997 Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Thanks for that PGC, I am going to try that book out (tu)Has anyone read the Kite Runner by Khaled Hossaini (yes, yes I know it was also a film - I haven't seen that either) This book has been sitting around my house for ages and I finally got around to reading it. It begins in 1970s Afghanistan and is a fascinating insight into the people and culture although the story is more about universal themes of friendship/betrayal. I really enjoyed it although it was incredibly sad too. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/6528-what-is-east-dulwich-reading/page/9/#findComment-517889 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jah Lush Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Kite Runner is brilliant and so is the follow up A Thousand Splendid Sons. Both books could have you in tears though.Currently reading Irvine Welsh's The Bedroom Secrets Of The Master Chefs. Not his best by a long shot but still very funny. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/6528-what-is-east-dulwich-reading/page/9/#findComment-517898 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Townleygreen Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 >>Has anyone read the Kite Runner by Khaled Hossaini?Yes, I enjoyed that hugely when I read it years ago.Currently am enjoying Great Expectations (Dickens) - this will be my first ever reading of a Dickens book, I am ashamed to say. But it is good, without pages of description! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/6528-what-is-east-dulwich-reading/page/9/#findComment-517899 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxi Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 As it's the bicentennial of his birth I too am just about to read a Dickens, (not read one for ages)..Hard Times (seems somehow apt).Just finished 'Morning Everyone' by Simon Hughes - a good read if you like cricket/cricket commentators. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/6528-what-is-east-dulwich-reading/page/9/#findComment-517964 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jah Lush Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Charles Dickens. Now you're talking. I didn't really get into him until I was into my late 30s early 40s. Still only read half of his stuff but have really enjoyed all of it. Hard Times and the aforementioned Great Expectations are great little reads. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/6528-what-is-east-dulwich-reading/page/9/#findComment-517966 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 I've only read Great Expectations of his, a little while back (we never did Dickens at school), and was amazed by how fresh and modern it felt compared to the fustiness of other victorian /pre war writers. Great Stuff.Am just finishing Just My Type, a history and commentary on Fonts, the whys and wherefores and how they pervade our lives.Surprisingly interesting stuff and done lightheartedly enough that it only veers occasionally into design freak onanism.And now I notice fonts EVERYWHERE!!!!! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/6528-what-is-east-dulwich-reading/page/9/#findComment-517968 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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