Author Topic: What books are we reading at the moment ? (Read 846661 times)

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #2025 on:** 07 August, 2011, 12:19:46 pm »

The first 2 Stieg Larsson Millennium books, in English this time. What is hailed as good translation is in fact rather clumsy and maybe downright wrong in parts.

RJ · « **Reply #2026 on:** 07 August, 2011, 12:48:06 pm »

Interesting. I wonder how many "good translations" are in fact "readable versions in language X based on the original" ...

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2027 on:** 08 August, 2011, 11:17:22 am »

Quote from: A Warwickshire Lad on 07 August, 2011, 12:19:46 pm

The first 2 Stieg Larsson Millennium books, in English this time. What is hailed as good translation is in fact rather clumsy and maybe downright wrong in parts.

Curiously, I'm currently reading The Preacher by Camilla Lackberg, which was translated by the same bloke. And it reads way better than any of the Millennium translations. I think he must have been in a hurry when he did Larsson.

Rig of Jarkness · « **Reply #2028 on:** 09 August, 2011, 09:23:41 am »

Quote from: her_welshness on 04 August, 2011, 06:55:10 pm

Have just finished 'Started Early, Took My Dog'. Kate Atkinson is a bloody brilliant writer

Seconded

Flying_Monkey · « **Reply #2029 on:** 09 August, 2011, 01:56:50 pm »

Now reading an odd collection of stuff called Interfictions, which claims to be 'interstitial fiction', i.e. stories that fall between genres. Mostly, it's new urban fantasy and/or Angela Carter-style modern fairy tales, with a few magic realist and surrealist stories, in other words not as new as it claims - but some of the contributions are worthwhile.

tiermat · « **Reply #2030 on:** 09 August, 2011, 02:00:24 pm »

Just finished "Two Wheels Over Catalonia", fastest I have read a book in a long time, as I only received it on Saturday night! The reason for reading it so quick is that it combines two of my favourite things, cycling and Catalonia.

So back to "The Cardinal and the Kremlin" and started "Bike Snob"

AndyK · « **Reply #2031 on:** 15 August, 2011, 08:32:34 am »

Just started World War Z by Max Brooks.

tiermat · « **Reply #2032 on:** 15 August, 2011, 10:46:04 am »

Finished "Bike Snob" and on to "The Man Who Cycled The Americas" and have nearly finished "The Cardinal and The Kremlin"

Rig of Jarkness · « **Reply #2033 on:** 15 August, 2011, 07:23:48 pm »

Quote from: AndyK on 15 August, 2011, 08:32:34 am

Just started World War Z by Max Brooks.

Currently being filmed in Glasgow. Apparently it looks just like Philadelphia if you change the street signs and bring in a few dozen yellow taxis.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-14533210

E.C. Ryder · « **Reply #2034 on:** 15 August, 2011, 07:32:36 pm »

Just started `one man and his bike` by Mike Carter, about his 5,000 mile cycle ride round the coast of Britain.

Captain Zep · « **Reply #2035 on:** 15 August, 2011, 09:34:38 pm »

Quote from: Rig of Jarkness on 15 August, 2011, 07:23:48 pm

Quote from: AndyK on 15 August, 2011, 08:32:34 am
Just started World War Z by Max Brooks.

Currently being filmed in Glasgow. Apparently it looks just like Philadelphia if you change the street signs and bring in a few dozen yellow taxis.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-14533210

Never mind Glasgow, they're filming a scene in Grangemouth in a couple of weeks.

Must be a "after the world has collapsed" scene.

Excellent book btw - very original and well done - I loved it. Zombie Survival Guide is good too.

Tom B · « **Reply #2036 on:** 15 August, 2011, 09:49:15 pm »

'The Housekeeper and the Professor' by Yoko Ogawa
'A Week in December' by Sebastian Faulks

Quint · « **Reply #2037 on:** 16 August, 2011, 11:37:10 am »

Pity the Nation by Robert Fisk a must I believe, I have asked many people (including students at a Jewish study centre) how it was that the Jewish people having suffered so much over the centuries inc the holocaust can treat the Palestinians so despicably, no one could supply an answer.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2038 on:** 16 August, 2011, 02:16:08 pm »

It's been said that the Israelis learned their manners from the Nazis...

Quint · « **Reply #2039 on:** 16 August, 2011, 02:23:30 pm »

Well, they had a good (if you can call it that) propaganda machine/censor that distorted and denied so maybe your right, although I feel squeamish about using the word Jewish and Nazi in the same sentence.
There again what used to be called terrorists are now called freedom fighters and that all started before WW2 in Palestine (now Israel) against the British so maybe not.

BrianI · « **Reply #2040 on:** 16 August, 2011, 03:21:54 pm »

Mindfulness for Dummies.

IanDG · « **Reply #2041 on:** 16 August, 2011, 04:49:01 pm »

The death of Marco Pantani - Matt Rendell

clarion · « **Reply #2042 on:** 16 August, 2011, 06:57:24 pm »

I don't want to spoil it for you, but he dies in the end.

Well, actually, the beginning.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2043 on:** 18 August, 2011, 09:41:19 am »

Good As Dead ~ Mark Billingham. You know how I said I would buy this and then not start reading it until I got to Thiefrow on September 3rd?

I failed.

tiermat · « **Reply #2044 on:** 18 August, 2011, 09:49:26 am »

Started Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy but realised I have had enough of TC's work for now, so swapped to trying (for the 4th time) to read Imajica by Clive Barker.

Hopefully this time I will get further than the other times....

IanDG · « **Reply #2045 on:** 18 August, 2011, 03:55:53 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 16 August, 2011, 06:57:24 pm

I don't want to spoil it for you, but he dies in the end.

Well, actually, the beginning.

But he does get born again in the first chapter - I'll carry on reading to see if he dies a second time round

Flying_Monkey · « **Reply #2046 on:** 19 August, 2011, 12:37:37 am »

Seeing as I am now one of the directors of a small Canadian crime-writing festival, I have been reading some recent Canadian crime writing: C.B. Forrest's Slow Recoil, which is a good attempt to work the legacy of the Balkan conflicts into a contemporary Toronto-based murder mystery; and, Howard Shrier's hardboiled and really rather excellent new series, starting with Buffalo Jump. On the cover, it gets praise from the creator of Law and Order, and I can see it being made into a quality mini-series. Recommended.

scott · « **Reply #2047 on:** 19 August, 2011, 01:17:00 am »

Playa Works: The Myth of the Empty, by William Fox

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2048 on:** 19 August, 2011, 11:10:53 am »

Before The Poison ~ Peter Robinson. His first non-Banks novel in 20 years; two parts murder mystery to one part ghost story. Iz good.

LindaG · « **Reply #2049 on:** 19 August, 2011, 04:22:15 pm »

2010 Odyssey Two by Arthur C Clarke. Enjoying it immensely having just finished the first one.

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