What book are you reading at the moment - revisited

Are you pretending to find it funny like everyone else?

Lara Lara Laughs wrote:Are you pretending to find it funny like everyone else?

She finds it quixotic . . .

doremi wrote:So, if I wanted to start reading George RR Martin, which one should go first. Song of Ica and Fire?

Song of Ice and Fire is the series. The first book is called "A Game of Thrones".

Lara Lara Laughs wrote:Are you pretending to find it funny like everyone else?

Like Pickwick Papers? No, I haven't read enough yet to have a solid grasp of the tone.

Just re-read Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air"

Yeah that was a good read.

IIRC, someone I knew was on that expedition.

furriner wrote:Yeah that was a good read.

IIRC, someone I knew was on that expedition.

The same team as Krakauer?

I've just started reading "The Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for Africa's Most Wanted" by Matthew Green.

It's about some lunatic who's going searching for some lunatic so he can ask him some questions about why he's a lunatic, and then himself bullshit the world by talking about how he could 'empathise somewhat with the madman's visions, although he found them completely abhorrent and contrary to his visions and realisations of reality' - a reality that was probably lived out as toff at Oxbridge up until that point.

I may be wrong, and possibly I am casting aspersions on this man's character without knowing anything about him. The fact that I've wanged a fair few quid into his pocket sort of gives me the right to judge him pre-emptively though, given that he won't actually care while he's out spending the moolah. Anyway, I'm reading it because of the madman, who is called Joseph Kony - the head of the deeply religious and spiritual 'Lord's Resistance Army' in Uganda, who essentially go around killing people in the name of God. Like all religious folk basically.

I'll keep you updated as I go along though - firstly about whether or not I'm wrong with many of my guesses, and secondly about the story of one Joseph Kony, lunatic esquire.

Just finished Cormac McCarthy's The Road.

taipan wrote:

furriner wrote:Yeah that was a good read.

IIRC, someone I knew was on that expedition.

The same team as Krakauer?

Sorry, just saw this.

Just looked him up on google. He was on David Breshears' team.

furriner wrote:

taipan wrote:

furriner wrote:Yeah that was a good read.

IIRC, someone I knew was on that expedition.

The same team as Krakauer?

Sorry, just saw this.

Just looked him up on google. He was on David Breshears' team.

As a climber Furry? That was the IMAX expedition.

He was a climber. Oh what the hell, he's somewhat known anyway - Jamling Tenzing, known to us Jumbo.

Yeah, that guy's son.

furriner wrote:He was a climber. Oh what the hell, he's somewhat known anyway - Jamling Tenzing, known to us Jumbo.

Yeah, that guy's son.

Yep, I remember that.

An interesting fact is that one of the Indian climbers who royally screwed up on the north side was a Harbhajan Singh.

Phurt. The mountain was racist.

Has anyone here read anything by David Foster Wallace?

Not me. Reading His Dark Materials.

None

Dont know him.

Im currently finding The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn to be oddly absorbing.

'Rip' by Robert Drewe; 'Beautiful Losers' by Leonard Cohen.

Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K Jerome.

I love his name. So much.

The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford.

tac wrote:The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford.

Interesting. I'm reading The Good Soldier Švejk, Jaroslav Hašek.

recent holiday reads

Boy Swallows Universe (Trent Dalton) - A
A Gentleman In Moscow (Amor Towles) - A
The Light Between Oceans (ML Stedman) - A minus
Hippie (Paolo Coelho) - D, don't bother

Cheat (Titus O'Reily)