What are you currently reading?

[karlhenning]

Splendid. Have you got my cell no.?

[Daverz]

Re: what are you currently reading?



is it any good?

Very.

I'm on the third book now.  Given how mixed the reviews have been of the 4th book, I think I'm going to wait to see what people say about book 5, and if that sounds like an improvement, then I'll push on through book 4.

[karlhenning]

Hmm.

J.R.R. Tolkien

George R.R. Martin

Coincidence? . . . I smell a wannabe . . .

[Bogey]

Splendid. Have you got my cell no.?

Do not know if I have it saved in my phone, my friend.

[DavidW]

Hmm.

J.R.R. Tolkien

George R.R. Martin

Coincidence? . . . I smell a wannabe . . .

Carl Nielsen

Karl Henning

Coincidence? ... I smell a wannabe ...

[karlhenning]

Je-je-je! He's the uncle of us atonal honkers!

[Bogey]

Ah....you cannot mess with my avatar like that, Karl.  I read a couple old posts not being able to remember writing that!

[DavidW]

Now there are three Columbo's running around.  "Just one more question?"... "who is the real mccoy?"

[karlhenning]

Bill, I left a call-back number, that's my cell.

[Drasko]

Halfway through this and hugely enjoying it. The hero is an ex boxer cum unsuccessful screenwriter turned bodyguard with preference for Chekhov over Tolstoy (my sort of guy). Hired by The Blonde to protect her from creepy ex, but then inch by inch getting deeper and deeper involved with the mob. I like the plot being unpredictable, halfway through and I have no idea to which direction it'll go, which is good. Breezy writing style, managing to be occasionally funny without looking like trying to hard. Still think the title and the cover are plain perfect.



I'm just starting this. Bit tougher read, but seems very interesting.

[karlhenning]

After many years (I think I left my old copy in the apartment in St Pete), revisiting Trout Fishing in America, Richard Brautigan.

[Bogey]

Some Poirot:



We have been watching the series as a family and absolutely love it!

[DavidRoss]

After many years (I think I left my old copy in the apartment in St Pete), revisiting Trout Fishing in America, Richard Brautigan.

That poor, tragically mad & visionary drunk.  Revisiting that sounds sweetly nostalgic.

Now reading
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and enjoying it quite a bit.

[Coco]

[rubio]

Finished Magris's Inferences From a Sabre — a breezy read, somewhere between an encyclopedia entry and a tragedy. The epistolary style and the slightly pedantic moralistic narrator in the form of the Italian priest-scholar reminded me slightly of Mann's Faustus. Magris manifests the real-life tragic character of a Cossack general, Krasnov, who sided with the Nazis at the end of WWII, who, after the German defeat, turned to the British for asylum, only to be handed back to the Soviets they fought against. The general's hubris and confused idealism are both comic and sad, and absolutely human. The clarity with which Magris paints Krasnov in so short a span (less than 90 pages) is remarkable.

Now starting:

Any comment on this Gombrowicz novel? I loved Ferdydurke - a feast for the language!

[rubio]

Life and Fate
Vasily Grossman

Any comment on this one? It's waiting in my bookshelf 

[Florestan]

Any comment on this one? It's waiting in my bookshelf 

I'm reading it these days, am halfway through. It's excellent. One of the most powerful condemnations of both Nazism and Communism I've ever read --- and very good written too, some sort of "War and Peace" set during the Battle of Stalingrad, but with manifold and intricate extensions in time and space. Definitely on a par with Solzhenitsyn and Pasternak.

[rubio]

I'm reading it these days, am halfway through. It's excellent. One of the most powerful condemnations of both Nazism and Communism I've ever read --- and very good written too, some sort of "War and Peace" set during the Battle of Stalingrad, but with manifold and intricate extensions in time and space. Definitely on a par with Solzhenitsyn and Pasternak.

Thank you for the comment! It will definately advance in the to-be-read line. I'm quite obsessed with the Battle of Stalingrad, and would like to go to Volgograd one day. I found Anthony Beevors Stalingrad an absorbing read, and look forward to read this novel set during this terrible happening.

[Florestan]

Thank you for the comment! It will definately advance in the to-be-read line. I'm quite obsessed with the Battle of Stalingrad battle, and would like to go to Volgograd one day. I found Anthony Beevors Stalingrad an absorbing read, and look forward to read this novel set during this terrible happening.

You're in for a treat.

[Coco]

Any comment on this Gombrowicz novel? I loved Ferdydurke - a feast for the language!

Loved it.