Grand unified books thread

[Valdemar]

Finally got around to starting "world without end" by Ken Follet, the sort of follower to Pillars of the Earth that I read a decade or so ago.

It keeps me entertained, but doesn't really have the same qualities as Pillars did, I am a tad disappointed.

V

[Josephus]

Problem with World Without End is that it was pretty much the same story as the first, set some hundred years later. Doesn't have the same ooomph as the original.

[Barrister]

Wife and I dumped the kid for the night on his grandparents.

We went out for supper (the elsewhere mentioned underwhelming italian restaurant), then went to the bookstore.

We bought some books on potty training.   

Plus for daddy - I bought 1493 (on the Columbian exchange of plants and animals post-1492), and...

The Wind In The Willows.   

Haven't read Wind in the Willows for 25 years or so, but so far as fucking good as I vaguely remember it to be.

[katmai]

Wife and I dumped the kid for the night on his grandparents.

We went out for supper (the elsewhere mentioned underwhelming italian restaurant), then went to the bookstore.

We bought some books on potty training.   

Plus for daddy - I bought 1493 (on the Columbian exchange of plants and animals post-1492), and...

The Wind In The Willows.   

Haven't read Wind in the Willows for 25 years or so, but so far as fucking good as I vaguely remember it to be.

See i would never comment Thrilling on this post.
No siree!

[Barrister]

Wife and I dumped the kid for the night on his grandparents.

We went out for supper (the elsewhere mentioned underwhelming italian restaurant), then went to the bookstore.

We bought some books on potty training.   

Plus for daddy - I bought 1493 (on the Columbian exchange of plants and animals post-1492), and...

The Wind In The Willows.   

Haven't read Wind in the Willows for 25 years or so, but so far as fucking good as I vaguely remember it to be.

See i would never comment Thrilling on this post.
No siree!

Don'y you dare try your sarcasm about a post on a time-honoured children's classic.

[katmai]

The movie is better!

[Ed Anger]

I haven't read shit in months. 

[The Brain]

Mine is somewhat loose. And very dark.

[Josephus]

Wife and I dumped the kid for the night on his grandparents.


The Wind In The Willows.   

Haven't read Wind in the Willows for 25 years or so, but so far as fucking good as I vaguely remember it to be.

Wind in the Willows is awesome

The chapter Piper At The Gates of Dawn is surreal. (also the name of Pink Floyd's first record...bit of trivia there for you)

[Gups]

Read Knockemstiff by Donald Pollock. Short stories about white trash in southern Ohio. Brilliantly written, somewhat disturbing. 

[Malthus]

Read Knockemstiff by Donald Pollock. Short stories about white trash in southern Ohio. Brilliantly written, somewhat disturbing.

Heh, I've been reading stuff of that ilk recently.

Check out The Devil All The Time, same author. I liked it better than Knockemstiff - it's a novel set very much in the same setting. Definitely an author to watch.

Also, Edge of Dark Water by Joe Lansdale.

[Gups]

Thanks Malthus, waiting for The Devil All The Time to come out in paperback/become cheaper at Amazon but will certainly buy.

The Lansdale sounds good.

You might like the Nick Harkaway books if you haven't tried them already. Urban fantasy with lots of humour.

[Maladict]

Looking for a book on the Great Game. Non-fiction, obviously. Anyone?

[Malthus]

Thanks Malthus, waiting for The Devil All The Time to come out in paperback/become cheaper at Amazon but will certainly buy.

The Lansdale sounds good.

You might like the Nick Harkaway books if you haven't tried them already. Urban fantasy with lots of humour.

I'll check out The Gone-Away World ...

[Malthus]

Looking for a book on the Great Game. Non-fiction, obviously. Anyone?

One I liked is called Shooting Leave. Adventures by mad Englishment spying out central asia in the Great Game.