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The Dice Man! Long time since I read that, wow. The sequel is good too.
I am reading Rejoice, by Steven Erikson. Very different to his Malazan stuff. Good.
The Shepherd's Hut - TIm Winton.
An Untouched House - Willem Frederik Hermans
My feedback thread is here.
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/57602/
It is the fifth book in the Strangers and Brothers series that looks at Eliot's life and career as a barrister, Cambridge Don, Civil Servant and Lord in the House of Lords.
I started reading them when I was introduced to the series 35 years ago whilst at school, when we rest Book 6 - The New Men, where Eliot is a Civil Servant in the War Ministry in the Second World War where he is part of the effort to develop the atomic bomb.
I like them. They are very English, very "quiet". They are not Tom Clancy! The only problem with them is that as they are written from a first-person point of view, and they are about quiet academics, lawyers or politicians, Eliot is continually describing the inner thoughts, feelings and motivations of people around him. There is no "action" to reveal those internal thoughts so they have to be voiced by Eliot. I think that is their main weakness but if you can live with that, then they are quite brilliant.
I have never met anyone who has ever read them (except those who were in my 'O' Level English Literature class in 1982), so it would be interesting if anyone else has.
She always spoke of them with great affection, but somehow I never got round to them myself.
Started reading one of them a few years ago on holiday, got into them and have worked my way through all 40 something of them.
Quite sad thinking there will be no more.
Started The Handmaid's Tale but I know it's going to be grim so backed off for now. I'm more sensitive than I used to be.
So it's a re-read of Snow Crash.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
check out Vasily Grossman's Life & Fate if you're into chewy Russian reads. Solzenhitsyn too.
Just read "Berlin The Downfall 1945", by Anthony Beevor, and reading No Greater Ally (about Poland in WW2) by Kenneth K Koskodan.
Solzenhitsyn is next on my list! It is actually my wife's favourite book.
Probably going to re-read 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' by John Fowles next.
Regards, Max Hastings has anyone read his book on the Korean War? I may get this as my next choice as an audible book.
I can't help about the shape I'm in, I can't sing I ain't pretty and my legs are thin
But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to
I don't think Tolstoy ever read it all the way through....
Catch 22
One flew over the cuckoos nest and
To kill a mocking bird