Books

[Ollkiller]

Finished Count of Montecristo today. Good book. So many classics so little time.

Cool book. I read it myself recently.

Aye it's a fantastic read.

[Pain Medicine]

Speaking of that, there's a two-movie adaptation of The Three Musketeers coming out later this year. Hoping it'll be deadly. It's French rather than Hollywood made, so that's a positive start anyway.

That sounds interesting will keep an eye out

[Eoin McLove]

Nearly finished The Passenger with Stella Maris lined up next. It's very good.

[Caomhaoin]

Just finishing 'The Football Factory' by John King, decent read even if he is quite indebted to Irvine Welsh. The film of the same name has almost nothing in common with it bar Chelsea and the names of some of the characters.

Astfjyl (sic), you'd get a kick out of it

[Eoin McLove]

I finished up The Passenger last night. I thought it was highly enjoyable and was a much easier and less barren read than some of McCarthy's earlier, more challenging novels. Looking forward to launching into Stella Maris tonight.

[Caomhaoin]

Reading a few essays by Bertrand Russell.

Jaysus he was a gas man, especially considering he was a philosopher.

[Eoin McLove]

I need a bit of a breather from Why The West Rules ~ For Now by Ian Morris so I'm starting into Macbeth. I haven't read it since school and couldn't make any sense of it as a kid. It's much easier now but I wonder if the story will interest me. Let's find out...

[Don Gately]

Macbeth is great, did it for the leaving cert. Demented video version too. Plenty of cleavage

[Eoin McLove]

The Roman Polanski version? I remember enjoying that when I saw it in school. It was only seeing the thing that made me understand it. I couldn't get it to come to life on the page as a young lad. I had a similar difficultly with Dickens in school but I have read a few of his books over the past few years and enjoyed them quite a lot.

[open face surgery]

Always enjoyed Shakespeare in school. Did Romeo and Juliet before moving school and then doing Merchant of Venice followed by Macbeth in Leaving.

[Eoin McLove]

I also read Merchant in school and it's one I intend to revisit.

[Carnage]

I could never enjoy it on the page - absolutely hated it TBH - but seeing it performed is a game changer. Saw Othello in the Tivoli for school, it was an 'experimental' version (i.e. they ran around the room a bit) directed by Alan Stanford but it was hugely enjoyable.

[Born of Fire]

I finished up The Passenger last night. I thought it was highly enjoyable and was a much easier and less barren read than some of McCarthy's earlier, more challenging novels. Looking forward to launching into Stella Maris tonight.

I was eyeing up both of those in the book shop today and debating whether to buy. Never read any McCarthy before, only know him from the movie versions of The Road and No Country For Old Men. I may have to take the plunge!

[Eoin McLove]

They are a good place to start as they are easily the most readable of his, from what I've read by him. Some of his classic stuff is tough going. Worth the effort, but a slog in places.

[Don Gately]

I liked All the pretty horses. Western Trt