Books

[Carnage]

Robert Harris: The Ghost

I picked this up after seeing the film adaptation when it came out, and had left it on my shelf in the hope that I'd forget the twist and go into it blind. No such luck (as it turns out, all I can remember is the twist) but I might as well give it a go anyway, he's generally great.

[Mooncat]

Generation X by Doug Coupland

He's a very snappy writer. Lots of quotable lines and a fun revisit of late 80s/early 90s culture.

[Carnage]

Generation X by Doug Coupland

He's a very snappy writer. Lots of quotable lines and a fun revisit of late 80s/early 90s culture.

I've had Hey Nostradamus! on the shelf for a while, haven't gotten around to it yet.

[Don Gately]

My cousin Rachael by Daphne du Maurier

[Eoin McLove]

Rereading Barkskins by Annie Proulx at the moment. She is a force of nature. Utterly fucking brutal! Savage stuff.

[Maggot Colony]

Rereading Barkskins by Annie Proulx at the moment. She is a force of nature. Utterly fucking brutal! Savage stuff.

I read Close Range last year, and was blown away by the writing. Funny, haunting, and brutal. She's in the same league as Cormac McCarthy.

55 Miles to the Gas Pump is one of my favourite short stories:
https://www.somanybooks.org/eng102/55MilestotheGasPump.pdf

[Eoin McLove]

Rereading Barkskins by Annie Proulx at the moment. She is a force of nature. Utterly fucking brutal! Savage stuff.

I read Close Range last year, and was blown away by the writing. Funny, haunting, and brutal. She's in the same calibre as Cormac McCarthy.

55 Miles to the Gas Pump is one of my favourite short stories:
https://www.somanybooks.org/eng102/55MilestotheGasPump.pdf

Yeah she's good. Barkskins is particularly cruel, following woodsmen over the 300 years of European settlement of Canada. Main characters will be unceremoniously axed (hehe) without a backwards glance, the world keeps turning.

[Don Gately]

Thanks must check it out,  the Shipping  news is a great book

[Eoin McLove]

I read it a long time ago. I remember liking it but can't remember it now. The film is very good.

[Thorn]

Yeah, Kevin Spacey and Julianne Moore, good show.

[Carnage]

Robert Harris: The Ghost

I picked this up after seeing the film adaptation when it came out, and had left it on my shelf in the hope that I'd forget the twist and go into it blind. No such luck (as it turns out, all I can remember is the twist) but I might as well give it a go anyway, he's generally great.

I finished this the other day. Enjoyed it, even with the awareness of the twist - though that reveal was so hamfisted that it almost ruined it altogether.

I read John Boyne's The Dare yesterday, nice quick read, very decent.

Onto Maura McHugh: The Boughs Withered (When I Told Them My Dreams), a collection of horror short stories. Just read the one so far, not bad.

[Eoin McLove]

Robert Harris: The Ghost

I picked this up after seeing the film adaptation when it came out, and had left it on my shelf in the hope that I'd forget the twist and go into it blind. No such luck (as it turns out, all I can remember is the twist) but I might as well give it a go anyway, he's generally great.

I finished this the other day. Enjoyed it, even with the awareness of the twist - though that reveal was so hamfisted that it almost ruined it altogether.

I read John Boyne's The Dare yesterday, nice quick read, very decent.

Onto Maura McHugh: The Boughs Withered (When I Told Them My Dreams), a collection of horror short stories. Just read the one so far, not bad.

The Dare was good. I read it a few years ago.

[Pat Twisted Wrath]

Been pretty much reading nothing but nonfiction/ History this year.

Paxton - Anatomy of Fascism

Evans - Coming of the Third Reich (1st in a trilogy)

Ellsberg - Doomsday Machine

Lindqvist - Exterminate all the brutes

Got around to Hedges - The Greatest Evil is War


All very much recommended 

[Carnage]

The Dare was good. I read it a few years ago.

It might have been your recommendation that put me onto it, it was someone in this thread anyway. Reminded me of Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha a bit, but was much better.

[91/30]

Paxton - Anatomy of Fascism



All very much recommended 

That's a serious list, I've just downloaded Paxtons book.  Thanks for the recommendation