Books

[Pedrito]

That sounds like a great read. Must check out the Greenblatt book mentioned above too, sounds very interesting.

[Don Gately]

Navi Ravikant, Almanack

Also reading Bethany McLean's All the devils are here. Great book about the financial crisis, she also wrote the Smartest Guys in the Room, the definitive Enron book, great Writer

[Carnage]

Just finished Dark Fire by CJ Sansom, second of his Matthew Shardlake series (crime novels set in 1530s/40s London). Decent, will continue the series.

Currently about 50 pages into an awful biography of Sinéad O'Connor. Published in 1991, it reads like a rushed out compilation of Rolling Stone articles, written by a yank, for yanks. Full of inaccuracies and misunderstandings. Pile o' shite.

[Eoin McLove]

I finished up An Accidental Gentleman by Iris Murdock last night, which I enjoyed, and clearing the path for Stephen Greenblatt's The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve. Excited about this one. High hopes.

[Don Gately]

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan. Great and brutal read so far.

[Scáthach]

Currently rereading Nature's God, by Robert Anton Wilson. Its the third and final part of the Historical Illuminatus Chronicles starting in the 1760s and covering up to the American war of Independence. It covers the antics of the ancestors of characters from his cult hit Illuminatus! Trilogy.

It's funny, bawdy and an easy read. He was writing it while living here in the 80s, and a Flann O'Brien influence shows through in book 2. Even going as far as to feature De Selby, O'Briens mad scientist character.

[Eoin McLove]

Just finished up Middlemarch. Great read. I think my next lunchtime read will be The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray,  which I've only been picking and poking at up to now.

[blessed1]

Just finished up Winter Warriors by David Gemmell.
I've Been re-reading a lot of his books I read as a kid.
Dark Prince up next.

[Trev]

Read his Troy trilogy recently. First two were great, third was ok but it was obvious he never got to finish it himself

[blessed1]

Read his Troy trilogy recently. First two were great, third was ok but it was obvious he never got to finish it himself

After his wife finished it she wrote a couple of her own fantasy books. Dreadful stuff altogether.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Never got around to Gemmell in my intense fantasy phase, which gave way fairly quickly to sci-fi. Would he be closer to, say, Eddings than to Feist?

[blessed1]

I only ever read one feist book and I can't remember whether I liked it or not. David gemmell's stuff is really fast paced and full of action. Winter warriors is actually a good one to start with as it's a stand alone novel. He also did a really cool 4 run book based on irish mythology.
Sword in the storm is the first book in that run and is really good too.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

David gemmell's stuff is really fast paced and full of action.

Close enough to Eddings then. They were absolute page turners, flew through each one in no time. Didn't know Gemmell had touched on Irish mythology, may have a look at that, sound.

[blessed1]

Ya the Irish mythology ones are cool because the first two books take place in medieval times and the other two are set around the 16-1700's.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Only Irish mythology based fantasy I've read, apart from the Giltspur trilogy I adored as a kid, are the Stephen Donaldson ones, which were great, even though Donaldson was overly fond of the words "fey" and "anile"