What book(s) are you reading currently?

[73north]

This is a book I bought a few weeks ago ( when I had a normal life )
I have been reading it in the last day , and its a wonderful read -
Based on the 2000ad Comic Judge Dredd series , when the Judges were brand new and before the Atomic War - and Dredd was not born .

[jesegr]

The Iron Angel by David Fulmer. Love this series

No one cares much when a couple of street
whores working the lowest rung on the
prostitution ladder in 1914 New Orleans are
murdered in the same fashion. But when a third
sporting woman turns up dead in a crib, a small
panic ensues, and Tom Anderson, now beginning
his third decade as the King of Storyville, sends
word from his hospital bed to Creole detective
Valentin St. Cyr.
The detective steps grudgingly into the
investigation that propels The Iron Angel, the
fifth novel in the acclaimed Storyville series.
There's a second tale brewing within these pages.
In a convent in Terrabonne Parish, a mysterious
woman who is alone and adrift draws the interest
of the local sheriff. Valentin works the serial
murders as the killer taunts the police, using the
moniker Gregory. The detective's old nemesis
Captain Picot is furious when he's ordered to let
him have the run of the streets; until, that is, he
notices something oddly familiar in a message
from Terrabonne Parish that mentions a
mysterious woman named Evangeline
Gregory at first keeps one step ahead of Valentin, but the detective is soon checking him
and his bloody campaign at every turn. With the detective closing in on him, he devises
a plan to offer the captain a deal with the devil. But instead of keeping his end of the
bargain, Gregory decides to betray Picot and goes after the mystery woman on his own.
As Valentin races to save Evangeline - whoever she might be - a storm sweeps across
the bayou, heading for New Orleans and drives the tale to a wild climax.
With The Iron Angel, David Fulmer revives an extraordinary time and place with the
same deeply evocative skill that earned the four previous novels such critical acclaim.

[73north]

Been reading this last night , to take my mind off my Hassles -
and its so far not too bad a read , with for the first time for
Lesbian Journal
- 3 x internal full-page Art Drawings of the scenes in the book
anyway , I post this for Dear Brecht -
as I know how much you like this type of intellectual book

[footstep]

Joyland. S King 2013.

[casualobserver]

Just finished "The Catcher in the Rye" because I've seen it mentioned in so many films and it's so evident in social history that I thought I needed to read it.

I want the time back that I invested in it. It's shite. Thankfully Salinger was such an awkward sod about rights that we haven't been subjected to a film of this overrated dross.

c.o.

[BlueArsedFly]

Originally Posted by casualobserver

Just finished "A Catcher in the Rye" because I've seen it mentioned in so many films and it's so evident in social history that I thought I needed to read it.

I want the time back that I invested in it. It's shite. Thankfully Salinger was such an awkward sod about rights that we haven't been subjected to a film of this overrated dross.

c.o.

I've tried three times to read this and never made it past the first few chapters. I thought the problem might have been with me but maybe not

Currently reading Mythos by Stephen Fry. A drier take on Greek mythology than I'm used to but enjoyable. A second volume is expected.

[73north]

I had the same experience with Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Sunset Song
I see its been voted the ' best Scottish Novel ' , in a BBC Scotland Poll - in 2016

what a joke - I did not like reading it for my Higher English - and ended up reading
a different book and quoting that instead , and got my Pass - it was dire .
Sunset Song was a terrible book to read .

[bowlinggreen]

Originally Posted by casualobserver

Just finished "A Catcher in the Rye" because I've seen it mentioned in so many films and it's so evident in social history that I thought I needed to read it.

I want the time back that I invested in it. It's shite. Thankfully Salinger was such an awkward sod about rights that we haven't been subjected to a film of this overrated dross.

c.o.

I read it a long time ago, and IMHO it is pretty overrated. I think in part it was praised because it was "edgy" in a very straight-laced time period.

You want postwar edgy, "The Blackboard Jungle" is better.

I think in modern times Holden Caulfield would have been a school shooter.

[jesegr]

Originally Posted by footstep

Joyland. S King 2013.

I found this one to be one of his more melancholy works. Made me feel old and sad. Hard Case crime did put some great covers on it though.

[palo5]

Intelligence in War: The value--and limitations--of what the military can learn about the enemy - John Keegan (re-read)



Recommended for anyone interested in the subject. But his conclusions, although absolutely logical and proven throughout history, will surprise some