📖 What are people reading?

lenihan said:
Finally making a start on Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant. Always feel that sense of sadness pressing down on me with Ishiguro books but he is a wonderful writer so I will persevere. So far the sense of inhabiting a post-Roman ruinscape is very vivid.
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Sounds an interesting read. Let us know how you get on with it.
 
twisted moon said:
i read these whilst on holiday:

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'The Old Ways' is a good book, especially like the section on the 'Broomway' as my uncle had worked at Foulness (MOD), good stories, farmers wives driving tractors in bikinis, army trucks & ordinance disappearing into the sands, and then tides often offering things up only to disappear again. Bought him a copy. Was in correspondence with Rob McF for abit. Nice fella, into petroglyphs and likes climbing trees when ever he's up in the Lakes with family. 'Mountains of the Mind', I think, is still his best book. :D
 
To misquote Blane from Predator I ain't got time to read!

This isn't strictly true as I am an inveterate (invertebrate?) reader but I've been getting my reading fix courtesy of the Oldhammer Fiction Podcast which is thankfully currently doing another Jack Yeovil Dark Future novel; Krokodil Tears.

I'm rather of the opinion that this has been cruelly underrated as a novel series and setting. Because its post apocalyptic and involves cars it invariably gets referred to as a Mad Max style setting whereas the similarities are very superficial and it has much more in common with cyberpunk.

Krokodil Tears is uber Jack Yeovil, with the main protagonist Krokodil/Jessamyn Bonney being in many ways an expy of Genevieve from his fantasy series, a young woman with special abilities who is outcast from society and essentially on a revenge mission following on from the previous novel Route 666.

It also has the trademark references to real life events or alternate histories mixed in with various filmic references, especially to horror and genre films.

I really love it, its so much fun and quite filmic in its own right. Weirdly its reminds me a lot of the Red Dwarf novels by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor which also enjoyed sending up alternate history and had that oddly British take on it as well, so for example this novel features a British army veteran embittered and alcoholic after his experiences in the disastrous Falklands War. All the peripheral characters are quite nicely fleshed out as well, which is another JY trait.
 
lenihan said:
Finally making a start on Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant. Always feel that sense of sadness pressing down on me with Ishiguro books but he is a wonderful writer so I will persevere. So far the sense of inhabiting a post-Roman ruinscape is very vivid.
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love this book, and while we're talking Arthurian re-imaginings, Once and Future King by TH White is hard to beat as well.
 
Michael Stockin said:
oh, ok, you got time to paint?
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I've barely had time for that either, only painted two and a half miniatures last week.

I had a very busy week on site, three excavations, nearly a thousand miles of travel (in my 40 year old Astra), plus we sold our house and bought a new one. I was also rebuilding a steering box for my 70 year old Landrover.

On the upside our new house is absolutely enormous so I can probably have my own library.
 
There are a heck a lot of books on here that I have read. The last couple of decades though, I have mostly been reading history books. This is my current one, and it is full of insights into stuff I thought I already had a fairly good handle on. The Duke of Buckingham is some character.
 

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