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Done the first two books (Game of Thrones & A Clash of Kings) very good they are. TV was incredibly faithful to the books with only 2 or 3 plot changes. Only gripe is some of the language is a bit simplistic.

Amazon Kindle sale, lots of books for £0.99, anyone have any recommendations? Most of them look like the kind of books women read on summer holidays. That said I did enjoy One Day.

They mostly seemed to be women books to be also.

Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell (also a film)
very good so far

Just finished Anglo Republic (Inside the bank that broke Ireland) by Simon Carswell
interesting as I know one of the main villians

I read the first game of thrones and it was pretty much the exact same as the tv show. so i think i'll just watch it.

I'm having a bit of difficulty getting back into reading for pleasure. I've tried a few genres recently and i haven't been enjoying the experience as much as i used to.

I'm going to reread a few old favourites to get me back on track.

Brave new world, franny and zooey and maybe the great gatsby (lol)

I bought most of the books on that list of Radio 2's book club best reads of 2011 that I posted a couple of pages ago. Mostly fairly light reading. I've slowed down quite a bit recently, although I've watched the rest of Breaking Bad, a chunk of Homelands, and been playing Blur on PS3.

Have you read Revolutionary Road?

no, but i've seen(and enjoyed) the film and i reckon it'd be a pretty tiring read.

I was a bit meh about The Great Gatsby.

I think I was at the right age when i first read it.

I'd have been mid 20s. In fact I think I was reading it around the time of the 99 Wembley trip.

I prefer modern books with murders and a late denouement.

I didn't think that at all, the characterisation is absolutely spot on and some of the internal dialogues make it a joy to read

Been reading the count of Monte bristol this week. Awesome but fucking huge.

I just read a couple of chapters that baffled me a fair bit so I wiki'd the character, afterwards I said out loud 'fuck me, he really doesn't Fuck about, does he.'

Loving the count.

Edit - I'm not changing it.

Just read this in one sitting. Was obviously really good and I enjoyed the prose and that but I feel some of the weight of the book comes from the imagery and the horrific things that happen which I was fairly desensitised to either because I'm a sociopath or from having played a lot of Fallout 3 and various other post-apocalyptic things so nothing in it was really shocking.

The strength in it for me was that from the off I was able to empathise with the father. It was the feeling of absolute hopelessness and the futility of their situation that got me the most..I was surprised at the ending. Heavy subject but well worth reading..

that was the thing i thought the ending was hugely predictable from the first time the dad coughed up blood so it didn't really carry that much weight for me at least. the hopelessness and futility are all part and parcel of that setting although i thought it was more about hope, duty and purpose than the opposite, although obviously they're entwined

Whether you're reading a book or the same story on Kindle, you're getting the same story. Why does it make a difference what format you read it on?

Before reading Steig Larson's The Girl... trilogy I had never bothered with crime/thrillers. I stumbled across Jo Nesbo and the Harry Hole series randomly - Jo Nesbo was billed as the next Larson. Normally I would ignore that kind of thing of billing but since he is Norwegian I thought the Scandinavian approach to crime thrillers might be worth another go and I was pleasantly surprised.
The first in the series (in English) is Redbreast which was a bit tough for the first half but well worth persevering with and the rest of the series are excellent.

http://jonesbo.com/#!/books

I ran out of those and was looking for other stuff and I came across The Devotion of Suspect X (Keigo Higashino) which was good but not quite as clever as the author thought it was.

I am now stuck into Henning Mankell's Wallander series (Swedish) which are excellent and are getting better as the series progresses, currently reading One Step Behind, here's the running order:

http://www.inspector-wallander.org/guide/timeline.html

Quite unusual reading pattern for me I usually jump around a bit and often have a couple on the go at the same time but these have really grabbed me.

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