What is your current "read"?

Further to some of my other ramblings, I've just read the part where Dante is ascending the mountain of Purgatory and spends his first night there. He falls asleep and dreams that a huge eagle has carried him off. In fact (well, fiction), he has been carried by none other than St Lucy up to the gates.

She gets around, that Lucy.
 
I have finally finished "The Thirst". I rather enjoyed its twists and turns, and can't wait for the next Harry Hole book to come out. I am going to watch "The Snowman" later on - a film which, in spite of its pedigree, has had some rather awful write ups. Still, it's not costing me anything to watch it on line (as a Times offer) so I shall see.

I started reading "Legacy of Lies" by Jane A. Adams - a murder mystery. I haven't read enough of it yet to form an opinion, other than at the beginning it's a bit of a plodder!
 
Elawin said:
I have finally finished "The Thirst". I rather enjoyed its twists and turns, and can't wait for the next Harry Hole book to come out.
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I've not read any of Jo Nesbit's books but looking at reviews they sound right up my street - so I may start with No 1.
 
morning glory said:
I've not read any of Jo Nesbit's books but looking at reviews they sound right up my street - so I may start with No 1.
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I had to start with book no. 3 as the first two hadn't come out in the UK - don't know why as they are brilliant!
P.S. His name is Jo Nesbo BTW or has predictive text shown it's ugly head?!
 
I enjoy true murder and serial killer books, the last book I read was a biography of a famous jockey here, and the book before that was also a biography of a top rugby league player here who played for our nz team in the Australian competition.

Russ
 
At O level we did 'Macbeth' for English literature but as for the last three years I had [weird] been by simple coincidence in the group [we changed every year] that happened to be doing Macbeth I pretty much knew it by heart - I passed :woot:[seemed like the easiest exam I ever did]
Have just realized that I have NEVER [even as a child] read any of the 'secret seven' books :eek: - one is on order :okay:
 
sidevalve said:
Have just realized that I have NEVER [even as a child] read any of the 'secret seven' books :eek: - one is on order :okay:
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They are a be lame and wimpy compared to Famous Five. Aimed at a younger age-group I think. I read them ay about seven years old to ten then graduated to Famous Five.
 
The Inimitable Jeeves is the next one to read...

It has to be admitted that the Jeeves and Wooster novels are somewhat formulaic. Essentially, they run like this:
1) One of Bertie Wooster's equally dim pals (or indeed, Bertie himself) is either trying to get a girl to marry him or desperately trying to avoid marrying a girl.
2) Bertie comes up with a plan of action that goes hopelessly wrong.
3) Jeeves sorts out the mess and everyone is happy.

This is not intended as adverse criticism. I find these things wonderfully entertaining and the only drawback is that they remind me of my own limitations as a "comic" writer.
 
I finally got round to watching the film "The Snowman". I quite enjoyed it in spite of the bad reviews, but that was possibly because it's a while now since I read the book.
 
Apart from a few quotes and extracts, I have read nothing by John Ruskin. Now, as a former Ruskin College pleb, this is somewhat embarrassing, so I am rectifying this by reading Unto this Last. Unlike most of Ruskin's work, this is not art criticism, but a social critique.

Ruskin was a rather curious man. In many ways, he was deeply conservative. In fact, he started as an Evangelical Christian, but gradually lost his religion, although he probably never became an atheist. He is also, intriguingly, something of an icon to socialists and a lot of his ideas were adopted by people like William Morris and the burgeoning socialist movement. So it should be an interesting read!
 
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