What is your current "read"?

Cinisajoy said:
I am not positive but I think you need to be near a track to see a train
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were it not for the fact it breaks the T&C's of the site, I would take that over to the 'what made you smile today?' thread! It made me laugh out loud.

Elawin said:
I live about a mile from the railway lines that go through my town. There is one particular freight train that goes through every night about 3.30 a.m. that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. I can hear it in spite of the distance, double-glazing and the windows being shut tight, and without my hearing aids :laugh:
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Yeh - one of the few times I have lived in a town (whilst at uni) we lived in a house where we knew nothing about the underground railway that ran directly underneath the house. Wanting a house with 2 rooms available and someone who didn't mind us sleeping together, Hubby and I had few options for houses... we only lived there a term. But every night, around the same time as you state you would start with a long rumble a distance off and it would take about half an hour to get to the house and clear it. But the time it did get to the house, the windows would be shaking. No amount of ear plugs were going to deal with that. We left very quickly!

Lynne Guinne said:
Hubby refers to my hearing as "bat ears".
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I have the same - I always have had. it is a pain in the ass. I can actually hear the lower range bats (UK bats - and this is the pipistrelle) and it hurts like heck. I have to cover my ears. I have never been able to go to discos or anything like that where load music is played because my hearing is so sensitive. But if you try and talk to me in a crowded room, or somewhere with lots of background noise, I can't hear you because I can hear the conversation on the other side of the ball room far better than the one I am having with 'you'. I have to actually concentrate on their lips to work out what words relate to the conversation I am having. Needless to say we don't stay long and I don't do much talking because I can't hear people in these situations. I'm told it is similar to have a hearing aid. My mother is exactly the same as well... She has a lot to answer for.

As for what my current read is? I'm still reading the Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M Banks.
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Yorky said:
I haven't read a magazine since Punch stopped publishing in the early 90s. It was revived a few years later for a spell but that was after I left the UK.
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Our trash hauler partners with a program called "RecycleBank". You earn points for recycling things, then you can use those points for rewards. The rewards are mostly useless, so I'll use them for magazine subscriptions. Since they are free - sounds good to me! Then I get to toss them into my recycling bin...

I don't earn points anymore. We'd have to go up a level on our trash contract, which costs additional money. I'd rather have the money than the magazines. :D
 
I've got a pile of magazines to read. Most of mine are specialist magazines, are useful for reference, and are quite expensive. Someone once said (while with me at my daughter's house) that I should flog them at a boot sale! My daughter looked at him and asked him if he had a death wish.
 
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I picked up a couple of Jane Austen novels today (Emma and Sense and Sensibility since you ask) at a charity shop. As my sardonic partner pointed out, I've been reading quite a few girly books lately. This is undeniably true. Doris Lessing, Louisa Alcott, Charlotte Bronte, Harper Lee, George Eliot, come on down...
 
Duck59 said:
I picked up a couple of Jane Austen novels today (Emma and Sense and Sensibility since you ask) at a charity shop. As my sardonic partner pointed out, I've been reading quite a few girly books lately. This is undeniably true. Doris Lessing, Louisa Alcott, Charlotte Bronte, Harper Lee, George Eliot, come on down...
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I've read To Kill a Mockingbird (albeit in German) and have got Go Set a Watchman but haven't 'read' it yet. I've read Mill on the Floss. and have got Middlemarch to 'read' at some time in the future. I can't stand Louisa Alcott, Jane Austen or any of the Bronte sisters. I have never read any books by Doris Lessing.

I am at present 'reading' Snow Blind by Ragnar Jonasson, but find it is not as easy to read as similar Swedish or Norwegian noir. I had the same problem with an Icelandic TV programme that was on a few years ago - the style is just not the same.
 
Duck59 said:
While I'm in hardline feminist mode, I should add that Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar is one of the finest novels I've ever read.
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That would probably be more in my line, and I have actually heard of it :laugh: Slightly changing the subject, I have 'read' Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator by Robert Harris, which are about Cicero, and An Officer and a Spy, which is about the Dreyfus affair. I enjoyed the Shardlake books and the Giordano Bruno books too, which were a bit of light relief after Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies.
 
Middlemarch is brilliant. It actually started as two different novels, something I've done myself. But that is the only time George Eliot and me get mentioned in the same sentence.

I think Jane Austen is wonderful. Take her at face value and it all seems quite standard. Go a bit deeper and she is a total mickey taker. Northanger Abbey, for example, is just a complete spoof on the Gothic novels of the time.
 
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One more thing, as Lt Columbo used to say, Elsa Morante. She was an Italian novelist who wrote a wonderful novel set in the Second World War called History (La Storia in Italian).
 
Duck59 said:
I've read a few, but The Golden Notebook is the classic, to this old Bolshevik at least.
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It was the Children of Violence series which got to me. I don't know if it still holds up but its is an extraordinary journey through time and politics through to the final book in the series (is there a portmanteau word for five books?) which marked her transition into science fiction. I never got on with the sci-fi books.

I read the Golden Notebook afterwards but found it rather more indulgent - although interesting in postmodern terms. It probably had an influence on my writing.
 
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