what are you reading and guilty literary pleasures

[2risky]

You caught my hidden message there, Roger.

However, it's just an opinion. I'm sure there are people who will enjoy reading Ayn Rand or Goodkind. They're both still in print after all.

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I generally only read Terry Pratchett , in more serious moments I like a good (auto) biography generally on footballers and football managers . Have also read some biographical type books on Pink Floyd

[Cambo]

Oct 18, 2012 16:27:17 GMT 2risky said:

Yes, it's just as well it's practically unreadable. Very influential politically in the US though, sadly (from my point of view anyway). Goodkind's work is basically Ayn Rand's utopian individualism, disguised with swords. Only the 'strong' deserve to survive etc. Yuk.

I know. It is quite possibly the most tedious book I've ever attempted to read. I really tried to persevere with it but I ended up staring at walls for entertainment...

[booblay]

You want tedious, Cambo - try Anna Karenina by Tolstoy. Would have been a good book if it was a third of the word length.

Anyone read Ursula le Guin? Her earthsea quartet is all wizardy schools, but a lot different from Potter - JK Rowling basically ripped off a bunch of other children's lit writers, Guin being one of them. Though she ripped them off well so no complaints from me.

Yeah, Kurt Vonnegut is excellent - he balances the comic and the tragic well. In the same kind of way as whatsisface who wrote Catch 22.

Anyone tried Murakami? Quite bonkers but brill.

Ooh, I love talking literature! And I might try some of the fantasy writers what have been suggested.

[Cambo]

Oct 18, 2012 20:39:12 GMT booblay said:

You want tedious, Cambo - try Anna Karenina by Tolstoy. Would have been a good book if it was a third of the word length.

Got it, read it, and I totally agree. Although for me it's still beaten by Atlas Shrugged as the book most likely to induce narcolepsy.

Have you read Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials? I found these quite interesting.