Question What are you reading?

[SUBBlue]

I'm about 3/4 way through The Dark Tower, the 7th book in The Dark Tower series by Stephen King.
It's been slow going as I normally read 10 or so pages at night as its the only bl00dy time I get to myself during the day.
3 years to get this far in the whole series, can't wait to get to the end although I will be a little sad.

When I heard they were making it into a film I couldn't wait.
Then I found out Idris Elba was cast as Roland, the main protagonist. Can't stand the bloke, too cocky & full of himself by far IMO.
Quite disappointed as the book portrays Roland as a more grizzled, older Clint Eastwood type, not a 6 foot 3 massive black guy.
I hate it when Hollywood employs a liberal sprinkling of artistic licence to totally skew the original, but hopefully Randall Flagg will kill him early doors...:winking:.

 

[Bearded Shrimper]

I'm about 3/4 way through The Dark Tower, the 7th book in The Dark Tower series by Stephen King.
It's been slow going as I normally read 10 or so pages at night as its the only bl00dy time I get to myself during the day.
3 years to get this far in the whole series, can't wait to get to the end although I will be a little sad.

When I heard they were making it into a film I couldn't wait.
Then I found out Idris Elba was cast as Roland, the main protagonist. Can't stand the bloke, too cocky & full of himself by far IMO.
Quite disappointed as the book portrays Roland as a more grizzled, older Clint Eastwood type, not a 6 foot 3 massive black guy.
I hate it when Hollywood employs a liberal sprinkling of artistic licence to totally skew the original, but hopefully Randall Flagg will kill him early doors...:winking:.

Wind Through the Keyhole is a very enjoyable addition to that series too

 

[Gustav]

The 40th anniversary of 2000AD is coming up. Bought the very first issue, with the free "space spinner" in my young hands.

Stuff like "I am the law....perp", makes Blake and Wordsworth pale in comparison.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

The 40th anniversary of 2000AD is coming up. Bought the very first issue, with the free "space spinner" in my young hands.

Stuff like "I am the law....perp", makes Blake and Wordsworth pale in comparison.

Jealous - didn't start until Prog 13. Strontium Dog - the absolute bollocks.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Currently reading Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology, superb stuff.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

I AM Not Your Negro:James Baldwin.Raoul Peck.

Shooting script of Peck's Oscar nominated documentary.Film opens here next month.

Just started this.Looks a powerful read.

 

[Bearded Shrimper]

The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848

by Eric Hobsbawm



it took me a while to get into coz I find he's not an easy writer to get on with but once I got used to it i'm enjoying it and finding it much easier to get into.

love a bit of history so it's intersting

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started David Hepworth's 1971:Never a Dull Moment.

Looks a good read for the-ahem-older pop fan.:smile:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Guy Verhofstadt.Europe's Last Chance.

Interesting read.He's a federalist you know.:thumbsup:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Hag-Seed.Margaret Atiwood's excellent re-working of the Tempest.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Farmer Duck - Blatant rip off of Animal Farm (minus Napoleon & co). Outrageous!

 

[Bearded Shrimper]

Europe Isn't Working by Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson.
I thought as Brexit is happening, like it or not, I might as well read something on the subject. So far it's mainly about why the Euro is/was a bad idea.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Currently enjoying Michael Haig's The Durrells of Corfu.

Anyone seen ITV's The Durrells?

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started Joan Sales's classic Spanish Civil War novel Uncertain Glory.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started Hanif Kurishi's The Nothing.Brillant.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Robbie Robertson.Testimony.

Wonderful memoir.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started Tim Shipman's All Out War :The Full Story of Brexit.Looks like a good read.

 

[banjo saviola]

Inferno by Dan Brown - Poor

 

[Bearded Shrimper]

after reading some pretty heavy stuff I've been enjoying reading for fun.

First was The Strange Death of English Leg Spin by Justin Parkinson
now reading The Sleeper Awakes by H G Wells (again).

both decent

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Billy Bragg's Roots,Radicals and Rockers (How Skiffle Changed the World).Excellent.