April 2022 Reading Thread

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Bick said:
Yes, and it’s terrific. I read it about 10 years ago and enjoyed it very much. I read the second autobiographical book of Lee’s (As I Walked Out One Midsomer Morning) about 30-35 years ago and loved it also. It covers his journey walking around Spain in the 20’s. The third covers his part in the War but I’ve not read it yet.
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Agree. Absolutely brilliant. The classic case of a book which was totally boring at school, and which was transformed when I picked it up 30 years later. The whole trilogy is wonderful, as is A Rose in Winter, in which Lee returns to an impoverished post-war Spain to revisit his old haunts. The quality of the prose is very striking.
 
Reading John Burke's Rasputin the Mad Monk novel adaptation.
I love his books. They are so breezy quick reads.
You have the movie script turned into prose but he adds little embellishments that liven it up.
I read his Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, Dracula-Prince of Darkness, the Reptile.

Plague of the Zombies is next.
 
I'm rereading Peter Watts's Starfish. I only liked the first book of this trilogy, but I remember it not necessarily needing any sequels.
 
I have a question... I found mitch rapp about the same time i found Scott harvatt... However i never could empathise with those books... Too unrealistic? I don't know honestly. Does anyone feel the same? The books on valens legacy by Jan stryvant are quite fun
 
Taking a break from everything to read this:
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Bick said:
Yes, and it’s terrific. I read it about 10 years ago and enjoyed it very much. I read the second autobiographical book of Lee’s (As I Walked Out One Midsomer Morning) about 30-35 years ago and loved it also. It covers his journey walking around Spain in the 20’s. The third covers his part in the War but I’ve not read it yet.
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Not sure I'm gonna make it to the end to be honest. 2 chapters down and I'm overwhelmed by the mundanity of it and florid writing. You can tell the writer is a poet ...:/
 
Bick said:
Yes, and it’s terrific. I read it about 10 years ago and enjoyed it very much. I read the second autobiographical book of Lee’s (As I Walked Out One Midsomer Morning) about 30-35 years ago and loved it also. It covers his journey walking around Spain in the 20’s. The third covers his part in the War but I’ve not read it yet.
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Re Cider with Rosie
I've yet to read it. One day...
A while back I read the second (As I walked out...) and really liked it. I also realised it was the probable reason at least two people I knew went hitchhiking in Europe with nothing much else except a violin (played briefly at school) back in the early 70s.
More recently I read the third and thought it really good, the more so because it cast an unusual (to me) perspective on the awfulness of Spain 1936-9.
 
Bick said:
‘Florid’ doesn’t sound like Laurie Lee, to me.
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Me neither. Economical, precise and beautiful prose as far as I am concerned.
I can see why some find Cider a bit dull. As I Walked Out has a more structured narrative (Lee walks to the south of Spain), and is probably my favourite.
 
Dave Vicks said:
Up next GORE VIDAL books.
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i never read him, is he any good? i think i remember someone saying that he could have great if he just put a bit more effort... but i'm not sure it's about him...
 
just re read one of the posts and realize that i wasn't clear enough
I have a question... I found mitch rapp about the same time i found Scott harvatt... However i never could empathise with scott harvath books... Too unrealistic? I don't know honestly. Does anyone feel the same? The books on valens legacy by Jan stryvant are quite fun
 
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