January Reading Thread

[Danny McG]

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[Danny McG]

The book is very different from the film:-

He plays harmonica with a band and they release an album!
He becomes a champion wrestler!
He gets into space with NASA!
He becomes a chess grandmaster!

Update:- Now he's in Hollywood making a film with Raquel Welch!

The Forrest and Jenny relationship is also very different, she was still promiscuous and a peaceful in the early days but then she settled down with Forrest, she wanted a quiet lifestyle with him.He wouldn't stop living the brash wrestling persona so she eventually left.
When they met years later she was a happily married church going woman, her only reveal was her kid was actually Forrest's - he left and didn't interfere in her (AIDS free) life

 

[Elentarri]

~The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople by Jonathan P. Phillips [History]

A clearly written, fairly detailed (but not excessively so), account of the convoluted reasoning and deeds behind the Fourth Crusade, and the eventual sack of Constantinople in 1204, and massacre of its inhabitants.​

 

[Orcadian]

Still ploughing through A. C. Clarke's collected short stories from the 1940s & 50s. Now on vol. 4 of 5 but not sure I'll make it to the end of #5 as, honestly, I've now had more than enough of the Tales from the White Hart format.

But I've been enjoying the subtle, ironic (very English) wit of Clarke's Storyteller. And the stories have included some of his timeless greats, e.g. If I Forget Thee, O Earth, The Sentinel and Rescue Party.

 

[AE35Unit]

Next up The Taking by Dean Koontz (2004)

 

[Toby Frost]

Hmm, The Peripheral is hard work. A fair chunk of the words seem to be missing - in one character's point of view, this is literally true, as he sentences read like "Came back to work. Sat at a chair." It's more Neuromancer than Count Zero, but I'm persisting.

 

[Vertigo]

Hmm, The Peripheral is hard work. A fair chunk of the words seem to be missing - in one character's point of view, this is literally true, as he sentences read like "Came back to work. Sat at a chair." It's more Neuromancer than Count Zero, but I'm persisting.

I seem to remember finding it quite tough initially but that it improved as I became more familiar with the world(s).