What are you reading at the moment?

[CheeseHead]

6 hours ago, DJW1 said:

One book we did at school in the 80s was Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. I read it again several years ago and, although it drags a bit in parts, it is a great book. Considering it was published in the 1930s, it´s vision of a future world is uncanny in several respects.

 

Other books we read at school were Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night´s Dream, The Collector, Tom Sawyer, and A Kind of Loving.

 

I saw the Watership Down film in 1978 when I was 12, so the political/regime aspects went totally over my head! Perhaps they were removed from the film.

At my school we had to study Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household for English Lit. When I first read it as a 14-year old I couldn't really appreciate it, and in fact didn't even realize that it was Hitler that was the would-be assassin's target (Hitler was only referred to as 'The Great Man'). The book, written in the late 1930s before Britain and Germany were at war, makes no references at all to 'Hitler', 'Nazis' or 'Germany', but some clues are dropped into the text. Much later editions of the book (well after the edition we had at school) didn't bother disguising anything and even had Hitler on the front cover. Apparently at the time of publishing the author/publisher thought it would be too politically sensitive to name countries and foreign heads of state, and they didn't want to inflame an already tense pre-war situation. Later on in life I was able to appreciate the staggering psychological depth of the book and it became one of my all-time favorites.

[Sampson]

Finished Red Rising book 3 and Dungeon Crawler Carl book 8 in the past couple of weeks, both fantastic! The endings of both books really didn't go the way I expected.

Currently on Red Rising book 4 about halfway through.

Edited 21 May by Sampson

[Zear0]

1 hour ago, Sampson said:

Finished Red Rising book 3 and Dungeon Crawler Carl book 8 in the past couple of weeks, both fantastic! The endings of both books really didn't go the way I expected.

Currently on Red Rising book 4 about halfway through.

Was going to ask how you were getting on with Red Rising so glad to see you're enjoying it.  I've not long departed with some money for a fancy edition of Book 1 as it's definitely one of my top 10 books.

[Samilktray]

1 hour ago, Sampson said:

Finished Red Rising book 3 and Dungeon Crawler Carl book 8 in the past couple of weeks, both fantastic! The endings of both books really didn't go the way I expected.

Currently on Red Rising book 4 about halfway through.

 

18 minutes ago, Zear0 said:

Was going to ask how you were getting on with Red Rising so glad to see you're enjoying it.  I've not long departed with some money for a fancy edition of Book 1 as it's definitely one of my top 10 books.

Red Rising is another book I struggled with and thought I'd really enjoy. Maybe I need to revisit and perceiver with the first book at some point.

[ajthefox]

A third of the way through this. Very good so far.

 

[Ian W LCFC]

6 hours ago, Samilktray said:

 

Red Rising is another book I struggled with and thought I'd really enjoy. Maybe I need to revisit and perceiver with the first book at some point.

I decided to buy the 1st one Audibile the other month during the sale (think it was like £4 or something). Looking forward to it as I've heard good things, but just finishing off the full cast Harry Potter ones 1st as I never actually read the books

[Sampson]

On 21/05/2026 at 12:44, Zear0 said:

Was going to ask how you were getting on with Red Rising so glad to see you're enjoying it.  I've not long departed with some money for a fancy edition of Book 1 as it's definitely one of my top 10 books.

 

23 hours ago, Samilktray said:

 

Red Rising is another book I struggled with and thought I'd really enjoy. Maybe I need to revisit and perceiver with the first book at some point.

My favourite was the 2nd book - that was a really great book, a proper page turner from beginning to end with a fantastic ending. (I know book 6 is supposed to be a favourite of many too though).

The 1st book I really enjoyed the opening and final quarters but found the middling quarters a little hard to follow at times. I could never fully get my head round Pierce Brown's writing style in the first book of the short, sort of poetic, staccato sentences - I understand that it makes it nicer to read in your head and gets across the feeling, but I found it wasn't descriptive enough at times for me and I lost track of what was happening. He kind of abandoned that writing style after the first book. Plus I prefer the full galaxy space opera of books 2 onwards that the Martian battle royale style scenario of the first (although I know he said, the only way he could ever get the book published was to promise to do it that way due to the popularity of Hunger Games at the time).

 

I think I would probably appreciate the 1st book more on a re-read now I know the characters, basic plot etc.

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