What Are You Reading?

I can't find a thread for this.

I've just finished; "The Girl Who Played With Fire."

I read; "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" last year in hospital.

Both by "The Stigg"
....No actually, Stieg Larsson.
Very enjoyable crime novels, both with an unlikely female central character, although in the latest it was hard to get my head round the Swedish names of the many different characters, Erika and Eriksonn, is a good example, but I enjoyed both.

 

I have just finished reading "Eye witness, Auschwitz" by Philip Muller. A real life account of ayoung Hungarian man sent to Auschwitz and forced to work in the crematoriums in one of the Sonderkommandos. A truly harrowing tale. Next time someone makes a comment that some of the PC brigade say is racist, make them read this book and you will see what racism really is.

I am now re-reading "Auschwitz" by Dr Miklos Nyisli. Another true life account of an Aushwitch prisoner. The Doctor was from Hungary and was deported to Aushwitch in 1944. He was a highly skilled pathologist and was compelled to work for and alongside the notorious Joseph Mengele (The Angel of Death). I am re-reading this book simply because there is just so much to take on board.

I am fascinated by the Holocaust and how it came to happen. There are no words to adequately describe the crimes commited.

Chopper.

 

What am I reading? Why, your post of course. :lollol: :lollol:

Actually, it's "The night of the Big Wind."

(6th of January 1839.)

One fact I've come across so far and which, I didn't know before, is that "factory" is actually a shortened version of the 19th century word "manufactory". i.e a place where goods are manufactured.

(Just thought I'd give you that piece of useless information.) :D

And I'm on here now because it's pelting rain outside. I normally work in any type of rain except, like it's at at the moment, when it's coming at you horizontally. :(

 

Mankind only has the thinnest of the thinnest veneer of civilization. See what happened in the Balkans a few years ago. See the mutilation that gangs engage in in some African states at the moment.

"Man's inhumanity to man."

 

Heres a thread I started awhile ago DR
http://www.gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/war-and-peace-t18412.html?t=18412
Use it or abuse it:hehe:

 

You need to read 'the girl who kicked the hornets nest' it finishes of 'played with fire'.....you cannot get a real conclusion to the Salander situation without reading the final book

 

Just finished reading " Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust " by Lyn Smith. Truly harrowing experiences of people who actually survived the camps and death marches.:yez:

 

Which part of the day do you set aside to read? There is always something else that needs doing, SO many books I would like to read but never any time. I may say that I too am fascinated by the Holocaust and have several DVD's about such.

Val

 

Just read 'Little Girls Lost' by J C Kereley, another US police detective writer. Am an avid reader of crime fiction and follow a number of authors both English and American and have also read the Larsen trilogy wwhich was excellent.

Generally read late evening and enjoy authors like Michael Connely, Jeffery Deaver, Robert Crais and sundry others.

 

Just reading '77 Sulphate Strip: An eyewitness account of the year that changed everything' by Barry Cain. Great account of punk rock with contemporary interviews and modern updates from some of the artists. Encounter John Lydon, Jean-Jacques Burnel, Hugh Cornwell et al from the safety of your own living room! See you at the Apollo in March, JJ! (Somehow I doubt he reads gardening forums although I think he did once own a vineyard in France, so you never know.)

 

My "home" days are mostly taken up with a few chores, like emptying the "dishy" (someone has to do i!) and gardening in the mornings, messing with my jukeboxes and playing my saxophone in the afternoons but only for a short while and my leccy piano in the early evenings. But not every day.

As I don't watch much live TV as it's mostly rubbish, I record a lot and watch about a third of it, so I've plenty of time in the evenings, though usually it's pretty late before I start to read the paper and occasionally a book, not going to bed before one or two am and not getting up until nine, 'cept three days in the week when I play golf.
I do flit back and forth on this computer in the evenings looking at or contributing to message boards. The saxophone and jukebox message boards are USA based, so they "don't wake up" until around eight or nine pm. I've been a bit at a loose end this week as I've only played golf once because of the rain.

I'd listen to the radio more but the best progranmmes seem to be on quite early in the evening or during the day.

It's a hard life.

 

Sadly Steig Larsson died before any of these books were published.... Lisbeth really gets under your skin, in a way I'm sad I have finished the trilogy, It was brilliant and I will miss her!

 

I felt the same way about Bernard Samson in Len Deighton's several trilogies.
I really enjoyed the BBC TV series of; "Game Set & Match."
Having red the books first, I thought the characterisation was spot on. Deighton didn't, so wouldn't let them repeat it...ever!

 

I bought The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo last summer at the airport when we were going away for a shirt trip to Spain...and finished it on the flight home. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. I've just started The Girl who played with fire and already engrossed. Once you get past the Swedish names, they are brilliant reads.

 

Robert, looks like your thread has been revived.

I raided my son's bookshelf and read five Robert Harris books. Enigma, Fatherland, Archangel, Imperium and Pompei, all good reads and varied stories but not exactly thrillers as described. Yet to read Ghost.
I tend to read instead of numbing my brain with TV.