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Seem to be going through a phase of reading books that are a real struggle.

Made it half way through Count of Monte Cristo and just don't have any urge to continue. It so slow paced and so dull in places. People say it picks up in the second half but I just can't do it.

Then I picked up Jerusalem by Alan Moore and I am finding that a massive slog as well. Not particularly entertaining stories and any that are, finish before any sort of satisfying conclusion. It also feels like hes just trying to be clever for the sake of it at times.

Perhaps I need to go back to reading some 40k books because clearly thats my level at the moment :p
 
Just finished the Red Rising trilogy by Pierce Brown. Enjoyed them. Pondering if to read the rest of the series. Sometimes the follow ons are not as good...
 
Just finished Lucky Loser about D Trump. Fascinating insight into his ego and his financial nous (hint: he doesn't have any). 3 billion in debt at one point.

Currently reading Monsters by Claire Dederer. What do we do with great art by bad people. Compelling enough
 
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I'm reading albeit slowly 1000 years of annoying the French by Stephen Clarke. The chapters span differing events, so I can pick it up and put it down without breaking continuity.
 
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Just finished Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel. Hard to fully describe the novel and do it justice. It's an interweaved story through time about time and reality with added pandemics. Her writing is always based on ideas, and sometimes quite beautiful while still being an enjoyable read. Both this and Station Eleven have made me stop and think, rather than just read.
 
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A weekend spent at Center Parcs where EVERYTHING was closed, enabled me to finish off Barbarians at the Gate
I picked it up in a charity shop, and realised it was the 20th anniversary edition of 2010!
It’s a cracking book, once you get your head around the huge cast, and I think has aged really well. You certainly have a feeling it couldn’t have been almost 35 years ago
Wish I’d read it sooner and thoroughly recommend it
 
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Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

the story of an American athletes experience of WW2.
its quite hard to take at some points and i have to put it down for a few days and come back to it.
what the men went through during the war, and the fact that they kept coming back for more, without cracking up, is almost hard to believe at times.
 
Finished Book 12 (Gathering Storm) of Wheel Of Time. Only two more to go. Phew.

I'm guessing most of it was written by Sanderson as the pace is generally quicker, far fewer pages detailing the appearance of minor Aes Sedai characters who never appear again. More action and storytelling with quite a few denouements and definitely moving forward to The Last Battle.

Rand is now a complete Ahole.

Egwene also a totally different character from the earlier books. She had no hesitation in lining up
50 Black Ajah for the headsman's chop in a mass execution which made post WWII Nazi war criminal disposal at Nuremberg or Hameln a picnic by comparison!
 
Yes Book 13 of WOT, Towers Of Midnight, awaited me in Swindon Central Library this afternoon. 800+ pages and hardback to boot.

That's going to take a bit of reading! Think I'll be extending beyond the three week due back date.
 
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Yes Book 13 of WOT, Towers Of Midnight, awaited me in Swindon Central Library this afternoon. 800+ pages and hardback to boot.

That's going to take a bit of reading! Think I'll be extending beyond the three week due back date.
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Very nice.
I really enjoyed that series.

I've just got Brandon Sanderson's new audiobook "Wind and Truth" (So that's 62 hours of listening ahead of me!)
 
I recently read (and listened to) two Jo Callaghan books about a Detective who is asked to trial using a new AI Detective. The first book (In The Blink of an Eye) has them looking over some cold cases, the second one (Leave No Trace) they get plunged into a hot new murder case. You have to accept some questionable physics/tech, but they're pretty good books with an interesting slant to them.
 
As I've been struggling to sleep due to coughing fits at the moment, I've been ploughing through The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel, in preparation for watching the new TV adaptation. Only got about 50 pages to go :)

I loved the first two books, and the first TV series, so this is a bit of a pre-Christmas treat for me.
 
I had the same problem with coughing fits stopping me sleeping and what fixed it for me was Boots Catarrh Pastilles. I just pop one of these in my mouth as I go to bed and let it slowly dissolve all night for no more coughing fits.
 
Odyssey by Stephen Fry. I picked it up at the library because it had a vibrant stormy sea cover. There are a lot of characters to wrap your head around in the first chapter.
 
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jonchaz said:
I had the same problem with coughing fits stopping me sleeping and what fixed it for me was Boots Catarrh Pastilles. I just pop one of these in my mouth as I go to bed and let it slowly dissolve all night for no more coughing fits.
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Just wanted to say: thanks for this suggestion! I picked these up today and tried having one while wandering around town, and there was a great improvement in my coughing and discomfort, so I will do exactly as you suggest this evening and hopefully get a better night's sleep.

Now (and more on-topic) I just need to find a new book to start reading, as I finished The Mirror and the Light last night!
 
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