Prioritising my reading based on your feedback
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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Books discussed:
Handling the Undead by John Alvide Lindqvist
Noir by Olivier Pauvert
Loop by Joji Suzuki
The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Our Kind of Traitor by John LeCarre
Transition by Iain Banks
Blood Cruise by Mats Strandberg
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
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I'm usually very nonchalant about people not liking the same things I do because I have seen a million times how differently people perceive the same story. But every time someone says even a little bit unflattering about The Goldfinch, I feel like a stone drop in my heart. I think it's my favorite book in the world. I feel so much connection to the main character and the themes of the book.
Hopefully I'll like it when I get round to reading it! Great that you have such a connection with it
Oh no! Blood cruise had no comments 🙃. I read it years ago and it's the book that got me back into reading alot as an adult. I really enjoyed it!
Ah fantastic! Glad to hear you enjoyed it.
I read A Heartbreaking etc back in 2014. I recognised the title and had to look it up in my Kindle list to find the date. I thought it was very engaging more than enjoyable. One thing I had trouble with was the grandiosity of the title - I don't know if that got it more sales or not but it sticks in my mind as something not to call a book. 😀
Ha! I know what you mean
Cool list. I read Ring and Spiral years ago and had enough of Suzuki's weirdness at that point so I never tried loop. I'm planning on doing a Smiley readthrough as well. I read Secret History this year and picked The Goldfinch up from a charity shop recently so I'll be interested in your thoughts. I liked LA Confidential a lot when I read it years ago.
I really enjoyed the first 2 Smileys
I read BLOOD CRUISE (in a German Translation) several years ago and liked it quite a lot. The author did some interesting things with well known horror tropes, especially in the end. (Definitely didn’t see that one coming…) :)
Oh that's good to know, thank you
I must recommend The Water Cure. My wife and I both thought it made a fantastic partner to I Who Have Never Known Men.
Thanks for the recommendation!
I love this video idea!
Thank you!
L A Confidential is an amazing book and to my great surprise they didn’t screw up the movie too badly😂
That's a rare one where I watched the movie without having read the book first
The movie was quite good. Loved the scene where Russell Crowe rips up a chair. Can't remember if it was in the book.
LA Confidential is the only book I read it is also the only one in the trilogy I read. Me and my mom both read it because the movie was coming out. It is really dark which you like and it puts you in LA during the time period it takes place. You really get pulled in but it is a massive book that takes place over like ten years. Also word advise, in fact two, one if you seen the movie forget it, toss it out of your brain because it will confuse you given how different it is from the book, two never ever loan out the book to a relative you only see on holidays. I let my uncle read it and he never gave it back and now he is retired and living four states away.
Haven't read Transition, but Banks' The Culture is my personal favourite Sci-Fi series, so I need to read more of his other fiction.
I recently got back into crime fiction so I'm looking forward to L.A Confidential.
I've only read the first Culture book (and that was 35 years ago) but I remember loving it
Aaaw I LOVED Blood Cruise! ❤
Oh that's good to know!
I've never heard of most of those books. If I recommended a book to you, there would have to be a reason behind it, since I read such different books than you. How about When Books Went to War by Molly Guptill Manning? It's totally outside your wheelhouse, being a WW2 history, but it's about book banning and burning vs encouraging reading freedom. That's an important topic today.
That does sound really interesting!
Hi Olly. Have you read 'Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow' by Gabrielle Zevin? I finished it last week, and absolutely loved it -- easily the best book I've read this year, and probably my favourite book of the past 2-3 years. I was a bit dubious starting it, but it's glorious! Wonderful characters, very poignant, very emotional. It's almost 500 pages long, but I tore through it in 3 days.
I haven't yet. I do keep hearing good things about it so I really should at some point. The fact that you've added to that chorus of approval makes me think I should make that sooner rather than later.
If I prioritised your reading, I think you’d regret it and go back to horror lol jk
Haha - you should definitely recommend me something!
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I like LeCarre, but because the endings are usually quite bleak, I typically listen to them instead of read them--that seems to lessen the blow when I hit the downer ending. OUR KIND OF TRAITOR is really good, but again: the climax hurts. Which, really, is LeCarre's whole point about the spy game, right?
I have the Michael Chabon book, but haven't read it yet. I usually enjoy his books, but I find his style to be--not padded, exactly, but needlessly wordy (if that makes sense). As if he needs one more editing pass to get to the heart of his sentences. But I think I'll probably like this one when I finally read it.
Big fan of Ellroy's LA Quartet. Recommended!
Thank you! Yeah LeCarre's view of the world does tend to be quite downbeat!
I was curious what people might say about Blood Cruise lol so it's funny it was the one that had no comments. I read it a few years ago! It was a bloody, fun horror, though it dragged at times (it's a BIG book). Was an interesting concept though and I enjoyed it for the most part.
Ah that's good to know, thanks Cassie!
I clicked on this in hopes of hearing everyone's thoughts on Blood Cruise. 😂 I've also had it for years but it's size, so chunky! It's also the lowest rated book on my TBR so thats not helping either.
It’s certainly big! A few people in the comments on this video have said they liked it
I liked Handling the Undead way better than Let the Right One In by the same author. I read Blood Cruise around the time it came out and found it just boring. I miss reading scary horror books. 🙂
Oh that's interesting about Handling the Undead
Im a big fan of Le Carre but Our Kind of Traitor is pretty average. That said even an average Le Carre is worth reading.
Cant go wrong Ellroy either.
I think his best work is his Underworld trilogy though. Ellroy was a big fan of Le carre and considered him the only living (at the time) writer in the genre that was better than him
I didn't know that about Ellroy!
That was my thinking as well with The Goldfinch. Wasn’t ready to read it so unhauled it knowing I should be able to get hold of a copy if I wanted to pick it up in future.
Some books are easy to let go for that reason
Loop is the third book in the Ring series, Spiral is the second. Not read Loop but the other two were pretty good.
Thank you
All of DJ James' bibliography
I have a couple to get to soon
The book “A Heartbreaking Book of Staggering Genius”, you said is thick but actually just over 400 pages. How tiny is that type? Have you ever done a video about type size? I started that book but did not get far. Can’t remember why I DNFd it. Of all the books in this video “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union” is my guess the best of the bunch. I’ve read two of his books (Michael Chabon) and he is really good.
I was a little gobsmacked by Donna Tartt after reading Secret History. A very loved one recommended it to me, back in the 90's. I've enjoyed all her books. There are other things also going on when I read her, so I'm not partial. But I think you should give Goldfinch a chance. Wish she would publish something new.
She does seem to take her time with books
Read Catherine Cookson.
I’ve always meant to try her, my grandmother was a huge fan
@@CriminOllyBlog Darling, please do.. It is a way to understand working class people from the North East in particular , and indeed the Industrial Revolution as a whole . She wrote so beautifully about some very tough subjects, the stories can be very painful for the faint at heart yet are so relevant to people now... we haven't changed much in 150 years X
I've read 3 by Tartt and they were all interesting.
I’m a Jewish guy living in the Pacific Northwest and my great grandfather spoke fluent Yiddish so the Yiddish Policeman’s Union was interesting to me. I’ve tried finishing it half a dozen times and have never gotten through it. Good world building, but long winded and ultimately boring.
Oh that's a shame
I loved/hated The Goldfinch. One of the most vivid characters I’ve ever read in Boris, but he was so frustrating. Much too long overall, but I don’t think I am typical when it comes to Tartt. Happy reads!
Thanks for the thoughts :)
The Goldfinch, I have seen too many reviews that really, did not like it, so have been afraid to try it.
Ir's certainly a daunting book
So, I was the one to consign Noir to the charity shops. Safe travels. I just checked out the Mats Strandberg's ebook from the library. I'll let you know how it goes.
Oh cool! Let me know
I just finished The Man With One of Those Faces. I have not had more fun reading in years and thought of you.
I hadn't heard of that, but it sounds fun