Books etc

[undyingking]

We had the voting session for our book group at the weekend, where we decide what will be read over the next 18 months or so. It was combined with "cook group", a one-off variant in which we all brough along some food of a literary nature, rather than reading a book as normal. (My effort was a pie with the words "Life of" in pastry on the top

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[triskellian]

Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
Our book group read this relatively recently, and a good time was had by all... Which isn't to say everyone liked it, but that the discussion was both fun and interesting.

I loved it, and have since bought A Pale View of Hills, although I haven't read it yet.

[undyingking]

Of his I've only read Artist of the Floating World and Remains of the Day, both of which I thought were brilliant1, so I'm looking forward to this -- even though the plot sounds kind of silly and predictable, from what I've heard about it.

1 and will happily lend if you're interested?

[triskellian]

Ooh, yes please!

The plot of NLMG is certainly open to accusations of silliness, but I don't think it's particularly predictable, and such silliness of plot as there was didn't detract from it, for me. Others differed...

[wimble]

*twitch* *twitch*

And I'm not even a member of the group...

[watervole]

Arthur Miller - All My Sons

[undyingking]

Thanks, that's a great suggestion -- we've never done any Miller, and I only know that one by repute.

[thecesspit]

The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruis Zafin

Paper Lion - George Plimpton (non-fiction, possibly not as interesting to non-NFL fans, but I loved it)

[undyingking]

Hmm, I started Shadow but I found it kind of silly and hard to get into... maybe I should persevere, I know lots of people who did like it.

Sadly I'm not sure a sport-related suggestion would go down all that well, but I'll look into it.