Nicola's Reading List 2010

[Nicola]

He never has!

 

Just started The Fury....... Why!!!

[frankie]

Nope it was exactly the same game! Mind you....he's not the sharpest tool in the box. This is the lad who was given a

[Nicola]

I know!!! Bless him!! :mrgreen:

[Nicola]

Well......I've finished the first four books in the Vampire Diaries and they're not great but I couldn't out them down (if that's possible!) I think I was generally interested in what happened but I really didn't like the lead character, the book seemed rushed and there was no depth of detail. Maybe it wasn't a great decision by me to read the books after a few months of reading Anne Rice, the queen of the finer detail.

 

Overall I've given them 3/5. Not great, but I can just see me buying the 5th book of the series when it's released to further punish myself

[Peacefield]

Do you like the show better than the books, Nicola? I've only read the first two but I think I'll be of your mind, read all of them and realize that not much is there, but still get addicted and want to read all the rest .

[Nicola]

I think the TV show is a zillion times better than the books. I just can't get away with Elena in the books and she reminds me of one of those 'My Super Sweet 16' kids on MTV But you're totally right, they're the sort of books that you just continue reading because you have to know what happens I'm going to write 'Sucker' on a sheet of A4 and stick it to the back of my own jacket before leaving the house tomorrow!

[Peacefield]

That's a hilarious idea! I agree though, I think the show's much better than the books. At least now if you read them you could picture the Salvatore brothers from the show though, right?!

[Nicola]

I think that was the only good thing about these books! I still can't choose between the two though :)

[Peacefield]

I can't choose either! It's really hard you know, just staring at them, trying to make up my mind .

[Nicola]

I find it really difficult too. It's a tiring job but I guess someone has to do it eh!

[Nicola]

Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk

 

"From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, this is a full-frontal Triple-X novel that goes where no work of fiction has gone before. 'Six hundred dudes. One porn queen. A world record for the ages. A must-have movie for every discerning collector of things erotic'. 'Didn't one of us on purpose set out to make a snuff movie?' - Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera with six hundred men, "Snuff" unfolds from the perspectives of Mr 72, Mr 137 and Mr 600, who await their turn on camera in a very crowded green room. This wild, lethally funny and thoroughly researched novel brings the huge yet underacknowledged presence of pornography in contemporary life into the realm of literary fiction at last. Who else but Chuck Palahniuk would dare do such a thing? Who else could do it so well, so unflinchingly and with such an incendiary (you might say) climax?"

 

I'm a big fan of Palahniuk and have read (and enjoyed) most of his novels. While Snuff wasn't the best of Palahniuk's work I've read by a mile, it was still a good read. I've noticed that he usually writes about lonely characters who feel at odds with the rest of society in one way or another and this book is no different. The story is approached from the point of view of 3 men and while I initially found all three to be generally repulsive, I grew to sympathize with them and came to understand how they found themselves standing in a room with 600 men, semi-naked and waiting to take part in a porn movie.

 

Overall, I found the story to be an easy read, full of interesting facts (do you know the lengths that old hollywood greats went to in order to achieve a husky voice or perky bottom?) and funny as sin. I laughed out loud so many times considering it's quite a short book.

 

While it's not his best work, it's still a great book. 4/5