What Book Are You Currently Reading ?

[Batman]

Finished True Grit this morning, going to be starting this one next

A gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times. In Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, the plague begins as a series of portents, unheeded by the people. It gradually becomes a omnipresent reality, obliterating all traces of the past and driving its victims to almost unearthly extremes of suffering, madness, and compassion.

I've never heard of it before quite looking forward to it.

[El Kabong]

Finished True Grit this morning, going to be starting this one next

A gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times. In Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, the plague begins as a series of portents, unheeded by the people. It gradually becomes a omnipresent reality, obliterating all traces of the past and driving its victims to almost unearthly extremes of suffering, madness, and compassion.

I've never heard of it before quite looking forward to it.

I read

The Black Death: Natural and Human Disater in Medieval Europe
by Robert Steven Gottfried

It's nonfiction so I guess that isn't your style, but it was rather interesting. Amazing how quickly things got out of control and how entire towns were wiped out....it wasn't just 1 disease it was famine AND the Bubonic Plague, Septicemic Plague, and Pneumonic Plague each deadlier than the last.

[Batman]

Actually sounds like something I'd enjoy (the book not the actual plague) I might keep that in mind for the future

[El Kabong]

Actually sounds like something I'd enjoy (the book not the actual plague) I might keep that in mind for the future

It's a tiny book, short read.


William Manchester's 'A World Lit Only By Fire' is quality too

[Batman]

finished this morning

not bad, very wordy and the story suffers for it sometimes, characters all seemed to blend into one another.

Camus has been described as existential and I'd agree, I've also heard comparisons to Kafka but on the basis of this book I'd say that Kafka is a superior author.

I don't think it's one that I'll be revisiting.

I'm going to start Of Mice and Men today, that should only take me a day or so to read and I might pop down to waterstones and pick up In Cold Blood by Truman Capote later on today.