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Nov 2019
10:08am, 5 Nov 2019
41,930 posts
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McGoohan
It's still on my TBRs. I have large piles.
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Nov 2019
10:16am, 5 Nov 2019
15,468 posts
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Chrisull
Acronyms? TBR - I know obviously , but with book titles it gets harder and harder.
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Nov 2019
10:20am, 5 Nov 2019
41,931 posts
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McGoohan
My Sister The Serial Killer is the acronymy one
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Nov 2019
10:21am, 5 Nov 2019
41,982 posts
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Diogenes
My Sister The Serial Killer. You don't like anything with a tinge of amorality in it, do you?
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Nov 2019
10:37am, 5 Nov 2019
115,895 posts
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GregP
Harsh. One of my least favourite books of recent years - apart from Gone Girl which is probably the low water mark - was Good Samaritans by Will Carver. There's a whiff of that in MSTSK.
~non-PC opinion ahoy~
If the book was set in Kingston-on-Thames (where the author learned her craft) rather than Lagos it wouldn't have achieved a fiftieth of the publicity it's got.
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Nov 2019
10:43am, 5 Nov 2019
41,985 posts
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Diogenes
Possibly. But reading about other cultures in exotic locations is one the things we read for, isn't it? I also think it reflects modern Nigerian (or Lagos) society quite well, albeit in caricature, and there are also similarities to Britain meaning we can look at it and think "how terrible these avaricious, venal Nigerians are" before realising they are just becoming 'Westernized'.
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Nov 2019
1:40pm, 5 Nov 2019
14,827 posts
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Serendippily
Oo but I’ve just been in a Nigerian jail for The Book of Memory which I really enjoyed *looks about for Greppers*
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Nov 2019
1:41pm, 5 Nov 2019
115,914 posts
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GregP
~waves gracefully~
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Nov 2019
7:55pm, 10 Nov 2019
42,179 posts
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Diogenes
I finished reading Jilly Cooper’s memoir of badly behaved Putney people and dogs today. There is something likeable about Cooper despite her blithe middle-classness and maddening behaviour: she is full of warmth and compassion for everyone and everything she meets, even for her fiercest critics and enemies. The book is also fascinating for the way it documents the years between 1973 and 1983. It throws into sharp relief how much things changed in that time, and how much more they have changed since.
Having finished that I’ve started on Brian Bilston’s novel Diary Of A Somebody. In the past McG has jokingly (and flatteringly) asked if I am Brian Bilston. Having started reading the book I am wondering the same thing. Needless to say, it is excellent and I am enjoying it very much.
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Nov 2019
8:30pm, 10 Nov 2019
9,820 posts
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Little Nemo
I've always had a soft spot for Jilly Cooper - she writes a good bonkbuster  I remember sharing a library copy of Riders with my mum back in the 80s when it first came out. We took it in turns to read it, possibly one of my fondest memories
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