This week I have been reading
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Tesco in Lewisham had Pete Townshend's autobiography for £8. Full price, £20.0
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Reading The Master and Margarita. Heard good things.0
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Its quite a book ! really worth reading the background to it afterwards as wellcharlton_hero said:Reading The Master and Margarita. Heard good things.
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Recently read Black Box, the latest Michael Connelly, brilliant as usual. Also read a very compelling book called Too Close to Home by Linwood Barclay, cleverly put together murder mystery thriller. I have just started a novel by Clive Cussler called Flood Tide, not sure about it at all. I know he is very popular, but so far I find there is a lot of unnecessary description and some quite far fetched scenarios that stretch belief just a bit too far. I shall persevere for a while and see how it develops...0
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Read it a couple of weeks ago and thoroughly enjoyed it.Rufus is a dogs name said:Just started 11/12/63 by Stephen King, anyone on here read it?
Only a few chapters in but already struggling to put it down!
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Just finished the "Sisters Brothers" which I enjoyed but thought could have been improved by more development of the other brother but I suppose the story was written in the first person so difficult to do.
Now reading Where the Bodies Are Buried by Christopher Brookmyre. Have read all his stuff, which are all an easy read and enjoying it but not quite as much of the lighter, knockabout crime stuff and characters as in his previous books.0 -
Almost finished The Prestige, by Christopher Priest. Next, a change of gears with a Roxy Music 'biography'.0
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Drawn up a list of classic 20th century stuff I haven't read. Just started Catch 22 and am so far liking it and the somewhat silly way it's written, then Catcher in the Rye, 1984, Grapes of Wrath plus a few others to come hopefully.0
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Currently reading the new Sherlock Holmes book by Anthony Horowitz.
Not as good as the real thing, but guess it's the next best thing.0 -
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins0
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Enjoyed all 3 others (haven't read Catch 22). Need to do that myself, Keep meaning to read Birdsong, Catch 22 Tinker Tailer, Soldier, Spy etc.RedPanda said:Drawn up a list of classic 20th century stuff I haven't read. Just started Catch 22 and am so far liking it and the somewhat silly way it's written, then Catcher in the Rye, 1984, Grapes of Wrath plus a few others to come hopefully.
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Jacked in the Clive Cussler, just not my cup of tea. Going to start a thread on books you have given up on.0
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Reamde by Neal Stephenson ... not his best but still enjoyed it0
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Me too, very enjoyableFanny Fanackapan said:
Read it a couple of weeks ago and thoroughly enjoyed it.Rufus is a dogs name said:Just started 11/12/63 by Stephen King, anyone on here read it?
Only a few chapters in but already struggling to put it down!
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On the Plains of Afghanistan - Jules Stewart.
A retelling of the first three Afghan wars, anyone following the latest foray into Afghanistan will understand the military and political problems that need to be overcome and the shifting alliances and treachery from supposed allies. Nothing much has changed since the first disaster in 1839-42...
The book's title is taken from a line from Rudyard Kipling:
"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier"0 -
just finished "Grapes of wrath" by John Steinbeck.
What a book. I can see why its a classic. I can also see why certain americans banned it and burnet it at the time of its publication.
It still makes allot of sence in todays society. well worth reading it if you havent already, i know some would of read it at school.
starting to read James Lee Burkes "Bitterrot" already got through the first hundred pages. really good read so far. His writing gets you straight into the plot and the imagery with ease.0 -
Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist - Simon Armitage.
I'm enjoying this.0 -
now try 'Of Mice & Men'Karim_myBagheri said:just finished "Grapes of wrath" by John Steinbeck.
What a book. I can see why its a classic. I can also see why certain americans banned it and burnet it at the time of its publication.
It still makes allot of sence in todays society. well worth reading it if you havent already, i know some would of read it at school.
starting to read James Lee Burkes "Bitterrot" already got through the first hundred pages. really good read so far. His writing gets you straight into the plot and the imagery with ease.0 -
This week Brian McDermott was Reading.0
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will do. thanks.Lincsaddick said:
now try 'Of Mice & Men'Karim_myBagheri said:just finished "Grapes of wrath" by John Steinbeck.
What a book. I can see why its a classic. I can also see why certain americans banned it and burnet it at the time of its publication.
It still makes allot of sence in todays society. well worth reading it if you havent already, i know some would of read it at school.
starting to read James Lee Burkes "Bitterrot" already got through the first hundred pages. really good read so far. His writing gets you straight into the plot and the imagery with ease.0 - Sponsored links:
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I very like Jasper Fforde - The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book and, away from Thursday Next, The Big Over Easy are great.
Just read/reading:
Tokyo Year Zero - David Peace - liked this
The Virgin Blue - Tracey Chevalier - didn't like this one, it was her starter novel - I'd recommend Girl with a Pearl Earring and Remarkable Creatures though.
Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard - liked it a bit but I think I've read enough of his now
The Corner - enjoying this0 -
Just been reading some father Brown stories - GK Chesterton (free for Kobo). Not bad Sherlock Holmes with a Catholic twist...no energy or stamina to read anything more taxing at the moment with job pressure...0
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'Point of Impact' by Stephen Hunter. Hunter writes superb, fierce, gutsy thrillers. My favourite thriller writer but not so well known in England I don't think. I would highly recommend his books if you like tough, exciting thrillers. The first one I read of his was Hot Springs and then I was hooked.0
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I love Stephen Hunter .. He's written about a dozen thrillers: violent but realistic violence, imaginative, well researched, excellent varity of topicsRob said:'Point of Impact' by Stephen Hunter. Hunter writes superb, fierce, gutsy thrillers. My favourite thriller writer but not so well known in England I don't think. I would highly recommend his books if you like tough, exciting thrillers. The first one I read of his was Hot Springs and then I was hooked.
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Finished Catch 22 last night. I know a lot on here struggled with it and though a bit confusing, I thought it wasn't too hard going and worked through it fairly quickly. Not the best book I've read but well worth a go.
Continuing my 'books I should have read' list, Catcher in the Rye's got lost in the post so I think I'm going to download Lord of the Flies tonight. All that makes me think of is Ralph shouting 'go banana!' in The Simpsons.0 -
A Season with Verona - Tim Parks.
very funny. a must for italian football lovers like me0 -
Brilliant book, probably my favourite sports one. I love that coach trip they do down to Bari. I keep meaning to get over there and watch them, preferably against the cat eaters, but haven't got around to it yet. Hopefully in Serie A next year, especialy after their time in the third tier.L Block said:A Season with Verona - Tim Parks.
very funny. a must for italian football lovers like me0 -
I believe Hunter won the Pulitzer Prize a few years back so he's no slouch.Lincsaddick said:
I love Stephen Hunter .. He's written about a dozen thrillers: violent but realistic violence, imaginative, well researched, excellent varity of topicsRob said:'Point of Impact' by Stephen Hunter. Hunter writes superb, fierce, gutsy thrillers. My favourite thriller writer but not so well known in England I don't think. I would highly recommend his books if you like tough, exciting thrillers. The first one I read of his was Hot Springs and then I was hooked.
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Old news but the guy made a pratt of himself slagging off Charlton for "allowing" woman supporters in the ground a few years ago. A real post-96 fan who discovered football in adulthood and in Italy and then wanted to tell everyone how it should be done.RedPanda said:
Brilliant book, probably my favourite sports one. I love that coach trip they do down to Bari. I keep meaning to get over there and watch them, preferably against the cat eaters, but haven't got around to it yet. Hopefully in Serie A next year, especialy after their time in the third tier.L Block said:A Season with Verona - Tim Parks.
very funny. a must for italian football lovers like me
Finished "Winter King" by Thomas Penn. Really good biog of the life and times of our forgotten Tudor Henry VII.
Just started "bedroom disco queen" by Tracy Thorn. Enjoying it a lot. Worth a read for the musos on here.0 -
He is the film and (I believe) literary critic for the Baltimore Sun, to which I subscribe and read his stuff from time to time. He won his Pullitzer Prize for his film reviews. (I cheated here a bit and used Wiki to fill in my knowledge gaps). Hunter is a versatile and multi talented writer. I am a few books behind in reading his oeuvre, I must catch up. I must confess though that the last one of his that I read, 'Havana', lacked his usual touch of sardonic humour and was just a little too bloodthirsty even for my taste. If you like Hunter, try Philip Kerr and his Berlin/Wartime Germany novels .. VERY interesting stuff, also John Sandford and the 'Prey' series, seriously good crime writing, better in my opinion than Connelly, Burke or Crais, though 'better' here is a relative term, they are all very good novelistsRob said:
I believe Hunter won the Pulitzer Prize a few years back so he's no slouch.Lincsaddick said:
I love Stephen Hunter .. He's written about a dozen thrillers: violent but realistic violence, imaginative, well researched, excellent varity of topicsRob said:'Point of Impact' by Stephen Hunter. Hunter writes superb, fierce, gutsy thrillers. My favourite thriller writer but not so well known in England I don't think. I would highly recommend his books if you like tough, exciting thrillers. The first one I read of his was Hot Springs and then I was hooked.
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