Read anything good recently?
Read Ghost by Robert Harris which is a thriller about a ghost writer for an ex-British prime Minister who may or may not be Blair. Enjoyed it but it was slow moving so if you wanted action every page forget it.
Also Home Run by Home Run: Escape from Nazi Europe by John Nichol & Tony Rennell one of whom was a RAF pilot shot down in the first Gulf war.
Great stories of British troops left behind after Dunkirk or shot down in RAF raids escaping with the help of some very brave French and Belguim locals plus British agents.
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I read that. Don't want to spoil it for you but Zoffany St gets it at the end.
Stick on now that's what I call music cd and job done. lol
LOL Ledge close not quite right but close :-)
Peacock Throne - Sujit Saraf
Engleby - Sebastian Faulks
Crimson Petal and the White - Michel Faber
Thames - Peter Ackroyd
Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein
first man - a neil armstrong biography. Very interesting but quite dense on technical details at time
am about halfway through:
The truth about these strange times - novel about a child genius and a fat scottish guy, was a bit slow starting but it is growing on me now.
I have read Ghost. I agree that that it got slow at times, but all the time I was keen to find out what happened in the end - wasn't disappointed with the clever ending.
And also reading the Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. Not that far into it, but I like the tone and style of the fashionistas. Protoganist is very interesting. My mate told me it gets pretty messed up in the middle which should be good, I thought it was a bit too dainty so far considering Plath was a complete lunatic.
Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner - Freakonomics
Maconie's book is good. I thought the Palin diaries were excellent.
Agree, didn't see that coming.
Liked his other books Fatherland, Archangel and Enigma. Not read his Roman books.
Also really liked The Importance of Being Kennedy about a fictional nanny to the Kennedy clan. really well written and damning of them.
Howard Marks Senor Nice (Sequel to MR Nice) - Also excellent
Barry (Barry Sheene) by Steve Parrish - Good
Bomber Boys by Patrick Bishop - RAF bomber campaign in WW2 (great read, true heroes, less than 50/50 chance of making the thirty trips)
"Blood River" about a jurno following HM Stanleys journey through Africa by Tim Butcher , very good.
BBC guide to Arabic which is boll*x .
I read that. Excellent and very funny comments by the author on army life.
Looks a good book, cheers.
21 - the story of the Harvard card counting teams that cleaned up in casinos in the US
I also enjoyed freaknomics, and read libaries of 'commuter' crime thrillers!
Currently reading easy going chick lit, of which most of you will have no interest!
21 is actually a book called Bringing down the house
Yes, same book. About how the two paramilitary "armies" from either side in Ireland both signed up as whole regiments and fought alongside each other, why a 1/4 of all the goods transport across the channel was horse feed but that wasn't for the cavalry.
His little asides about army life and the way soldiers behave etc were very funny but appropriate in a quiet serious topic.
Last couple of weeks I've started reading the Christopher Brookmyre books in order (after reading a few out of sequence). They are absolutely fantastic, although potentially embaressing when reading on the tube and breaking into laughter (guaranteed to get you a few strange glances!!).
Next on the list is 'The Bromley Boys' as recommended on here. Really looking forward to that.