so what's everybody reading at the moment...i'm halfway through The Generals, the second book in the story around napoleon and the duke of wellington...a bit predictable, i can see these two blokes having an almighty dust-up in the third book when it comes out...
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Ireland The Awakening - Edward Rutherford
Londonistan - Guatam Malkani
Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
The Book Thief -Markus Zusak
All to be taken to the Algarve on holiday next week ... and looking forward to meeting AlgarveAddick at his bar next Wednesday evening for quiz night.
Curbishley's book must have been the last one I read or a book by a Croat about the (latest) Balkan wars.
It's the story of the bombing raid that kicked-off the English side of the Falklands war. Wholeheartedly recommend it.
King wrote over 25 years! People are lucky to have all the books here today!
next two in line are logan's run (pre-dates the film) and cormac mccarthy's the road.
Cries Unheard - Gitta Sereny
A set of three Thomas Ripley Novels - Patricia Highsmith
after that i should stop reading and do some writing
by Dan Fesperman . I did start to read Saturday by Ian McEwan, but it was rubbish (imho!) despite me liking some of his other books especially Atonement which is an amazing book (read it before the film comes out in the autumn!).
Going to give Anna Kerenina a go next - I might be gone for a while!
Next up is 'Still Life With Woodpecker' which I looked up after someone mentioned it on here and liked the sound of....
have you read the 'adolf hitler, my part in his downfall' type books he wrote, they are definitely worth picking up if you can still get them...and keeping on the wartime biography theme, i once picked up a hardback by michael bentine for 25p, the long banana skin, that's definitely worth a read...he wrote about his time in the RAF during the war and how before a raid he would see those that were going to die as a skull instead of their face...spooky
cheers for the info ltgtr!
Catch 22 is great.
King wrote over 25 years! People are lucky to have all the books here today! [/quote]
i finished reading these when the last book came out last year.. great series but since ive read these ive found an author called david gemmell.. when you read his books with characters like skillgannon the damned and druss the legend.. you realise quickly that the dark tower series aint all that compared to some of the other fantasy stuff thats out there..
yeah this was really fun.. some of the characters in these books are great like the polar bear in with the stolen armour who likes a drink.. cant remeber his name though.. apparentlet there making these into films as well.
has anyone ever read anything by steven leather? some of this guys books are essential reading too..
Nicole Kidman plays Mrs Coultier and Daniel Craig will be Lord Asriel.
In the name of Rome - Adrain Goldsworthy - a study of Roman generals/military commanders over the years.
Ragtime - EL Doctorow, a novel which involves some real-life characters (eg Harry Houdini) and is based around three families/groups of people that represent different sectors of American society - one a one to do middle class family, one a Jewish immigrant and his daughter and an African-American pianist turned revolutionary, it's set in the years from 1900-1917.
The Golden Compass
First book is called "Northern Lights" LINK: Amazon.co.uk
(in the US they called it The Golden Compass, which I think is the name of the film)
me too ben , I too have the hardback , jesus it's heavy
Story of Sudanese refugee/child soldier that encounters just as many problems when he arrives in the USA as an asylum seeker.
Excellent book that I highly recommend, it also gives a great historical insight into the current war and genocide in Darfur.
What a cracking kids book, better than all of the PC rubbish that's everywhere these days!
Irish footballers once of the GAA who went on to play the "foreign" game of soccer.