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  • Draizetrain
    Draizetrain Posts: 801
    Forget the poor, inaccurate films, this is the real story. Totally captivating:

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  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,738
    Who's got time for reading whilst the Games are on ????
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,055
    Me Fanny, I'm on holiday!! :)

    Just finished The Sacred Sword by Scott Mariani. Just starting Sam Bourne's novel Pantheon.

    First of Mariani's I have read, but a really entertaining holiday read. For me that just means a novel I don't have to think too hard about, but which includes events, places, people I know of which draw me in to the story built around them. I'll leave the cerebral stuff til I am back home :)
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,738
    Hope you're having a great time, TelMc32
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,055
    I am thanks Fanny...good music, books, sun, sea, sailing, diving and free wifi to keep up on CL gossip...and an occasional Keo...what more could a man want! :-)
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,738
    I am thanks Fanny...good music, books, sun, sea, sailing, diving and free wifi to keep up on CL gossip...and an occasional Keo...what more could a man want! :-)
    Glad to hear it.

    Southend then ?
  • cafcdan18
    cafcdan18 Posts: 3,664
    Just finished Frank Skinner's book and Dara O'Briain "Tickling the English", both funny and great to read on the train.

    Planning on Alan Patridge's autobiography next.
  • collegeparkaddick
    collegeparkaddick Posts: 442
    As a tonic to the depressing club management/ownership news and speculation on this forum, I finally picked up Mike Davis's book on Sam Bartram this week.

    I finished it yesterday and as others here have commented it is a terrific (and quick) read.

    Hope that everyone here is ahead of me in terms of enjoying the tribute to a Charlton legend, but if not, highly recommended.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    A Street Cat Named Bob. A true and heart-warming tale of how a cat help a guy to turn his life around.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,004
    Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979 by Dominic Sandbrook
    State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook

    Brilliant books covering the cultural, political, social history of the 70's. As a teenager at the start of the 70's and in my mid-20's about to be married by the end, this decade obviously had a big impact on my life. Totally fascinating ... if you were around at the time, then I fully recommend you get both books.
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  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,954
    The Book WIth No Name by Anonymous - very entertaining.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    Heavier than Heaven by Charles R Cross. A biography of Kurt Cobain. I knew next to nothing about him, and whilst I like Nirvana I am not a Cobain nut. So it is very informative, he was the definition of the line between genius and madness.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,004
    Algarveaddick said:

    Heavier than Heaven by Charles R Cross. A biography of Kurt Cobain. I knew next to nothing about him, and whilst I like Nirvana I am not a Cobain nut. So it is very informative, he was the definition of the line between genius and madness.

    I endorse that ... very good book
  • incorruptible addick
    incorruptible addick Posts: 2,125
    edited September 2012
    This week I have been reading ... the Rumours Rumours thread.

    All consuming, unputdownable and no time for anything else. But the lack of plot lines was a bit disappointing. It goes on for pages and pages and in the end nothing happens !!!
  • Stefco
    Stefco Posts: 848
    Sleepyhead - Mark Billingham

    The Hustler - Walter Tevis
  • scidbox
    scidbox Posts: 535
    The Jungle Books (Kipling) because i need something completely frivolous.
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,164
    edited September 2012
    I've decided if I can't find a modern author that I'd like to read, then I go for a classic I haven't read. so this time it's the,

    the adventures of huckleberry finn by mark twain . I haven't read enough of it to have formed an opinion but I'm still reading so I'm not bored.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,004
    Ash - James Herbert

    Used to like his books although he has not had one out for years ... rather disappointing
  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,749
    The Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver
    A real eye opener to a lot of history in the States between Hiroshima and the communist witch hunt wrapped up in a great storyline that includes Trotsky, Fridha Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Hard going in the middle but worth it for the end.
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    Life and Fate, Vasily Grossman.
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  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,827
    Hunger Games trilogy. Epic.

    Didn't think would be my cup of rosie at all but really enjoyed them and the film was great too.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,648
    Gotham
    A history of New York City to 1898
    Fascinating.
  • stilladdicted
    stilladdicted Posts: 4,307
    edited September 2012
    Wheresmeticket? said:

    Life and Fate, Vasily Grossman.

    Me too. Plus The Favourite - Ralegh and His Queen by Mathew Lyons for those moments when Vasily has worn my brain out!

  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,004
    RodneyCharltonTrotta said:

    Hunger Games trilogy. Epic.

    Didn't think would be my cup of rosie at all but really enjoyed them and the film was great too.

    just finished the 2nd book ... really enjoyed it ... which came as a surprise as, like you, I didn't expect I would ... film excellent, great cast, and looking forward to the next one ... book three starting today :-)
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,004
    Baldybonce said:

    Gotham
    A history of New York City to 1898
    Fascinating.

    mmm thanks for this, looks great ... just ordered it
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,711
    EF Schumacher's "Guide For The Perplexed" - not an explanation of the revolving door at the offices of The Valley this summer but a classic modern(-ish) work of Thomist philosophy........brilliant.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,004
    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer


    utterly unlike anything I have read before ... such an original book
  • swedey
    swedey Posts: 92
    stonemuse said:

    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer


    utterly unlike anything I have read before ... such an original book

    It is amazing!
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,004
    Twisting My Melon - Shaun Ryder


    Great fun from the man behind Happy Mondays and Black Grape
  • kimbo
    kimbo Posts: 2,996
    The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Euginedes

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