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  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    The Complaints - Ian Rankin. The first Malcolm Fox novel, a very different character to Rebus but just as compelling.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,354
    The Cut ... George Pelecanos
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,648
    Quartered safe out here.........George Macdonald Fraser
    A very well written and not very politically correct account of 19 and 20 year old northern boys fighting the Japanese in Burma.
    A good read.
  • Badger
    Badger Posts: 4,842
    Got I am the secret Footballer, lifting the lid on the beautiful game for xmas.
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,247
    Leroy Ambrose said:

    John Niven is hilarious - his twitter feed during the Ryder Cup and Andy Murray's US Open win had me howling with laughter.

    Just finished reading 'Buffalo Soldiers' by Robert O'Connor again. My favourite book, ever.

    Just read cold hands by John Niven. Disappointing, his three previous books were superb. This one not so much

    His twitter feed is very funny too
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    Now reading Harry Pearson's "Hound Dog Days". Usual HP stuff, full of wry humour and sharp observation, this time through the eyes of a dog owner.
  • markwebb25
    markwebb25 Posts: 718
    Just read the importance of being earnest by Oscar Wilde. Hilarious.
  • stilladdicted
    stilladdicted Posts: 4,307
    Auschwitz : The Nazis & The 'Final Solution' by Laurence Rees - History book of the year.

    How on earth did this happen? This remains a major question in my head and this book sets out to uncover the mentality and motivations of Nazis and the German people. The author was puzzled because in examining other mass atrocities, the people questioned overwhelmingly used the 'I was obeying orders' argument' to attempt an explanation of their actions. Germany was, in general, different, in that the perpetrators remained convinced, many years later, that what they had done was right. Laurence Rees explores this crucial difference and he has managed to deliver many new insights. The book remains calm, factual, accessible, challenging and endlessly harrowing.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,354
    edited January 2013
    The Talented Mr Ripley .. P Highsmith (Reserved from the library .. 7 month wait !!)
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,738
    Just finished the latest Colin Bateman - The Prisoner of Brenda. Enjoyed it.

    Now going to start Chris Brookmyre's latest - When the Devil Drives.
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  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,004
    Waging Heavy Peace - Neil Young

    Fascinating
  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,749
    From Aberystwyth With Love - Malcolm Pryce, another great surreal and funny detective spoof while endlessly taking the piss out of the Welsh
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,208
    A friend of mine has just published two books of a three part trilogy "The Forgotten Stars" and "Secret Song" by Alby Stone. Available on Amazon.
  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,779
    Just finished 1Q84 by Murakami.
  • daveaddick
    daveaddick Posts: 1,926
    I have just started to read Anna Karenina which is a leap for me as I am usually a pulp fiction reader, albeit I would like to think decently written pulp fiction, and I am enjoying it hugely. I try to read a "classic" now and then as I neglected it when I was at school and latterly when I was studying just couldn't face reading for pleasure.
  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,749
    LawrieAbrahams said:

    Just finished 1Q84 by Murakami.

    A great read

  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,749
    daveaddick said:

    I have just started to read Anna Karenina which is a leap for me as I am usually a pulp fiction reader, albeit I would like to think decently written pulp fiction, and I am enjoying it hugely. I try to read a "classic" now and then as I neglected it when I was at school and latterly when I was studying just couldn't face reading for pleasure.

    a good bit of doom, and gloom.

  • Bill_Stumps
    Bill_Stumps Posts: 882
    daveaddick said:

    I have just started to read Anna Karenina which is a leap for me as I am usually a pulp fiction reader, albeit I would like to think decently written pulp fiction, and I am enjoying it hugely. I try to read a "classic" now and then as I neglected it when I was at school and latterly when I was studying just couldn't face reading for pleasure.

    Anna Karenina is the greatest novel ever written in my humble opinion. I am currently reading Bleak House, arguably the greatest novel in the English language.

  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,779
    Shrew said:

    LawrieAbrahams said:

    Just finished 1Q84 by Murakami.

    A great read

    Certainly gets the imagination going.

  • SheffieldRed
    SheffieldRed Posts: 3,772
    LawrieAbrahams said:

    Just finished 1Q84 by Murakami.

    Just finished "What I talk about when I talk about running" by Murakami

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  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,749
    SheffieldRed said:

    LawrieAbrahams said:

    Just finished 1Q84 by Murakami.

    Just finished "What I talk about when I talk about running" by Murakami

    any good ?

  • stilladdicted
    stilladdicted Posts: 4,307
    Charlton Athletic Miscellany by Matthew Eastley. I hadn't realised how many club records tumbled last season. Colin Cameron (RIP) came up with 30 club or individual records that were either beaten ot equalled during the 2011/2012 campaign. A must have 'dipping in' book.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436
    Shrew said:

    SheffieldRed said:

    LawrieAbrahams said:

    Just finished 1Q84 by Murakami.

    Just finished "What I talk about when I talk about running" by Murakami

    any good ?

    I really like The Elephant Vanishes, but none of the other Murakami books have read have really done it for me. Will give this a go though.
  • SheffieldRed
    SheffieldRed Posts: 3,772
    edited January 2013
    Shrew said:

    SheffieldRed said:

    LawrieAbrahams said:

    Just finished 1Q84 by Murakami.

    Just finished "What I talk about when I talk about running" by Murakami

    any good ?

    What I talk about when I talk about running is a decent read. I would recommend it too runners or anyone with an interest in running. But, people who do not run (or have an interest in running) may also enjoy the book and / or find it relevant to their lifes.
  • Jints
    Jints Posts: 3,491
    Have followed Murakami for many years and do get the impression that his recent work is not quite up to the standards of the earlier books (The Hardboiled Wonderland is my favourite). Haven't read the IQ novels yet but will get round to them soon I hope.

    Currently on Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway which is great fun. Seriously good writer and definately worth checking out if you like Neal Stephenson, Neil Gaiman and the like.
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    Just coming off a William Boyd jag. Almost finished his The New Confessions, which I rate as among his very best. I may read The Prestige next.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,004
    Jints said:

    Currently on Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway which is great fun. Seriously good writer and definately worth checking out if you like Neal Stephenson, Neil Gaiman and the like.

    cheers ... looks good ... will get this
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,354
    hawksmoor said:

    Just coming off a William Boyd jag. Almost finished his The New Confessions, which I rate as among his very best. I may read The Prestige next.

    one of my favorite authors
  • Jints
    Jints Posts: 3,491
    I really liked Restless, Any Human Heart and Brazzaville Beach but thought that Ordinary Thunderstorms was terrible, put me off him but I should get round to reading the rest of the back catalogue.
  • donnyaddick
    donnyaddick Posts: 315
    stilladdicted said:

    Auschwitz : The Nazis & The 'Final Solution' by Laurence Rees - History book of the year.

    How on earth did this happen? This remains a major question in my head and this book sets out to uncover the mentality and motivations of Nazis and the German people. The author was puzzled because in examining other mass atrocities, the people questioned overwhelmingly used the 'I was obeying orders' argument' to attempt an explanation of their actions. Germany was, in general, different, in that the perpetrators remained convinced, many years later, that what they had done was right. Laurence Rees explores this crucial difference and he has managed to deliver many new insights. The book remains calm, factual, accessible, challenging and endlessly harrowing.

    "Hitlers Willing Executioners" by Daniel Goldhagen is another book that deals with this that is a fascinating and at time incredibly disturbing read.

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