benny Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Brilliant so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Currahee! Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Delete this at your peril. Really funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flankengott Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Currently reading the story of Robert Enke Too Short A Life - Ronald Reng Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scots civil war Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 was in Waterstones earlier and they have some stuff which looks great to get biographies on Dave Grohl,Kate Bush,General Haig quite fancy em and also 50 years of Private Eye n all ...thats half price,tenner iirc reading of the great war is a real passion of mine and Il nominate what Ive just finished recently Flowers of the Forest by Trevor Royle,Birrlinn books....an account of Scotland`s input in those times,at home and the theatre of war Sagittarius Rising by Cecil Lewis,Warner books.....autobiography of a sixteen year old who joins the Royal Flying Corps and blossoms into fully fledged and respected pilot of the Royal Air Force by Armistice 1918....descriptions of fying in em propellered biplanes high up over the clouds truly amazing stuff.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tams bird Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Hand on Hearts---Alan Rae.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flankengott Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Currently reading the story of Robert Enke Too Short A Life - Ronald Reng It's an impressive book;serious, honest, moving, almost heart-breaking at times. Very much worth reading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Mancini Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Got this book from my mum and stepdad for xmas its defo worth a read! Laughed out loud at points- the stories about sh1tt1ng in his team mates pillowcase, trashing david seamans hotel room,living with gazza, his betting habit sounds tragic though... Finished it the other night and started Mark Wards autobiography(ex west ham,man city,everton, etc) not sure what I make of it so far Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Not really my usual sort of thing, but picked this up due to it being based on the John Franklin expedition which sought the NorthWest Passage. Fascinating period of history but this fictional account not so good. Next up is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigolo-Aunt Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 (edited) The above was one very good book with a fast pace about it. Its about a kid who is in charge of a corner - who he answers to as well as the cops resignation that the "busts" they are doing are utterly pointless. The main story skirts with the above and comes to a real cliff hanger of an ending. Only read the first 20 pages or so of the below but already it is very very funny. Edited January 8, 2012 by Gigolo-Aunt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamhammer Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 It's awful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
systemx Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 New Stuart Macbride ,Birthdays for the Dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigolo-Aunt Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Started reading this the other night and have been up to god knows what time reading the following. Its about an 18 year old who goes through the exams to become an RAF pilot. A couple of months or so in to his training, the second world war starts. Such a great read - really touching and at times rather funny,. Very well written, non fiction, its all the pilots words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jambo_ Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 (edited) Edited January 11, 2012 by jambo_ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigolo-Aunt Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Pretty good so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2NaFish Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 I've been delighted to find the complete wodehouse canon is available in some beautiful retro deco books. I'll happily re-read all the blandings, psmith and jeeves i've already gone through but it's an added bonus to be able to read another 50 odd wodehouse books. bliss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigolo-Aunt Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 I've been delighted to find the complete wodehouse canon is available in some beautiful retro deco books. I'll happily re-read all the blandings, psmith and jeeves i've already gone through but it's an added bonus to be able to read another 50 odd wodehouse books. bliss. That's a cracking find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creepy Lurker Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 I'm splitting my time between The Vikings by Else Roesdahl and Understand the Cold War: Teach Yourself by Carole Bryan Jones (the latter of which I have to read for work). They're alright. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamhammer Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 (edited) Just about finished this. Have to go back to the bloody awful Simon Schama book Citizens when I'm done with it. Nice wee break though. Edited January 16, 2012 by Jamhammer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Still reading about the Gulag, but am also now reading this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2NaFish Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 (edited) That's a cracking find. Mrs fish is going spare. I already have all the jeeves' and a several others in the wodehouse anthology and loads of the books on their own in various editions. plus I've got every wodehouse book and short story on my kindle. but they look beautiful in my bookcase and the paper is lovely and creamy. I've promised to hold off buying them for a bit, but I've told my brothers to get me a couple for each birthday and xmas so I should be able to get the full 97 or so within a few years if I can buy myself the odd one every other month too. highly recommended as they really are lovely things. edit. forgot to mention, they're from Everyman. you can get good 2nd hand copies on amazon for ?6 or so including p&p on amazon. Edited January 16, 2012 by 2NaFish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamboman1512 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Reading this http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cTMa-D1vCZ4/TbtDr6s8OfI/AAAAAAAAAKM/S-UmjVSS-K0/s1600/Swan_Song-119190700363613.jpg I am only three quarters of the way through it yet it has got itself in among my all time favourite novels, in among titles such as Stephen King The Shining, Dean Koontz Watchers and James Herbert The Fog. If you like a good post apocalyptic strory, similar to Stephen Kings The Stand then you should like this. I love The Stand but IMO this is much better. This is also the first book i have read by Robert R. McCammon and it definitely makes me want to check out some of his other works, hope they are just as good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Budgie. Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Doing an all night ghost hunt in a couple of weeks with the author so swotting up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superjack Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 I'm currently engrossed in A hunt for red October. Only just started reading Tom Clancy stuff , amazing. Also , just finished dangerous lady by Martian cole , another excellent read Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Budgie. Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Also , just finished dangerous lady by Martian cole , another excellent read That book is alien to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superjack Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 That book is alien to me. I also thought it was out of this world Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Not sure if there were more horrors in the Gulag Archipelago or in Shaun Ryder's book. Next up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zico Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Still reading about the Gulag, but am also now reading this: Currently reading this myself and nearly finished. An easy read, some good anecdotes but with a fairly horrific description of his struggle to get off smack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The People's Chimp Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 The translated version!! It's written like a love letter to an iconic champion. A real fans view but not sycophantic. Nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Numbers Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Currently on Clive Cussler's "Lost Empire". So far following Clive's tried & tested plot line. Such & such an established character just happens to stumble upon a sunken artifact. This artifact is a world-changing item that shady types have been searching for. The bad guys show up, shots are fired. Yet another boat is sunk etc etc etc you know the script. It's like leave your brain at the front cover, but still a good, fun read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Not sure if there were more horrors in the Gulag Archipelago or in Shaun Ryder's book. Next up Read a few of Iain Banks' books in the past and enjoyed them. This one was rubbish - an effort to write a modern fairy story. Rubbish. Next up: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primavera Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 New Stuart Macbride ,Birthdays for the Dead. I read this last week. Somewhat disappointed. I hardly ever buy books in hardback but was going on holiday and fancied something extravagant on my Kindle so forked out over 8 quid for it. Its his worst book so far imo. Too many unnecessary and clumsy sub-plots, some really unbelievable characters and the violence is so OTT I was ignoring it to end up with. I have the feeling he was pushed to get this published by whoever he has a "5-book deal" with, I cant credit that a concientious editor would have let a book out so clunky. Quite let down by this as I thought his other non-Macrae novel, Headhunters, was very good, and given that a sizeable chunk of Birthdays is set where I live I was really looking forward to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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superjack Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Has anyone tried a Tom rob smith book yet? So far he has done a trilogy. The first being chld44 , then "the secret speach" and finally " agent 6" Not read the last one yet , but the first 2 were amazing reads , highly recommend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Sorry for the Terrace style post but I'm currently about halfway through this I've just got to the 1967 European Cup Final but this time it's all about how Inter screwed it up royally as opposed to how Celtic won it. Which is a refreshing perspective Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Malatov Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 I have just finished reading "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" by John Le Carre. The book was excellent and I will definitely read more of his novels. I have just bought a Kindle and have decided to read some of the books which are available for free, so have started "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie wallace Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Halfway through The Affair by Lee Child.I cannot do without my annual dose of Jack Reacher traipsing around the States knocking ten bells out of anyone who gets in his way.My hero I also just received Boys Will Be Boys,the glory days and party nights of the 1990s Dallas Cowboys.Apparently they liked a wee night out in between winning Superbowls.Looking forward to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Quick read of this one Think probably the weakest of the books of his I've read. All weekend supplement and Facebook 'remember at school we used to ...' and no real story. Now reading this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Say What Again Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Quick read of this one Think probably the weakest of the books of his I've read. All weekend supplement and Facebook 'remember at school we used to ...' and no real story. I'm a big fan of CB and was also disappointed with this, as well as his other 2 around that time (Rubber Ducks, Snowball in Hell). I thought he pulled it back with Pandaemonium though. I actually read the last 3/4s of the book in a 6 hour sitting one night when I couldn't sleep. Kept thinking, one more chapter, one more. Then it was too near the end just to leave it. Think I put it down about 6am Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Lyon Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Currently reading 'Building up our Health - the architecture of Scotland's historic hospitals. Riveting read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zico Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Trying out my first bit of Haruki Murakami just now. Figured his short stories would give me an idea if it's my sort of thing or not, so have just started Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creepy Lurker Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 I'm a big fan of CB and was also disappointed with this, as well as his other 2 around that time (Rubber Ducks, Snowball in Hell). I thought he pulled it back with Pandaemonium though. I actually read the last 3/4s of the book in a 6 hour sitting one night when I couldn't sleep. Kept thinking, one more chapter, one more. Then it was too near the end just to leave it. Think I put it down about 6am Interesting. I felt the opposite way: liked the three that you mention, thought that Pandaemonium was poor. The characters just didn't feel 'real' to me; a touch of the middle aged man trying and failing to be down with the kids, I thought. Also thought that the way that he kept killing off basically likeable characters in such painful ways was a bit weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigolo-Aunt Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigolo-Aunt Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Going to start the above later on tonight. Looking forward to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Enjoyed Matterhorn. Caught a bit of Vietnam: Lost Films on the Military History channel last night. Incredible footage and brought the likes of Matterhorn to life. Half way through this: Still going through a box of old buys ... think next up will be this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Romanov Saviour of HMFC Posted February 7, 2012 Author Share Posted February 7, 2012 What was that like, Gig? Currently reading a free book off Amazon called 'Street Life: My Story' about a New Yorker and his life after he comes out of jail. A bit meh tbh but readable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigolo-Aunt Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 (edited) Enjoyed Matterhorn. Caught a bit of Vietnam: Lost Films on the Military History channel last night. Incredible footage and brought the likes of Matterhorn to life. Half way through this: Still going through a box of old buys ... think next up will be this Watched that last night as well, Coco. Incredible footage. Have read a few bits and bobs on Vietnam and its a really interesting subject. With starting a new book and having a Vietnam book in the pile, guess that's why I have moved on to reading what I have. What was that like, Gig? Currently reading a free book off Amazon called 'Street Life: My Story' about a New Yorker and his life after he comes out of jail. A bit meh tbh but readable. Was an interesting read, Alan, if not a bit of a headfeck at times. Boy who done it is Ex CIA and has a grasp of what was going on previous to 9/11 and the aftermath of it. My knowledge of the middle east politics is not great so it was a real eye opener just how much conflict there is between neighbouring countries in that area. Loads of information thrown at you which due to lapse in what goes on in that part of the world had me re reading pages that I had read. I can read, honest. Edited February 7, 2012 by Gigolo-Aunt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superjack Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Just started my first rebus book. I can't stop reading it in ken stotts voice though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Coco Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Have skipped Pugin for now, but am enjoying this so far; historical fiction about the time the Russkies were going to lead the world: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Cheever Loophole Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Erika Shalke 04 marching song . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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