The Idiot Bástard Son Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin. Ace! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink Freud Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin. Ace! Baws. It was the Mallaig to Armadale ferry timetable.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Napolean Dynamite Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 Brothers of fortune by jeffrey archer. Decent read. Just felt he rushed through the book to get to the final scene. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint dave Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by Simon David the author spends a year with the Baltimore Police homicide squad.Politics,race,drugs,stupidity and murder.great read.co-creator of The Wire(which i havent seen but if he has the same writing style for that i would consider buying) 9/10 ps. has anyone read his book The Corner?recommend? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
footiechick Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 I've got 6 books looked out for my fortnight's holiday. Will report back. Ah, ye just canny beat lying in the sun, relaxing and reading. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowden til i die Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Chris Ryan's: Firefight Ok so i havent quite finished it but its been a really good read so far. It doesnt compared to Ryan's 'The Watchman' but still a good read. 8/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon EF Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 I just got "Fever Pitch" from amazon for my personal study in english. Anyone read this before, is it good ? I did Fever Pitch for my 6th year study in English. A good one to choose. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Lahey Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Just read "Bad Vibes - Britpop & my part in its downfall" by Luke Haines.Very good - Includes a great story about Haines being exceptionally rude to Chris Evans on the pilot of TFI.Its about his time in 90s also rans the "Auters". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conway Twitty Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 I tend to mostly read non-fiction, with Bill Bryson my favourite author. The last book of his i read was his autobiography- The Thunderbolt Kid. It was a great book, i wish i had grown up in fifties small town America. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loyal-blue Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Reading The Da Vinci Code just now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil-zoff-fn-ri Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Bare-Arsed Banditti : The Men Of The '45 by Maggie Craig. Brilliant book giving a great insight into the Jacobite campaign and the following atrocities committed after Culloden by ''English'' troops. A well deserved 8/10 (asking for the book by title in the bookstore is another matter ) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centre Stand Hero Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Bare-Arsed Banditti : The Men Of The '45 by Maggie Craig. Brilliant book giving a great insight into the Jacobite campaign and the following atrocities committed after Culloden by ''English'' troops.A well deserved 8/10 (asking for the book by title in the bookstore is another matter ) Well you'll need to get Damn Rebel Bitches now by the same author about the women of the 45. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil-zoff-fn-ri Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Well you'll need to get Damn Rebel Bitches now by the same author about the women of the 45. Will do , cheers for that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayrgirl Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 While on holiday I read: 1. Revolutionary road - Richard Yates 2. A thousand splendid suns - Khaled Hosseini which was absolutely brilliant. I'm going to look out for The Kite Runner now. 3. The business - Martina Cole (not quite finished it yet though) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onejamesgrady Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 2. A thousand splendid suns - Khaled Hosseini which was absolutely brilliant. I'm going to look out for The Kite Runner now. I read them that way round as well, Ayrgirl, and didn't think The Kite Runner was quite as good - still very much worth reading though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 I read 'A snowball in hell' by that Brookmyre chap. I had been saving it for ages to read on holiday, and it genuinely didn't disappoint. You know something is special when you're agreeing with the rants about the state of society that come from a serial killer. It's very clever indeed to make your evil character in a book so easy to admire (unless there's something very wrong with me). I mean, you knew that somehow Darcourt was going to get his comeuppance (and very apt it was too), but you find yourself wishing he could be put in charge of television programming for a while before that happens..... It was a rip-snorter of a book. 8.5/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 I read 'A snowball in hell' by that Brookmyre chap.I had been saving it for ages to read on holiday, and it genuinely didn't disappoint. You know something is special when you're agreeing with the rants about the state of society that come from a serial killer. It's very clever indeed to make your evil character in a book so easy to admire (unless there's something very wrong with me). I mean, you knew that somehow Darcourt was going to get his comeuppance (and very apt it was too), but you find yourself wishing he could be put in charge of television programming for a while before that happens..... It was a rip-snorter of a book. 8.5/10 Oddly enough, I too had been saving the same book to read on holiday and thought it was bloody good - up there with the best of his. The rants are always fun and convincing, but the real genius exists in the devising of plot. There is such detail, yet it hangs together very successfully. I could easily fall for Angelique were she not a Rangers fan. So well crafted and funny that Brookmyre even gets away with the soppy ending. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
An Sionnach Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 Bare-Arsed Banditti : The Men Of The '45 by Maggie Craig. Brilliant book giving a great insight into the Jacobite campaign and the following atrocities committed after Culloden by ''English'' troops.A well deserved 8/10 (asking for the book by title in the bookstore is another matter ) Well you'll need to get Damn Rebel Bitches now by the same author about the women of the 45. Got 'em both. Excellent stuff! You'll enjoy Damn Rebel Bitches 'phil-zoff- 'n wassaname!' I've just finished No Fireworks by Rodge Glass. Very evocative of post war Jewish refugee life, divorce and alcoholism. Very thought provoking and not as bleak as it sounds. He's recently released a biography of Alasdair Gray which is also well worth a read. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa Cuddy Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 It's very clever indeed to make your evil character in a book so easy to admire (unless there's something very wrong with me). No, definitely not. Unless there's something wrong with me, too. You don't have to answer that, by the way. I've had almost a lustful thing for Darcourt since A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away. So well crafted and funny that Brookmyre even gets away with the soppy ending. I shed a wee tear at that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mak Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 Not had much time for reading recently, but have now finished "The Death of Kings", which is the second book in Conn Iggulden's Emperor series. Absolutely brilliant, can't reccommend it highly enough. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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