BigMartyn86 Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Fleshmarket close by Ian Rankin. 7/10 The naming of the dead by Ian Rankin. 8/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mak Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Une Vie by Guy de Maupassant - 7/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 The Philanthropist's Danse (yes with an 's') by Paul Wornham. If you have a Kindle get this, or at least download the sample to see if it's your thing. Less than £2. One of the best novels I've read in years, and I read a lot of novels. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 I bought Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith, thinking it was teh second Ripley book but it's actually the third. I'm assuming it'll be OK to read out of order, any P&Bers confirm? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jojo Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 (edited) Read some awsome books recently. 'The nigga factory ' by gil scot-heron : fantasic book about a student strike from the point of view of the student president. 7/10 'The corner' : an excellent and rational voice in the midst of the chaos of the american war on drugs and enjoyable read. Follows the lives of several people living in a ghetto in baltimore. 8/10 Finally got round to taking pink freuds advice on sci-fi novels and read 'the player of games' by ian m banks : i enjoyed it greatly once i got into it. 8/10 'Maus' by art speigleman. :unique depiction of a true story of holocaust survival. A comic book. 'The washington connection and third world fascism' A very importan book and everyone should at least read one of noam chomsky's books as there are fascinating and enlightening. We live during a quite evil empire - america. It's comparible in brutallity to the worst and motivated by world domination. They just want more power and control, yet most of us are oblivious. Also, 'the bible' by god . but very slowly. utterly boring. 1/10 Edited May 4, 2012 by jojo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groaninjock Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Last one I finished was "At Home" by Bill Bryson - good, entertaining and educational, but not a patch on A Short History of Nearly Everything. Or any of his travel writing. Now onto 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. Bit of a slow start, but enjoying it. Can see parallels with The Matrix movies. Kinda. Oh, and the Dark Phoenix X-Men saga if we're including comics... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Just finished One Minute To Midnight by Michael Dobbs (no, not that one...) A constantly fascinating, day by day detailing of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Kennedy/McNamara side has been often told, the excellent film 13 Days being just one example, and the recordings of meetings are available in the National Archive. I found them absolutely fascinating, and could - and have - spend days on end listening to them. This book uses the transcripts, but also presents Kruschchev's side, mixing in interviews with key Cuban figures as well. One of the most gripping things I've ever read. Splendid. 10.0 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H_B Posted May 12, 2012 Author Share Posted May 12, 2012 I read Dobbs' WW2 stuff about Churchill a while back - very readable. Last book I read :- The Savage Altar - Asa Larsson. Pretty bland sub-Nesbo Scandinavian crime procedural. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamingparBoz Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Finished Skagboys by Irvine Welsh last night. Bloody brilliant prequel to Trainspotting and Porno. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forzamorton Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 (edited) Just finished reading 'Stramash' written by Daniel Gray. It's about a lad from Middlesbrough who is sick of the high earned, fancy football and wants to experience so called 'real football'. So, he decides to travel round the majority of the lower league teams in Scotland talking about each towns history and talking about the game. The only reason it caught my eye was because it is Morton fans, from around the 1980's, on the front. He actually says "Greenock Morton gave me back my love of football." Edited May 12, 2012 by forzamorton 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mak Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 La Fortune des Rougon, which is the first of Emile Zola's Rougon Maquart series. It's good when you get into it, but very wordy. Sort of like a French version of Sir Walter Scott. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
)typically Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Just finished reading 'Stramash' written by Daniel Gray. It's about a lad from Middlesbrough who is sick of the high earned, fancy football and wants to experience so called 'real football'. So, he decides to travel round the majority of the lower league teams in Scotland talking about each towns history and talking about the game. The only reason it caught my eye was because it is Morton fans, from around the 1980's, on the front. He actually says "Greenock Morton gave me back my love of football." I'd like to hear the context of that sentence. Did he leave at half time and go to the pub? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dosser-fae-the-shire Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 The Associate by John Grisham. Fuckin worst ending ever. Pish. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonMan Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 I'd like to hear the context of that sentence. Did he leave at half time and go to the pub? Must be hard when we have the luxury of being able to leave at half-time whereas you won't have games to go to at all next season. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forzamorton Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 I'd like to hear the context of that sentence. Did he leave at half time and go to the pub? No, if he wanted to leave at half time, he would have went to Ibrox...then again, you don't do walking away. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
)typically Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Must be hard when we have the luxury of being able to leave at half-time whereas you won't have games to go to at all next season. No, if he wanted to leave at half time, he would have went to Ibrox...then again, you don't do walking away. Sorry guys, its not a sentence you hear very often though eh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Raccoon Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Finished Skagboys by Irvine Welsh last night. Bloody brilliant prequel to Trainspotting and Porno. Gonna pick this up soon, really looking forward to it. The last book I read was The Wasp factory by Iain Banks. I've read it before many years ago but decided to give it a re-read and I was not disappointed. An extremely dark novel and courted alot of controversy when it came out but it's a fantastic if not rather disturbing read. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broon-loon Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 50 years of Private Eye... Not really a book as such........ Yes it was interesting, but a bit 'Public School'............ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morrison Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 I recently read Cocaine Nights by J.G. Ballard. I'd like to be constructive, but I thought it was awful. I didn't like any of the characters, and hated the main character. This has annoyed me greatly because I really enjoyed Empire of the Sun. I still mean to pick up Crash at some stage but this disappointed me. Currently reading Carry On, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse which has me chuckling away to myself. Also reading the Orcs: First Blood trilogy by Stan Nicholls. I'm halfway through Bodyguard of Lightning, the first book, and I've got right into it. I bought the Omnibus edition being confident I'd enjoy it, so likely to read them straight through. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StewartyMac Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Still working my way through Lee Child's Jack Reacher series. Just finished 'One Shot', which the one they're making a film of. One of the better ones in the series so far. Can't wait to see Tom Cruise destroy the part when it's out next year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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