Tommy Nooka Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 I liked 'Stonemouth'. Did you watch the BBC adaptation? How do you think they compared? I wanted to read the book first but I will be checking it out. The book felt like it was almost a Brookmyre/Banks crossover at times. Some huge tonal shifts but I have always enjoyed Banks black humour. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjw Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Into thin air by Jon Krakauer. Read this after watching the movie Everest. It's a decent read but there are another 4 books by survivors of the disaster. I'd imagine they all have their own version of what happened. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quitongo's Left Peg Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 Just finished 'The Miracle of Castel Di Sangro'. An excellent read, even if the author is a bit of a self-indulgent twat that tries to railroad an already amazing story to involve himself at every turn. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pccabe Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 The Black Russian by Vladimir Alexandrov. A very interesting book about an American who took up Russian citizenship in pre-Communism Russia. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon It's a bit morbid 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmothecat Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon It's a bit morbid That's probably my favourite book I've ever read. The characters somehow just feel so real, it's as if you get to know them. the part when Ewan dies is the single most emotional I've felt when reading a book, I actually had to put the book down to let it sink in. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Just starting on The Narrow Road To The Deep North by Richard Flanagan. It's the story of a prisoner of war in a Japanese concentration camp, who is sent to work on the Burma railroad. Pretty heavy duty stuff, I suspect. We'll see how it goes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross. Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Just finished Chris Carters "An Evil Mind". Never read any of his stuff before and I doubt I will again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross. Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Just starting on The Narrow Road To The Deep North by Richard Flanagan. It's the story of a prisoner of war in a Japanese concentration camp, who is sent to work on the Burma railroad. Pretty heavy duty stuff, I suspect. We'll see how it goes. Read that a few months ago. Thought it was tremendously well written and really enjoyed it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjw Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Living the Dream (Khaosan Road - Thailand Book 1) Chris Johnson. Guy sells all his possessions and goes travelling. Unfortunately he is the dullest person who ever lived and we get stories about eating Pad Thai and looking at temples. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble by Antony Beevor More of the same from the award winning historian, this time about Hitler's attempt to burst through Belgium and split the allied forces in two. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Been rattling through James Ellroy books - LA Confidential then Black Dahlia now I've nearly finished American Tabloid. The body count is pretty spectacular and we've not even got to the Bay of Pigs yet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons It's a bit dry 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenconner Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 The Koran 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattBairn Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 The bible. Plot holes everywhere... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antti Niemi Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 No man is an island, entire of itself ... Really getting into it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf It's a bit shit 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RondeBoer Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Reading Irvine Welsh's 'Porno' again on the back of the news that the film has got the green light. Been reading that the script for the film is only loosely based on Welsh's book which is a shame because the book is even better than Trainspotting for me. Can't remember being in tears of laughter reading a book before but that one does it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Reading Irvine Welsh's 'Porno' again on the back of the news that the film has got the green light. Been reading that the script for the film is only loosely based on Welsh's book which is a shame because the book is even better than Trainspotting for me. Can't remember being in tears of laughter reading a book before but that one does it. Don't really see the point of the film if it's not based on the book, I thought the book was hilarious too and it will take some effort to come up with anything better imo. Just finished Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz. A decent addition to the James Bond books and it would fit into the original series as a sequel to Goldfinger. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross. Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Reading Irvine Welsh's 'Porno' again on the back of the news that the film has got the green light. Been reading that the script for the film is only loosely based on Welsh's book which is a shame because the book is even better than Trainspotting for me. Can't remember being in tears of laughter reading a book before but that one does it. I thought Porno was shite. The only decent laugh was the scene about Sick Boy sending Begbie gay porn in jail. The rest of it read as though Welsh had been told by his publisher that he had to get the Trainspotting lot back in the same book. the gay porn bit aside, the only redeeming factor was Juice Terry. Anyway, I've literally just finished reading "A Brief History of Seven Killings". It wasn't brief and there were far more than seven killings. Was difficult in patches due to the huge number of characters, as well as the Jamaican dialect, but well worth the effort and easy to see why it won the Booker prize. Would definitely recommend it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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