North Stand Bairn Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 I've got 3 books set aside for my holiday.I usually take 5 or 6. Any other recommendations? (not into chick-lit ) It's got to grab me from the first couple of chapters, none of these slow paced ones! Any book by Stuart MacBride is a great read and highly recommended. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mak Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 Just finished Making Money by Terry Pratchett. Well up his usual high standard with a lot of LOL parts:'Lavish had grown thin sideburns that tapered to an even thinner moustache and descended to a sharply pointed goatee beard in an attempt to look as menacing as Lord Vetrinari. Unfortunately the effect was more like a pubic chin.' I nearly spat my cider over the bar table at that! Just started Alex Gray's thriller 'Pitch Black' about murders at Kelvin FC - it's a real page turner and she's fast becoming Glasgow's riposte to Edinburgh's Rankin. I'll let you know what I think when I've finished it. "Making Money" is excellent. Is that the one with the passage about "The Big Cabbage"? That genuinely made me laugh out loud. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
An Sionnach Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 "Making Money" is excellent. Is that the one with the passage about "The Big Cabbage"? That genuinely made me laugh out loud. Yep! There are plenty more good laughs in it but I'll not post up any more so as not to spoil the fun for those yet to get round to it! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mak Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 Yep! There are plenty more good laughs in it but I'll not post up any more so as not to spoil the fun for those yet to get round to it! The Discworld books are generally just brilliant. I bought them all from Amazon towards the tailend of last year and read all of the threads in chronological order*, and didn't fail to enjoy a single one of them. *I'm a bit "Rain Man" in terms of that kind of thing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel Hutchwright Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 Have you read The Unconsoled? It is the only book of his I have read and found it an utterly unnerving and dreamlike experience. Very unusual. Got round to reading it, and despite my reservations really enjoyed it. I actually started it thinking that, if as I suspected, it wasn't really going to appeal, I would just put it down and read something else; I used to soldier on with books that I wasn't really enjoying, but recently came to the conclusion that lifes to short for that nonsense. However, I actually found it a really absorbing, and as you say, somewhat unnerving read. The ending slightly confused me mind you but, that said, I found it strangely moving. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centre Stand Hero Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 Have you read, Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie? I've recommended it to a few people who have all enjoyed it. It is an excellent book. Just finished The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini i didn't think it was as good as A Thousand Splendid Suns but still a good read all the same. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest oddjob Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs - Irvine Welsh. Great read. Eta: I had to dig up 15 pages to answer this, and Brookmyre gets a pinned thread for a book that's not even out. If I ever have to poof reed one ov yur buuks yer fooked. You can tell this is a buddies forum. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uberman Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 David Lister and Hugh Jordan - Mad Dog, the rise and fall of Johnny Adair and C Company I knew Adair was a fanny before I read this book I just didn't realise how big a fanny he was, He is clueless about politics, constantly embarrasses himself with his inability to fire a gun and his all round stupidy. I hope he gets shot again son. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stimpy Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 "Dynamo" a book about the Dynamo Kiev side that played against a German football team during the Nazi occupation of the Ukraine. The brutality of the Nazis is sickening and just makes you understand the total disregard the Red Army had for all things German as they pushed towards Berlin. The bravery of the Kiev players just makes your heart swell, to be able to have the energy at all to play considering the conditions they were living makes it all the more outstanding. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uberman Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 Dean Koontz - The Good Guy 9/10 Excellent fast paced thriller 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centre Stand Hero Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 "Dynamo" a book about the Dynamo Kiev side that played against a German football team during the Nazi occupation of the Ukraine.The brutality of the Nazis is sickening and just makes you understand the total disregard the Red Army had for all things German as they pushed towards Berlin. The bravery of the Kiev players just makes your heart swell, to be able to have the energy at all to play considering the conditions they were living makes it all the more outstanding. Good book that. Just finished reading One Soldier's War in Chechnya by Arkady Babchenko it's an amazing book and shows how brutal life in the modern Red Army is conscripts and regular soldiers are treated disgracefully and the bullying is endemic. A very moving story and i'd recommend it to anyone interested in Russian history. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Kebab Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 "Dynamo" a book about the Dynamo Kiev side that played against a German football team during the Nazi occupation of the Ukraine.The brutality of the Nazis is sickening and just makes you understand the total disregard the Red Army had for all things German as they pushed towards Berlin. The bravery of the Kiev players just makes your heart swell, to be able to have the energy at all to play considering the conditions they were living makes it all the more outstanding. Possibly the best fotball book ever written!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StewartyMac Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 Brookmyre's 'A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil'. Utterly, utterly delightful. One of the funniest books I've read. It's really made me think a lot of my schooldays, particularly as the scenes at school were about the same time as I was there. So many references I thought only ever applied to my school(s). 10/10. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uberman Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 T.C Campbell - The Wilderness years 3/10 Campbell talks about his time in prison after being wrongly jailed for the "ice cream murders", the courtroom and legal jaargon chapters dragged on far too,long and were extremely boring however the prison chapters about his hunger strikes and rooftop protests were interesting. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugster Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Piers Morgan, Don't You Know Who I Am? Maybe you have to have worked in the media, but I thought it was excellent, as was his previous effort, The Insider. Funny, insightful, and entertaining. 7/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latino Lover Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Recentlr I've read Slash's book which was really good but not quite as gritty as you would expect, reading Nikki Sixx's heroine diaries at the moment and that would put most people of the stuff for life. Also read James Frey's Bright Shiny Morning which was totally different to his previous 2 books but still enjoyable although the ending was a bit shit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stainrod's Fedora Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 (edited) There must have been much talk about it on here already, but The Damned United, by David Peace - a novel about Brian Clough's 44 days as manager of Leeds. If you haven't read it yet, do so. It's really good. 10/10 Edited September 10, 2008 by Stainrod's Fedora 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonofjenova Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Closing Time by Joseph Heller Maybe I was just expecting too much after the marvellous prequel, Catch-22; however I feel that the author was a spent force by the time he got round to writing it. The whole book seems muted and the characters just don't drag you through the novel or engage you like Catch-22's did. Yes, some of the characters have been retained, but the new ones just aren't delightfully well-rounded as with its' predecessor. Some moments of sheer genius; however, it doesn't read as if the main characters are fighting "The End" - it seemed like Joseph Heller was, and his battle wasn't entirely successful. 5/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weekender Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 (edited) I done my Higher PSU on the Football Factory - a book filled with racism and the word "c**t" on every page. Still passed. Edited September 10, 2008 by BluebirdTon 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
footiechick Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 Back from hols and lot of reading! Grisham - The Innocent Man 9/10 - read it in one day, excellent non-fiction Picoult - Second Glance 8/10 - not bad Salinger - Catcher in the Rye 6/10 - never read it at school, so tried it La Plante - Clean Cut 4/10 - worst of the lot Brookmyre - Country of the Blind 8/10 - quite good. reading the parlabane ones in order now Rankin - Rebus short stories (Good Hanging) 7/10 Picoult - Mercy - not finished yet, but quite good 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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