Question What are you reading?

[RHB]

Just started The Empty Throne by Bernard Cornwell, The eighth book of the Warrior Chronicles/Saxon Tales. The opening chapters suggest the book will be up to the quality of the rest of the series.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Finished the latest Murakami book, very good read. Now reading Amanda Palmer's 'The Art Of Asking', only a third through it, but love it and it's essential reading for anyone with artistsic ambitions.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

I am working my way through the Walt Longmire series by Craig Johnson, similar themed to the TV series but better. I recommend it for those that like Reacher style books.

 

[prawntobewild]

The Snowman by Jo Nesbo.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

Read the book,seen the play.Currently catching up with the stage adaption.Apparently it's being made into a film soon.:thumbsup:

 

[MK Shrimper]

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

Read the book,seen the play.Currently catching up with the stage adaption.Apparently it's being made into a film soon.:thumbsup:

Great book. Off to see the play at the end of march.

 

[DoDTS]

I don't usually read but as I'm in recovery from an operation I've started reading again.

I've just read "Barnaby Rudge" by Charles Dickens, based around the Gordon anti-popery Riots in London of 1780. Really enjoyed reading it and comparing it with the facts about something I knew nothing of previously.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Great book. Off to see the play at the end of march.

You'll enjoy it.Is it on tour now?

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started David Reynolds Slow Road to Brownsville.

Hugely enjoyable.

 

[Jam_Man]

The Blind Side by Michael Lewis.

Decent film and the book adds a bit more depth to it. Doesnt have Sandra Bullock in it sadly.

 

[RHB]

The Blind Side by Michael Lewis.

Decent film and the book adds a bit more depth to it. Doesnt have Sandra Bullock in it sadly.

There ya go JM. Print this off (to book size obviously) and whenever you need it, hey presto!! Job done

 

[MK Shrimper]

There ya go JM. Print this off (to book size obviously) and whenever you need it, hey presto!! Job done

Though that's not rude, it looks utterly photoshopped fake.

 

[RHB]

Though that's not rude, it looks utterly photoshopped fake.

Yeah, but it's the thought that counts:smile:

 

[Ricey]

Can anyone recommend any decent war story books? From recent conflicts or stories from some of our wars of past.

I have read:
Bravo Two Zero
No Easy Day
The One That Got Away
Sniper One
Barefoot Soldier
The Nowzad trilogy of books.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Not necessarily Andy McNabb gungho *****, but Louis de Berniers' novels are set in various wars - Captain Corelli's Mandolin (WW2), Bird Without Wings (WW1), The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts. I love all 3, and I must read more of his works.

Also Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks (WW1), Regeneration by Pat Barker - WW1.

 

[Ricey]

Not necessarily Andy McNabb gungho *****, but Louis de Berniers' novels are set in various wars - Captain Corelli's Mandolin (WW2), Bird Without Wings (WW1), The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts. I love all 3, and I must read more of his works.

Also Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks (WW1), Regeneration by Pat Barker - WW1.

Are they true stories? Because that's what I am looking for like in the list of books all written by the persons events in those situations.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Are they true stories? Because that's what I am looking for like in the list of books all written by the persons events in those situations.

No mate, all fiction but stunning works of. I had something in my eye at the end of Birdsong.....

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Not necessarily Andy McNabb gungho *****, but Louis de Berniers' novels are set in various wars - Captain Corelli's Mandolin (WW2), Bird Without Wings (WW1), The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts. I love all 3, and I must read more of his works.

Also Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks (WW1), Regeneration by Pat Barker - WW1.

Would certainly recommend this -and in fact anything by PB.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Can anyone recommend any decent war story books? From recent conflicts or stories from some of our wars of past.

I have read:
Bravo Two Zero
No Easy Day
The One That Got Away
Sniper One
Barefoot Soldier
The Nowzad trilogy of books.

All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Not war related, but I've just finished The Testament Of Mary by Colm Tóibín and am now on to The Tenth Man by Graham Greene.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Can anyone recommend any decent war story books? From recent conflicts or stories from some of our wars of past.

I have read:
Bravo Two Zero
No Easy Day
The One That Got Away
Sniper One
Barefoot Soldier
The Nowzad trilogy of books.

All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Just turned the page to find that I've been beaten to it.

Completing my trio of essential books about war are Primo Levi's If This Is a Man and Joseph Heller's Catch-22

Also recommended

Celine's Journey to the End of the Night
Mailer's The Naked and the Dead
Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and A Farewell to Arms
Orwell's Homage to Catalonia
Greene's The Quiet American
Herr's Dispatches
Air America (forgot who wrote that)