Question What are you reading?

[Tangled up in Blue]

Fleshmarket Close.Ian Rankin.An Inspector Rebus Novel: 15.


Excellent on asylum-seekers in Scotland.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

John Cleese's autobiography So,Anyway.

Informative but anyone looking for lots of laughs will be dissapointed.

 

[Mad Cyril]

John Cleese's autobiography So,Anyway.

Informative but anyone looking for lots of laughs will be dissapointed.

Not me. I ****ing despise the bloke and Fawlty Towers.

 

[Pubey]

Read The Martian, which I really enjoyed. Nice mix of survival story and science/space nerdary

Also read The Lie by CL Taylor which was utter guff

Finally getting through the Friday Night Lights book, which is brilliant, but occasionally gets a little dry. If you're a fan of sport and American politics then I think you'd like this.

 

[Jam_Man]

Read The Martian, which I really enjoyed. Nice mix of survival story and science/space nerdary

Also read The Lie by CL Taylor which was utter guff

Finally getting through the Friday Night Lights book, which is brilliant, but occasionally gets a little dry. If you're a fan of sport and American politics then I think you'd like this.

Martian :Didnt you find it a bit repetitive. I mean theres only so many times you can be told how much mud he needs to make. If found it ok but was glad to get to the end of it.

Thought Friday Night Lights was a great book, the fact it wasnt just about football made it for me.

 

[Suffolk Blue]

I enjoyed the Martian; looking forward to the film too.

Currently reading an old Stephen King and Peter Straub collaboration - The Talisman. Like many of Stephen King's books I re-read it every few years; getting to know the characters again is enjoyable.

When I say read, I actually mean listen to. Apart from when I'm on holiday, most of the things I "read" are audiobooks.

 

[Jai]

Chavs: The demonisation of the working class. Very interesting and revealing review of how politicians (from all sides) have stomped all over poor people over the last 30 years.

 

[MK Shrimper]

I will be reading The Private Life of LS Lowry by Shelley Rhode when it turns up as I paid 1p for it on Amazon. :smile:

 

[Ricey]

Roy Keane's second book - I didn't read the first one and you don't really need too. As much media attention as it got as a slagging match between Fergie and Roy I thought it was pretty tame. I thought he was honest and didn't really speak that badly about Fergie. A good read the only bad thing was the sly dig at us. When he says after Sunderland got promoted "I'm playing at Liverpool and Manchester United when last season we were going to places like Southend and Colchester."

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just finished Simon Armitage's excellent Walking Away

 

[Mad Cyril]

Just finished Simon Armitage's excellent Walking Away

It was Book of the week on radio 4 a few weeks ago.....

 

[Mad Cyril]

Roy Keane's second book - I didn't read the first one and you don't really need too. As much media attention as it got as a slagging match between Fergie and Roy I thought it was pretty tame. I thought he was honest and didn't really speak that badly about Fergie. A good read the only bad thing was the sly dig at us. When he says after Sunderland got promoted "I'm playing at Liverpool and Manchester United when last season we were going to places like Southend and Colchester."

I have always thought Roy Keane looks like Ian Huntley.

 

[Napster]

Loads.

Recent reads:

Pulver, Joseph S. - A Season in Carcosa (average horror anthology) 6/10
Dicker, Joël - The truth about the Harry Quebert affair (page-turning thrilller) 8/10
Allende, Isabel - Ripper : a novel (terribly dull crime novel that seems old hat) 5/10
Ross, Adam - Mr. Peanut (too-clever by half crime pastiche) 5/10

Current reads:

Black, Saul - The killing lessons (OK so far, plotting a bit messy, too many strands)

To read:

Muriel, Oscar de - The strings of murder
Barron, Laird - The imago sequence and other stories
Cornwell, Jessica - The serpent papers
Miské, Karim - Arab jazz
Richmond, T.R. - What she left

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

It was Book of the week on radio 4 a few weeks ago.....

Excellent description of his walks in Devon and Cornwall on the SW footpath.Similar in style to his book on The Pennine way a few years back.Threatens it'll be his last walking book.Hope not.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Excellent description of his walks in Devon and Cornwall on the SW footpath.Similar in style to his book on The Pennine way a few years back.Threatens it'll be his last walking book.Hope not.

The radio version was OK. Not really into poetry...

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Chavs: The demonisation of the working class. Very interesting and revealing review of how politicians (from all sides) have stomped all over poor people over the last 30 years.

Excellent book.:thumbsup:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

The radio version was OK. Not really into poetry...

Nah me neither.Think Laurie Lee though.Simon Armitage writes prose like a poet.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just finished Ian Rankin's The Naming of the Dead.Rebus 16.

Timely,as it's set during the Make Poverty History protest in Scotland,the week before the 7/7 London bombings.

Always figured Ian Rankin as a lefty.:thumbsup:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Finished Ian Rankin's wonderful Exit Music,Rebus 17,last night.

Also Exit Music for me,after a fashion,as I've already read Rebus 18 and 19.Still there's a new book in the series out in November,apparently.:thumbsup:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Enjoyed Lawrence Durrell's Bitter Lemons.A memoir of 1950's Cyprus.Very good on the independence struggle.There's also a wonderful early chapter on buying a house on the island,which will resonate with anyone who's ever bought a property abroad.