Question What are you reading?

[Tangled up in Blue]

Blake Morrison's The Executor.Beautifully writen (as always) with BM.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started Robert Winder's Bloody Foreigners:The Story of Immigration to Britain.

Looks a good read.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

Dunstan by Conn Iggythingy, based on a historical person who was the Abbott of Glastonbury, A/Bishop of Canturbury; a master builder of fine churches and Conn would have us believe deadly power broker of Kings.

 

[Benfleet A1]

Dunstan by Conn Iggythingy, based on a historical person who was the Abbott of Glastonbury, A/Bishop of Canturbury; a master builder of fine churches and Conn would have us believe deadly power broker of Kings.

Sounds like a medival Donald Trump.:smile:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Halfway through David Lodge's The Man who wouldn't Get Up and other Stories.Enjoyable enough but not a patch on his great comic novels.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Hitchcock by Francois Truffaut.Simply wonderful read for all Hitch fans.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

12 Horseman, about USA response to 9/11 and the almost immediate insertion of US special forces into Northern Alliance fighters with minimal planning and little support. Brave men 1 and all.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Robert Saunders: Yes To Europe! The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain.

Just started this.Looks an excellent read.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started Irvine Welsh's Dead Men's Trousers.The latest installment in the Trainspotting saga.

 

[MK Shrimper]

I took MK Jnr down the library and in the kids section they had a load of Michael Morpurgo books, so now reading "Twist Of Gold" which seems to be Angela's Ashes-lite - but a good light read nonetheless.

 

[Napster]

The Exorcist. Brilliant.

 

[Uncle Leo]

I've never read any Thomas Hardy but am making a start now with "Two On A Tower".

Didn't much enjoy that. Beautiful writing, but just couldn't muster up any enthusiasm for the main characters.

Our recent trip to Brussels has had me re-discovering my old Tintin books. Reading Tintin in America with the children, and just re-read King Ottakar's Sceptre myself.

But back to the bookshelf tonight to find something a little more substantial for the daily commute!

 

[Bearded Shrimper]

And The Sun Shines Now by Adrian Tempany subtitled 'how Hillsborough and the Premier League changed Britain'.
Incredible first hand account of being in the Hillsborough disaster and harrowing.
So far the rest has a sensationalist and conspiratorial feel that doesn't do much for me.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Enjoyed Martin Rowson's cartoon adaption of The Communist Manifesto very much.

Currently reading Philip.K.Dick's Electric Dreams.SF's not usually my thing but these are powerful short stories.

 

[Napster]

Currently reading Philip.K.Dick's Electric Dreams.SF's not usually my thing but these are powerful short stories.

Prefer the film.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Prefer the film.

If you mean Blade Runner, that was of course,originally, a full length novel, (Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?).Many of the short stories in Electric Dreams were filmed as one hour programmes in the recent C4 TV series.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Hilary Wainwright:A New Politics From the Left.

A timely account from the co-editor of Red Pepper.

 

[MK Shrimper]

If you mean Blade Runner, that was of course,originally, a full length novel, (Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?).Many of the short stories in Electric Dreams were filmed as one hour programmes in the recent C4 TV series.

I think Mr N is being a bit cheeky.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Going through Michael Morpurgo's works, so on his probably most famous, War Horse.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started Martin Amis's The rub of time. A collection of his recent non-fiction.Looks good.