Question What are you reading?

[Napster]

Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg. 7/10 - taut writing, good twists, but cliched in parts

Intruders by Michael Marshall - first half excellent, second half awful, as if he got bored and couldnt explain what was happening. 4/10, amazingly has been optioned for a BBC drama. I did like the Straw Men, so my hopes are still high for him.

Did start a Philip Pullman book - Ruby in the Smoke, but stopped because a) I remember the adaption with Billie, and b) the writing was a bit adolescent.

I have got some more Vargas from the library, after I read the excellent Wash the Blood from Thy Hands. They're next to read.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Run, Rabbit by John Updike. At least I was until I misplaced it. Anyone seen my copy lying around?

 

[NZamba Legend]

LA Confidential- James Ellroy

Third in quartet, brilliant like the others- totally gets in your head.

"Dusk, Cheramoya Avenue: Hollywood, a block off Franklin. 5261: a Tudor four-flat, two pads upstairs, two down. No lights- probably too late to glom 'Chester' the day man. Jack rang the B buzzer- no response. An ear to the door, a listen- no sounds, period. In with the key."

 

[MK Shrimper]

Just recieved Mark Kermode's "It's only a film" to read after the Radio Binfield malarky.

 

[Rob Noxious]

Just recieved Mark Kermode's "It's only a film" to read after the Radio Binfield malarky.

Thought you said it was "a cracking read"! :)

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

:clap:Reading Alan Bennett's "The Habit of Art" which I'm going to see at the NT the day before we smash Stockport!

 

[MK Shrimper]

Thought you said it was "a cracking read"! :)

Lol, it is! I am enjoying it!

 

[Rob Noxious]

Lol, it is! I am enjoying it!

Will see you right for that pint soon mate ... ;)

 

[TrueBlue]

Currently reading Pete Townshend - The Book The Never Came Out

 

[steveo]

Sniper One - Sgt Dan Mills.

 

[Rob Noxious]

Currently reading Pete Townshend - The Book The Never Came Out

Don't know that one, but I think you might enjoy his one that did, ie 'Horse's Neck,' particularly a chapter called 'Champagne On The Terraces.' ;)

 

[TrueBlue]

Don't know that one, but I think you might enjoy his one that did, ie 'Horse's Neck,' particularly a chapter called 'Champagne On The Terraces.' ;)

Apple Sours on the Terrace is more my style

 

[Mad Cyril]

Just completed The Great Gatsby.

Top stuff.

 

[BrettieAngell]

A book about D-Day written by the bloke who did Band of Brothers.

 

[SUFC_Al]

A book about D-Day written by the bloke who did Band of Brothers.

Stephen E. Ambrose.

I have the same book on my shelf an arms reach away. Cracking read.

 

[BrettieAngell]

Stephen E. Ambrose.

I have the same book on my shelf an arms reach away. Cracking read.

Ah I was gonna see if wanted to read it after me!

 

[Mad Cyril]

Just finished reading Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham.
The first time I read this I was 13 and I loved it then, the mix of monsters, disaster & survival. Now I'm 30 and this time it hit even harder, the human relationships and sociology aspect are superb, and what's frightneing now is how some of Wyndham's vision of the future is scarily accurate today. Not just one of the best sci-fi books, but one of the best books ever.

It's a good book but even Triffids need to put down roots from time to time.

With this in mind they would never have negotiated the huge area of crazy paving around my house.

 

[Kent Shrimper]

I have all Martina Cole's novels. Gritty stuff but her very early books all contained local references, the Hoy and Helmet and Wakering spring to mind.

Just finished her latest offering myself, unfortunately i don't think her latter stuff is anywhere near as good as the early stuff

And she now resides in Sevenaoks

Also i have been given a tip on a good book and wondered if the SZ Book Club had read it

Who stole my blackberry by Martin Lukes

 

[Napster]

Just finished her latest offering myself, unfortunately i don't think her latter stuff is anywhere near as good as the early stuff

And she now resides in Sevenaoks

Also i have been given a tip on a good book and wondered if the SZ Book Club had read it

Who stole my blackberry by Martin Lukes

Sevenoaks is passe. It's all about Cranbrook now, where I've moved to.

Yes I've read it - funny, and well worth it.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Just completed The Great Gatsby.

Top stuff.

As a subscriber to The Times, I get a free gift every quarter and that's one of the options this time around. Worth snapping up then?