Question What are you reading?

[canveyshrimper]

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - le Carre

The early cold war Le Carre novels are excellent IMO. Have you read Len Deighton? He created the Harry Palmer character played by Michael Caine in a number of films.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Finished Push at the weekend.That's the book on which the film Precious was based.Excellent read.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Second bite of McCarthy's The Road. Seem to be enjoying better this time around, if you can enjoy a nihilistic end of the world story where there's (probably) no hope.

 

[Napster]

Reading Code of the Woosters by Wodehouse. Our library has closed for 3 months for refurbishment, so allowed to take as many books as I wanted. I think I took out 20.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Started Jeff Stelling's "Jelleyman's Thrown a Wobbler" last night, read the first few couple of chapters, fairly amusing.

 

[Napster]

Just finished The Winter of Frankie Machine - superb gangster drama. Now being turned into a Scorcese/De Niro film. 9/10

Now reading Coe's The Rotter Club.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Recently read:

Kerouac - Ann Charter. Good Bio, well balanced and with real insight.
Slam - Nick Hornby. Decent light read, not up to High Fidelity standard tho.​

Friends Like These - Danny Wallace. Entertaining enough, but not great.

now reading ~ Doctor Sax by Jack Kerouac

 

[BrettieAngell]

The early cold war Le Carre novels are excellent IMO. Have you read Len Deighton? He created the Harry Palmer character played by Michael Caine in a number of films.

I've read Game, Set and Match and working through Faith, Hope and Charity although thats a different character to the one you mention. Good books though!

 

[BrettieAngell]

Just finished The Winter of Frankie Machine - superb gangster drama. Now being turned into a Scorcese/De Niro film. 9/10

Sweet, might have to read that!!

 

[canveyshrimper]

I've read Game, Set and Match and working through Faith, Hope and Charity although thats a different character to the one you mention. Good books though!

Another Len Deighton book I'd recommend is SS-GB, as the title suggests the subject is a what may have happened if Germany had won the war.

 

[C C Csiders]

Just finishing Nelson and Napoleon by Christopher Lee (not that one!). Excellent stuff. Mind you Napoleon on the front cover is a ringer for Jimmy White.

 

[BrettieAngell]

Another Len Deighton book I'd recommend is SS-GB, as the title suggests the subject is a what may have happened if Germany had won the war.

Awesome, right up my street!! :)

 

[southend4ever]

I like that prior to this post there were 333 replies... Graham Gooch's highest test score. I am reading another English opener's autobiography. That of Marcus Trescothik. If you have a remote interest in sport i think this is a great read of someone who has battled mental health problems that finally got the better of him.

 

[C C Csiders]

Another Len Deighton book I'd recommend is SS-GB, as the title suggests the subject is a what may have happened if Germany had won the war.

And here is an insight into what it would have been like:

 

[A Century United]

The Test, by Jean Barema. Available on Amazon

Barema is a French journalist whose mother died of Huntington's Disease. This is his account of the 5 or so years he spent deciding to and eventually having the genetic test to discover if he also had the Huntington's gene. Slightly surreal in places, and he isn't perhaps the most likeable character but an honest and sometimes brutal account of living in the shadow of Huntington's.

 

[southend4ever]

great image. only looking at one thing though.

 

[BrettieAngell]

great image. only looking at one thing though.

the big jugs?

 

[Kent Shrimper]

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson - I wasn't sure whether i liked it or not, although i couldn't put it down. Real page turner but i didn't warm the the characters. 8/10

 

[Kent Shrimper]

Gone Tomorrow by Lee Childs - More Jack Reacher shenanigans, if your a JR fan you will like it. 7/10

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Read The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell over Easter.Excellent book though a tad long.