Question What are you reading?

[Tinks]

Picked up Donny Osmonds auto-biography today at a bootsale for an amazing price of 50p. never realised how he sufferred from mental health problems

 

[yogi bear up the cagire]

Had to make a rapid choice at Heathrow, for a book to go with the third volume of Millennium, ended up selecting a Henning Mankell novel 'Italian Shoes'. Assumed, wrongly, that it was one of his Wallender mysteries. Characterisation was good ...........found it OK, if a little depressing.
Have finally persuaded my wife to order an English translation of any foreign books she reads, so that we can both benefit. She has recently got a couple of books by the Dutch author Renate Dorrestein and on her recommendation, I am, at the moment, reading 'A Crying Shame'. Marie-Ge said that it was 'unputdownable' although she was very disappointed by the ending. Having got a third of the way through, I'm finding it interesting but haven't yet got swept along by it............perhaps that will come?

 

[Hotman]

Daily sport

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Daily sport

Any tips to pass on?:unsure:

 

[Rob Noxious]

Picked up Donny Osmonds auto-biography today at a bootsale for an amazing price of 50p. never realised how he sufferred from mental health problems

I did as soon as I heard 'Crazy Horses.' :unsure:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Nearly finished Patti Smith's Just Kids an affectionate tribute to the late Robert Mapplethorpe and memior of the late 60's and 70's scene in NYC.
What's clear is that PS is a much better and more honest writer than Dylan.

 

[Rob Noxious]

Nearly finished Patti Smith's Just Kids an affectionate tribute to the late Robert Mapplethorpe and memior of the late 60's and 70's scene in NYC.
What's clear is that PS is a much better and more honest writer than Dylan.

Didn't she used to be a journalist before/whilst embarking on her musical 'journey'?

 

[Kent Shrimper]

Meltdown by Ben Elton - interesting and amusing look at how the credit crunch effected 5 friends 7/10

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Didn't she used to be a journalist before/whilst embarking on her musical 'journey'?

Not FT but yes she wrote occasional record reviews for fringe journals.Good book.Look out for it when it comes out in paper back.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Currently reading The Shallows(how the internet is changing the way we think,read and remember)by Nicholalas Carr.
Interesting read-especially as I'm thinking about signing up for a PT- IT course!

 

[NZamba Legend]

The Man With the Getaway Face- Richard Stark. A 'Parker' classic.

 

[Napster]

just finished the suspicions of mr whicher, which was excellent.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Didn't read much in NYC - got through "13 things that don't make sense" about things that even our top boffins don't understand, such as we can't see 96% of the Universe, why we have sex, or why we die. Interesting but it got a bit heavy at times and I got a little bit lost.

Started SuperFreakononics during the return home which I devoured and read over 100 pages so far. Brilliant book, if you've read Freakonomics then get it, if not, get it anyway!

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Just finished reading 'And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks' by WS Burroughs & Jack Kerouac. Hard boiled crime novel about true events in the writers lives, written a good 10 years before either was published. Really interesting to see their development as writers - Kerouac's observational style is already there, but he has et to develop his flowing poetic style & introspective thoughts. Also suprising to read Kerouac's reaction to the murder which borders on excitement, when latter in life he would mourn the death of a mouse or rat.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Just finished "Wolf Hall" - enjoyable enough, but I can't help feeling it's hugely overrated. Ends too abruptly as well, it would have been good if it had gone all the way through to Thomas Cromwell's downfall. I suppose that's what you get for buying a Booker winner just because it's a Booker winner.

Next up is "We Were Young And Carefree", autobiography of two-time Tour de France winner (and recently deceased) Laurent Fignon.

 

[Napster]

Tokyo by Mo Hayder - over-rated.

Now reading a Dublin crime book. OK so far.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

Just finished 'Perverting the Course of Justice' by Inspector Gadget, from the same people who brought us PC Copperfield's excellent 'Wasting Police Time'. Gadget's book is slightly superior to Copperfield's in its quality of prose and the perspective of a more senior officer adds more depth.

Now moved on to 'Spoilt Rotten' by Theodore Dalrymple - very good so far.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Tokyo by Mo Hayder - over-rated.

Now reading a Dublin crime book.

Keith's written his memoirs of life as a defender?

OK so far.

Ah, maybe not then.

 

[EastStandBlue]

David Davies' Autobiography, detailing much of what happened at the FA while he was head of communications and then chief executive. Goes into Hoddle, Gazza and Sven at great length, which is interesting to get a behind-the-scenes perspective of an era that promised so much, yet failed to deliver anything substantial.

Much like this book, then.

While it might promise some juicy gossip and a unique take on events, Davies obviously still harbours intentions of a career in football as he's very careful about what he actually reveals, which is nothing that you wouldn't have already picked up from the tabloids. It's an alright read, but fails to deliver what it promises.

 

[Bluesmanager]

Just got and finished the second in the Skulduggery Pleasant series, Playing With Fire, last night. In which a Skeleton Detective (Literally. And I'm being deadly serious while writing that) and his apprentice, a 12-year-old who dresses in black a lot and loves to throw fireballs around (she's a magician, she's allowed) face off against an abomination that can, and plans to, summon a bunch of exiled gods from another dimension who will take over the world if they return.

A very good read, much like it's predecessor. Still just as funny, strangely dark (the particularly gorey parts are all described very vaguely, which only adds to the horror) and just as dramatic. And just as fun, too.

Now reading Dot.Robot from Jason Bradbury (he of the Gadget Show). Chock full of tech, just reaching what appears to be the third act now so will report back when I've finished it in about and hour or two, most likely, assuming I don't forget. Then it's on to Rick Riordan's new series, The Kane Chronicles, book 1: The Red Pyramid. Egyptian gods unleashed to destroy the world. Should be fun.