Question What are you reading?

[Tangled up in Blue]

Primo Levi.The Truce.Harrowing stuff.
Just started J.K.Rowling's The Casual Vacancy.A much easier read.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just finished Red Card Roy.

Very enjoyable.

Agreed.:thumbsup:

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Just finished 'Blade Runner' by Oscar Pistorius, a quick & enjoyable read with lots of insights into being a professional athlete, the court cases & science behind running. Well worth a read whether you're a fan or a sceptic.

 

[Kent Shrimper]

Skagheads - Irvine Welsh

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Skagheads - Irvine Welsh

Ha!I started that in the summer but put it down after a 100 pages or so.Should I pick it up again?

 

[Jam_Man]

Just read Casino Royale by Ian Fleming and now moved onto Live and Let Die.

Didnt realise how long ago they were written and some of the attitudes are rather outdated!

 

[Uncle Leo]

Hahaha. Try Charlie Cook's Favourite Book next.

Cheers - recommendations for children's books always welcome!

Getting my two in to 'Funny Bones' at the moment. Anyone else remember it?

 

[Jam_Man]

Yeah read funnybones to my kids all the time.

 

[Bluesmanager]

Cheers - recommendations for children's books always welcome!

Getting my two in to 'Funny Bones' at the moment. Anyone else remember it?

In the dark, dark town there was a dark, dark street, and in the dark, dark street there was a dark, dark, house, and in the dark, dark house there were some dark, dark, stairs and down the dark, dark stairs there was a dark, dark cellar ans in the dark, dark cellar, some skeletons lived... *AWROOF!* And a dog.

Yes, I am probably sad for being able to remember that off the top of my head. Shut up.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Yeah read funnybones to my kids all the time.

Favourite bit for my two is the pig skeleton, which they find hilarious. Little oddballs.

Whilst on books for children, this is one of the best I've seen. Brilliantly dark; very young ones won't get the twist but the book as a whole works at their level too.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Might get that one, I've read all my daughters so much I can quote them, including some A.A. Milne poetry from a book from the 1920's.

Jonathon Jo,
Had a mouth like an 'o'
and a wheelbarrow full of surprises.
If you ask for a bat,
or something like that,
He's got it whatever the size is....

Help :stunned:

 

[Uncle Leo]

Might get that one, I've read all my daughters so much I can quote them, including some A.A. Milne poetry from a book from the 1920's.

Jonathon Jo,
Had a mouth like an 'o'
and a wheelbarrow full of surprises.
If you ask for a bat,
or something like that,
He's got it whatever the size is....

Help :stunned:

Don't knock it! My being able to recite 'Room On The Broom' and 'The Gruffalo' in their entirety has worked a treat when we've been out an about and they need placating.

 

[Napster]

Dogs Don't Do Ballet is a good read for little girls.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dogs-Dont-Ballet-Anna-Kemp/dp/1847384749

 

[Dick Bate's Protege]

The Hobbit with Dick Bate Jnr. Have introduced him to MiddleEarth, quite excited.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

The Hobbit with Dick Bate Jnr. Have introduced him to MiddleEarth, quite excited.

The only book of that awful story that I actually managed to finish.

 

[steveo]

Charles Bronson. It was only 85p on amazon ebook store but its crap. He thinks the system is so unfair treating him like a nutter. 10 minutes later he's beating someone up for no reason. This blok is a 100% loser and his book isn't worth 85p.

 

[Dick Bate's Protege]

The only book of that awful story that I actually managed to finish.

There wasn't that many big words in it. Keep soldiering on BarnaBaby...

 

[Bluesmanager]

Not in the first one there weren't, that was written for 7 year olds. Although, ironically, I knocked out LOTR in one hit the first time I read it (after watching the FOTR film), and yet put down The Hobbit after about a page and a half aged 14. "In a hole, in the ground there lived a Hobbit-" no thanks, don't want to read about the small fat bloke, I see enough of those in my life already (being one myself).

 

[Eastblack]

On a related subject, can anyone recommend any good audiobooks?

I listened to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and really enjoyed it. Others I've listened to have been less good. I suppose it's all about the narrator.

Dracula was poor as I couldn't warm to the people reading the various characters. Frankenstein was pretty good. I'm currently struggling through Master & Commander by Patrick OBrien but again, the narrator is not great.

Any suggestions gratefully received.

 

[Kent Shrimper]

Ha!I started that in the summer but put it down after a 100 pages or so.Should I pick it up again?

Yes mate, its grim but the characters are enjoyable. im coming to the end but cant see how it will