Question What are you reading?

[Jam_Man]

Plenty of entertaining reads that don't have helicopter flying priests and "famous" historians parachuting into a puddle.

Youll be telling me hobbits dont exist next....

 

[Napster]

Ive just started reading some John Harvey. His Resnick series is very good.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Cityboy by Gerraint Anderson.

It's ok.

 

[Napster]

Cityboy by Gerraint Anderson.

It's ok.

based on his column in the Metro?

 

[Mad Cyril]

based on his column in the Metro?

Yes. As I said its OK.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started William Feaver's Pitmen Painters.This is the book, which inspired Lee Hall's excellent play of the same name, that I saw at the National Theatre 4 years ago.The NT production will be showing at the Palace Theatre during our Wembley week and I thoroughly recommend it.

https://southendtheatres.org.uk/Onl...ticle_id=67DA0990-C19D-44AA-A864-4D7CDFA0D02B

 

[Dick Bate's Protege]

The Beatles - Hunter Davies

Been sifting through the 2009 remastered albums, and fancied giving this book a go. Ridiculous really, I've read and watched so much about them over the years, there can't be that much I don't already know.

 

[prawntobewild]

Just started The Tenderness of Wolves (Stef Penney) - This book was winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2006 - & have to say so far is a good read.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

'What's So Great About Christianity?' - Dinesh D'Sousa. Mr D'Sousa effortlessly shows what a bunch of no marks Dawkins, Dennett et al really are.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Just finished Scarlett Thomas' Our Tragic Universe, a decent read, I didn't find the main characters particularly likeable but it was quite Coupland-esque.

 

[Bluesmanager]

Just got the entire Animorphs series by KA Applegate. 62 books in all. Thank **** they're short books...

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

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Just started Ian Rankin's Standing in Another Man's Grave*.Good stuff.Nice dedication to Jakie Leven too.

*The title is based on a mis-hearing of Jackie Leven's Another Man's rain.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started Javier Marias's All Souls.Clever stuff.

 

[prawntobewild]

Now on Last Argument of Kings - by Joe Abercrombie - this is the 3rd in a trilogy of books that are part Pratchett- part Tolkein- part Richard Adams - with sex , violence, swearing and attitude thrown in . Fantasy type stuff not really my type of thing but the humour and characters are very good and although these books are generally lengthy they are in my opinion well worth the effort.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Here and Now:Letters 2008-2001.Paul Auster and J.M.Coetzee.Excellent and very readable.

 

[prawntobewild]

Started The Ghost by Robert Harris - a bit of a departure for Rob - It's a bit John Grisham but so far so good , very readable.

 

[Napster]

Started Ghosts by Robert Harris - a bit of a departure for Rob - It's a bit John Grisham but so far so good , very readable.

The Ghost - decent film, not read the book

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

The Ghost - decent film, not read the book

Not bad.Film is pretty much a carbon copy.

 

[Napster]

I've read The Coroner by M.R Hall - detective story by numbers - pretty dull; and now a new Van Veteren book Hour of the Wolf which is great - plus coming up an old non-SF George RR Martin novel and a Fred Vargas (I love Vargas)

 

[Dick Bate's Protege]

All The Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy.

Haven't read this in a few years, would recommend this and the rest of the Border Trilogy. He's the greatest living author IMO.