Question What are you reading?

[Napster]

After finally finishing that Jack Reacher novel (which despite being awful was oddly gripping), I got for free on Amazon The 39 Steps by John Buchan and for not free, The Long Wait by Micky Spillane.

Nice to see Spillane has got himself a new career so soon

 

[Napster]

I'm reading Gary Nelson's autobiogs. Hugely entertaining. :thumbsup:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Alexis Korner The Biography by Harry Shapiro.Someone I regret to say I never saw play live and I had the chance once.Very readable.

 

[Jam_Man]

After finally finishing that Jack Reacher novel (which despite being awful was oddly gripping), I got for free on Amazon The 39 Steps by John Buchan and for not free, The Long Wait by Micky Spillane.

Ive been reading the Jack Reacher books. Took a few on holiday as an easy read. As you say not great works of literature but are pretty readable.

 

[prawntobewild]

"It's not what you think" - the first part of Chris Evans Auto. Like him or not he is certainly an interesting character.

 

[MK Shrimper]

I know it's of its time, but good lord The 39 Steps is racist!

 

[southend4ever]

I know it's of its time, but good lord The 39 Steps is racist!

Singling out any particular race?

 

[MK Shrimper]

Singling out any particular race?

More the language. Terms like "play the white man" (ie, being decent). Not far into it yet, but seems a bit anti-semetic but I could be wrong.

 

[Uncle Leo]

I'm reading Gary Nelson's autobiogs. Hugely entertaining. :thumbsup:

Loved those books. 'Left Foot Forward' always makes me think of red wine after a bottle of the stuff broke in my bag. The book stunk of Rioja for ever more.

 

[Napster]

Loved those books. 'Left Foot Forward' always makes me think of red wine after a bottle of the stuff broke in my bag. The book stunk of Rioja for ever more.

Still can't get my head round David Whyte as some kind of goalscorer. :hilarious:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Enjoyed re-reading Paul Auster's Auggie Wren's Christmas Story yesterday.

An American colleague at the business school where I used to work here, gave me a photocopy of the original short story,published in The New York Times, back in 1990.Ever since the film Smoke came out on video/ DVD (featuring Tom Waites singing You're innocent when you dream and Harvey Keitel's/John Hurt's superb diner scene re-telling the original story, I've been using the last two scenes of the film as my regular Xmas class.

Happy to finally replace my worn out old photocopy.


http://youtu.be/61pp51kxvVM

 

[prawntobewild]

"The Devil's Teardrop" - Jeffrey Deaver - A man who takes a subject such as clockwork making or electricity & incorporates it into a thriller - this time it's handwriting analysis - I am a fan of this guy but he is IMO guilty of putting too many twists in his books.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Still reading HST's Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, but I'm also reading some graphic novels...Marvel: Civil War (disappointing), currently Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and after that, Hellboy.

 

[BrettieAngell]

Just started Carl Sagan's The Demon Haunted World.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started Alan Johnson's moving childhood memoir This Boy.

 

[Napster]

James Herbert's Ash. Conspiracy and horror mixed up. Fantastic.

 

[BrettieAngell]

Also started Archangel by Robert Harris yesterday and have read about half of it already. Thriller set in Moscow, intrigue, the shadow of Stalin, right up my street and I picked it up in a charity ship for 25p! :thumbsup:

 

[MK Shrimper]

Also started Archangel by Robert Harris yesterday and have read about half of it already. Thriller set in Moscow, intrigue, the shadow of Stalin, right up my street and I picked it up in a charity ship for 25p! :thumbsup:

Yer, it's a good book. Read a few Robert Harris, top draw.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

Moved on to 'The Looking Glass War' by Le Carre now. Not as good as its predecessor but still excellent.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

Yer, it's a good book. Read a few Robert Harris, top draw.

I always thought that 'Fatherland' was bollocks on stilts. The proposition that the Huns would have cast off Hitler if they knew about the Holocaust is preposterous.