Question What are you reading?

[MK Shrimper]

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.

Well it is an "alternative history", so who knows.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

A Single Man.Christopher Isherwood.Far better than the recent film.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Graham Bond:The Mighty Shadow.Harry Shapiro.
A warts and all biography of (probably) Britain's greatest R and B musician.Well written and better than (the same qauthor's) more recent biog. of Alexis Korner.

 

[Dick Bate's Protege]

Inferno - Dan Brown.

It's better than his last book which was dire IMO.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

All hell broke loose - Max Hastings
History of WW2 with lots of the now declassified secrets written down. For example a US officer took the full plans for Op Market Gdn into battle and the Germans had them from him within hours and so knew exactly what was the goal at Arneham.
And French Vichy bombed Gibraltar and agreed for only bribing Franco stopped Germans to using Spain as a base.

 

[prawntobewild]

Nerve - By the late Dick Francis - Considering this is nearly 50 years old it stands up pretty well - with certian aspects of the Murkier side of the racing world still relevent today.

 

[Napster]

Lars Kepler's The Nightmare. OK, bit of politics, but decent pace. 7/10

 

[BrettieAngell]

The Stand by Stephen King.

 

[Napster]

BTW, having finished Ash by James Herbert, it was overblown and needed a lot of editing.

 

[Napster]

Now reading The City & the City by China Miéville. Intriguing.

 

[Uncle Leo]

All hell broke loose - Max Hastings
History of WW2 with lots of the now declassified secrets written down. For example a US officer took the full plans for Op Market Gdn into battle and the Germans had them from him within hours and so knew exactly what was the goal at Arneham.
And French Vichy bombed Gibraltar and agreed for only bribing Franco stopped Germans to using Spain as a base.

Any good? It's sitting on my bookshelf waiting to be read but it looks like a big old undertaking. Would take it on holiday but I've only got a 20kg baggage allowance!

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

I am reading the New Testament.

 

[prawntobewild]

Bernard Cornwell - The Last Kingdom - Famous for his Sharpe series he has also written various other historical novels - this is set in the 9th Century & mentions the local dwelling of Beamfleot (Benfleet). Mr Cornwell was brought up in Thundersley & it's nice that he has managed to work in a bit of local colour in his works.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Finally got round to Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy.Excellent read.

 

[Dick Bate's Protege]

Conn Iggulden - Emperor: The Blood of Gods

Final part of an excellent series on the lives of Caesar and Brutus.

 

[farawayshrimper]

[h=1]Geographies of Trade Unionism: Translating Traditions Across Space and Time -Jane Wills[/h]

 

[MK Shrimper]

[h=1]Geographies of Trade Unionism: Translating Traditions Across Space and Time -Jane Wills[/h]

Congratulations, you're reading the worlds dullest book. :winking:

 

[farawayshrimper]

Congratulations, you're reading the worlds dullest book. :winking:

And don't I just know it, not my choice but that of my lecturers. :thumbdown:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started Pete Townshend's Who I am.Fascinating read.Well-written too.

 

[Dick Bate's Protege]

1Q84 - Haruki Murakami