Question What are you reading?

[prawntobewild]

The Death of Kings - Conn Iggulden - part two of a trilogy featuring the life & times of Julius Caesar (who is not the former QPR goalie)

 

[Dick Bate's Protege]

The Death of Kings - Conn Iggulden - part two of a trilogy featuring the life & times of Julius Caesar (who is not the former QPR goalie)

Great books, but there are five of them now including the latest and final one 'Blood of Gods'. If you like them, try his Genghis/Kublai Khan series which was even better IMO.

 

[BaileytheQuitter]

Great books, but there are five of them now including the latest and final one 'Blood of Gods'. If you like them, try his Genghis/Kublai Khan series which was even better IMO.

Agreed, fantastic books. Didn't realise there was a fifth one, I will look into that right away!

 

[* ORM *]

The Colonel of Tamarkan. True story relating to Bridge over River Kwai or more to the point life after capture by the Japs in Singapore. I'd argue it would make for a more compelling film than the semi-fictious classic.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Just started 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' by Michael Chabon, a novel based loosely on the creators of Superman.

 

[prawntobewild]

Agreed, fantastic books. Didn't realise there was a fifth one, I will look into that right away!

Thanks for the tip -I was a bit put off at the length of this book but so far it's a good read - I'll keep an eye out for the others.

 

[Jam_Man]

The Death of Kings - Conn Iggulden - part two of a trilogy featuring the life & times of Julius Caesar (who is not the former QPR goalie)

Very good books, if you like them try the Generals books by Simon Scarrow which is in the same mould, ie fictionalised account of Wellington and Napoleon's careers based on the facts.

Im currently reading Mike Gayles books. Read about 5 of them and reading Dinner for Two which is pretty good, although not as good as Turning 30 and Turning 40 which I read prior.

 

[prawntobewild]

Very good books, if you like them try the Generals books by Simon Scarrow which is in the same mould, ie fictionalised account of Wellington and Napoleon's careers based on the facts.

Im currently reading Mike Gayles books. Read about 5 of them and reading Dinner for Two which is pretty good, although not as good as Turning 30 and Turning 40 which I read prior.

I have read a couple of Scarrow books - Enjoyable - the only drawback is constantly referring to the Roman Glossary for all the terms which I can never remenber.

Not familar with Mike Gayle - but nice to get new names to look out for.

 

[Jam_Man]

Mike Gayle is in the same kind of genre as Nick Hornby/Tony Parsons.

 

[MK Shrimper]

About to start Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre - looks great from the first line. Have you read it Pubes?

 

[Uncle Leo]

"The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain" by Paul Preston. Only about 20 pages in and I'm close to topping myself. So depressing and indeed frightening to think what happened in a country I know and love a mere 80 years ago.

 

[Napster]

About to start Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre - looks great from the first line. Have you read it Pubes?

I couldn't read it myself. He's a smug arsehole.

 

[MK Shrimper]

I couldn't read it myself. He's a smug arsehole.

Really? I think he's great.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

"The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain" by Paul Preston. Only about 20 pages in and I'm close to topping myself. So depressing and indeed frightening to think what happened in a country I know and love a mere 80 years ago.

Let us know what your final conclusion is.This is a book I've been meaning to catch up with myself.I loved his biography of Franco.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Ian Rankin's Knots and Crosses.The first Rebus novel.Absolutely bloody brillant.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

About 150 pages into '...Kavalier & Clay' (it's a 600+ page book), loving it so far, style of writing is great, very descriptive.

Also read a couple more graphic novels. First 'Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow', a death of Superman story, which despite being written by the imperious Alan Moore, I found incredibly cheesey and cliched. The second, Superman: Red Son by Mark Millar however was superb, an elseworld title, it's asks what if Superman had crash landed in the USSR instead of America. Brilliantly written & illustrated, Lex Luthor becomes president of the USA, Batman is a russian dissident, I'd reccomend it to anyone with a passing interest in graphic novels.

 

[Pubey]

Really? I think he's great.

I'm with Naps, sadly. Read Bad Science and was blown away with it. However read the first half of Bad Pharma and I really struggled with his attitude. He's getting a little insufferable. Also because it's the area I work in it's a little 'tell me something I don't already know' and I guess it's like you reading a book about national train problems!

Glad you like it though, he does consistently raise important points.

 

[MK Shrimper]

I'm with Naps, sadly. Read Bad Science and was blown away with it. However read the first half of Bad Pharma and I really struggled with his attitude. He's getting a little insufferable. Also because it's the area I work in it's a little 'tell me something I don't already know' and I guess it's like you reading a book about national train problems!

Glad you like it though, he does consistently raise important points.

Sad to say I'm finding it very hard work.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Reading Miles Davis's autobiography at the minute.Unquestionably a great musician but not much of a human being or a writer come to that.Potty mouthed too.All the mother****er references get a bit boring after a bit.

 

[prawntobewild]

"A Dangerous Fortune" - Ken Follett - Quite a long read but not as long as "Pillars of the Earth" which was almost as long as War & Peace but a lot more enjoyable . Also I am not put off by the Photo of Mr Follett that looks a bit like Liberace.