Thought I'd see what fellow .netters are currently reading. Having exhausted my Hitchens collection I've started Alex Salmond's "The Dream Shall Never Die".
Anyone got a good book on the go?
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Thread: What are you reading?
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28-03-2015 11:31 AM #1
What are you reading?
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28-03-2015 11:44 AM #2
About to start iain banks last novel the quarry. Recently read all of John Niven's books. I wasn't too keen on kill your friends but the amateurs and the second coming are 2 of the best books I've read in years and highly recommend them. Christopher brookmyre's latest one featuring jack parlabane - dead girl walking was good too.
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28-03-2015 12:10 PM #3
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The Arisen Series by Glynn James.
if you like zombie stuff these are great no mucking about just all out zombie slaying!
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28-03-2015 01:56 PM #4
I'm Terrible for starting but not finishing books unless they really grip me. We've moved into rental, I've been working with a new commute and were on the look for a new home...
So currently I have on the go:
Stantons dream team (disrupted by commuting and Christmas)
We need to talk about Kevin (started to placate my wife)
The curious case of the dog in the night-time"We know the people who have invested so far are simple fans." Vladimir Romanov - Scotsman 10th December 2012
"Romanov was like a breath of fresh air - laced with cyanide." Me.
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28-03-2015 02:17 PM #5
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I've just bought a few Chistopher Brookmyre books - the more recent ones as I read the original 10 a few years back.
Before I start them though I'm going to read Book 8 of Stuart MacBride's, Logam McRae series. They're really good - a bit like Rebus but a bit more graphic.
Also got the 3 Lugton books and teh first of JonnyBoys Hibs series to read.
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28-03-2015 02:38 PM #6
I made a list about 4 years ago of 50 books I wanted to read before I was 30, twat behaviour I know.
Anyway I have 12 to go and just over 13 months to complete. Currently reading Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and next up is The Satanic Verses.PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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28-03-2015 06:55 PM #7
Just finished A Dance With Dragons: After The Feast, the last (so far) in the Game of Throne series. Taken me just over 6 months to read all 7 books, but well worth it.
If you enjoy the TV series, have a go at the books, they go into a huge amount of detail. A hell of a lot of characters! A few less after this book though
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30-03-2015 02:14 PM #9
Seven Deadly Sins: My pursuit of Lance Armstrong by David Walsh. Great read...
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31-03-2015 11:21 AM #11
Almost finished 'The Korean War' by Max Hastings.
Hastings is a well known right wing journalist and commentator but he's objective and impartial throughout. Its a fascinating book into a war that often gets forgotten. There's little doubt that if Truman hadn't got rid of General McArthur in 1951 there would have been nuclear weapons used on North Korea and mainland China, and there would have been a third world war.
Moving on to something a bit more light on holiday next week, Love in the Time of Cholera.
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31-03-2015 11:31 AM #12This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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31-03-2015 08:17 PM #13
I am reading The Private Patient which was PD James' last murder mystery. It starts off in the usual way with various people in a close community, all of whom have bees in their bonnets about something either sexual or financial. Pretty soon there's a corpse and Commander Dalgliesh steps in to sort it out. Formulaic in a way but it's amazing how James, writing in ier late eighties, draws you in. You want to know what happens and that's the definition of a good thriller.
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01-04-2015 09:02 AM #15
I'm a great fan of Haruki Murakami and an earlier book of his 1Q84 might be worth a try?
http://www.harukimurakami.com/book/1q84
Right now I'm reading "The Mason Dixon Line" by Thomas Pynchon, a novel I first started in 199+, but soon gave up on when a "talking dog" appeared, but I've decided to give it another go, and I'm enjoying it much more this time round ... the shock to my system from relegation perhaps?
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01-04-2015 11:20 AM #17This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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01-04-2015 12:05 PM #18
For enjoyment - An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris, good book but drags in places
For education - Europe, a History by Norman Davies
Looking forward to next James Lee Burke and Robert Kerr books, also been reading Logan McRae books and the Robert Furst books.
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04-04-2015 04:27 AM #21
I don't read much but I've always wanted to read "A short account of the destruction of the Indies" by Bartolome De Las Casas.
Now that I've got it I don't particularly want to start it. Difficult to explain but looking stuff like that in the eye is hard yet fascinating.
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05-04-2015 06:28 PM #23
"The 100 year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared" by Jonas Jonasson. Easy reading at its best.
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05-04-2015 08:35 PM #24
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Cheered me up no end!
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06-04-2015 09:15 AM #25
I've just read The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell. David Mitchell has the most fantastic mind and imagination and his stories fairly fizz along. But as ever I was left slightly disappointed. Like in Cloud Atlas there are a number of seemingly unlinked threads to the story and he brings them together towards the end-not quite successfully.
I've also recently finished a series of 4 books by the author Wilhelm Moburg-The Emigrants, Unto a Good Land, The Settlers and The Last Letter Home. They were written about 60 years ago and are probably the best known books in his own country, Sweden. They are fictional and deal with emigration from Sweden to the USA in the 1850's. The book deals with why people felt compelled to leave, the hardship of the journey, the problems of arriving in a new land where they could not speak English, the process of acquiring land and settling and the growth of the family and the gradual loss of Swedish culture in the new generation. It is a cracking story and really thought provoking
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06-04-2015 01:42 PM #26
If you like detective novels, try Ed James's DC Cullen series, all set in Edinburgh and the Lothians and all excellent. Think they're e-books only.
If like me anyone has received as a present, or is thinking about buying a book called January Window by some guy called Philip Kerr because it's football-related, don't touch it with a bargepole unless you're into getting your kicks from sitting there shaking your head and laughing at dreadful writing and ridiculous characters by an author who is totally up his own arse. Apparently the guy's written some decent stuff in the past as well. Worst book I've ever attempted to read.
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15-04-2015 11:22 PM #28
Just bought (finally) copies of The Wolf of Wall Street and American Sniper. Plus borrowed the entire series of Preacher to read again.
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