With many people having more time on their hands atm what books are people reading? Phil Rickman is an author I like. Just finishing his book Friends of the dusk. He writes supernatural mystery which may not be everyone's cup of tea but he creates fascinating storylines that flow nicely and builds characters well. Looking for inspiration as to what to read next.
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30-03-2020 08:27 PM #1
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31-03-2020 11:35 AM #2
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"Dont take your life personally" by Ahahn Sumedho.
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31-03-2020 06:33 PM #4
Harlan Coben , He has done the strangers and safe on netflix and has numerous books
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31-03-2020 05:43 PM #7
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Deep south by Paul theroux
Black box thinking by Matthew said
Industrial society and its future by ted kaczynski
Slowly working through them
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31-03-2020 07:41 PM #8
I wish I could put some time aside to read a book
Just seems to be when I’m on holiday, but there’s nothing better than being engrossed in a good book
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31-03-2020 11:28 PM #9
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari is a fascinating read on anthropology. It's highly accessible without background knowledge and raises a lot of themes that really encourage some reflection on our place as a species, without being contrived at all. It's often on sale on amazon for a steal.
He has another called Homo Deus that I'll be reading soon.
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01-04-2020 09:31 AM #10
Just downloaded the complete works of Wilkie Collins to Kindle - free! He wrote The Woman In White which was serialised on TV last year. Also wrote The Moonstone which took me almost a year to get through! Worth it though.
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21-04-2020 10:53 AM #12
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I had been going back through my Kurt vonnegut Jr books recently and thoroughly enjoyed: God bless you Mr rosewater and cats cradle.
Currently reading this love is not for cowards: salvation and soccer in ciduad juarez.
Then onto the tender bar - which was recommended to me in Andre aggasi's biography! (which I'd highly, highly recommend).
After that two more sports books:
Behind the curtain: football in Easter europe
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Angels with dirty faces: the footballing history of Argentina.
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01-04-2020 11:00 AM #13
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I working my way through Levison Wood’s books.
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01-04-2020 01:47 PM #14
Just finished the Eric Cantona autobiography.
It's the one written by a French author, Philippe Auclair (written in English) it's very well written with lots of detail from his early years in France and really is a cracking read.
The Men of the 45 rebellion by Maggie Craig is what I'll be reading next.
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02-04-2020 05:03 AM #15
I have Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry on the go now, quite enjoying it
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02-04-2020 09:12 AM #16
I just laid aside Ulysses by James Joyce for the Nth time. I'd tasked myself to finally finish it during this lockdown.
But no - the old style Dublin banter wore me down again. It helps to have a knowledge of classical mythology too and I've forgotten most of that!
I'm not denying it's a major work. The stream of consciousness device must have been sensational at the time.
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Ive been on a low-brow tear lately: working my way through Michael Connelly’s Bosch novels. I love the tv series so decided to check out the books. I also read Ant Middleton’s “First Man In”, which was pure fluff.Madness, as you know, is a lot like gravity. All it takes is a little push.
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02-04-2020 04:06 PM #18
Different book in each room these days.....
Stuart Cosgrove's 1969.
Alex Norton's autobiography
A book of poetry by Robert Fergusson
The Book of Love by Rumi.
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02-04-2020 04:30 PM #19This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteThere's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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Was trawling about Canongate Kirkyard a few weeks back. Seems he was the Jim Morrison of his day. Robert Burns paid for him to be disinterred from his pauper's grave and reburied properly. Robert (Devine?) wrote the epitaph, and that was subsequently rewritten by Robert Louis Stevenson.
To cap it all, pre-lockdown, I had a Sunday afternoon stroll around my old school. **** me if there isn't a plaque to him on the wall, that I probably passed a zillion times without even noticing.
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His short life and works certainly impacted on some very notable people.There's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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The other things I found out....apologies if you already know this....
There is a unit in the Royal Ed specifically for those with head and brain injuries, called the Robert Fergusson Unit. It was a head injury that caused him to be "sectioned" in the Edinburgh Bedlam.
Edinburgh Bedlam was in the Forrest Road/Bristo Place triangle.... just along from the Bedlam Theatre.
Edinburgh is full of these amazing stories.
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12-04-2020 05:54 PM #23
I'm reading a Lee Child book at the moment.
Where's Jack Reacher when we need him?
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12-04-2020 09:10 PM #25
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I’m reading ‘Midnight In Chernobyl’ by Adam Higginbotham.
Fascinatingly detailed account of the 1986 disaster, very well written and easy to read, apart from a little bit of nuclear science that goes over my head.
Anyone who enjoyed the HBO series would probably like this book.
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Baddies swooning in all directions!
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13-04-2020 07:18 PM #27
I’ve had the urge to read some of the Jules Verne books for some reason. I’m thinking about starting with twenty thousand leagues under the sea.
United we stand here....
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13-04-2020 08:27 PM #29
I downloaded the Dirt (motley crue book). Since watching the film on Netflix I'd been meaning to pick it up. If you seen and enjoyed he film I highly recommend the book, they really were a bunch of animals. Even if your not into their music, I would recommend it. How none of them died I'll never know. (Although Nikki came close a couple times).
I also never realised until last year that the T.V series Dexter was based on a book. I got hold of the first 3 and they are decent reads, the show is very loosely based on books so you can read them and not know what's happening if you've watched it.
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19-04-2020 08:23 PM #30
I just usually read anything. I like crime fiction, especially a series where I can read from book 1 right through a la rebus. I'm currently on the second last Logan McRae book by Stuart McBride.
My favourite all time book is 100 years of solitude.
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