What book are you reading atm?

[eastlondonseagull]

Have nearly finished Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts - absolutely brilliant. Just hope the movie they're making of it, starring Johnny Depp, isn't a pile of cack.

It's the true story of an Australian bank robber, who escapes prison, flees to India and starts a new life on the run there. Amazing stuff, all 940 pages of it

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

'a million little pieces' by James Frey who spent ten years addicted to alcohol and crack before going into rehab at the age of 23. Great read.

 

[Hiney]

Back from the Brink - Paul McGrath

Excellent

 

[Albion Rob]

The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs by Irvine Welsh.

Not as good as most of his previous.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Twenty20 Vision - Mushtaq Ahmed (though it's quite a struggle to read). Next up is Chronicles, that Dylan book.

 

[Commander]

The Sound of Thunder by Wilbur Smith. Quality.

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

The Dead Beat, by Marilyn Johnson. About the art of writing obituaries. A bit specialist, but it's great.

 

[Titanic]

Easy holiday read... The Island by Victoria Hislop.

I would recommend it to anyone who has been to Spinalonga or Crete in general.

 

[Man of Harveys]

The Alps: A Cultural History (Landscapes of the Imagination) by Andrew Beattie. Very good, if you like history books about mountains.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alps-Cultur...6555141?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1172758518&sr=1-3

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs by Irvine Welsh.

Not as good as most of his previous.

That body swap thing was quite good the first time he did it. But after half a dozen variations...

There's not many authors where you you just buy the new book automatically tho. Irvine Welsh is one. It's like buying the new Hunter S Thompson - tho I think there won't be too many more of those

 

[pasty]

The entire scripts of Porridge. Ronnie Barker

 

[Mtoto]

The Cheltenham Festival Betting Guide 2007, by Paul Jones. Always a page-turner...

 

[byf]

Joyce meyer's Ashes to Ashes

And the bible.

 

[bhafc99]

'a million little pieces' by James Frey who spent ten years addicted to alcohol and crack before going into rehab at the age of 23. Great read.

Except it was all bollocks! Sorry to shatter your enthusiasm:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0104061jamesfrey1.html

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Except it was all bollocks! Sorry to shatter your enthusiasm:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0104061jamesfrey1.html

Well the copy I've got has an 'Authors Note' at the front where he holds his hands up to all that stuff in your link. A lot of the excess in 'Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas' was equally embellished, exaggerated or just plain made up. Don't stop it being a great read tho.

 

[Trigger]

Moscow Flyer by Jessica Harrington.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Re-reading the Illuminatus trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton-Williams...

Those blokes must have been completely stoned through the whole thing.

Brilliant

 

[Perry's Tracksuit Bottoms]

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis. Not quite into it yet but a friend with impeccable taste gave it to me and she's usually right...

 

[Gwylan]

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis. Not quite into it yet but a friend with impeccable taste gave it to me and she's usually right...

Good book; quite avant garde in its time.

I'm reading Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel but I'm itching to finish it so I can get on with Judt's History of Postwar Europe that I've just ordered from Amazon - that looks riveting.

 

[Man of Harveys]

I'm itching to finish it so I can get on with Judt's History of Postwar Europe that I've just ordered from Amazon - that looks riveting.

I read every word of that book twice (OK, not the index etc, obviously) - it is absolutely brilliant and he writes engagingly too.