Whats a good BOOK to read at the moment?

[seagull_special]

Book an extra week off and read Shantaram - as recommended by the good and the great of NSC - 900 pages long and everysingle page a treat an absolutely mesmerising read

 

[Captain Pugwash]

I can lend you Jeremy Kyle's book if you want! Im reading Paul o'grady at the moment before moving onto Bobby Robson's.

 

[Fred Oliver - Legend]

derren brown-tricks of the mind.

 

[Billy Mays]

Anything by Pat Barker but particularly the Regeneration trilogy. You also can't go wrong with Sebastian Faulks or Robert Edric. Am reading In Zodiac Light at the moment which is a novel about Ivor Gurney's time in an asylum after the end of WW1 so sort of satisfies the biography bit as well.

 

[Don Quixote]

You could try Bird Song by Sebastian Faulks, a classic depiction of all aspects of life in WW1 = classic holiday fodder.

Great book that, Faulks may be a know it all prick but that book is pretty darn good.

 

[Stat Brother]

It won't surprise a few, to know I'm currently reading Bradley Wiggins autobiography.
And very good it is too.
He doesn't seem to be pulling any personal punches.

 

[Spun Cuppa]

I have just finished David Peace's 'The Damned Utd', which is absolutely stunning. Highly recommended...

 

[HAILSHAM SEAGULL]

What about the new Roy Grace detective novel "Dead Tommorrow" by Peter James set in and around the fair city of Brighton (as are the other four books in the series). Or "The Damned United", excellent book, yet to see the DVD.

Non fiction. For the squillionth time on threads of this nature may I commend the biography "My father and other working-class football heroes" by Gary Imlach. Damn fine book.

A superb book, iv'e only got 50 pages to go till the end.
Every one of his books have been great, I think relating to the roads, locations etc makes them better, you feel part of the story.

Sorry to hear that wife No4 from Thailand is skimming you, Norman

 

[Philzo-93]

mein kampf

You ruined a perfectly good thread there...

 

[xenophon]

"A Rumor of War" - Philip Caputo

 

[Ninja Elephant]

ANYTHING by John Grisham.

He released the Associate recently, that's a darn good read. I'm currently ploughing through the Firm, which is classic Grisham.

Anything by Michael Crichton is worth a shout aswell.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

ANYTHING by John Grisham.

He released the Associate recently, that's a darn good read. I'm currently ploughing through the Firm, which is classic Grisham.

Anything by Michael Crichton is worth a shout aswell.

Not that I'm a Stephen King fan but in his book 'On Writing' Grisham and Crichton are the two authors he derides for peddling mainstream filth.

 

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

You ruined a perfectly good thread there...

Philzo i had to read it for History last year, very interesting in parts, and really worth a read.

 

[xenophon]

"The Sea Wolf" - Jack London

I defy you to find a better novel of fiction that describes better the utter absurdity of the condition of the modern human animal

 

[highway61]

"Spycatcher" by Peter Wright, former M15 officer.

Bought it in Oxfam the other week for £1, and a fantastic read if you want to know what the UK, US &USSR secret services' really got up to in the Cold War.

I would certainly agree with that one, and the recent Defence of the Realm, a history of MI5. massive tome of a thousand pages but though only read a few chapters its superb

 

[highway61]

Anything by Pat Barker but particularly the Regeneration trilogy. You also can't go wrong with Sebastian Faulks or Robert Edric. Am reading In Zodiac Light at the moment which is a novel about Ivor Gurney's time in an asylum after the end of WW1 so sort of satisfies the biography bit as well.

also the Great war trilogy by John Masters. Now god be thanked, heart of war and By the green of the spring.

 

[xenophon]

"Tau Zero" by Poul Anderson

I very dare you

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer about the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster - has anyone ever read that book and not immediately wanted to jump on a plane to Nepal? The only book I have read more than twice.

 

[xenophon]

"Dispatches" by Michael Herr

Not just a tale of young American men at war, but a pastiche on the complete and utter absurdity of human existence itself. If you read one non-fiction book in your entire life, make it it "Dispatches"

Herr went on to help write the screenplays for both "Apocalypse Now" and "Full Metal Jacket"

Door Gunner: Git some! Git some! Git some, yeah, yeah, yeah! Anyone who runs, is a VC. Anyone who stands still, is a well-disciplined VC! You guys oughta do a story about me sometime!
Private Joker: Why should we do a story about you?
Door Gunner: 'Cuz I'm so fuckin' good! I done got me 157 dead gooks killed. Plus 50 water buffalo too! Them's all confirmed!
Private Joker: Any women or children?
Door Gunner: Sometimes!
Private Joker: How can you shoot women or children?
Door Gunner: Easy! Ya just don't lead 'em so much! Ain't war hell?

The banality of human existence and death, and the wheel keeps turning

 

[Doris_Maywheather]

Reading three books at the moment, Helter Skelter, Papillon and No More Tomorrows.