Best book I've read all year

[Hornblower]

"Pig Island" by Mo Hayder

I read on average a book a week. Just finished this book and it's a cracker, couldn't put it down, even read it while walking through underground stations. Absolutely brilliant.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Good man. I wish I could make time to read a book a week. I will keep an eye out for that one.

 

[Nibble]

Endurance - The story of Shackleton. Very good indeed. Read quite a lot this year but not much has captured me like this.

 

[Bad Ash]

"Pig Island" by Mo Hayder

I read on average a book a week. Just finished this book and it's a cracker, couldn't put it down, even read it while walking through underground stations. Absolutely brilliant.

Seems to get some very mixed reviews on Amazon. One version has 2.5/5 and another 5/5 - they should probably amalgamate all reviews...

 

[Woodchip]

"Pig Island" by Mo Hayder

I read on average a book a week. Just finished this book and it's a cracker, couldn't put it down, even read it while walking through underground stations. Absolutely brilliant.

Vague synopsis please. (I suppose that the intellectual version of "pics?")

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion. Everything I've ever thought about religion and many things I'd never thought of, articulated and argued much better than I ever could.

 

[tedebear]

I'm pottering (pun intended) through Harry Potter at the moment, and even though its no literary giant its rather enjoyable! Just bought book 6...Haven't really got the concentration at the moment to bother with anything heavier, but will keep note of these recommendations for the day when my brain returns from where ever its gone....

 

[Goodfella]

Read quite a lot this year but not much has captured me like this.

What, not even NSC ?

 

[MattBackHome]

Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion. Everything I've ever thought about religion and many things I'd never thought of, articulated and argued much better than I ever could.

100% agree. The bloke is a true genius.

 

[Hornblower]

Seems to get some very mixed reviews on Amazon. One version has 2.5/5 and another 5/5 - they should probably amalgamate all reviews...

I saw those reviews on Amazon too and I was very surprised. I have read all of Mo Hayder's other books and for me this is head and shoulders above anything else she has written to date.

I will attempt a brief synopsis:

The main character is a journalist who specialises in exposing bogus spiritualist/supernatural phenomena. He goes to a remote Scottish isle (Pig Island) to investigate a mysterious religious sect and also to get to the bottom of a notorious tourist video which seems to briefly show a "devil creature" walking on the beach at Pig Island...................

It's a long time since I've read a book that gave me head to toe goose pimples travelling up the escalator at the Oval.

 

[Stat Brother]

Being a cyclist, I really enjoyed The Hour by Michael Hutchinson, It's a good sporting read.

 

[Kenhead]

I got the Bourne trilogy set in sussex stationers today for £5.99!!

I might get that pig island as a part of a 3 for 2 offer that most book shops seem to do, as it does sound like something i might enjoy.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Just read Ghost, by Robert Harris.

Enjoyed that.

 

[Eric Potts]

I read a book once , green it was .

 

[Woodchip]

Stars are Stars by Kevin Sampson isn't bad. Love, drugs, sex, rock music, drugs, violence, drugs, violence, rock music. It's all there (repeats are intentional). Oh, the occasional mention of Brighton (which isn't bad for a scouser).

Basically it's about an artist that falls in love, then they fall out and he finds drugs, and he ends up getting involved in the Liverpool riots.


I must admit I don't think I've read a bad book by Kevin Sampson.

 

[Stat Brother]

I did also read Not Dead Enough, by Peter James.
Set in Brighton crime fiction.
I've read most, if not all, of his books & now can't help thinking he's becoming more mainstream taming down the action.
I doubt I will buy his next book.

 

[lizard]

Anything by Chuck Palahniuk

 

[blue'n'white]

It's a long time since I've read a book that gave me head to toe goose pimples travelling up the escalator at the Oval.

You get off at The Oval - no wonder you get goose pimples. Must be waiting for the stray bullet !

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I read on average a book a week.

Full stats please.