Do you read when you go to bed...?

[Starry]

I do.

I just finished Blood, Sweat and Tea yesterday, I read the blog that book was taken from and the blog is one hundred times better, the book was a disappointment. I've started The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai this morning.

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

Just finished "The Husband" by Dean Koontz. Quite a neat idea.

Fancy reading that when it comes out in Paperback; Velocity was fairly good.

Need a new book after finishing Jon Fasman's The Geographer's Library, which had its moments.

 

[Albion Dan]

After a long lay off have actually read Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irving Welsh this week in 3 bedtime sittings, knackered as a result though!

Great book mind you.

 

[Buzzer]

reading Ian Rankins new book as have just finished reading Smiley's People (for the umpteenth time)

 

[Hannibal smith]

I'm reading 'My Father and other working class sporting heroes' by Gary Imlach Its a great read (even if his father was Scottish) but perfectly captured the amatuer nature of football at the time.

The 1958 Scottish World cup football team is a great section. The games were not shown live on TV for fear that attendences at local Scottish clubs would go down and the players expenses were deducted from thier wages. So much so, that Tommy Docherty owed the Scottish FA money when he returned from the World Cup. Not to mention they didn't have a manager for the whole competition and the team was picked by Commitee including players who were injured and couldn't be subbed. Seems crazy now.

Essential reading for players like Ashley Cole to realise how lucky he is and why people think he is such a Tosser.

 

[Easy 10]

I'm reading Eyewitness Auschwitz. Its a testimony from a Slovak Jew who survived the holocaust by working in the cremotrias. Harrowing stuff.

I have a morbid fascination with death camps.

 

[Man of Harveys]

I've very nearly finished Nick Hornby - A long way down. I've thoroughly enjoyed it, although I know quite a few people who thought it was disappointing.

I would appreciate a recommendation for a new book. I fancy a real page turner and nothing too heavy.

Gavan, I know I'm a broken record about it but try Tim Moore's stuff - it's not heavy and very funny.

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

Nasty.

Much prefer Hamlet, or my personal favourite - A Midsummer Night's dream.

Much Ado about Nothing is miles better than them!!!!

I'm currently reading Wuthering Heights by Emma Bronte - its really good!

 

[Dave the OAP]

Imperium by Robert Harris

all about a lawyer in ancient rome....really good

 

[Man of Harveys]

I've just finished reading Vol 4 of Clive James Unreliable Memoirs, the North Face of Soho - nothing beats the bedwettingly funny first volume but it's still pretty good and I LOVE treating myself to hardbacks at lavish expense if it's books that I know I'm going to like.

And now, I'm devouring Tim Moore's Nul Points - where the one of world's funniest writers catches up with people who failed to trouble the scorers at the "Grand Prix d'Eurovision de la Chanson", which is just a great book. I want to BE Tim Moore.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Himalaya by Michael Palin.

Very good indeed.

 

[crodonilson]

I'm reading Freakonomics, a study of a number of the worlds problems/issues through the eyes of an economist, it's a lot more interesting than it sounds!!

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

I've just finished reading Vol 4 of Clive James Unreliable Memoirs, the North Face of Soho - nothing beats the bedwettingly funny first volume but it's still pretty good and I LOVE treating myself to hardbacks at lavish expense if it's books that I know I'm going to like.

And now, I'm devouring Tim Moore's Nul Points - where the one of world's funniest writers catches up with people who failed to trouble the scorers at the "Grand Prix d'Eurovision de la Chanson", which is just a great book. I want to BE Tim Moore.

Could'nt agree more with the Clive James unreliable memoirs sentiment, I still think it is one of the funniest books I have ever read, along with the Spike Milligan war books which make me laugh out loud in public.

I picked up the Tim Moore book on the tour de France yesterday largely on your recommendation, I will read that next.

Currently reading "Awaydays" by Kevin Sampson for the second time.

Brilliantly observed book.. "catcher in the rye... with stanley Knives"

"nasty stuff brilliantly told"

 

[n1 gull]

Gavan, I know I'm a broken record about it but try Tim Moore's stuff - it's not heavy and very funny.

Cheers - should I start with any book in particular?

 

[Man of Harveys]

Cheers - should I start with any book in particular?

Hard to say, I love 'em all - I particularly loved Continental Drifter (which someone bought me and I find myself in a lot of trouble on the train reading it), where he travels to Venice on the route of the first grand tourist in a Rolls Royce and wearing a purple suit - that sounds awful but it's good. I'd say the slightly weaker one is maybe Spanish Steps - about him doing the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage with a very large bedicked donkey called Shinto. The ones about the Monopoly board and cycling the Tour De France are probably his most famous.

Christ, I really hope I don't get a load of people PMing me saying how shit they think Tim Moore is now. In advance, I'm sorry, just in case.

 

[ali jenkins]

I dont read but ive got to have the radio on when i go to bed.

Dunno why.

 

[rool]

Usually one of my Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall books or something about chickens or maybe the foreplay section of the joy of sex, it's still pointless fiddling about though.

 

[n1 gull]

Hard to say, I love 'em all - I particularly loved Continental Drifter (which someone bought me and I find myself in a lot of trouble on the train reading it), where he travels to Venice on the route of the first grand tourist in a Rolls Royce and wearing a purple suit - that sounds awful but it's good. I'd say the slightly weaker one is maybe Spanish Steps - about him doing the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage with a very large bedicked donkey called Shinto. The ones about the Monopoly board and cycling the Tour De France are probably his most famous.

Christ, I really hope I don't get a load of people PMing me saying how shit they think Tim Moore is now. In advance, I'm sorry, just in case.

Excellent. We've only got a snobby up its arse bookshop in Crouch End, so I shall see what they have in stock and shall happily report back this afternoon. If I was after some poems by Sylvia Plath or Ted Thingmegif I'd be laughing, but trying to get a f***ing book that someone actually wants to read is normally beyond them.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Excellent. We've only got a snobby up its arse bookshop in Crouch End, so I shall see what they have in stock and shall happily report back this afternoon. If I was after some poems by Sylvia Plath or Ted Thingmegif I'd be laughing, but trying to get a f***ing book that someone actually wants to read is normally beyond them.

Or (I'll do Bozza's hustling for him): click on the Amazon link above and earn money for NSC.

 

[Theatre of Trees]

Re-reading Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum at the moment. Always read for half an hour or so before I go to sleep.