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Read anything decent lately?
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Hungry Joe
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oapdodge said:
Can't argue with the publication that gave us Holly McGuire...woof!
Braders
Abi Fletchers Gimpboy
currently reading David Feckhams - my backside (a spoof version of the beckham autobiography) absoulutely hillarious !
Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
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Can't remember the name, but recently finished a very good book exposing the McNab/Ryan Bravo Two Zero books as an exaggerated load of bollogs. Am now reading 'Soldier Five' about the Kiwi Mike Coburn who was with B2Z 'the book the MOD went to court to ban' and supposed to be about what actually happened rather than McNab/Ryans bodycount fiction. Special Forces-tastic mate!
Reading Steve Claridges autobiography. Interesting guy but just a carefree nutter really whom you can't help liking but a good book about lower league football. Also the beautiful game by David Conn is a good read and shows just what greedy bastards the Premier Clubs and FA etc. are.
clapham_gull
Legacy Fan
- Aug 20, 2003
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I'm reading the new biography of Gordon Brown, but I would recommend Who Ate All The Pies by Mick Quinn
Agree with everyone about Lovely Bones, Curious Dog, Da Vinci Code. All good reads.
If you like thrillers, then absolutely anything by John Sandford is good. Only one dodgy one in his Prey series in my reckoning - about the third one in.
Just got into Robert Crais and his 'Elvis Cole' novels too - pretty funny as well.
And a couple of one offs. Fury by GM Ford is excellent, Tap Tap by David Martin is weird but good.
Oh and Pompeii by Robert Harris is an easy read... nowhere near as good as Fatherland IMHO but still entertaining.
If you like thrillers, then absolutely anything by John Sandford is good. Only one dodgy one in his Prey series in my reckoning - about the third one in.
Just got into Robert Crais and his 'Elvis Cole' novels too - pretty funny as well.
And a couple of one offs. Fury by GM Ford is excellent, Tap Tap by David Martin is weird but good.
Oh and Pompeii by Robert Harris is an easy read... nowhere near as good as Fatherland IMHO but still entertaining.
Perry's Tracksuit Bottoms
King of Sussex
I'd Recommend ANY book by Tim Moore, especially 'French Revolutions' in which, having not cycled for years, he buys a racing bike and attempts the route of the Tour de France. It's one of the funniest things I've ever read - the sort of book that has you laughing so much that people stare at you on the train.
'Do Not Pass Go' is good too - especially if you wander round London a lot because it's full of 'well I never' type titbits of trivia (including a lovely section on where Londoners' shit ends up). And lots of very silly jokes, too.
'Do Not Pass Go' is good too - especially if you wander round London a lot because it's full of 'well I never' type titbits of trivia (including a lovely section on where Londoners' shit ends up). And lots of very silly jokes, too.
I read 'The Cutting Room' by Louise Welsh recently - but wouldn't recommend it, unless you are strangely fascinated by seedy gay sex described in unnecessary detail. 
I can't remember much of the plot (an auctioneer finds some sadistic porn) or characters (the auctioneer and most of the gay community of Glasgow) - as they were obliterated by the sex.
And before you ask - I read it as a choice by one of our reading group - which sounds rather middle-aged and sad, but is actually quite fun.
I can't remember much of the plot (an auctioneer finds some sadistic porn) or characters (the auctioneer and most of the gay community of Glasgow) - as they were obliterated by the sex.
And before you ask - I read it as a choice by one of our reading group - which sounds rather middle-aged and sad, but is actually quite fun.
Tom Bombadil
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I've just finished a biography of Stalin, which was v good. He really was the Daddy of mass murdering 20th century dictators.
I'm now reading a history of the Cosa Nostra, which is very informative.
Would recommend life of Pi. Difficult to imagine how such an allegorical novel will translate to the screen.
I'm now reading a history of the Cosa Nostra, which is very informative.
Would recommend life of Pi. Difficult to imagine how such an allegorical novel will translate to the screen.
Hungry Joe
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Voroshilov said:
Great book. Don't think I've read anything as funny tragic and disturbing as that.