[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[Beach Hut]

Barbarian days - william Finnegan

Bought that the other day so no spoilers please

 

[Ghost of Killer Reeves]

Homicide .....David Simon.

 

[Fitzcarraldo]

Bought that the other day so no spoilers please

You know that it's a autobiographical account of his early years chasing waves? I got halfway through and thought that he was a very good writer for someone who spent their life being a beach bum and having their brain pickled by the sun, head regularly banging against ocean floors/reefs. I then checked and found out later he had become a staff writer at the New Yorker

I'm reading The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Mad Man by Dick Knight

Shameful omission on my part up til now. Thought I'd save a few bob on the £20 cover price by waiting for the paperback which never came and probably never will. Still, job done, fortune favours the tightwad, pristine new copy scored for £9.99 via Ebay from the very excellent Soccer Books Ltd of Cleethorpes. Now, where do I apply for my share of DK's shares?

 

[CHAPPERS]

Homicide .....David Simon.

Incredible book.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Just finished True History of the Kelly Gang which is a quite incredible feat of writing. Highly recommend.

Now onto Man and Boy by Tony Parsons. Started well, worried it's going to all get a bit emotional.

 

[Ghost of Killer Reeves]

Incredible book.

The Corner,David Simon &Ed Burns, is also excellent.The mini series was very watchable.

 

[Peteinblack]

The Patrick Melrose novels (5 of them) by Edward St Aubyn - in lieu of watching the box-set starring Benedict Cumberbatch.

In the previously 4 weeks, I'd read J. G. Ballard's 'Super Cannes,' Arthur Koestler's 'Darkness at Noon', and Robert James Waller's 'The Bridges of Madison County'.

 

[GOM]

The Testament - John Grisham

 

[mune ni kamome]

William Boyd-an Ice Cream War

Absolutely Stunning. I’m a fan of William Boyd anyway but this is one of his finest.

 

[Beach Hut]

French Revolutions - Tim Moore

 

[Palacefinder General]

‘One Kick’ by Chelsea Cain. Well written, not a wasted or superfluous word.

Anyone doing the just released Gary Numan autobiography? Very well reviewed from what I’ve seen.

 

[Beach Hut]

Start The Car - David 'Bumble' Lloyd

 

[Jam The Man]

Stuart Pearce - Psycho
Decent so far.

 

[mune ni kamome]

John le Carre - A Delicate Truth

 

[AmexRuislip]

Baby Blue for the 3rd time

 

[Barry Izbak]

Just One Look by the brilliant Harlen Coben

 

[Ghost of Killer Reeves]

Motherwell. .... Deborah Orr.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Life - Keith Richards

 

[wunt be druv]

"Fight to the finish" by Allan Mallinson, it is a month by month account of the First World War from start to finish, very interesting and so many things I was unaware of. Thoroughly recommend it if you are interested in WW1 history.