[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[SeagullinExile]

Ash - By the late great James Herbert.

 

[Acker79]

'Down and dirty pictures' by Peter biskind

 

[TheDuke]

The Hundred Year Old Man who climbed out of the Window... very light, very funny ... a bit Forest Gump

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

For those of a literary nature, next Saturdays(6th) guest on the Albion Roar will be Peter James !!

 

[twowheelsbest]

"Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure" by Artemis Cooper - Boys Own stuff about a great adventurer and travel writer, and personal hero.

How about starting a NSC Book Group - probably been mentioned somewhere else on this thread though

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

For those of a literary nature, next Saturdays(6th) guest on the Albion Roar will be Peter James !!

Peter James! I thought you said literary!!

 

[Surf's Up]

Pol Pot - The History of a Nightmare by Philip Short .... a really frightening, well written account of the Kymer Rouge's rise to power in Cambodia in the 1970s and a graphic unavoidable account of how they killed nearly 2 million of their own people pursuing and extending Mao's extreme communist ideals.

 

[Geestar]

Skag Boys.....prequel to Trainspotting.

Good read but slow going trying to understand the thick accent!

 

[Chris001]

HOMICIDE - A year on the killing streets by David Simon, creator of the HBO series the Wire.

He spent a year with the Baltimore homicide unit, as a journo he got unlimited access - good compelling read.

 

[Baron Pepperpot]

The Condition of the Working Class in England 1844- Friedrich Engels. Amazing insight into the life of those who paved todays comforts.

 

[16bha]

The 100 year old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared - Jonas Jonasson

 

[Gwylan]

Ash - By the late great James Herbert.

Is it about someone who collects red cards?

"Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure" by Artemis Cooper - Boys Own stuff about a great adventurer and travel writer, and personal hero.

Personal hero of mine too. Not read the biog but will get round to it.
His Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and Water would be my Desert Island Discs book (if I could cheat and take both of them). He had a great life: lived to 90 and seemed to spend most of his time shagging, drinking and travelling.

 

[CHAPPERS]

The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth and a bloody good read it is too.

 

[Titus]

Hard Times. Mr Dickens. Wonderful characters from the World's best ever author.

 

[Goldstone1976]

The Human Stain - Philip Roth

 

[Easy 10]

The Angels Weep - Wilbur Smith.

 

[Geestar]

Midnight Express - not bad, similar to most other banged up abroad books!

 

[Marianne marbles]

Bonfire of the vanities by Tom Wolfe. Excellent so far ...

 

[jameswestport]

Just finished the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. Any suggestions on what I should move onto next? I'm open to all options.

 

[Silk]

Just finished the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. Any suggestions on what I should move onto next? I'm open to all options.

I recommend Gene Wolfe, if you haven't already read him.