[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[XYZ123]

PG Wodehouse.... Nothing comes close.

 

[otk]

Just read two chapters of On Photography, and it is a nice document. Looking forward to knocking it off

 

[perseus]

Seeds of Change by Henry Hobhouse. I read the chapter on Tea this afternoon whilst waiting for the dentist to sort out my toothache (which got worse at the Palace game and was agony all this week).

 

[Footsoldier]

Just read Andy McNab 'Bravo two zero' and nearly finished Chris Ryans 'The one that got away'. SAS behind Iraq lines, fantastic books and just started reading 'Absolute Evil' about the British bloke ( Neil Entwistle ) who shot his wife and 9 month old baby in the US and has been handed a life sentence.

 

[BadFish]

Plunder - When the rule of law is illegal
Bebe day by day - a book about french parenting
Pills are not for preschoolers -

 

[Surf's Up]

A Delicate Truth - John Le Carre

 

[Bold Seagull]

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest

Stieg Larsson

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I've just finished "Dead Man's Time", the new Peter James novel. An excellent yarn - although I was slightly disappointed to find that it wasn't one of those stories where it turns out in the end that the villain is a character who only appears briefly in the narrative. I was rather hoping that the real bad guy would be revealed on the final page to be a chap called PC Darren Balkham.

 

[Petunia]

I've just finished "Dead Man's Time", the new Peter James novel. An excellent yarn - although I was slightly disappointed to find that it wasn't one of those stories where it turns out in the end that the villain is a character who only appears briefly in the narrative. I was rather hoping that the real bad guy would be revealed on the final page to be a chap called PC Darren Balkham.

Excellent book as always in the Roy Grace series. Read it last Thursday when it first came out. When's the next one...?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Pride & Prejudice

#cultured

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I've just finished "Dead Man's Time", the new Peter James novel. An excellent yarn - although I was slightly disappointed to find that it wasn't one of those stories where it turns out in the end that the villain is a character who only appears briefly in the narrative. I was rather hoping that the real bad guy would be revealed on the final page to be a chap called PC Darren Balkham.

You see, I know he's a good storyteller, and he knows how to spin a tale out.

But I think my inside knowledge prevents me from really enjoying the books, because I'm always looking at them thinking "Well that would never happen. That wouldn't happen either".

With the greatest of respect to any Detective Chief Superintendents reading this, they are about as likely to be out roaming the streets on the hunt for murderers, or even better, interviewing them when they're arrested, as I am to win the 2015 World Naked Dwarf Windsurfing Championship title.

That, and his constant references to "the CID". Peter: you spend enough time with coppers to have learned that it's not "the CID". It's just "CID". Even more irritating than people who used to refer to "the Withdean".

Grrrr.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

The Return of the King by William Dalrymple.

Why Oh Why Oh Why, with all our knowledge of Afghanistan did we ever get involved ............... what were the foreign office telling the government, and if they were - why were they not listened to ?

 

[Seagull over Canaryland]

'A Bright Shining Lie' supposedly a true account of a renegade US army Colonel who didn't buy all the propaganda about the Vietnam war and saw it for the folly it was.

Reminds me of 'Bury my heart at Wounded Knee' which I read years ago which dispels a lot of myths about how the west was 'won' and at what cost to the native American Indians.

 

[Bulldog]

Guns against the reich.
True story of a front line russian artillery officer on the Eastern front.

Interesting as you don't get many by Russian soldiers, plenty from the German vets but the Russians seem to have wanted to stop publication to hide their astonishing losses.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Guns against the reich.
True story of a front line russian artillery officer on the Eastern front.

Presumably for the Russians it was the Western front!

 

[joeywortho]

very late to this but assume you have all been told to read 'kill your friends' by John Niven right?

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Almost done with The Great Gatsby, then it's into the one about the 100 year old Swedish bloke who jumped through the nursing home window that everyone's raving about, and you that cannot get from the Jubilee Library for love nor money because it has literally hundreds of reserves on it (mine was number 230 out of 265 people waiting for it)

 

[Dorset Seagull]

Build a Bonfire downloaded on the Ipad Kindle app

 

[Lower West Stander]

The new Dan Brown book.

It's terrible but some morbid fascination is making me stick with it.

Robert Langdon is just a smug smartarse.

 

[Turnstile Ted]

The Life and Loss of H.M.A.S. Perth and her crew. Written by Mike Carlton