[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[Tarpon]

Didn't rate Morvern Callar at all. Very weak all round - strikes me as a book of its time (and hype). This next unless someone convinces me otherwise:

 

[Soul Finger]

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This is a perfect stoking filler for any Brightonian, or Hovian!

Signed copies available here:

https://www.facebook.com/BrightonandHoveOnThisDay

 

[Bombadier Botty]

Just finished The Guest Cat , the one that everyone's currently salivating over, the New York Times Bestseller etc. What a pile of gash. Well written but not much else. At least, at 140 pages, it was short.

 

[Norman Potting]

Just finished the first volume of Danny Baker's bio "Going to sea in a sieve" which I found as funny as everyone else who read seems to think. Many lol moments.

 

[The Spanish]

Just finished the first volume of Danny Baker's bio "Going to sea in a sieve" which I found as funny as everyone else who read seems to think. Many lol moments.

Brilliant stuff from db. In an alternative universe he would be a national treasure over Stephen fry. Too too funny. Is it only me or was his mum (from the pictures) a sort too?

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Just finished the first volume of Danny Baker's bio "Going to sea in a sieve" which I found as funny as everyone else who read seems to think. Many lol moments.

The second one is quite good as well - including two very funny animal stories.

 

[Hampster Gull]

The Second Machine Age and Bitcoin, The Future of Money. Both good reads

 

[Gwylan]

Got Olivia Laing's To the River at Christmas and was charmed by it. It's about one woman's journey from the source of the Ouse (the one in Lewes) to the sea and is part autobiography and part biology/geology with a touch of really lyrical writing. I got lots of books for Christmas but that's the one that really grabbed my attention first

 

[catfish]

Just finished Moscow Rules by Daniel Silva.

 

[Bombadier Botty]

Got Olivia Laing's To the River at Christmas and was charmed by it. It's about one woman's journey from the source of the Ouse (the one in Lewes) to the sea and is part autobiography and part biology/geology with a touch of really lyrical writing. I got lots of books for Christmas but that's the one that really grabbed my attention first

Presumably Virginia Woolf will get a mention, having drowned herself in the Ouse near Beddingham I believe.

 

[Gwylan]

Presumably Virginia Woolf will get a mention, having drowned herself in the Ouse near Beddingham I believe.

Indeed. It was her suicide that gave the author the idea - there's a lot of Woolf in it

 

[Don Quixote]

A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay

 

[Norman Potting]

Got Olivia Laing's To the River at Christmas and was charmed by it. It's about one woman's journey from the source of the Ouse (the one in Lewes) to the sea and is part autobiography and part biology/geology with a touch of really lyrical writing. I got lots of books for Christmas but that's the one that really grabbed my attention first

Thanks - on the strength of this have just ordered it off Amazon (via the link at the top of the page naturally) and, due to a mention in one of the Amazon reviews also "A303 - Highway to the Sun".

NSC - it's not just for football.

 

[Gwylan]

Thanks - on the strength of this have just ordered it off Amazon (via the link at the top of the page naturally) and, due to a mention in one of the Amazon reviews also "A303 - Highway to the Sun".

NSC - it's not just for football.

I've picked up on several authors from this thread, there are some great recommendations.

That Amazon thread has pointed me to Robert Macfarlane, who seems worth reading. And your A303 selection has led me to The A272 - Ode to a Road - now, that's a must-read

 

[Marshy]

Brighton Rock - Graham Greene

 

[Scunner]

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - Claire North...intriguing so far...

 

[Norman Potting]

I've picked up on several authors from this thread, there are some great recommendations.

That Amazon thread has pointed me to Robert Macfarlane, who seems worth reading. And your A303 selection has led me to The A272 - Ode to a Road - now, that's a must-read

Good book the A272 one, written by an Anglophile Dutch Couple!

 

[Barry Izbak]

David Baldacci
The Sixth Man

 

[Raskolnikov]

On The Road - Jack Kerouac

 

[Don Quixote]

On The Road - Jack Kerouac

A great choice, perhaps my favourite book.

A Girl is a Half Formed Thing