[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[Bombadier Botty]

Just finished Chop Chop by Simon Wroe - brilliantly written, dark, off-the-wall humour. Funniest book I've read in a long time. Highly recommended.

Now moving onto H is for Hawk, not too convinced by this one tbh.

 

[jimbob5]

Just finished Chop Chop by Simon Wroe - brilliantly written, dark, off-the-wall humour. Funniest book I've read in a long time. Highly recommended.

Now moving onto H is for Hawk, not too convinced by this one tbh.

You need to read plenty of funny books.

 

[Stat Brother]

Jnr has a thing for David Walliam's books, at bedtime.

We've read a fair few and I've now done a complete U-turn on the man's writing.
It's completely shitehouse, dull, repetitive, derivative and basically padded out pamphlets.


Have started Danny Wallace's latest book with Lil Miss Stat, fingers crossed it's a better read.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

This one. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Days-Hitler-Trevor-Roper/dp/1447218612

 

[Bombadier Botty]

This one. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Days-Hitler-Trevor-Roper/dp/1447218612

That, along with the complete remastered World at War DVD boxed set is my dad's birthday presents sorted for this year. Cheers for the (inadvertent) inspiration.

 

[Don Quixote]

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

 

[Barry Izbak]

David Baldacci - The Escape

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Picked up this magnificently funny book in a bookshop in Munich central railway station last week, the front cover having jumped clean out of the shelf at me...

And I quote from the blurb on the back:

"Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have changed - no Eva Braun, no Nazi Party, no war. Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run by a woman.

AND HE'S FÜHRIOUS

People certainly recognise him, albeit as a flawless impersonator who refuses to break character. The unthinkable , the inevitable happens, and the ranting Hitler goes viral, becomes a YouTube star, gets his own TV show, and people begin to listen. But the Führer has another programme with even greater ambition - to set the country he finds a shambles back to rights'

Turns out, according to Wikipedia, the book is a very recent (and very excellent) English translation of a German language one-point-five-million-selling hit novel Er Ist Wieder Da which I'm sure [MENTION=409]Herr Tubthumper[/MENTION] will have already read in the mother tongue. Being a man of letters, I'm sure he will vouch for my recommendation of it being a very very funny read that is well worth seeking out.

The book is currently in the process of being translated into no fewer than 28 languages. Global domination beckons!

 

[Bombadier Botty]

National Treasures - Charles McLeod

 

[mune ni kamome]

Isaac Asimov - Foundation and Earth
I've probably read it before but doesn't ring a bell so far.

Just finished Anathem - Neal Stephenson which was brilliant. Didn't want it to end.

 

[BBassic]

Akira Kurosawa - Something Like an Autobiography.

Absoutely brilliant read. I've only seen Seven Samurai so I'm not all that versed in his work but this is more than just a 'how I made my films' thing. It's a fascinating insight into early 20th century and wartime Japan.

Well worth picking up.

 

[Brownstuff]

Current footballers are generally not worthy of a book especially English players.

Reading 'I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic' at the moment. He has a story to tell.

 

[Don Quixote]

The Urth of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe

 

[Marshy]

I am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes literally just picked it up

 

[wallyback]

I am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes literally just picked it up

A killer book!

Totally superb!

 

[wallyback]

Just started The Martian http://amzn.to/1HqmejP

Just finished The girl on the Train, which was excellent! http://amzn.to/1EhD6Ez

 

[Spanish Seagulls]

Just finished "The Book Thief " by Markus Zusak, I loved it.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Two on the go,56 The Bradford Fire and Hitler,the last day.

 

[Driver8]

Can anyone recommend an author in the Iain M Banks mold as I am really missing the Culture books.

 

[Barry Izbak]

No Safe House - Linwood Barclay