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Post by amazombi on Oct 22, 2012 21:29:41 GMT
Just started the new J.K. Rowling. Just because I'm curious. A bit embarassing, I know.
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Post by triffid on Oct 26, 2012 18:40:57 GMT
My missus is reading 50 shades of grey. I am enjoying the side effects ;D  |
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Post by jacques on Oct 26, 2012 18:51:31 GMT
I used to be a huge fan of Stephen King, amost any book he ha written s better than the films though there are one or 2 exceptions (Green Mile). I really like Terry Pratchet and although you can pretty much pick up any of his books and read on their own I would recommend starting from the beginning as the characters develop through the series. I mostly read fanatasy and Raymond Feist is excellent, again start at the beginning with his books. I have read all the Bond books, they are generally nothing like the films and are actually quite good if you oput them into contect for when they were written. I do read the occasional factual book though and I have a couple of books on Churchill that I must read sometime. Spot on fella...  Raymond E Feist writes very well...page turning stuff even if it's all Sci-Fi. His worlds and characters are life-like. Start with Magician... Currently reading the Duncton Wood series by William Horwood, very good as well. |
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Post by madmax on Oct 26, 2012 19:33:42 GMT
I like Raymond E Feist and read all the books.  |
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Post by vesparep1 on Oct 26, 2012 22:59:44 GMT
My missus is reading 50 shades of grey. I am enjoying the side effects ;D so am i  i think ? but who is she thinking about ......................... still a fuck is a fuck .................  still she is a fat one so who cares .............  |
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Post by nickj on Oct 27, 2012 13:27:45 GMT
Great thread....I used to read lots of travel stuff. Really enjoyed all Eric Newby's stuff, but favourite is Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia. Brilliant account of his journey through south America...
Just finished joyce's Ulysees...took me four goes over about ten years to finally finish it, but really enjoyed it
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Post by amazombi on Nov 11, 2012 22:31:02 GMT
Finished "The casual vacancy" a while ago. I though it took the best part of 350 or so pages to eventually pick up momentum, and what momentum it picked up hardly compensated for the slow start. And all that just to end with and end that isn't an end really but felt more like a threat of yet another seven book sequel.
Then I read something by a Kai Meyer, a German blow who manages to put out a book a year or so. It phantasy stuff, easy to read and quite entertaining.
Just now I'm about halfway through "The 100 year old man who climbed out of the window and dissapeared". Despite the somewhat lengthy title I'd definitely recommend it as good and at least at first surprising read. Maybe a bit like "little big man", the Dustin Hofmann movie, if you know that. Minus the sexual appetite but plus a deep rooted interest in Vodka.
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Post by Perkin on Nov 14, 2012 0:00:50 GMT
If you've got a Kindle there are loads of free books on Amazon, mostly classics in the public domain.
I'd recommend anything by Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities lacks the humour of most of his other work, but is a towering work and gives a superb insight into the French Revolution), but I also love Joseph Conrad, William Golding etc etc. Henry Fielding's Tom Jones is great for bawdy 18th c goings on.
For modern authors try Peter Ackroyd, especially if London and its darker history is your thing.
If you want a recommend for a specific book: Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain. If you are into satire, Voltaire's Candide is a thing of beauty.
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Post by nickj on Nov 14, 2012 23:59:47 GMT
Akroyd is very good through he gets a bit full of himself showing off how much stuff he knows...I really enjoyed his Hawksmoor novel
I started reading Great Expectations recently which is the first time I have read any Dickens...brilliant!
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Post by Perkin on Nov 15, 2012 21:23:46 GMT
Yeah, it's superb. Nicholas Nickelby is great, too.
I've read most of Ackroyd's stuff though I'm struggling with his Blake because I hate biographies, even ones with so auspicious a subject.
For authors full of themselves for how much stuff they know (or how much their professional researchers found out for them) look no further than Ian McEwan. That said, On Chesil Beach is perfection.
My favourite book of all time, and the one that got me into reading as a spotty 14-yr-old, has to be Laurie Lee's seminal Cider With Rosie. The title didn't appeal to my classmates but the subject matter is a real celebration of life in all its rawness and very dark in places. And as I'm fond of telling anybody who'll listen I actually met the man.
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Post by gioia on Nov 16, 2012 12:49:50 GMT
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Post by nickj on Nov 17, 2012 0:07:28 GMT
He's just cultivating himself.......
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Post by eean on Nov 17, 2012 18:16:47 GMT
Nearly finnished reading a book by Andy Mcnab called Dead Centre, gritty hostage resue tale from Somalians that hijack ships, its all true to life stuff as he is ex SAS and the way he describes weapons etc could only be decribed by someone who has used them in combat etc, a good quick read for me really |
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Post by stehughes on Dec 5, 2012 13:53:13 GMT
Nearly finnished reading a book by Andy Mcnab called Dead Centre, gritty hostage resue tale from Somalians that hijack ships, its all true to life stuff as he is ex SAS and the way he describes weapons etc could only be decribed by someone who has used them in combat etc, a good quick read for me really I read that and his first "Bravo Two Zero" and enjoyed them both. |
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Post by amazombi on Dec 16, 2012 0:02:56 GMT
Just finished Agatha Christie's "Nemesis" last night. What a piece of rubbish. I've read quite a lot of her stuff, and apart from the still famous ones she wrote a good many which are so crap you have a hard enough job to actually finish them. This is the first of these let-downs I've read featuring Jane Marple though.
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Post by eean on Dec 16, 2012 9:55:36 GMT
Nearly finnished reading a book by Andy Mcnab called Dead Centre, gritty hostage resue tale from Somalians that hijack ships, its all true to life stuff as he is ex SAS and the way he describes weapons etc could only be decribed by someone who has used them in combat etc, a good quick read for me really I read that and his first "Bravo Two Zero" and enjoyed them both. I'm hoping someone in the family buys me the Bravo Two Zero for christmas ;D |
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Post by eean on Dec 16, 2012 9:58:40 GMT
Just finished Agatha Christie's "Nemesis" last night. What a piece of rubbish. I've read quite a lot of her stuff, and apart from the still famous ones she wrote a good many which are so crap you have a hard enough job to actually finish them. This is the first of these let-downs I've read featuring Jane Marple though. ;D ;D Its shit when you have read a book and you know its crap isnt it, I've finnished books in the past and thrown them at/in the bin  |
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Post by Juan on Dec 23, 2012 18:21:27 GMT
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Post by amazombi on Dec 23, 2012 20:54:22 GMT
Sounds good. I'll keep it in mind.
I've read Wolf Hall by Mantel and found it a good read indeed.
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Raymond E Feist writes very well...page turning stuff even if it's all Sci-Fi. His worlds and characters are life-like. Start with Magician...
i think ? 
