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Post by jacques on Jan 1, 2013 16:58:53 GMT
Currently reading Dodger by Terry Pratchett...funny as hell and some great commentary on English politics! ;D Very easy read for those who don't like reading.
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Post by nickj on Jan 1, 2013 23:21:12 GMT
Sounds good. I'll keep it in mind. I've read Wolf Hall by Mantel and found it a good read indeed. my wife read it and says its one of the best books she's ever read....better go and read it now  |
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Post by smallframetony on Jan 13, 2013 20:42:27 GMT
The books i'm reading currently are by Angie Sage, the Septimus Heap series.
7 books about wizards and dragons and stuff like that. Tis good if you enjoy reading about those kinda things, also as mentioned before, Terry Pratchett books are grerat! The amazing maurice and his educated rodents is a favourite.
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Post by Juan on Jan 13, 2013 21:49:02 GMT
The amazing maurice and his educated rodents is a favourite. That's a kids book but I have to say it was very enjoyable. If I'm honest I don't like the Discworld series very much as a rule, at least not the "Grown up" versions. Was it Nightwatch that was about the Coppers? That is one of the exceptions for me. |
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Post by smallframetony on Jan 13, 2013 22:03:47 GMT
The amazing maurice and his educated rodents is a favourite. That's a kids book but I have to say it was very enjoyable. If I'm honest I don't like the Discworld series very much as a rule, at least not the "Grown up" versions. Was it Nightwatch that was about the Coppers? That is one of the exceptions for me. Still a good book... plus I was 15 when i read it... 20 soon and still 5ft 1 so I still look like a kid  (apart from the beard!! lol) Not sure as i haven't read that one yet but i will one day. I'm currently halfway through "going postal" which is great! And after i have read that i will start reading "making money"... think this book will come in handy with my new build coming ever closer haha. My grandad has loads of Terry Pratchett and lends them all to me when he has finished them |
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Post by amazombi on Jan 18, 2013 20:58:50 GMT
Just bought a lot of 10 books by a German guy, Kai Meyer. Fantasystuff, usually somehow starting in the real world and then taking of into the phantastic by some weird and often unexpected twist. Not very challenging, but pretty entertaining, I have to say. Went to bed last night, pretty tired, and couldn't stop reading for about 150 pages. Which says something, I guess.
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Post by amazombi on Jan 28, 2013 22:20:33 GMT
Finished "The woman who went to bed for a year" by Sue Townsend. Had completely forgotten that I'd read her Adrian Mole stuff some years ago. Quite liked the book but was a bit dissappointed by the way it ended. Anticlimatic sort of sums it up.
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Post by eean on Jan 28, 2013 22:32:37 GMT
Nearly finished another Lee Child 'Jack Reacher' book Killing Floor, Im getting the feeling he succeeds in everything he does  not as good as the other one theyve just bssed thst Tom Cruise film on, in the book though, Jack is ex military police 6'5" tall and built like a brick shit house, wtf? Tom Cruise? ;D |
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Post by Juan on Mar 2, 2013 23:19:51 GMT
I was in Tesco in the neighbouring largeish town with the Missus yesterday and I picked up a copy of The True History of the Black Adder by J.E. Roberts. Put to the side until I finish a couple of others first but I'm looking forward to this one. Right, I've gotten around to reading this and I'm really not impressed at all. Everything about it should add up to a cracking read given it's without doubt the finest Sitcom in recent history and the cast is sublime. It's not like that at all though. A massive backslapping fest which was expected and I've no problem with that but the writer is extremely annoying and the whole thing is just a half arsed mess. Can't recommend it what-so-ever, I think I'll burn it. Complete waste of £12.99. |
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Post by amazombi on Mar 22, 2013 16:05:31 GMT
Good comment, I'd say.
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Post by eean on Mar 27, 2013 18:14:39 GMT
+1 Just going to start reading Ben Eltons new one about two brothers Ill let you know what its like |
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Post by swallow on Mar 27, 2013 20:28:11 GMT
Off on hols in a week or two, recommendations please, I like real life books ie not fantasy/SciFi etc. Have exhausted Hemingway & the like & always up for a challenge....
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Post by amazombi on Mar 27, 2013 21:10:14 GMT
Since it's hitting the cinemas over here in Germany tomorrow: Rushdie, Midnight Children. I really enjoyed that, and it even has a scootering reference albeit a Lambretta one.
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Post by nickguzzi on Apr 11, 2013 20:56:38 GMT
The Millenium series by Steig Larsson. I saw the dvd first and was worried it might have spoilt the suspense, but read all three thick tombs end to end. A great way to while away a few weeks in France, vinyards and wine, food, markets and restaurants, relaxing and reading in the warm.
There are lots of great scandi writers, but this is one of the best
The girl with the dragon tatoo
The girl who played with fire
The girl who kicked the hornets nest
Recommend the vids too.
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Post by Juan on Jun 10, 2013 21:54:01 GMT
Today I bought myself "Going to sea in a sieve" by Danny Baker.
Really looking forward to this one given he's probably the most entertaining Broadcaster around these days or in any memory. Will make a start on it Wednesday.
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Post by eean on Jul 6, 2013 5:10:49 GMT
I think I might try summat else after this other new Jack Reacher one, theyre all the same bit boring now, I read the story of the Bringing down of the Krays on holiday, by three brothers who were involved in undercover (mainly one of em) informant reponsible for putting those utter bastards away.
It was an ok read but the funny thing was, these three brothers are on the back cover reunited because one had to go into hiding in Canada for years, all looking the hero but, the only reason they were able to testify and bring them down was because they were there and helped them do what they did to people, who said crime doesnt pay lol they have a successful book out of it all now lol!
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Post by eean on Oct 20, 2013 12:56:06 GMT
Lost interest in the Ben Elton one cant remember why? Started reading a comical book called 'The100 year old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared' by Jonas Jonasson, a few chapters in its quite funny easy reading
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Post by eean on Oct 22, 2013 18:58:51 GMT
no one reading owt then :-)
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Post by Juan on Oct 22, 2013 19:43:42 GMT
Finished the Danny Baker book a while back, highly entertaining and well worth a browse. Not really had much time to read these last few months although I'm occasionally picking up the Sherlock Holmes short stories when time allows.
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Post by amazombi on Oct 23, 2013 6:48:56 GMT
I think I've read the Sherlock Holmes short and long stories at least 20 times or so. There is any number of "sequels" to the Conan-Doyle stuff, with Laurie R. King doing a rather unexpected but still highly plausible version, if you're interested.
I recently reread a few things by Wilde, which I always find very entertaining. And I read a book called "A childhood in India", which received some praise, hence my choosing it. To be honest I found that one pretty crap. There isn't much of a story but still the guy feels compelled to tell it. Apparently it's authobiografic, so chances are he has been telling these episodes and stories for a few decades already, and that's exactly what it reads like: A well-oiled mechanism which rattles along without much blood in it.
If any of you guys has an interest in bike racing: I've read a few books about the Armstrong era where blood doping reached its zenith. Walsh's compendium of articles in the sunday times deserves a definite recommendation, as does Tyler Hamilton's book about his career. The latter in particular I found highly enlightening, shocking too, but it also helped to understand the times. I've also read Scotsman David Millar's "Racing through the dark", which I thought a good read too, even though maybe a bit more of a biography than a story into the means and mechanisms of doping in cylcing.
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(apart from the beard!! lol)
not as good as the other one theyve just bssed thst Tom Cruise film on, in the book though, Jack is ex military police 6'5" tall and built like a brick shit house, wtf? Tom Cruise? ;D