Kilbowie's Finest Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Read these two while away on holiday Thoroughly enjoyed Barclay's the Accident - classic holiday read with smashing twist in it Coben's Live Wire was also good with another good twist Well worth a read on the beach/ by the pool 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
footiechick Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 I like Linwood Barclay - I've got one of his put away for my hols 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Cyril Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Last book: Night by Elie Wiesel, a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau 4/5 Current book: The Whisperer by Donato Carrisi, a fairly bog standard child murderer on the loose type thingy. 3/5 so far. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyblair Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 I have now read 10 chapters of Alice In Wonderland to the youngster at night over the last week or so. It really is hard going and not really for a 5 year old, too complicated. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 If you haven't already, read Stephen Ambrose's D-Day book, also a good read. I'll need to get Beevor's Stalingrad and Berlin books ordered up at the library. Have to compliment Glasgow libraries, they have an iPhone app and I used it yesterday morning to order two books, which are now in my local library to be picked up. GCC rightly get pelters for many things, but in my experience the libraries are superb. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Made the mistake of starting Haruki Muraki's Underground. It's straight reportage instead of his usual, wonderful flights of fancy, about the attack on the Tokyo metro. A mistake because I can't put it down and also it's incredibly moving. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamboMikey Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Really good. Story of a WW2 Marine's time in China after he'd fought in the Pacific and then his return home to the US, trying to deal with the things he'd seen and done during the war. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groaninjock Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 Currently reading Keith Richards' autobiography, Life, which is top notch - just tale after tale of life lived to excess for 50+ years. He makes no bones about the fact that his lifestyle should have killed him a long time ago, and he doesn't attempt to make it sound glamorous. But at the same time, he does show that he, personally, couldn't have lived any other way. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
++Ammo - Airdrie++ Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 Just finished I, Partridge (we need to talk about Alan) Enjoyed it, few lols 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 Currently reading Keith Richards' autobiography, Life, which is top notch - just tale after tale of life lived to excess for 50+ years. He makes no bones about the fact that his lifestyle should have killed him a long time ago, and he doesn't attempt to make it sound glamorous. But at the same time, he does show that he, personally, couldn't have lived any other way. I thought it was as boring as fuck. I'm a big fan and I preferred imagining what might have been. It felt like sitting in the pub with an old drunk telling the same story a hundred times. Lemmys biography on the other hand. Is a real rock life story. A complete fucking head case speeding out his nut for the best part of 50 years. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 Made the mistake of starting Haruki Muraki's Underground. It's straight reportage instead of his usual, wonderful flights of fancy, about the attack on the Tokyo metro. A mistake because I can't put it down and also it's incredibly moving. Finished it. Wonderful book. Unbelievably moving and fascinating insights into the Aum sect. Murakami is by a long way my favourite contemporary writer. I'd go so far as to call him a genius. Next, another favourite, Fear and Loathing at the Rolling Stone - the most recent compendium of Hunter S Thompson. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Cyril Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 Lemmys biography on the other hand. Is a real rock life story. A complete fucking head case speeding out his nut for the best part of 50 years. I've read that one. Maybe not everyone's cup of tea, musicwise, but George Jones the country singer's book is one of the best autobiogs I've read. His coke dealers used to hold him down and force coke up his hooter if he tried to quit. They also beheaded a guy who tried to keep them away from Jones. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stewbo Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 Got a Brett Easton Ellis treble ahead of me. Currently reading American Psycho, fantastic, hilarious, slightly different to, albeit just as good as the film. I also bought Lunar Park after a friend recommended it, apparently it's a bio-novel based on the author's drug addled adventures It's clear to see why I was intrigued. Lastly I've got Less Than Zero ordered, not heard much about it, hate doing research on books incase it ruins them, but it's one of his more critically acclaimed works so it should be a decent read 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killieshire Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 (edited) Finished it. Wonderful book. Unbelievably moving and fascinating insights into the Aum sect. Murakami is by a long way my favourite contemporary writer. I'd go so far as to call him a genius. Next, another favourite, Fear and Loathing at the Rolling Stone - the most recent compendium of Hunter S Thompson. Completely agree. In comparison terms I think it's up there with Oe's Hiroshima Notes as a great work of non-fiction by a fiction author. Edited August 6, 2012 by killieshire 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cHarris Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 The Story of English in 100 Words by Professor David Crystal, a very interesting piece for people interested in the origins of the English language and usage of obscure lexicon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 If you haven't already, read Stephen Ambrose's D-Day book, also a good read. I'll need to get Beevor's Stalingrad and Berlin books ordered up at the library. Ambrose has a very narrow and blinkered view on some things, and a s ahistorical biographer, suffers from a need to attack those figures whom he imaignes slighted his subject. That's why, for example, Eisenhower get's an easy ride, Patton eulogised and Montgomery gets written off in all his work. Mind you, that's fairly typical of most US historians on that epriod and it's nonsense for the most part. For D-day related stuff, I'd recommend Carlo D'este's decision in Normandy or Max hastings Overlord. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jojo Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Just read chavs: the demonization of the working class by owen jones. Very good. Great points throughout and interesting facts. Would reccommend this one thouroughly. now onto crime and punishment. Awsome. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stewbo Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Has anyone read American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis? Thinking about starting that next. Get it read, it's hilarious at times, brutal at others, very similar to the film without seeming like you're reading the script, it really is excellent. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Bear Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Ambrose has a very narrow and blinkered view on some things, and a s ahistorical biographer, suffers from a need to attack those figures whom he imaignes slighted his subject. That's why, for example, Eisenhower get's an easy ride, Patton eulogised and Montgomery gets written off in all his work. Mind you, that's fairly typical of most US historians on that epriod and it's nonsense for the most part. For D-day related stuff, I'd recommend Carlo D'este's decision in Normandy or Max hastings Overlord. I've read the Max Hastings book and agree that it is very good. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Bear Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Just read Skagboys by Irvine Welsh. I think I was trying to re-live my youth. It's the prequel to Trainspotting and it's readable although disturbing at bits. It won't be winning the Booker Prize. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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