Death warmed up Posted July 2, 2006 Share Posted July 2, 2006 River of Gods by Ian MacDonald. Pretty good stuff although I struggled with the Indian vocab. I now know the Indian slang for c**thole. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest doonhamerexile Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 What If I Had Never Tried It - Valentino Rossi autobiography. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiwiDB Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 I finally got round to reading The DaVinci Code whilst away for the weekend, enjoyed it. Started Angels and Demons last night. They were buy 1 get 1 half price in WH Smith in Central Station on Saturday morning 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biscuits Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 I finally got round to reading The DaVinci Code whilst away for the weekend, enjoyed it. Started Angels and Demons last night. They were buy 1 get 1 half price in WH Smith in Central Station on Saturday morning If you liked The Da Vinci code you will love Angels and Demons - it is far superior and a much better read. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uberman Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 Forget you had a daughter - Sandra gregory 9/10 Autobiography of her time spent in the bangkok "hilton" after being caught trying to smuggle 89 grams of herion from thailand to japan. Excellent read 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiviClyde Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 Night Chills - Dean Koontz A wee bit dated but still a decent read. 7/10. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BullyWee1878 Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 Paul Tomkins Golden Past, Red Future Liverpool fan without the rose tinted specs talking about Liverpool under Benitez. 9/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musketeer Gripweed Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 Still reading The Firm, but bought The Last Templar at the weekend. I can only read lying down in the sun or in bed, hence I am a slow reader these days. It's been too warm to lie and read, and with the shifts I am putting in, as soon as my heid hits the pillow, thats me! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuctifano Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 Last book I read was Mike Atherton's autobiography at the weekend (my dad gave me a loan of it), fairly interesting but the guy was a fairly uncontroversial character so it's not packed full of scandal. Some of the Phil Tufnell quotes are quite funny though. Will be having a wee look through this thread for something new... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyline Drifter Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 Last week I read 'Next To You' which is the story of Caron Keating's life and death written by her mother Gloria Hunniford. It's moving account of her fight against cancer and her family's struggles. As a book I found it a brilliant read. I failed to realise just how 'off the wall' Caron Keating actually was before reading it. It's not your typical cancer sufferer's story since they clearly had the money to buy the best treatment known to man and move to Cornwall and Australia at the drop of a hat. It's also not typical given the bizarre alternative healing methods she tried. Rivetting read none the less. I'd say 8/10 as a biography. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McB Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 If you liked The Da Vinci code you will love Angels and Demons - it is far superior and a much better read. My sis (who's mental and a bit of a conspiracy theorist ) has been on at me to read them for an aeon Anyway, 'Just a Modern Rock Story', by Paul Whitelaw. Kinda an autobiography of Belle & Sebastian. Tbh anybody who's a fan of theirs will probably know the story but I found it quite interesting nonetheless 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pompey. Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 Winifred Ewing: Stop the World The grand old lady's autobiography. Interesting in most parts, what a wonderfully varied career she had. Poignantly, she speaks of Margaret's cancer, and how happy the family were to know that she was on the road to recovery. She writes about her friendship with Plaid Cymru's Gwynfor Evans, the Irish Fianna Fáil group, and many nationalists from across Europe and Canada, her trips to Africa with the Lomé Assembly, and gives an intriguing insight into the dark mechanisms of the West of Scotland SLP, their hatred of the SNP, and the Scottish media. More of a personal than a political memoir, but nonetheless a good read, which I will award a 7/10. Not as good as Major's. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubbaTON Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 Reading the Rat Pack autobiography at the moment 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyser_soze Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 The Glory Bus - Richard Laymon 10/10 as with anything Laymon writes 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larbert_Par Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 Currently reading Archie MacPherson's biography of Jock Stein-thoroughly enjoying it so far 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adam Wee Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 Almost finished "The Pain Of Confinement" by Jimmy Boyle. A good read, not as good as "A Sense Of Freedom" though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundermonkey Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 The Butterfly Tattoo by Philip Pullman. It's a teenage/young adult book my wife took on holiday. It's fairly fucked up, not too long and will no doubt end up as some sort of ITV Drama one day. I'm struggling to get into London Fields by Matrtin Amis at the moment. Next up will be Watchmen - I love a good comic 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 Finished Alex Zanardi's autobiography this morning, very interesting.and some of it quite amusing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Buttocks Brown Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 The last two I've read were 'Hound of the Baskervilles' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and 'The People on the Street: A Writer's View of Israel' by Linda Grant. The first is obviously a classic Sherlock Holmes whodunnit. Don't usually read stuff like that but I saw it for 2 quid and thought I'd give it a go. Enjoyed it very much. The second is by Linda Grant whose parents were immigrant Jews living in England. She goes to Israel to write this book and meets a cross-section of society from your average Israeli to a man whose son was killed by a suicide bomber and Israeli settlers in the Gaza Strip. Really interesting stuff though unfortunately she doesn't see the Middle East crisis being resolved any time soon. Just started reading 'No Wonder I Take A Drink' by Laura Marney. Only read the first couple of chapters but it's a good start and very funny. She's an up and coming Scottish writer and I think that this was her first novel. The follow up was called 'Nobody Loves A Ginger Baby'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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