It's that time of year again when I'm asking what are you reading, what's helping you while away the tedium of the close season and some good recommendations for us all. I've just finished the second Game of Thrones book, not really into em at all but hey ho. Just finished a John Sandford, Virgil Flowers crime thriller which was pretty good. All of Sandfords are especially the Prey series.
I've read all of the Game of Thrones books, loved them. Last set I read was the Hunger Games. Really can't wait for the next film to come out, books are bloody awesome. Do you go old skool Chazz or have you got a Kindle?
Get a kindle ya luddite! Apart from owt else, theres a ****e load of free, decent pulp fiction type books you'd enjoy on your many holidays saving you a fortune. Steve - I know they were aimed at kids but honestly, they're pretty blood thirsty, and very well written, much more adult than say Harry Potter or the Twilight ****e.
I don't fancy a kindle(probably because I spend so much time on here on an iPad), so when I read a book I prefer the feel of the paper.
Just read 'Just Boris:The irrestible Rise of a Political Celebrity' (local library); now on 'Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan' Last novel was a Michael Connelly 'Harry Bosch' crime thriller. Next up is a book on the 1649 political crisis of the Commonwealth.
Which Connelly one Stan. Read 9 Dragons thought it was awful. Read all of them and maybe he's running out of ideas cos that one was bad
I'm halfway through Inferno by Dan Brown, enjoying it. It was timed nicely because I'd just finished reading The Divine Comedy. My dad's really into Simon Scarrow, never really picked them up but he swears by them, anybody recommend them?
Read Townsend book, still think he's odd. Now reading latest John Le Carre. And I'm with OLM, real books i.e.. paper.
I know. I've got Russ Litten's Scream If You Want To Go Faster and The Queens Gin O'Clock ready to take on holiday. And don't forget to purchase a copy of AP Wolf's Vagabond, it's a great read and I've got a warehouse full of copies to get through.
Maybe people on here could help me by naming books I might like - I don't know why, but I barely EVER read a book. Everything I read is from a computer screen and purely about adding knowledge into the memory banks, rather than reading a good story. Since school I have only ever read FOUR books, not sure why, I think I just don't have the patience with them - it needs to be something good and capture my attention from the start. The reason I have read 2 is because of holidays. I've always taken my PSP to play on the beach, but the screen isn't great in the sun and I got fed up of straining my eyes to see, so one year read a magazine on the beach and found it more relaxing, so when I was bought a book one year for my birthday, I decided to give it ago on a beach... Book ONE, was: Philip Glennister - Things Ain't What They Used To Be (i.e. The bloke who plays DCI Gene Hunt taking a nostalgic look at things what he had as a kid and comparing them with a modern day equivalent. A really enjoyable and funny book. Book TWO, THREE & FOUR: The Hunger Games - I'd enjoyed reading a book for a change, so when I saw The Hunger Games at the cinema and felt the story had huge potential, but felt the film had been dumbed down so Harry Potter fans didn't piss their pants, I thought I'd give the books a go, to see if they tell the story in the brutalist way they're meant to be portrayed. Read book one - much better than the film. Went on holiday for a week and read both books before the holiday had finished - brilliant books. So, if anyone can recommend anything like The Hunger Games, or something as gripping, that'd be good. I like anything to do with Time Travel, interpretations of the past and future, nostalgia (even though I wasn't born during most of it (fits in with the 'interpretations of the past'), dystopian themes and totalitarian themes. Thanks for any suggestions given!
Just finished Alan Johnson's, This Boy - A Memoir Of A Childhood (I heartily recommend it). Just started reading Jan Van Dijk (2012) The Network Society (3rd edition) primarily because the publisher just sent it to me as a free inspection copy and it arrived yesterday! Next novel? Re-read Villette or The Professor by Charlotte Bronte. For anyone on the forum who grew up in the 1970s and are about sit by a pool or on a beach, I would recommend Born to Be Mild by Dave Armitage. As a novelette, it wouldn't win the Man Booker prize by any stretch of the imagination, but hell it's very funny in places if you remember those days. He's captured the times brilliantly although you can see the ending coming a mile off! I thought I was back at Marist College in the early 70s when I read it! a link... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Born-be-Mil...&qid=1372185689&sr=1-6&keywords=Dave Armitage EDIT: Likewise OLM on 'proper' books, Mrs. LincolnTiger to be (and Kindle user) would like to see my large book collection put to good use on 5th November I think!
I'm just about finished The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart and I'm about to start Operation Mincemeat. Best book I've read this year is Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates by Tom Robbins.
Excellent stuff Chazz, God I wish I still had my library card from there ! The last Membership card I still have in my possession is from Spiders (No 225 Exp Oct 88) and according to that I'm three yrs older than my currant age . Book recommendation : Mr China by Tim Clissold. Not bad to pass time with.
