As we have such a range of interests on here, it was suggested that we have a thread dedicated to anything that you read. Coomments and recommendations. Over to you folks.
Anyone who has yet to read the Alan Partridge autobiography (I, Partridge - We need to talk about Alan) needs to get themselves out there and get a copy. It is ABSOLUTELY brilliant, a total work of genius that had me in stitches pretty much the whole way through As for my favourite 'proper' books, 1984 and To Kill A Mockingbird are the only two that I've read more than twice each so I'd probably have to say they'd be right up there as my favourites. Just brilliant hey are. Of modern fiction I'm quite a fan of Nick Hornby's stuff, I absolutely loved One Day by David Nicholls as well (which also had me in stitches) but most of whas I read nowadays tends to be non-fiction/biographies. I'm halfway through Danny Baker's one at the moment which I would definitely recommend I've never been a fan of crime thrillers and I've not read any James Patterson/Stephen King etc etc - and don't get me started on the bloody vampire books that everyone seems to be reading these days!!
Read this a while ago, and would thoroughly recommend it to any football fan... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inverting-Pyramid-History-Football-Tactics/dp/1409102041 A very interesting book showing how the tactics and formations that teams employ today evolved through the years...
Crime and Punishment is a very good book. 600 pages which isn't too bad but it has a lot of speeches that go on for several pages without even a paragraph break.
Ive been reading books by an author called Ellie Griffiths. They're not exactly litterary genius but the fact theyre set in/near King's Lynn makes up for that!
I'm the same Munky. The last fiction book I read would have been Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. I read it whilst staying in Rome on holiday with the missus and was trying to keep ahead of the places we were visiting. It made it a special read and was fascinating to see the sculptures, artefacts, churches and museums mentioned in the book hours after reading about them.
I tend to get interested in a subject or author and then read everything about it/by them. At the moment I'm reading about the Wars of the Roses, (The Cousins War), both fact and fiction. As it has coincided with the confirmation that Richard the Third's remains have been found in Leicester, there is also a lot of TV and Radio coverage.
My Missus is like that. I think she is ploughing her way through anything related to Ken Follett at the moment. Pillars of Earth, World Without End etc etc.
At the moment I am reading anything by Simon Scarrow. Although his books are fictional, they are factually correct. All about life as a Roman soldier.
All three Dan Brown books in that series are excellent, The Lost Symbol being the most recent. The films are awful though.
One of my favourite books is 'The Quincunx' by Charles Paliser. Contemporary (1980s), but a pastiche of the early Victorian novel, set in London, it's a great read. If you only read in the toilet, it could take you some time at nearly 1200 pages, but I loved it and read in in one sitting (though not, I might add, in the toilet!)
The Third World War: A Terrifying Novel of Global Conflict by Humphrey Hawksley Fiction and politics mixed in. Scarily believable and a brilliant read
Last book I read was Johnny Cash's autobiography - absolutely cracking read. Buy a lot of magazines which are hobby related as I'm into aviation, trucking, photography and nature - the missus has a real go at me about that.
I read that a couple of years ago as well and totally agree that it is brilliant. I has a really personal feel and pretty much all the way through it felt like he was just sitting there in a rocking chair, talking you through the stories of his life - unlike most of them which tend to be ghost written these days. I read Perry Groves' one a few years back which has to be one of the worst I've ever read - defintely to be avoided that one!
Love the Russians, have read all of Dostoevsky's including House of the Dead, which is an account of his time in a Siberian prison; riveting read. Russian short stories are the very best out there; check out Chekhov and Tolstoy's for starters. Bulgakov's 'Master and Margarita' is worth a read too.
