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Archers Road said:
I’m about halfway through The Satanic Verses.

Guess what? Salman Rushdie is a very funny writer. I had no idea there would be so many laughs. I’m only reading it because next month I am accompanying a friend to one of those “Evening With” events, where writers talk about their books (he’s got a new one out).
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^^^^ kill this infidel.
 
Anyway, I've brought Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto away with me.

He wrote/screenplayed the original True Detective so hopefully it'll be good.
 
Just finished Chris Brookmyre's latest offering Fallen Angel. Was pretty good actually. Feel he'd lost his way a bit in some of his recent a books and gets a bit geeky with computer hacking or gets into the realms of sci fi which I'm not a fan of. This one was much more like it.

Now reading the new Haruki Murakami which will be heavy going I suspect.
 
Sharpe* said:
I enjoy a good book but I just can't seem to finish them over the past year.

I get into one and then put it down.

Got about 5 like that.
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That's a bad sign. They say an unfinished book is a messy mind.
 
I prefer escapism if I've got a lot of time for reading ... like on hols.

Last year during our couple of weeks in France I downloaded books I had read back in the 1970s / early 80s - the saga of the exiles by Julian May (a bird) .. first one is The Many Coloured Land ... still fookin brilliant and sure to be made into a film one day.

Without giving too much away, it is set in the future where earth is part of a galactic hegemony where some individuals may have developed metaphysical attributes to a greater or lesser degree - but there are those that crave a simpler life - either because they are criminals or simply just disillusioned with modern life - one alternative to a life in prison, the death penalty or just carrying on, is 'exile' - stepping through a time portal located in France that will transport you to earth's Pleistocene epoch where you can live out your days ... then the fun begins. Fabulous books, would thoroughly recommend. <cheers>
 
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FosseFilberto said:
I prefer escapism if I've got a lot of time for reading ... like on hols.

Last year during our couple of weeks in France I downloaded books I had read back in the 1970s / early 80s - the saga of the exiles by Julian May (a bird) .. first one is The Many Coloured Land ... still fookin brilliant and sure to be made into a film one day.

Without giving too much away, it is set in the future where earth is part of a galactic hegemony where some individuals may have developed metaphysical attributes to a greater or lesser degree - but there are those that crave a simpler life - either because they are criminals or simply just disillusioned with modern life - one alternative to a life in prison, the death penalty or just carrying on, is 'exile' - stepping through a time portal located in France that will transport you to earth's Pleistocene epoch where you can live out your days ... then the fun begins. Fabulous books, would thoroughly recommend. <cheers>
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****ing hell.
 
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this northern monkey used to read a lot. I used to like Steohen leather

a must read for anyone before they go bucking Thai whores

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but this was my favourite

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