Some excellent books on my shelf that I'd recommend; 'Secret History' - Donna Tart 'No Logo' - Naomi Klein 'Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 'Peter Cook' - Harry Thompson 'On the road' - Jack Kerouac 'Acid House' - Irvine Welsh 'Huckleberry Finn' - Mark Twain 'A History of boxing in Britain' - Frank Butler 'Peacemakers' - Margaret MacMillan 'Sophie's World' - Jostein Gardner 'E=MC2' - David Bodanis 'The Dark Philosophers' - Gwyn Thomas 'Germania' - Simon Winder 'Richard Burton - a life' - Melvyn Brag 'Ulysses' - James Joyce 'The invention of clouds' - Richard Hamblyn Also Chekhov, Poe, Shaky, Pinter, Dylan Thomas, Roald Dahl, Dickens, Ibsen and a **** load on political Islam...but let's not go there here
Just a heads up....Did you know there is a new forum specifically for Books opened up on this site already??? Its under All Forums in the Book section. It only started a few days ago and if books are your thing, check it out It has a few threads already from some credible not606 regulars http://www.not606.com/forumdisplay.php/192-Books
Let's have more stickies then. One for books,to please Dill,then one on music,and how about one on the abolition of the monarchy?
There is a specialist music, film, TV and gaming forum also. Likewise, the guys who want to discuss politics and religion....try the General Chat forum for your freedom to express, if you dare
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Seeing as there is a forum for this topic should I close the thread or would that be ruffling the feathers
I'm a real sci-fi fan. At the moment I'm reading the Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb. I'm on the third one and they're great. In the non sci-fi, (but still fiction), I can truly recommend "The Seven Days of Peter Crumb" by Jonny Glynn. Truly disturbing and fascinating. I can also recommend "The Sisters Brothers". 1850's western. Both funny and serious and a bit tense. Not wanting to knock any book, but if you haven't read "We Need to Talk About Kevin", don't. Long winded, self absorbed drivel.
does anyone else have the habit of having 2,3,4 books on the go (not the same time obviously I mean how would you wipe?)? I tend to read a bit in one room then pick up something else in another etc. Think it's a hangover from my student days; trying to read for different lectures etc. Anyway last read an old WW2 factional book (can I coin that phrase? Non-Fiction makes it sound boring) about WW1-Korean War era fighter pilots called 'Full Circle'. Also 'Hollow chocolate bunnies of the apocalypse' by Robert Rankin (all his books are awesome, funny and so easy to get into). Tried reading a book about the Theatre of Brecht but realised that I dislike both Brecht and theatre. Even Mother Goose down the Grand does my tits in.
