OT: What's on your Bookshelf?

I'm reading it at the moment.

 

How can you put it in your list when you've not finished the ****er yet? It is magnificent

 

Loads of others. Herman Hesse - Glass Bead Game. Gunther Grass - The Tin Drum. Umberto Eco obviously. Any Joseph Conrad. The list goes on and on.

 

It's on my bookshelf and at about a 3rd of the way in it's already one of my favourite ever books.

 

I've only ever read Heart of Darkness, may have a look for some others then.

 

Goods thread this. Has inspired me to reread my Tom Sharpe books, (which i havent for years)

Really should have included my favorite book at the moment.

fifty sheds of gray - comic genius

 

You slut

Noticed you had The Winter King on your list Quality read.

 

I've read the lot. He never wrote anything less than a masterpiece. I don't know how much you know about the man himself, but google him and read his bio. Man was a ****ing genius

 

I also have the angels and demons series as well. Main reason for all the sports books is the profession I suppose with lately the books I have been getting more coaching based.

 

That's too high-brow for us morons

 

I enjoy the game of thrones show and heard the books are good, may give them a go.

 

Im a Proper Bernard Cornwell nut

Ive done the Warlord Chronicles, (multiple Times)
The Saxon Stories
And The 100 years Wars Stories, (Thomas Hookton)

He is a brilliant Historical fiction writer. Even if his protagonists do seem similar.

Winter King and the Warlord Chronicles, was my first and will always be my favorite.

 

You have to not aswell that that is Fifty sheds of gray, and not its namesake.

Fidty shades of gray is just trying to be 'Secretary' and doesnt match up.

 

Love the Utrhed books me....lots of viking anarchy Felt the last one I read Death of Kings had a bit too much filler but haven't read The Pagan Lord yet which I presume must be the last one surely??

Have you read The Fort? That's an interesting one as is Agincourt

 

Pagan lord is sat on my bed side cabinet at the moment, but i really should read death of kings again just so i know where I am again.lol

Havent read the fort. What series is that in? I have Azincourt, but must confess that I havent read it yet. I had a little holiday in Spain in September and thats when I got into the Grail Quest books. Once Ive finished them Azincourt is the next step.

Would love there to be a film adaptation of the warlord rilogy, I think it is a really interesting take on the arthurian romance. (Lancelot being a c**t and all that.)

 

The Fort is a one off mate but possibly one of his most interesting IMO.

"The Fort is an historical novel written by Bernard Cornwell. The book relates to the events of the Penobscot Expedition of 1779 during the American Revolutionary War.[SUP][1][/SUP] While centred on the efforts of a regiment of Scots to establish and hold the fort against superior numbers of American revolutionaries, it contrasts the ections of two military icons: John Moore (later Sir John), a young officer who later laid the foundations of the light infantry doctrine used by the 95th Rifles and others against the French in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; and Paul Revere, hero of Longfellow's poem written two generations later but, according to Cornwell's research, an insubordinate, unreliable and probably dishonest character who was a major factor in the defeat of the Americans".

 

Ill have a look at that one. I was started with the oldest in history and am slowly moving forward.lol