wykikitoon 16498 Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 Just finished Lot boy. About the Moors Murders and the finding of Keith bennett. Chilling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30246 Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 1 hour ago, PaddockLad said: Have the folk judging this years Booker prize been informed?.... I’ve pretty much ignored it since Vernon God Little won Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 16498 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 Read a couple of crackers recently. The Shepard's life. Basically a Shepard in the lakes. Talks about his family history etc. Superb. No more Planet B. Probably the most balanced researched book ice have read about climate change so far. Brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 14528 Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 Just started In Plain Sight by Sarah Kendizor......it was published last October. Frankly I’m amazed she’s still alive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 34181 Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 10 hours ago, PaddockLad said: Just started In Plain Sight by Sarah Kendizor......it was published last October. Frankly I’m amazed she’s still alive Aye I started following her on Twitter recently. Book any good? I'm reading Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry. Two old Irish gangsters sat in a port in Spain talking, with their story told in flashbacks. Really good - you have to do the voices in your head though for maximum authenticity. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, so I thought it might be a bit artsy, but it's really good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 12736 Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 “Ah so I kneecapped the fella, to be sure to be sure” 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 14528 Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 3 hours ago, Gemmill said: Aye I started following her on Twitter recently. Book any good? I'm reading Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry. Two old Irish gangsters sat in a port in Spain talking, with their story told in flashbacks. Really good - you have to do the voices in your head though for maximum authenticity. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, so I thought it might be a bit artsy, but it's really good. It's frightningly (literally) good. She's a regular on MNSBC, where she sits there and says that the POTUS is the head of one of the world's leading crime families. The fuckin obsequious UK media could learn a thing or two from her.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebrokendoll 7085 Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 (edited) easy one sitting read if you've got nowt on and chilling for the day, thoroughly enjoyed it..... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Live-Outside-Law-Operation-Britains/dp/1846687969/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3TX2ME98UL2UX&dchild=1&keywords=leaf+fielding&qid=1601808422&sprefix=leaf+fiel%2Cstripbooks%2C337&sr=8-1 ps.... it's about one of the gang who produced vast quantities of lsd and were bust by operation julie! Edited October 4, 2020 by thebrokendoll 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19737 Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Just started the latest by Matt Haig, the midnight library. Another good one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 14528 Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Heard Robert Harris promoting his latest tome “V2” on Dan Snow’s history hit pod so gave it a go, pretty good, based on the last 4 days of the Germans last ditch attempt to turn the course of the war. I read Fatherland & Enigma back in 90s so I thought I’d give his other stuff a go starting with Archangel, which I really liked probably because I didn’t know a great deal about the subject matter ie the hangover Russia still feels from 70 years of totalitarianism and explores whether it’s really over. Started the first of his Roman novels this week Pompeii, interesting so far, who knew the head of the Bay of Naples water board was called “The Aquarius”? .... Since lockdown started I’ve caught up with Irvine Welsh’s last 3 Trainspotting novels, all 12 of Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon series (Netflix’s Last Kingdom is based on these, the 13th & last novel in the series is out this month 😢) Cornwell’s Arthurian Trilogy “Warlord” series, Giles Kristian two Arthurian novels, Hiding in Plain Sight by Sarah Kendzior, McMafia by Misha Glennie & How to be right by Janes O’Brein. And others too numerous and poor to recommend... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 38571 Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 I’ve read Pompeii- I really enjoyed it, but then I do nerd out on historical novels. If you haven’t read them already, I’d recommend the Shardlake series by CJ Sansom. They’re set in England during the reign of Henry VIII, and the titular character, Matthew Shardlake, is a lawyer hired to investigate shenanigans and chicanery amongst the various swine in Henry’s London. Very much like Harris and Cornwell. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 13983 Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Trying to think what's been best out of my lockdown reads. "Another Fine Mess" by Tim Moore, in which he drives a rickety Model T Ford across the Trump-voting states, was enjoyable as usual from him - albeit a bit less laugh-out-loud funny, probably because the subject matter is so profoundly depressing. Chris Brookmyre's latest, "Fallen Angel", was exactly the kind of intelligent but not too challenging thriller I needed over the summer, definitely worth a read (plus it's often 99p on Kindle ). Also been belatedly working my way through Iain M. Banks - I found "Use Of Weapons" surprisingly uplifting for something outright nihilistic in places. Tried to get stuck into some weightier stuff too - "The End of Days" by Jenny Erpenbeck was dark but really good; the joint Booker winner "Girl, Woman, Other" was good too although it didn't blow me away like it seems to have other people. Also read Martin Hardy's "Tunnel Of Love" but that was a disappointment compared with "Touching Distance" - there's a shoddy feel to the writing/proofreading, and I suppose the topic and narrative was always going to be a bit more disjointed than the arc of the Keegan years. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 14528 Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 4 hours ago, Monkeys Fist said: I’ve read Pompeii- I really enjoyed it, but then I do nerd out on historical novels. If you haven’t read them already, I’d recommend the Shardlake series by CJ Sansom. They’re set in England during the reign of Henry VIII, and the titular character, Matthew Shardlake, is a lawyer hired to investigate shenanigans and chicanery amongst the various swine in Henry’s London. Very much like Harris and Cornwell. One of the current Mrs PL’s favourites...shes often said I’d like them, and I almost certainly would, if it wasn’t for my bitter dislike of that fuckin cunt Henry Tudor & everything he stood for. I do enjoy this exceedingly petty and to most normal people frankly irrelevant grudge but to me he set forth events that we are still paying fior to this day. His modern reputation is a fuckin joke. A cold blooded murderer, nothing more . I don’t care about the complexities of medieval royal succession or the posh fiction of Hilary Mantel etc about the servile wankers who did his bidding. He was a cunt who has a strangely benign modern day reputation. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 38571 Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 You’ll very likely enjoy the Shardlake then, he’s not Fat Henry’s biggest fan. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 34181 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 17 hours ago, PaddockLad said: One of the current Mrs PL’s favourites...shes often said I’d like them, and I almost certainly would, if it wasn’t for my bitter dislike of that fuckin cunt Henry Tudor & everything he stood for. I do enjoy this exceedingly petty and to most normal people frankly irrelevant grudge but to me he set forth events that we are still paying fior to this day. His modern reputation is a fuckin joke. A cold blooded murderer, nothing more . I don’t care about the complexities of medieval royal succession or the posh fiction of Hilary Mantel etc about the servile wankers who did his bidding. He was a cunt who has a strangely benign modern day reputation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 14528 Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 Broken Greek by Pete Paphides... Reading between the lines, there’s a fair few on here born at the the end of the 60s/early 70s.... I’d encourage all of those individuals to read this, it’s unlikely anyone will be as big a music obsessive as the author was/likely still is, but if you did spend your time taping the top 40 and seldom missed TOTP then you’ll like this. His former trade as an NME scribe obviously helps with this, but his description of his family is likely to be familiar to many regardless of their backgrounds.... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 26189 Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 Does it come in extra large print for your age group? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30246 Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 I was born in the mid-70s, I'll have you know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebrokendoll 7085 Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 not really a big boxing fan but was looking for something to read and picked up this in me sons bedroom. thoroughly enjoying it up to now and I'd go as far as to say the chapter leading up to and including clay's fight with sonny liston is in a stand alone one of the most entertaining, funny and downright gobsmacking bits of writing I think I've ever read! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30246 Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 2 hours ago, thebrokendoll said: not really a big boxing fan but was looking for something to read and picked up this in me sons bedroom. thoroughly enjoying it up to now and I'd go as far as to say the chapter leading up to and including clay's fight with sonny liston is in a stand alone one of the most entertaining, funny and downright gobsmacking bits of writing I think I've ever read! Yeah, I loved that. Norman Mailer’s The Fight is a good read too 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19737 Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 Ready Player 2. Nothing groundbreaking. Similar love letter to 80s pop culture as the first book but a nice nostalgia trip and an easy holiday read. Read my boy’s copy he got for Christmas in a couple of days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30246 Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 I’ve never even heard of My Boy’s Copy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30246 Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 Sorry, fist. I thought I was you there for a minute 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 38571 Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19737 Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 3 hours ago, Alex said: I’ve never even heard of My Boy’s Copy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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