donaldstott 0 Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 (edited) Don't read a lot but am currently really enjoying Crossroads by Niccolo Ammaniti I heard a review of on Five Live and got to say it's lived up to the hype they were giving it. The main thrust is a heist story with a group of hapless neo-nazis, it has the feel of a Coen Brothers script. Edited February 4, 2009 by donaldstott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 38752 Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 A Star Called Henry By Roddy Doyle. Cracking book, about a kid growing up in Dublin during the Rebellion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 A Star Called Henry By Roddy Doyle.Cracking book, about a kid growing up in Dublin during the Rebellion. Its a cracker. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeazesMag 0 Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 found a good review of this for you http://www.audible.co.uk/aduk/site/product...K_ISIS_000370UK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Got round to starting Freakonomics (as recommended by people on here in the past I'm sure) today. Only a couple of chapters in but it's cracking if you're a stat fan like me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 70 Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Got round to starting Freakonomics (as recommended by people on here in the past I'm sure) today. Only a couple of chapters in but it's cracking if you're a stat fan like me. Read that after Chez recced it. Very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justin sane 0 Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Anything by Vonnegut,anything by robert anton wilson and for a good giggle(had me crying with laughter) The Dice man by Luke Rhinehart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donaldstott 0 Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Went to see Slumdog Millionaire last night and really enjoyed it. I have just order Q+A, the book on which it is based, anyone read it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justin sane 0 Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia by michael parenti. A depressing read but a real eye opener. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.A great read and a great way for him to answer his critics of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2bias 3 Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Stephen King - Insomnia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyluke 1 Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Nearly finished my Johnny Cash autobiography, currently waiting for my Che Geuvara Guerrilla Warfare book to arrive but don't know what to buy next. Got plenty of football books so open to all ideas except from stories and novels. Appreciated! What have you got against fiction? Homicide by David Simon is a fascinating read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawD 31 Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Here's a few of my fave's The Talisman - Peter Straub / Stephen King Once - James Herbert River God - Wilbur Smith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 38752 Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Perfume by Patrick Suskind.. One of the most bizarre and brilliant books I've read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaythesouthernmag 0 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 The power of the dog by Don Wimslow is a cracker, I couldnt put it down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SloopJohn 0 Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 (edited) i've not read many books but these are my favourites: kafka - the castle dostoevsky - the brothers karamazov nabokov - lolita woolf - to the lighthouse bulgakov - the master & the margarita hesse - siddhartha pushkin - eugene onegin golding - the spire Edited February 12, 2009 by SloopJohn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SloopJohn 0 Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Henry MillerMartin Amis Nabakov Kafka Koestler Orwell Vonnegut Hemingway Conrad Huxley Irving Modern americans avoid Mailer, Carver and Roth. go with Bukowsky Burroughs Don Delillo Brett Easton Ellis this is a good list as well. just explore and remember what Goethe said, "a good book is as hard to read as it is to write". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manc-mag 1 Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 George Orwell - Coming up for Air Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13844 Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Agreed - Class book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13844 Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Just finished this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Henry MillerMartin Amis Nabakov Kafka Koestler Orwell Vonnegut Hemingway Conrad Huxley Irving Modern americans avoid Mailer, Carver and Roth. go with Bukowsky Burroughs Don Delillo Brett Easton Ellis this is a good list as well. just explore and remember what Goethe said, "a good book is as hard to read as it is to write". How come loads of the authors in that list wrote books that were easy to read then? I think Parky's been looking at my book case as well. Add Philip K. Dick to that list as well btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 38752 Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 The Historian- Elizabeth Kostova... re-works Dracula , brilliant. The Book of Lost Things- John Connolly Mr.Nice- Howard Marks... was lookingforward to this, turned out to be the most tedious waste of paper I'dcome across in a long time. AVOID Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 5906 Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 I thought the hisotrian was a bag of shite. I read half the book and felt like it still hadnt started. Lee Childs does some pretty good action books if thats your bag. Just read cracking read. Puts English fans to shame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 38752 Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 I thought the hisotrian was a bag of shite. I read half the book and felt like it still hadnt started. Lee Childs does some pretty good action books if thats your bag. Just read cracking read. Puts English fans to shame Picks up in the 2nd half Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Cracking read that like KD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SloopJohn 0 Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 kafka ain't easy to read. well he would be. if he understood that insane and bizarre concept we call 'the paragraph'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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