What book are you reading now / or recommend?

[mackenzie]

If you can get The Lost Boy it's about Myra Hindley and it's a good read. Also Beyond Belief is about the Moors Murders too though it was written when they were caught so it may be out of print. Ann Rule writes some good ones about American Serial Killers too.

Hez, if you are interested in Hindley then read a book called 'One of your Own.'
I thought I'd read everything about that woman but that book is the best and most informative.
It blew me away.

Thanks mackenzie. Will try and get a copy. When I read she'd had her ashes scattered on Saddleworth Moor I felt sick. She really was a vile human being.

The book is not written from any particular angle or agenda and it is superbly written. Grips you from the start. I've read loads about her and the case but it still had things in it that I hadn't read elsewhere. I was aghast at her complete lack of remorse and realisation of what she had done, even years later.
It left me with no doubt whatsoever that she deserved to die in prison.

 

[kronkonite]

The End By Ian Kershaw

exceptional piece of historical writing about the last year of ww2


just started " To end all Wars " Adam Hochschild about patriotism and pacifism in ww 1

totally absorbed already and not getting enough sleep -reading till 1 when you're up at 6 30 is bloody stupid

 

[speccybob]

Just finished the Hunger games trilogy, started Game of Thrones yesterday. Also put the Oslo trilogy on my Amazon wishlist. Anything else for recommendation?

 

[gaudinho's stolen car]

They are bringing out a film of Salmon Fishing In The Yemen, it's a long time since I read it but I remember it being very good. It's written in a diary style and is quite light and easy to read.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I was handed 'A Tale of Two Cites' when I got off the tube in London on Monday. It was International Book Day. The woman who gave it me seemed impressed that I knew the opening line. I walked away feeling like a pseudo-intellectual. If only she knew how completely lacking in culture I really am.

I've tried Dickens before and found it a little hard going and unfortunately that remains the case. I got about four pages in and got bored. I do really wish I could enjoy it.

 

[flb]

My Dear Boy-the life of Keith Moon

What a potty crazy bastard he was

Any Morrison's book next!

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Fred and Rose: The Gloucester House of Horrors by Howard Sounes

 

[The_Mo]

The hunger games, half way through, love it!

 

[sweynforkbeard]

A Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole.

About 7/8 of the way through.

'When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are in confederation against him.' (Jonathan Swift)

 

[hilts]

dear boy keith moons autobiography