What book are you reading now / or recommend?

[Balti]

working my way through Bernard Cornwell's Saxon series

vikings, wessex and all that

entertaining stuff

 

[kunaguero10]

[quote="1961_vintage] Read The Secret Footballer yesterday. Decent.

Had a scan of this in Waterstones last week. Had not heard of it before. I don't buy newspapers so his column was not on radar. Blurb on the back said that there is a lot of debate about his identity.........any clues/guesses?[/quote][/quote]

theres a whole website dedicated to working out who it is

http://www.whoisthesecretfootballer.co.uk/

 

[kalouk]

Just finished Victoria Pendleton Between the Lines and Paul Lakes book. Loved Paul Lakes but i'm not really sure if I enjoyed Pendletons. Fancied a change so am working my way through the Sherlock Holmes books.

 

[Walkbustaxi]

Anyone read...

HhHh - Laurent Binet
World War Z - Max Brooks

HHhH Laurent Binet 2012
Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent on a daring mission by London to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Nazi secret services, 'the hangman of Prague', 'the blond beast', 'the most dangerous man in the Third Reich'.

His boss is Heinrich Himmler but everyone in the SS says 'Himmler's brain is called Heydrich', which in German spells HHhH.

All the characters in HHhH are real. All the events depicted are true. But alongside the nerve-shredding preparations for the attack runs another story: when you are a novelist writing about real people, how do you resist the temptation to make things up?

HHhH is a panorama of the Third Reich told through the life of one outstandingly brutal man, a story of unbearable heroism and loyalty, revenge and betrayal. It is improbably entertaining and electrifyingly modern, a moving and shattering work of fiction.

Not read World War Z. I'm sure that's coming out as a film with Brad Pitt? Hope it's a better book adaptation than that Seven Years In Tibet shocker that he starred in years ago. I hate when films fuck up decent books.

 

[mackenzie]

Just finished 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry' by Rachel Joyce. A deep, relaxing book. The sensitive description in, I think, the penultimate chapter brought me to tears.

I found that book a little disappointing to be honest. Well written but just lacked 'something.'

 

[Ntini77]

Just began 'The Big Sleep'.

 

[jimmy blue shoes]

working my way through Bernard Cornwell's Saxon series

vikings, wessex and all that

entertaining stuff

Loved these. Looking foward to reading "1356" the new Thomas Hookton book.

 

[crystal_mais]

Just finishing - First to Kill - Andrew Peterson

Recently completed -
First Deadly Conspiracy Box Set - Rojer Stelljes
Dan Shepherd Series - Stephen Leather

Anybody suggest any good Thrillers

 

[andyhinch]

Roark

 

[stony]

Just finishing - First to Kill - Andrew Peterson

Recently completed -
First Deadly Conspiracy Box Set - Rojer Stelljes
Dan Shepherd Series - Stephen Leather

Anybody suggest any good Thrillers

Patrick Robinson - did a great series of thrillers about submarines/navy seals/terrorists etc. Well worth a read, in fact it's reminded me to revisit some of his work because he must have a load of new stuff out since I last read him.

Nimitz Class (1997)
Kilo Class (1998)
H.M.S. Unseen (1999)
U.S.S. Seawolf (2000)
The Shark Mutiny (2001)
Barracuda 945 (2003)
Scimitar SL-2 (2004)
Hunter Killer (2005)
Ghost Force (2006)
To the Death (2008)

I've only read the first four but they were all very good. Time to give TCIB a call and get the rest for the kindle.