What Book are you Reading.................RIGHT NOW!!!

Prestwich_Blue said:
Reading 3 at the moment:

Anthony Trollope - The Warden (first book of the Barchester Chronicles)
Shakespeare - Henry IV Part II (Going to see it at the Globe Theatre in a couple of weeks so want to understand a bit about it).

When I fancy something less demanding I pick up Simon Cooper's - Football for Life.
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Have you read Wolf Hall, PB?
 
mackenzie said:
Prestwich_Blue said:
Reading 3 at the moment:

Anthony Trollope - The Warden (first book of the Barchester Chronicles)
Shakespeare - Henry IV Part II (Going to see it at the Globe Theatre in a couple of weeks so want to understand a bit about it).

When I fancy something less demanding I pick up Simon Cooper's - Football for Life.
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Have you read Wolf Hall, PB?
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How weird. Just flicking through this thread again and saw this.

No I haven't. I got a Kindle recently and got through the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo on that. Great book but takes a couple of chapters to warm up as you said. Just started on Operation Mincemeat, about the deception operation in WW2, involving dropping a dead body off the coast of Spain. I love well-written Military History and this is fascinating.

Someone mentioned "The Boys" a few pages back, about a group of young Jews who somehow survived the concentration camps. I know a few of the people mentioned in it and went on a trip to Auschwitz that one of them was one. It's a wonderfully written and very moving book. How you could live a normal life after going through that is beyond me.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
No I haven't. I got a Kindle recently and got through the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo on that. Great book but takes a couple of chapters to warm up as you said. Just started on Operation Mincemeat, about the deception operation in WW2, involving dropping a dead body off the coast of Spain. I love well-written Military History and this is fascinating.

Someone mentioned "The Boys" a few pages back, about a group of young Jews who somehow survived the concentration camps. I know a few of the people mentioned in it and went on a trip to Auschwitz that one of them was one. It's a wonderfully written and very moving book. How you could live a normal life after going through that is beyond me.
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I am pretty sure I have read about the event that you refer to, but not in great detail. Is that the one where the body had false documents planted on it?

Wolf Hall is a great read if you are interested in Tudor history; it is almost as if you are there. Thomas Cromwell was a fascinating man, from very lowly beginnings, and it also made a change to see another side of that great "saint" Thomas More.
 
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Eeeee Eee Eeee by Tao Lin

Started reading it yesterday. Complete bizarre. Finding it hard to put down though.
 
Has anybody read 'Hacienda, how not to run a club' by Peter Hook?

If so, would you recommend it? Ta
 
I know I'm late to this but finally got round to reading Lakey's "I'm not really here" this week.
Cried all the way through it and coudn't put it down 'til I knew he was all right.
 
foxy said:
Has anybody read 'Hacienda, how not to run a club' by Peter Hook?

If so, would you recommend it? Ta
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Read it couple years ago and I enjoyed it mate

I am reading Gary James The Manchester City years and also listening to audio version of Danny Bakers autobiography
 
A cracking little book about Greek mythology. Fascinating stuff.
 
'Listening to Britain'

Reports monitoring and gauging public opinion and behaviour in Britain during the long summer of 1940. Suspicions of hairy-handed nuns (German paratroopers in disguise) and fifth columnists everywhere.
 
Adrian Mole - The Prostrate Years.

I thought Townsend was jacking it in around 2005 when she was registered blind but for some reason I came across her again and discovered she released the above in 2009! Another one is due November 2013.

These books were magical when I was younger, and although I couldn't put this one down it was all too predictable with the short stories offering little.

I'm going to give Porno by Irvine Welsh a go. My ex bought it me 10 years ago but never got round to reading it. Also a fan of Bill Bryson, biographical humour. So if you have any recommends then please drop me a line!

MM
 
LongsightM13 said:
The last fiction book I read was Child Of God by Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country For Old Men, The Road, All The Pretty Horses etc, to complete the set. An amazing writer. To have you rooting for a hillbilly necrophiliac serial killer takes some skill!
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Remember asking for that at my old college library, they couldn't find the book so asked the lady behind the desk if she'd order me a copy. I must say got a bit of a weird look after she read out a brief synopsis. Got to agree with you mate, McCarthy is fantastic. Just got round to finishing Blood Meridian, I'll be honest, it mystified me in parts but apparently it's his greatest work so I'll give it another shot some day.

Also finished reading 'Return Of The Native' by Thomas Hardy which I've been forced to read for my AS Literature class. Honestly the worst book I've ever had the displeasure of reading, don't bother!
 
yatesy94 said:
LongsightM13 said:
The last fiction book I read was Child Of God by Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country For Old Men, The Road, All The Pretty Horses etc, to complete the set. An amazing writer. To have you rooting for a hillbilly necrophiliac serial killer takes some skill!
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Remember asking for that at my old college library, they couldn't find the book so asked the lady behind the desk if she'd order me a copy. I must say got a bit of a weird look after she read out a brief synopsis. Got to agree with you mate, McCarthy is fantastic. Just got round to finishing Blood Meridian, I'll be honest, it mystified me in parts but apparently it's his greatest work so I'll give it another shot some day.

Also finished reading 'Return Of The Native' by Thomas Hardy which I've been forced to read for my AS Literature class. Honestly the worst book I've ever had the displeasure of reading, don't bother!
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So you've taken the epic journey to Egdon Heath?
 
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