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

seantheduck said:
mackenzie said:
"The Girl who Played with Fire."

Second book of the Millennium trilogy.

I don't know what it is about these books, but one thing for sure is they are very hard to put down.
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same here....first one was great and watched film other week on dvd with swedish subs....just started the second book.
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These are on my list to read soon. At the moment, I'm reading "The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England" by Ian Mortimer. It's good stuff, written a bit like a travel guide.
 
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historical novel / swashbuckler / political allegory

satisfying on every level so far. seriously good stuff. had to be, over the last six months, I've scarcely managed anything more challenging than the sports pages.
 
AC1DK1LLA said:
After reading all that god shit I'm gonna start VALIS by Phillip K Dick again.
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hah, I knew there was a reason I didn't bother with that thread.

I still reckon that's comfortably the scariest book I ever read. deadpan schizophrenia.

have you the biography, 'I am alive and you are dead?

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.bloomsbury.com/Books/Details.aspx?isbn=9780747569190" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.bloomsbury.com/Books/Details ... 0747569190</a>

definitely recommended
 
Chick Counterfly said:
AC1DK1LLA said:
After reading all that god shit I'm gonna start VALIS by Phillip K Dick again.
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hah, I knew there was a reason I didn't bother with that thread.

I still reckon that's comfortably the scariest book I ever read. deadpan schizophrenia.

have you the biography, 'I am alive and you are dead?

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.bloomsbury.com/Books/Details.aspx?isbn=9780747569190" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.bloomsbury.com/Books/Details ... 0747569190</a>

definitely recommended
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I've not got it but I will soon cheers. Have you read anything of Exegesis?Its weird shit but you might like it. Theres not many pages published hopefully one day the whole thing we be published.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.philipkdick.com/new_exegesis.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.philipkdick.com/new_exegesis.html</a>
 
James23 said:
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I'm not much of a book reader but currently 2/3rds of the way through the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy by Philip Pullman. It is generally conceived as a teenagers' book, I'm 18 and I love it.
First book, 'Northern Lights' was superb and just a shame the film ruins it by not actually including the ending.
Second book, 'The Subtle Knife' was also very good and now I can't wait to get onto the third, 'The Amber Spyglass'. As I said, I rarely read but this has me hooked, I'm reading for a couple of hours every day and i even think about what will happen next while I'm stuck in work!
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This is one of my favourite trilogies. Really hooked me in the same way when I was 18.

Have you read the black magician trilogy? Again, it's 'teen' fantasy but I thought it was great.
 
pominoz said:
Joe Mercer,Football with a smile.Gary James.
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I've just finished reading this book. When I got this book I thought I would just be reading the part when Joe was with us. How wrong I was. It gripped me from the first page to the last. It got that way that I only read a few pages at a time so it would last a bit longer.
 
blue47766 said:
pominoz said:
Joe Mercer,Football with a smile.Gary James.
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I've just finished reading this book. When I got this book I thought I would just be reading the part when Joe was with us. How wrong I was. It gripped me from the first page to the last. It got that way that I only read a few pages at a time so it would last a bit longer.
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Brilliant! I felt the same when I was writing it. The key thing with Joe is that his life was so much more than managing City and the earlier material is necessary to understand why he was such a significant person. Joe's life was building up to the success he had as a manager, but his record as a player was phenomenal.

There's details and reviews of "Joe Mercer, OBE: Football With A Smile" and on some of my other books on <a class="postlink" href="http://www.manchesterfootball.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">www.manchesterfootball.org</a> and on <a class="postlink" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/James-Ward-Publishing/266700661882" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.facebook.com/pages/James-War ... 6700661882</a>

For those interested, "The Journey: Rebuilding Manchester City" is being proof-read at the moment.
 
Paying For It - Tony Black.

If you're into your crime fiction, this is the bollocks. Set in Edinburgh, the protagonist is a mid forties ex journo drunk turned P.I. A few cliches in terms of the character but the writing is sharp, darkly funny, with cracking dialogue and a proper noir-ish page turning plot. Only just discovered him but I'll be reading the other three in the series sharpish.
 
Just finished barbara Kingsolver s " The Lacuna"

ok nothing special

Just started A Hell of a Woman by Jim thomson

can't go wrong with him
 
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