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

[johnny on the spot]

As Pee Dubya, Amazon MP is great. As are charity shops- in time you'll pick up some gems, though steer clear of the trendy ones (Oxfam et al). They're smartarses who'll spank you for ridiculous money.

 

[idahoblues]

Mike Carey's `dead men's boots.... great series of books about a scouser exorcist in london....really good reading

 

[Damocles]

I've finally gotten around to buying myself a non-work related book today!

I've just bought Guests of the Ayatollah by Mark Bowden. Apparently it's about the Iranian Hostage Crisis and the rise of Militant Islam. Looking forward to reading it.

 

[christened at st marks]

It's quiet thread Ric

 

[lostmyhouseski]

Oracle nights by Paul Auster. dont know if it can live up to The Brooklyn Follies though

 

[salfordtrueblue]

I,m glad you said that,im struggling through it at mo...

Stick with it. I nearly put it to one side too. Then it starts to get more flowing after about Chapter three, and it is almost like a different writer.

EDIT.....just to add that there has been some debate as to how much input the late author's long term partner had in his works.
This reminds me of Wuthering Heights. There has been much conjecture over the years that the first couple of chapters were not written by Emily Bronte but her brother Branwell, and that she carried on with the story when he went into decline.

Interesting, although I am not suggesting that Larsson didn't write the books as such (after all he was still alive when the Trilogy was given to the publisher), more that such rumours about the authorship of books are no different now to years ago.

just a quick update...finished the three of em now....excellent read ...gutted me and salander have to part.

 

[James23]

Bump:

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!

 

[mcfcjosh]

Reading Ross kemp on gangs in stages, i keep reading it for for a few nights before i go bed but then not reading it again for about a week

 

[savo]

I've finally gotten around to buying myself a non-work related book today!

I've just bought Guests of the Ayatollah by Mark Bowden. Apparently it's about the Iranian Hostage Crisis and the rise of Militant Islam. Looking forward to reading it.

Cheers for the title Dam, I'm interested in reading about the rise of militant islam myself. Always interests me. Just now went with a paperback from amazon.

A title I'd seriously reccommend is 'Endurance' by Alfred Lansing. Its about the savage ordeal of Shakleton and his crew in the the antartic. It's one of the most amazing stories I've ever read and somehow amazingly it features heaps of real photes taken in 1915 of the events themselves. Just unreal.

 

[tweetstreet]

I am reading a book called 'Stiff' by Mary Roach.

All about death, what happens when you die, what they do to your body when they use you for medical research etc....

Delightful haha

 

[JC 11]

Ha ha well i have just read a book called' no more jimmy choos'i dont know which one could be worse

 

[waspish]

Bump:

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!

Yeah I really enjoyed those books. If liked them try these <a class="postlink" href="http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/robin-hobb/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/robin-hobb/</a> they are a quality read.

 

[Ronnie the Rep]

The Abbot by Sir Walter Scott. written in 17th Century Scots dialect so hard at first but a cracking read now i'm into it

 

[Alanm1980]

Trautmann's Journey

 

[Dannyctid]

The Collaborator, Gerald Seymour.
Quality read.

 

[waspish]

I pre ordered one if those kindle readers anyone got a kindle or an ereader?

 

[Ronnie the Rep]

I pre ordered one if those kindle readers anyone got a kindle or an ereader?

just use my IPhone, its great, much more convenient than a physical book

 

[BELFAST_BLUE_BOY]

"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.

same here....first one was great and watched film other week on dvd with swedish subs....just started the second book.

 

[CTID_92]

What are these "book" things you all talk of?! :p




serious though, i'm staying away from books until september ;)

 

[mackenzie]

Just started "The Children's Book" by AS Byatt.

It is adult fiction just in case the title confuses, but it's bloody hard going at the moment. Hundreds of characters just in the first few chapters!Will persevere because it has excellent reviews.