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

Don't normally post on here, long term lurker! But felt I had to let you know about The Carpet King of Texas. Fantastic book, just finished it. Proper hardcore, full-on, downright twisted and very funny. Think Irvine Welsh meets Brett Easton Ellis. Defo worth having a look at. Not out till 1st September, but someone I know got a first edition and leant it to me. Cracker.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.thecarpetkingoftexas.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.thecarpetkingoftexas.com</a>
 
mackenzie said:
Just finished "Child of God" by Cormac McCarthy.

His subject matter is depressing but his writing style is excellent. Although with this book I think he pinched much of it from the Ed Gein story.
Click to expand...
Great, great book though, mack.
Just completed the full set of McCarthy with Outer Dark.
If you thought Child Of God had depressing subject matter (hillbilly outcast becomes a serial killer and necrophiliac) then check THIS one out (young, penniless hillbilly woman gives birth to son fathered by her own brother. He dumps it in the forest and tells her it died of natural causes. She finds out he was lying and goes off wandering the Appalachians to try and find her son. He goes off wandering after her. Bad, bad things happen)
 
Been away in Spain and read The God Delusion (Dawkins), The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger) and God Is Not Great (Christopher Hutchins).

Would recommend all of them...on to The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde)
 
Hard Time - British man's account in one of America's toughest jails. Great Read

Marching Powder - Another British man's account of life in a tough jail, this time in Bolivia. Another great read and found out by a recommendation on here

Robbie Savage Autobiography - Worth a read, still think he is a p***k though

Im half way through Alex Higgins biography
 
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.
 
just finished the slapTsiolkas

am now half way through

footnotes in Gaza..Joe Sacco

and your face tomoorrow....Javier Marias

next up

and the land lay still james robertson
 
Brags and Boasts, Propaganda in the years of the Armada, by Bertrand T Whitehead.

It started heavy, as much of it is quotations in Olde Englishe, but it's a curiously interesting read.

I'm starting to understand the strange way we spoke in those days.
 
I don't normally do much reading, but decided that I'm going to start doing a bit more now.

Just started reading gazzas autobiography
 
Just started The Blitz: The British Under Attack. Fled through the first chapter. Seems well written and thoroughly researched. Hopes its as good right through.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Unread Posts

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top