What book have you just read?

[speccybob]

Recently read the 'Riftwar Saga' Brilliant, was recommended on here. Getting short of books and hoping to get a kindle soon.

Next purchase is

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever: "Lord Foul's Bane", "Illearth War" and "Power That Preserves"

Currently reading 20,000 leagues under the sea. Not enjoying it if I'm honest but will finish it regardless.

Some of the best fantasy reading out there.

They arrived today :)

Still got to finish this fucking Verne book though haha

 

[Tuearts right boot]

'The Cleveland Steamer'

 

[The Ox]

Re-reading Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster.

 

[dobingsdobber]

Jude the Obscure,Thomas Hardy
brilliant.

 

[LongsightM13]

Aha, one of the all too rare book threads, and the usual suspect are assembled.
Just finishing Get Real, the last book ever written by my favourite author of all time, Donald Westlake. It's part of his Dortmunder series about a gang of thieves in New York who plan elaborate, brilliant heists that always go tits up. Superb and very, very funny, the whole series is recommended. The classic Robert Redford crime caper The Hot Rock was one of them.
Next up is The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt, a western about the bizarre adventures of two hired gun siblings in the old west. Everyone I know who has read it is absolutely raving about it. Lost out on the Booker prize to some ponce.
Will be getting Lakey's book for Christmas.

Saw this in Waterstones but opted out. Let us know if it's any good mate.

Finished it last night mate, superb stuff, highly recommended. If the Coen Brothers didn't remake True Grit but wrote their own western instead, it would probably be something like The Sisters Brothers. A good story with a touch of weirdness and very funny in parts.

 

[poyntonblue]

Aha, one of the all too rare book threads, and the usual suspect are assembled.
Just finishing Get Real, the last book ever written by my favourite author of all time, Donald Westlake. It's part of his Dortmunder series about a gang of thieves in New York who plan elaborate, brilliant heists that always go tits up. Superb and very, very funny, the whole series is recommended. The classic Robert Redford crime caper The Hot Rock was one of them.
Next up is The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt, a western about the bizarre adventures of two hired gun siblings in the old west. Everyone I know who has read it is absolutely raving about it. Lost out on the Booker prize to some ponce.
Will be getting Lakey's book for Christmas.

Saw this in Waterstones but opted out. Let us know if it's any good mate.

Finished it last night mate, superb stuff, highly recommended. If the Coen Brothers didn't remake True Grit but wrote their own western instead, it would probably be something like The Sisters Brothers. A good story with a touch of weirdness and very funny in parts.

Thanks mate. Maybe get the missus to get it me for crimbo.

 

[mackenzie]

The Making of a Monster.

The story of Rose West.

What a fook up?!!!!!

 

[pieface]

^^you read some real shite waste of trees.

i on the other hand:)....just reading .The pleasures of the damned. by Charles Bukowski,the greatest beat poet drinker gambler ever to scribble his way from the gutter to the stars above.

 

[Patientman63]

The Leopard - Jo Nesbo

Am a big fan of Harry Hole.

Very much into Jack Reacher as well. Cant believe the little gimp Tom Cruise is to play him in the film version...

 

[mackenzie]

^^you read some real shite waste of trees.

i on the other hand:)....just reading .The pleasures of the damned. by Charles Bukowski,the greatest beat poet drinker gambler ever to scribble his way from the gutter to the stars above.

You think I read a shite load of waste of trees?
Trust me when I say that I have just been slumming it these last few weeks. I do that sometimes.