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Post by Skankmonkey on Nov 12, 2015 12:59:15 GMT
Anyone reading anything decent?
Another question: Is anyone finding themselves reading a lot less these last few years? I definitely used to read a lot more than I do now.
Currently: Alan Moorehead "The Desert War", Simon Scarrow "The Eagle and the Wolves", Sir Stans autobiography, and a tedious biography of Mussolini I've put somewhere safe and can't find at the mo.
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Post by eddyclamp on Nov 12, 2015 13:11:30 GMT
Just finishing Terry Conroy`s book , that`s quite a good read.
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Post by Skankmonkey on Nov 12, 2015 13:29:31 GMT
Just finishing Terry Conroy`s book , that`s quite a good read. I saw that the other day in WHS. Its on my Christmas list!
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Post by Skankmonkey on Nov 12, 2015 13:31:03 GMT
"Soccernomics" looked interesting as well. Anyone read that?
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Post by The Drunken Communist on Nov 12, 2015 13:34:32 GMT
Not a big book man myself. Think the last thing I read was Marching Powder. (Good read actually, I recommend it.)
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Post by lawrieleslie on Nov 12, 2015 14:01:26 GMT
Jim Davidson's No Further Action is a good read and food for more thought about historical sexual abuse accusations and investigations. Even the investigating police officers were certain of his innocence but were forced to continue by superiors and CPS. Also recently read Lost In France which is the biography of Leigh Richmond Roose who was the legendary Stoke keeper who lost his life in WW1 and posthumously awarded The MM. Great historical footballing and social history reading.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2015 14:43:55 GMT
Recently finished The Runaway Jury, John Grisham. You might have seen the film with Gene Hackman but the book is quite different.
Very fast paced and seriously gripping, I'd highly recommend it.
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Post by lawrieleslie on Nov 12, 2015 14:54:30 GMT
Recently finished The Runaway Jury, John Grisham. You might have seen the film with Gene Hackman but the book is quite different. Very fast paced and seriously gripping, I'd highly recommend it. John Grisham is my favouritest author for fiction. Always riveting books and difficult to pinpoint my favourite TBH.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2015 15:06:57 GMT
Recently finished The Runaway Jury, John Grisham. You might have seen the film with Gene Hackman but the book is quite different. Very fast paced and seriously gripping, I'd highly recommend it. John Grisham is my favouritest author for fiction. Always riveting books and difficult to pinpoint my favourite TBH. Haven't read anything else by him but I am meaning to, what would you recommend next from him? Off the back of my English degree where everything has got a bloody deeper meaning, I just loved his no frills style, you can see why it made such an excellent film.
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Post by lawrieleslie on Nov 12, 2015 16:03:51 GMT
John Grisham is my favouritest author for fiction. Always riveting books and difficult to pinpoint my favourite TBH. Haven't read anything else by him but I am meaning to, what would you recommend next from him? Off the back of my English degree where everything has got a bloody deeper meaning, I just loved his no frills style, you can see why it made such an excellent film. The Litigators, Sycamore Row, Gray Mountain are good recent ones. Older ones I would recommend are A time to Kill and The Street Lawyer. He also wrote a none fiction book called The Innocent Man which is excellent insight into the American criminal justice system and death row. But TBH I've never read a bad one although personally don't much go for his none lawyer books, but that's me being critical because he is so good at lawyer/courtroom drama novels. His latest novel The Rogue Lawyer has just been released and I am getting it for Christmas off one of my daughters.
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Post by Skankmonkey on Nov 12, 2015 16:27:38 GMT
Not a big book man myself. Think the last thing I read was Marching Powder. (Good read actually, I recommend it.) I like the look of that. A modern day Papilllon/Midnight Express type affair. Ta!
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Post by stokeharry on Nov 12, 2015 16:45:18 GMT
Mein kempf .
It's a brilliant read but it doesn't have many pictures
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Post by blurtonboy on Nov 12, 2015 16:48:22 GMT
Last one I read was Janet & John, but only because i was forced too.
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Post by Miles Offside on Nov 12, 2015 17:01:47 GMT
Just finished reading Andrew Marr's 'Head of State'.
Enjoyed parts of it and Marr uses his characters to make a lot of interesting political points, but the plot is quite weird.
Would only recommend if you're really interested in politics and fancy an insight into how the dirty tricks campaigns might click into gear during the EU referendum campaign.
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Post by partickpotter on Nov 12, 2015 17:14:20 GMT
Not a big book man myself. Think the last thing I read was Marching Powder. (Good read actually, I recommend it.) I like the look of that. A modern day Papilllon/Midnight Express type affair. Ta! I read Marching Powder recently - it was OK. Three stars I reckon. Here are some excellent books I've read recently; Non fiction: The Most Dangerous Enemy ( a history of the Battle of Britain) Clothes, Music, Boys - Viv Albertine's autobiography Detroit 67 - a turbulent year in the life of Motown (the music label and the city) Fiction: The Help (life as a black maid in Mississippi in the 1960's) True Grit (the book that made the film) Look Who's Back (Hitler appears in 2012 in Berlin) Enjoy!
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Post by Skankmonkey on Nov 12, 2015 17:25:03 GMT
I like the look of that. A modern day Papilllon/Midnight Express type affair. Ta! I read Marching Powder recently - it was OK. Three stars I reckon. Here are some excellent books I've read recently; Non fiction: The Most Dangerous Enemy ( a history of the Battle of Britain) Clothes, Music, Boys - Viv Albertine's autobiography Detroit 67 - a turbulent year in the life of Motown (the music label and the city) Fiction: The Help (life as a black maid in Mississippi in the 1960's) True Grit (the book that made the film) Look Who's Back (Hitler appears in 2012 in Berlin) Enjoy! Cheers mate. That Detroit 67 appeals immediately. I'll have a look at the others later. I'm off out now.
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Nov 12, 2015 17:28:53 GMT
Tending to concentrate on local and natural history tomes at the moment. The best I've read recently is Doug Pickford's 'Magic, Myth & Memory in the Moorlands.'
I havn't read a good new novel for a while, though I've recently re-read two faves:'A Clockwork Orange' for Burgess' clever clever use of language. All a bit incomprehensible to begin with but by the end it's fairly natural to 'tolchoc an old vecky' etc. Also 'American Psycho' Brett Easton Ellis, a disturbing tour de force of a book, very affecting. Long passages of fairly prosaic details interspersed with explosions of extreme violence.
As a youth I loved 'Puckoon' and all the Spike Milligan books {never liked him in The Goons etc, but liked his written work} so I picked up 'The Essential Spike Milligan Anthology' in a Charity Shop recently, which I intend to get into.
Abandoned Owen Jones' 'Establishment' recently, it was all very depressing, need a break from it before trudging on.
Ten minutes of me head in a book and I just zonk these days.
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Nov 12, 2015 17:34:49 GMT
I like the look of that. A modern day Papilllon/Midnight Express type affair. Ta! I read Marching Powder recently - it was OK. Three stars I reckon. Here are some excellent books I've read recently; Non fiction: The Most Dangerous Enemy ( a history of the Battle of Britain) Clothes, Music, Boys - Viv Albertine's autobiography Detroit 67 - a turbulent year in the life of Motown (the music label and the city) Fiction: The Help (life as a black maid in Mississippi in the 1960's) True Grit (the book that made the film) Look Who's Back (Hitler appears in 2012 in Berlin) Enjoy! Didn't realise there's a Viv Albertine book, I'll look out for that.
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Post by Moosehead on Nov 12, 2015 17:55:57 GMT
"Soccernomics" looked interesting as well. Anyone read that? I've started reading that one, and am enjoying it. They make some interesting arguments in there, I'd recommend it on what I've read so far. Just finished reading Murakami's 'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage'. It was OK, but not my favourite of the authors books. Another one I'm into is Operation Mincemeat, which is about the plan by the British in WWII to plant a body with fake documents to fool the German's. Its pretty easy to read, which is makes a nice change from some of the cumbersome books out there on WWII.
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Post by Waggy on Nov 12, 2015 18:08:35 GMT
Ive just read ' full time' - Tony Cascarino autobiography. Actually better than expected. My friend Trevorbis reading" always the bridesmaid" by lindsey kelk , mother is reading " fortress by Andy Mcnab and father is reading " running with the firm" by james Bannon. We have a book club. Trevor organises what we read by putting pick short straws ( well we use celery)
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Post by harryburrows on Nov 12, 2015 18:15:48 GMT
Recently read fields of death by Simon scarrow . Wellington and napoleons campaigns culminating in the battle of Waterloo . Very good read from a great author
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Post by Waggy on Nov 12, 2015 18:19:37 GMT
Father says ' running with the firm' by james bannon is one of the best books hes ever read. True story About a policeman who goes undercover with the millwall fans in the 80's i think he said, says very good read. Not my cup of tea or Trevors about that kind of behaviour. Father will be father as mother says
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Post by StokieNath on Nov 12, 2015 18:20:09 GMT
The mist by Stephen King although its gets a bit fucked up towards the end, you'll know what I'm on about if you've seen the film.
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Post by drjeffsdiscobarge on Nov 12, 2015 18:49:16 GMT
The mist by Stephen King although its gets a bit fucked up towards the end, you'll know what I'm on about if you've seen the film. Havent read any stephen king books in years but in my younger days, loved the dark half. Also recommend his bachman books (4 short stories written as richard bachman) which include the running man (nothing like the shite arnie film it was turned into) and the long walk, which i thought was great.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2015 19:59:30 GMT
Bill and Ben taught me all I needed to know!
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Post by crapslinger on Nov 12, 2015 20:09:55 GMT
Bill and Ben taught me all I needed to know! About weed
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Post by crapslinger on Nov 12, 2015 20:14:21 GMT
Animal Farm all time favourite book of mine, all are equal but some are more equal than others, reminds me of this board at times wonder if this post will disappear ? supposing Allahs left sandal spots and reports it for some spurious reason, some very fishy goings on of late.
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Post by cooper67 on Nov 12, 2015 21:18:15 GMT
Father says ' running with the firm' by james bannon is one of the best books hes ever read. True story About a policeman who goes undercover with the millwall fans in the 80's i think he said, says very good read. Not my cup of tea or Trevors about that kind of behaviour. Father will be father as mother says I've just finished that-it wasn't too bad.
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Post by brilittle on Nov 12, 2015 21:27:23 GMT
Kill your friends by John Niven.......very good.
Might give that Mein Kemph a go next, Pretty sure a bloke in the pub recommended that to me before, must look into it...whats it about mate?
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Post by The Drunken Communist on Nov 12, 2015 21:29:37 GMT
Is that 4 or 5 on this thread? I'm going for 4, but it could well be 5
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