Books

[Guest bigmatt]

There isn't really a thread about books so I decided to start this one.I think it's in the right forum.Anyway I tend to read quite a bit.Anything from sports books and autobiographies to history and literature.And I was hoping that there maybe a few more people who do as I was kind of hoping this would be an ongoing thing talking about books people have read and books coming out that people are interested in.Because me updating what I have read now and then will be awkward.

 

So the point is what have you read that you really enjoy? What are you currently reading? What are you looking forward to reading in the future?

 

It might be books,articles magazines or whatever.And yes I realise the irony of the unimaginative nature of the title.

 

So I'll kick this off.I have recently been reading the books of Colin Bateman.It started off from watching the first couple of series of Murphy's Law,which Colin Bateman wrote and have a comic edge and swagger to the general crime genre.I picked up and read a few of his standalone novels I predict a riot,Chapter and Verse and Empire State.Which I thought were good and intend to read his more famous Dan Starsky series.

 

So how about you?

[Nimf 324]

Just started a book called The Secret Lives Of Sisters. I love these kinds of books. Basically about every day life, easy to read, etc.

 

Cna I highly recommend the Thursday Next books by Jasper Fforde. They're very unusual. Basically set in an alternate UK where Dodo's have been cloned and are now kept as house pets. Thursday Next is a female detective. In her parallel universe, England is a republic, with George Formby as its first president, elected following the success of Operation Sealion (the mooted Nazi invasion of Great Britain), occupation, and liberation. There is no United Kingdom, and Wales is the independent "Socialist Republic of Wales". The Crimean War is still being waged in 1985, Russia still has a Czar, and the Whig Party still exists in the House of Commons. They make for a great read and I struggled to put them down.

[Guest Jimmy Redman]

That sounds good, strangely.

 

At the moment I, unfortunately, cant read anything other than the text for my essay, 'Peacemaking' by Nicolson. Its about the Treaty of Versailles, and its...interesting, but not interesting enough. I prefer the 19th Century.

[Guest Fiona]

I just love Clive Cussler. He wrote stuff like "Raise the Titanic". The hero is Dirk Pitt and there is action from beginning to end. I think I've read almost all of them except for the last two.

 

Also big fan of Dean Koontz. I somehow can't get into Stephen King, but Koontz's books even although they are along the same lines much more exciting and the story moves faster. If you get a chance to read "Twilight Eyes" do it's a great book.

[Guest Reno]

I've been reading Rebel Without A Crew - Robert Rodriguez on and off, it's a very good read, I just haven't had alot of time to sit down and read it other than at college during lunch.

[Guest ScottyB]

The Harry Potter series is awesome, how many other books managed to get an entire generation of children (and adults) to read?

[Guest Shane O Mac]

Adore the Harry Potter ones.

[Guest Rebekah]

I mainly read books by Ian Rankin and Jonathan Kellerman

[BRM 220]

Last fiction that i read was Devil May Care.

 

Just finished Jamie Carraghers book, which is pretty honest.

[ShaolinHandLock 73]

The last proper book I read was either King Lear by Shakespeare :lol or The Kite Runner. The Kite Runner is a great book, I had to read it when I was in school, and I still have it now, as I really enjoyed it.

 

As for magazines, I am currently reading one of the latest Fighting Spirit Magazines, and a Nintendo Magazine. I read each issue of PowerSlam as I get my hands on it (stupid slow newsagents).

 

Apart from them, I occasionally read the Guinness Book of Records (I have a collection of them), and Ripleys Believe it or Not. :)

[Guest Jimmy Redman]

The last proper book I read was either King Lear by Shakespeare :lol

 

Urgh, dont mention that to me. I've successfully deleted High School English from my memory, thanks.

[DC 536]

I really enjoyed the Steve Perry series of Predator novels.

[ShaolinHandLock 73]

Urgh, dont mention that to me. I've successfully deleted High School English from my memory, thanks.

 

But I enjoyed High School English. :)

[Guest Jimmy Redman]

But I enjoyed High School English. :)

 

Fair enough, I hated it! I've never really liked English. The only fun thing for me was the creative writing part.

[Fletch 204]

I'm reading the Mighty Book of Boosh at the moment

[Burakiosaurus 129]

i prefer reading autobiographies or books on facts rather than fictional ones. Currently reading Liars Poker which is an account of an investment banker in Wall Street in the 1980's, will follow that up by reading City Boy which is similar but about an investment banker in the City which has been released this year

[Paul 584]

Just finished (re) reading Dave Gormans Googlewack Adventures. I cant help but love his stuff, though Danny Wallaces is funnier.

 

I may attack my David Gemmell stuff again soon.

[Naitch 207]

Finished reading Charlie Brooker's 'Dawn of the Dumb' which is a collection of his brilliant pieces on whatever the hell he wants to bitch about that week. Really entertaining, funny book. But it is Charlie Brooker and to paraphrase the man himself, he could fart in my face and I'd still love anything he did.

 

I've been building myself up towards starting David Simon's recently re-issued mammoth book 'Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets' because it's well over 600 pages long but it's by the writer of 'The Wire' and is therefore immediately brilliant.

 

P. S. If you're a fan of football, read 'The Damned United' by David Pierce about Brian Clough's ickle tiny spell at Leeds. You can buy it from any Zavvi or HMV and it. Is. BRILLIANT.

[Guest Nemesis Enforcer]

I am just about to start on Git-R-Done the autobiography of Larry The Cable Guy which I recently bought from eBay, that is all I mainly read autobiographies of people, mainly wrestlers.

 

Last book I read was actually Ring of Hell which was quite a while ago now

[DC 536]

I really, really enjoyed reading The Rise and Fall of ECW (and have re-read it quite a few times). At the moment I'm reading a book called Doomsday: 50 Visions of the End of the World... and it has plenty of food for thought; a lot of the theories aren't that far-fetched.