Read any good books lately?

[Shaun]

Recently finished Then We Came To The End.

Hard work, but really enjoyed it.

Cheers,
Shaun

 

[ventoux50]

Have a go at Lee Child's novels, the hero is Jack Reacher an ex USA military policeman - now a drifter across the USA frequently stumbling into dangerous situations !

Very well written thrillers which keep me reading into the early hours (un-put-downable !)

 

[edwardd67]

Read "The Road" by Cormack Mc Aurthur(think that's how its spelt)

Better than the film

 

[Fran143]

Have a go at Lee Child's novels, the hero is Jack Reacher an ex USA military policeman - now a drifter across the USA frequently stumbling into dangerous situations !

Very well written thrillers which keep me reading into the early hours (un-put-downable !)

+1.....Love them!

 

[dan_bo]

Just read Richard Askwith's 'Feet in the clouds' which was good enough to make even me consider fell running......

 

[Melvil]

Read "The Road" by Cormack Mc Aurthur(think that's how its spelt)

Better than the film

I love Cormac McCarthy and I've read The Road and also No Country for Old Men - which I think the Coen brothers nailed in filming it - not too sure about the film adaptation of The Road, though, I reckon it could have had a lot more depth and abstraction to it.

 

[User169]

Salman Rushdie's latest - "Luka and the Fire of Life" - written for his 12 year old son. Not perhaps his finest, but excellent writing nonetheless.

Harry Mulisch - "The Assault" and the "The Discovery of Heaven". I'd not heard of him until he died two or three months ago, but I doubt I'll read anything better this year than the Discovery of Heaven.

Just started Orhan Pamuk's "Museum of Innocence" which is shaping up pretty nicely.

 

[Jerry Atrik]

Skippy Dies by Paul Murray . Peed myself laughing .

 

[biggs682]

forced to read a alan titchmarsh book over xmas as didnt get any others for xmas

 

[downfader]

Probably my fave book:

Mutants

Its quite indepth but fascinating and explains why some people end up as dwarves, with genetic illnesses and so on. I'm not really big on reading...

Have read these too though

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thus-Spoke-...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1294345909&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Anti-Christ...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1294345930&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Twilight-Id...=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1294345930&sr=1-2

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Man-His-Sym...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1294345978&sr=1-1

 

[Dewi]

Surface Detail by Iain M Banks, he's in a league, (or should that be universe) of his own...

http://www.iain-banks.net/uk/surface-detail/


"Famed for his profoundly dark and intelligent humour, Iain M Banks has succeeded in weaving another intricate tale that offers fascinating insight into the human condition." SciFi Now Magazine

 

[vernon]

http://www.amazon.co...94345909&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.co...94345930&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.co...94345930&sr=1-2

http://www.amazon.co...94345978&sr=1-1

I've never found URLs a scintillating read. They are far too short to hold my interest.

 

[swee'pea99]

Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson. Detective story meets literary fiction.

The Time-traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer

A Week in December by Sebastian Faulkes

 

[Melvil]

Surface Detail by Iain M Banks, he's in a league, (or should that be universe) of his own...

http://www.iain-banks.net/uk/surface-detail/


"Famed for his profoundly dark and intelligent humour, Iain M Banks has succeeded in weaving another intricate tale that offers fascinating insight into the human condition." SciFi Now Magazine

Read that just before Xmas - very glad he returned to form (at least in Sci-fi) after a couple of his recent efforts which I found a little dull and uninspired. Surface Detail was quite dark and focussed - and had an excellent twist to it as well.