Read any good books lately?

[cisamcgu]

Just started the latest Ian Banks sci-fi book (cannot remeber the name off-hand) - I have been impressed by every book he has written although they seem to be gaining in size recently !

 

[MrGrumpy]

Currently munching my way through Pillars Of The Earth by Ken Follet, not my usual genre of book but I`m thoroughly enjoying it, I just hope that the evil lord gets it in the end

 

[Speicher]

I'm thoroughly enjoying 'Calling All Shipping' by Charlie Connelly at the moment.
It's an unusual travelogue that visits some more obscure locations in the sea areas mentioned in the R4 shipping forecast. It also touches on the history of the forecast itself.
What sets the author apart, however, is that not only does he possess the common travel writer's ability to be hilarious in the telling of his anecdotes, but also that he can write well and quite poetically in places.

Would recommend this without question.

I am now half way through this book, and completely agree with Charlies's comments above.

 

[uphillstruggler]

Read 'one more kilometer and we're in the showers' before xmas, pretty good read. an extinct cycle track that i remember going round the Football pitch i played on even got a mention.

Also, 8 Lives Down. unputdownable - if thats a word.

'No cloak, no dagger' about wartime spies and 'the Double X system' again about the wartime spies. Living near Bletchley park, i get to go an have a look at some of this stuff too.

Smokescreen by Rober Sabbag. about drug smugllers but written really well.

Anyone read Zigzag, about the double agent?

 

[Dayvo]

Nearly finished Significant Other: an enjoyable read with a good insight into the life of a domestique in a top team.

I bought my copy in £land - so keep 'em peeled!

 

[DTD]

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...


Agree it was a very good book – and not at all prurient – in a similar vein (probably a pun trying to form there) is 'Stiff – The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers' by Mary Roach.


Simon Garfield is always very readable – just finished his 'Just My Type' a cultural history of type faces (doesn't sound too promising put like that does it?)

How about a cycling book? – I enjoyed 'The Escape Artist' by Matt Seaton and 'It's All About the Bike' by Rob Penn.

Fictionwise anything by Reginald Hill.

 

[ArDee]

Just finished "The Devils Star" by Jo Nesbo, not too shabby if you like crime novels

 

[Maverick Goose]

Just reading The Hidden Landscape by Richard Fortey-a fascinating read for anyone with even a passing interest in geology.

 

[colly]

Just read ''It's ALL about the Bike''.....Rob Penn

Nice account of how he put together his 'perfect' bicycle. Visiting frame makers, wheel builders, tyre and component manufacturers all over the world to give an insight into their trades etc. and to gather the bits of his bike together.

Before that read 'Crash' and 'The Drowned World' by .........JG Ballard and a collection of his short stories. I gave up on the stories. He is hailed as a literary genius by some but I can't say he does all that much for me.

I may give another one ...'Empire of the Sun' a read seeing as how it is recommended just to confirm my suspicions.

 

[Basil.B]

Tintin - Flight 714

 

[MrGrumpy]

well finished Pillars of the Earth and managed to get The Basement read inbetween, now about to embark on The World Without End, think the Mrs is getting peeved at my lack of doing the chores

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[Ste T.]

Recently finished 'Last Light' by Alex Scarrow. A rather chilling tale of the consequences of the worlds oil supply suddenly being turned off.

I am currently working my way through 'The Silent State. - secrets, surveillance and the myth of British democracy.'

It's by Heather Brooke, the political columnist who did all the digging and leg work on the MPs expenses scandal, only to be pipped at the post by the Daily Telegraph.

Excellent reads but both depressing in their own way.

 

[deggers]

Best autobiography I've ever read by a country mile is 'the moons a balloon by david niven'-the glory days of hollywood-women,parties,fights,drugs all told with impeccable wit!. Classic film isnt my thing but he led some life!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Just started re-reading the five books in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. Wondeful stuff.

 

[Globalti]

Just reading Thirteen Moons, Charles Frazier's next book after Cold Mountain, which I loved. As with Cold Mountain his descriptions of the American country are superb and although it started well, it has lost pace in the second half.