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Dave7

Legendary Member
Location
Cheshire
A friend of mine goes to a lot of these weekend author/book fayres where they get to meet famous (and not so famous) writers. He gets lots of books before release......many of them are before proof reading.
The one I am reading at present is called 'All The Rage' by Cara Hunter. Very good.
 

velohomme

Senior Member
4th volume of Game of Thrones. At a fairly advanced age began to run out of genres. Really enjoying them.
 

Yellow Fang

Legendary Member
Location
Reading
Just finished Lieutenant Hornblower - very good.
Almost finished Hotel du Lac - ok, for women really. It won a Booker prize.
Over half way through The Count of Monte Cristo. It's massive - 119 chapters and 1050 pages.
 

Denis99

Über Member
Location
South Wales
Just begun “Liner Notes” by Loudon Wainwright lll yesterday.

I have always liked Loudon’s music, and this book gives a great deal of insight into the person and his music.

Well worth a read if you like Loudon Wainwright lll.
 

Paulus

Started young, and still going.
Location
Barnet,
I am on the third instalment of Alan Johnson's memoirs. The long and winding road. From childhood in the west London slums around Kensal Town in the 1050's, to being a Minister in the labour government. It is very well written and a great story of how from humble beginnings he rose to the top without ever forgetting his where he came from. I can recommend these books to anyone who likes auto biographies.
The first is called --This Boy
The second is called--Please Mr Postman
 

Drago

Legendary Member
This weeks Flight International magazine.
 

perplexed

Guru
Location
Sheffield
Just finished this. Really interesting, quite touching but also witty. The basic plot starts in 1922 when a Russian aristocrat is sentenced to life house arrest at the Metropole Hotel in Moscow, and it relates his relationships with a number of different friends and others he meets at the hotel.

(His sentence is pronounced in the first few pages, so it isn't a spoiler really!)

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perplexed

Guru
Location
Sheffield
A very good book
It's sad reading too, as it was only wrote in the 1930s

Yes. I know there was grinding poverty in so many areas, I like reading about history, but this book is still quite an eye opener. In many respects, if you didn't know, and took out a few datable bits, it could plausible be the mid-19th century.
 
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