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3rd May 2007, 10:22 AM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
The Fifth Mountain Paulo Coelho
Confessions of a Pilgrim Paulo Coelho
The Progressive Patriot Billy Bragg
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3rd May 2007, 11:03 AM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Alan Bennett - Untold Stories. It is excellent.
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At a football club, there’s a holy trinity – the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don’t come into it. They are only there to sign the cheques
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3rd May 2007, 11:10 AM
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Carrying on...
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
just started reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, having just finished Fast Food nation by Eric Schlosser
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3rd May 2007, 11:11 AM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
John Peel - Margrave of the marshes. Feckin' excellent. What a dude.
Stephen King - Cell. Not bad, but the poor bloke is losing it.
Bill Bryson - A short history of nearly everything. Excellent, such an easy author to read, amusing, insightful and with a knack of making everything interesting and easy to remember.
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3rd May 2007, 11:13 AM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Originally Posted by Uncle_Meat
John Peel - Margrave of the marshes. Feckin' excellent. What a dude.
Stephen King - Cell. Not bad, but the poor bloke is losing it.
Bill Bryson - A short history of nearly everything. Excellent, such an easy author to read, amusing, insightful and with a knack of making everything interesting and easy to remember.
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I have recently read those two. John Peel was my hero when I was growing up. Bill Bryson is an excellent author who makes me laugh out loud. That book is fascinating too.
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Originally Posted by Bill Shankly
At a football club, there’s a holy trinity – the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don’t come into it. They are only there to sign the cheques
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3rd May 2007, 01:07 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Round Ireland with a fridge by Tony Hawks - its piss your pants funny.
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3rd May 2007, 01:10 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Originally Posted by gazelle414
Round Ireland with a fridge by Tony Hawks - its piss your pants funny.
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Yeah quite good that, read the others if you can, Playing the Moldovans at Tennis is also really good (the best IMO), and not so much onehitwonderland but still its worth a read
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3rd May 2007, 01:14 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Nice one - ill keep an eye out, this is the first one of his i've read, picked it up for 30p in a charity shop - bargain! The fridge went surfing this morning - comedy..
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3rd May 2007, 01:18 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
I'm currently reading Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon by Tony Fletcher - really excellent biography.
After that I'm going to read Soulsville USA: The Story of Stax Records, which I believe is also quality.
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3rd May 2007, 01:41 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Just finished reading a book called Mr Candid which I would recommend to anyone and I have now started the Red Dwarf Books, had it on my shelf for years and and only now getting round to reading it.
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3rd May 2007, 03:17 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Any of the Bernard Cornwell books are a must read- he's an outstanding writer. I love the Sharpe series, especially Sharpe's Eagle.
His Arthur trilogy is also ace.
Am also re-reading The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett- another quality writer, the DiscWorld series is hilarious.
Recommended.
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3rd May 2007, 03:24 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Originally Posted by RedBrian84
Am also re-reading The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett- another quality writer, the DiscWorld series is hilarious.
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Have you found him to be a bit stale in recent novels (Since Jingo/The Last Continent)? I have found Robert Rankin to be far more consistent of late, with the likes of "Knees Up Mother Earth" and "The Brightonomicon" being particular oeuvres.
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3rd May 2007, 07:35 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Originally Posted by firemarshall
The Fifth Mountain Paulo Coelho
Confessions of a Pilgrim Paulo Coelho
The Progressive Patriot Billy Bragg
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Piss off, youve never read a book where the main character wasnt a lovely big dog called Ben.
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3rd May 2007, 07:39 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Originally Posted by Uncle_Meat
John Peel - Margrave of the marshes. Feckin' excellent. What a dude.
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Is a great choice. 
A cracking book about a cracking fella.
Im on Solipsist by Henry Rollins....ok so far.
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Originally Posted by Bellflower
Didn't we do this one a few months ago ? I'm still on the same book , The Civil War part 1 by Shelby Foote. Parts 2 and 3 still to go, should be finished about this time next year............
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Halfway through part 2..........................
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4th May 2007, 12:51 AM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Originally Posted by Paul
You're in for a treat - it's fucking ace. The first 100 or so pages are a struggle as he doesn't explain any of the terminology he's using, but after that it goes boom. The entire trilogy is amazing and I want an alethiometer.
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