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Old 27th January 2008, 11:13 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Hotel California, by Barney Hoskyns.
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Old 27th January 2008, 11:18 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
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Roger McGough's autobiography Said and Done. Love it!
I read that a while ago, very good read.

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Old 28th January 2008, 12:07 AM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett

A monster of 1100 pages but very easy to read if you can hold the damn thing.
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Old 30th January 2008, 11:45 AM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Half way through 'Salmon fishing in the Yemen'. Excellent read so far.
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Old 30th January 2008, 11:50 AM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
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I've just started David Simon's Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets which is the non-fiction story of his year with the Baltimore PD shadowing a Western District homicide detective squad. Out of it came his two TV shows, Homicide: Life On The Streets and The Wire. In fact it opens with Sergeant Jay Landsmann at a crime scene. Wire heads will know that that is the name of Bunk and McNulty's sergeant. However, the real bloke (and the one featured in this book) is also the actor who plays Bunny Colvin's number two. From the first couple of pages, it sounds like he might actually have been the inspiration for the character of McNulty, too.
This is an absolutely brilliant read. It doesn't read like non-fiction as there's a really strong narrative running through it and Simon doesn't actually refer to himself at all in it, despite the fact that he observed virtually everything he relates in the book. It also has a really punchy, immediate vibe to it as it's written in the present tense (the only clue to his journalistic/observational perspective). It also is fascinating as a Wire-head because so many things remind you of bits of the show as you read, from phrases to characters to scenarios. Highly recommended, folks.
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Old 30th January 2008, 11:52 AM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Ben Elton - Blind Faith. Distinctly average so far.
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Old 30th January 2008, 01:44 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Just Started Sleepy Head by Mark Billingham - Crime Thriller. Good so far.
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
The Wretched of The Earth by Frantz Fanon

Takes me a bit of concentration to get me noggin round it
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Old 30th January 2008, 01:57 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Twilight by William Gay.

Southern Gothic about sibling teenagers in Tennessee in the 1950s on the run from a hired psychopath after they find out what the local undertaker does to/with corpses.

Excellently written (not unlike a Cormac McCarthy novel) and very well paced.
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Old 30th January 2008, 04:38 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
The quiet american by Graham Greene - once ive finished Life of Pi
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Old 30th January 2008, 05:26 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
The unbearable lightness of being in aberystwyth
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Old 30th January 2008, 09:37 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Just finished "The Looming Towers - Al Qaeda and the road to 9/11" by Lawrence Wright.

Excellent read, very imformative about the founders of radicalism and the formation of Al Qaeda. Leads right up to 11th September 2001.

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Old 30th January 2008, 09:41 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me.

Works OK!
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
The timewaster diaries, hilarious!
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Old 31st January 2008, 12:31 AM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
I'm currently reading Why don't penguins feet freeze in small snippets at bedtime. It's one of a series of collections of questions and answers that have been published down the years in New Scientist (I think one was called What eats wasps). It's hardly a page turner but some of the stuff in it is really interesting and enlightening. Science can be cool kids.

If anyone wants to know why warm water will make ice cubes quicker than cold water or why belly button fluff is blue then this is the book for you.
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Old 31st January 2008, 10:27 AM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
No One here gets out alive - Jim Morrison bio. Very good it is .
Finished the Hand of God (Maradona bio) by Jimmy Burns the other day. That was pretty good stuff too.
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Old 31st January 2008, 10:39 AM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
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No One here gets out alive - Jim Morrison bio. Very good it is .
Finished the Hand of God (Maradona bio) by Jimmy Burns the other day. That was pretty good stuff too.
No One Here Gets Out Alive is a good read, I enjoyed it. Riders On The Storm isn't a bad read either. I like The Doors so both interested me.
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Old 31st January 2008, 08:04 PM
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