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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Just finished Elmore Leonard's Swag and am now starting on Rum Punch.
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17th February 2008, 06:47 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Eric Bischoffs autobiography.
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17th February 2008, 06:57 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
andy martin's stealing the wave...... good read
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17th February 2008, 07:14 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
The Woods by Harlan Coben. Another top class twisty turner mystery thriller from one of Americas finest
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17th February 2008, 07:32 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
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Jady Goody - That what and the why of quantum phisics theory.
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Don't you mean 'da wat n y of qwon-tem fizz-x feary'?
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17th February 2008, 09:35 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Friday night lights-H.G.Bissinger.
Alot better than the film
In the state of Texas American football is a religion. And nowhere is more fanatical about its football than the small town of Odessa. There, every Friday night from September to November, a bunch of seventeen-year-old kids play their hearts out for the honour of their high school. In front of 20,000 people.
In 1988 H G Bissinger spent a season in Odessa discovering just what makes a town pin its hopes on eleven boys on a football field. He lived, dreamed and cheered with the students, coaches and townspeople who dedicate their lives to their team, sharing their joys and triumphs, their pains, injuries and bitter disappointments. He returned with a compassionate but hard-eyed story of a town riven by money, race and class, where a high school can spend more on medical supplies for its athletic program than on its English department in total.
Friday Night Lights is one of the best books about sport ever written. It is the story of how dreams and reality collide, at once glorious and immensely sad. Because for the 30-odd boys of the Permian Panthers, these days will have been the best of their
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28th February 2008, 03:09 PM
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Re: Read anything good recently?
I can't remember the title for that other reading thread, so I've bumped this one (maybe a GF mod could merge the two as they're both great for recommendations). I've just finished David Simon's Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets which was absolutely fantastic. I think I mentioned it on the other thread, but it's by the creator of the TV shows The Wire and Homicide. He was a crime journalist for the Baltimore Sun newspaper (to be featured in the final season of The Wire) and took a year's sabbatical to shadow the BPD Homicide unit.
It is a fantastic read that actually comes across like fiction as he uses creative licence to reflect the detectives' inner thoughts following conversations with them. It goes into great detail about the actual procedures, as well as cases and departmental politics. However, the best stuff is the detectives themselves who come across as even more eccentrically brilliant than the characters who are based upon them in The Wire. Get on it, folks - it's ace (and if anyone does so, I'd be intrigued to know who you think really killed Latonya Wallace).
Next up is Truecrime by Jake Arnott.
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28th February 2008, 03:16 PM
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Re: Read anything good recently?
I finished the latest Ben Elton novel Blind Faith a few days ago. Its poor, very poor.
I'm now on the literary classic Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators: The mystery of the whispering Mummy....should be a corker.
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28th February 2008, 03:36 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Here's the other book thread if they want merging.
I just finished Micahel Palin's New Europe and I'm nearly done on I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan, which is going to be made into a film apparently.
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28th February 2008, 05:04 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
The Provinces of Night - William Gay
More dark poetic prose set in the backwaters of Tennessee in the 1950s. Epic and addictive Southern Gothic, reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy.
Twilight by the same author is another cracking yarn.
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28th February 2008, 05:07 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
I just finished The Omnivore's Dilemma and it was possibly the best book I've ever had the chance of reading. Fantastic stuff.
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28th February 2008, 07:17 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
As I mentioned in a thread yesterday, I'm currently reading Our Word is our weapon, which is a collection of the writing of Subcommandante Marcos of the Zapatistas.
It is a sublime book from a true giant of a man.
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2nd March 2008, 07:01 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard.
Link to extract.
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3rd March 2008, 08:36 AM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
I am reading this at the moment and really enjoying it, I am about a quarter of the way through:
Amazon.co.uk: Then We Came to the End: Joshua Ferris: Books
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3rd March 2008, 08:25 PM
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Re: Read anything good recently?
Can we have the two threads merged?
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3rd March 2008, 08:25 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Bump.
This one.
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3rd March 2008, 08:40 PM
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