Top 5 books you have read

[Kidder Bukowski]

"Lad" I'm 53 years of age. You might want to drop the professional scouser act, it's buttock clenchingly embarrassing

So I'm supposed to apologise for being a Scouser on a Liverpool site am I now. Where are you from my friend? I've been supporting Liverpool since I was eight years of age which makes it fifty fucking years now. 

Let me tell you something lad, part of the whole Liverpool thing and what made us great was that we were a socialist city and our fans were the the same so if you don't like what we are then fuck off to whatever Tory cunt of a place you live in. And I guess you've plenty of experience of clenching those buttocks 'lad'.

[Rico1304]

I'm so please Danny TCOTW is on so many lists. Can't wait to read it to Izzy.

 

Great Expectations is another huge shout - the whole concept of misdirection and then the big reveal shaped so many books. I can remember gasping at the denouement.

[King Emlyn]

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[Remmie]

I'll be honest, I wasn't expecting a feud on a book thread.

 

[King Emlyn]

So I'm supposed to apologise for being a Scouser on a Liverpool site am I now. Where are you from my friend? I've been supporting Liverpool since I was eight years of age which makes it fifty fucking years now.

Let me tell you something lad, part of the whole Liverpool thing and what made us great was that we were a socialist city and our fans were the the same so if you don't like what we are then fuck off to whatever Tory cunt of a place you live in. And I guess you've plenty of experience of clenching those buttocks 'lad'.

Jesus wept

[Kidder Bukowski]

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Since the majority of me rejects the majority of you debating ends forthwith and we devide.

[Rico1304]

I'll be honest, I wasn't expecting a feud on a book thread.

 

(FFS don't think about running)

[VladimirIlyich]

A Goalkeepers Revenge by Brian Glanville? I loved that book,it was superb.

Sorry,I meant Goalkeepers are Different but maybe it was a follow up book in a series?

[VladimirIlyich]

Come on fellas,us 50+ year olds shouldn't be brawling on the interweb,leave that to the kids.

[Thoth]

A year in the Merde -  Stephen Clarke .. daft but funny good read for a holiday

Canterbury Tales - Chaucer.. Diverse and not too heavy stories

Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy - D Adams.. Just great

All quiet on the western front - E Remarque .. Another great read for a beach holiday

The big sleep - R Chandler.. good crime novel

 

The list could go on and on though

[Jenson]

The 'Adventure' series of books by Willard Price and the Belgariad/Mallorean by David Eddings. My favourite books as I was growing up.

[Rico1304]

The 'Adventure' series of books by Willard Price and the Belgariad/Mallorean by David Eddings. My favourite books as I was growing up.

Brilliant! I loved all those.

[setreal]

TekWar

TekLords

TekLab

Tek Vengeance

Tek Secret

[Carvalho Diablo]

Jesus wept

Maybe he did, maybe he didn't.

 

Are you lookin' at me ?

[easytoslip]

Janet and john book one.

[El Rojo]

Absolutely spot on mate. Hard read the follow up but as I've posted above, I'd like to see it done via Netflix. I used to love the early Elroy stuff but after Tabloid, I found him a hard read

 

I liked Tabloid and the ...6000, but Blood's A Rover was virtually unreadable, as was Perfidia.

[Red74]

I liked Tabloid and the ...6000, but Blood's A Rover was virtually unreadable, as was Perfidia.

Bloods a rover was the first book I've ever gave up on. Got to a third of the way through and it was just unreadable. Dan Browns inferno was the 2nd.

I've started a new one last night called soldier spy (meant to be autobiographic) but 2 chapters in and I reckon I've read everything he's saying happened to him elsewhere. Got Bill Brysons road to little dribbling on the sidelines so can see that getting an opening sooner than expected

[Rico1304]

Jude the Obscure is a fucking tough read. Nothing happens for a couple of hundred pages and what does then happen is tragic.

[Paul]

I liked Tabloid and the ...6000, but Blood's A Rover was virtually unreadable, as was Perfidia.

Agree on both. Shite, sadly.

[Paco]

A Goalkeepers Revenge by Brian Glanville? I loved that book,it was superb.

Bill Naughton I think he was called. It was a book of short stories.

[Pidge]

Bill Naughton I think he was called. It was a book of short stories.

 

This is right, it's all right, especially when I made the early decision to interpret 'Sim Dalt' as 'Si Green'.

 

Can see why you liked it as a kid, will dip into the others here and there when I want something light to break things up.

[mars]

The 'Adventure' series of books by Willard Price and the Belgariad/Mallorean by David Eddings. My favourite books as I was growing up.

Willard Price - I devoured those books when I was a kid. Then discovered Ian Fleming.

[scudger99]

Might not be the best books, but they had an impact on me, and in no particular order :

 

Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh (most of his stuff to be honest)

Shawshank Redemption - Stephen King

It - Stephen King

Fluke - James Herbert

Dambusters - can't remember who the fuck wrote this particular version

[El Rojo]

Agree on both. Shite, sadly.

 

I'd never looked forward to a book as much as Blood's A Rover, which made the whole thing worse.

 

Still, with brand loyalty, I'll still be thick enough to pick up whatever his next one is.

[Bjornebye]

Roger Red Hat