The GF book thread

[RedinSweden]

Alan Bennett - Untold Stories. It is excellent.

[RJ Fan club]

just started reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, having just finished Fast Food nation by Eric Schlosser

[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.

[RedinSweden]

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.

 

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.

[gazelle]

Round Ireland with a fridge by Tony Hawks - its piss your pants funny.

[RJ Fan club]

Round Ireland with a fridge by Tony Hawks - its piss your pants funny.

 

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

[gazelle]

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..

[sh#t waffle]

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.

[TonyTNT]

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.

[RedBrian84]

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.

[madstock]

Am also re-reading The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett- another quality writer, the DiscWorld series is hilarious.

 

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.

[Guest PaddyBerger15]

The Fifth Mountain Paulo Coelho

Confessions of a Pilgrim Paulo Coelho

The Progressive Patriot Billy Bragg

 

Piss off, youve never read a book where the main character wasnt a lovely big dog called Ben.

[Guest PaddyBerger15]

John Peel - Margrave of the marshes. Feckin' excellent. What a dude.

 

Is a great choice.:thumbup:

A cracking book about a cracking fella.

Im on Solipsist by Henry Rollins....ok so far.

[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............

Halfway through part 2..........................

[Big Ig]

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.

 

I'm going to start re-reading them tonight, you've just reminded me how ace they are. When's the film out?

[Ted]

Half way through Anthony Kideis's book. Very good read actually.

[Guest PaddyBerger15]

ham on rye by charles bukowski

 

is a great book, Bukowski at his best was a fine, fine read.

[RedBrian84]

Madstock- yeah I wasn't that happy with The Last Continent; a good read but not in the same class as the previous Discworld books.

 

Having said that Pratchett still achieves levels that other authors can't even in his 'weaker' books. I love the way there are 'mini-series' within the world. The Rincewind episodes are probably the best, although the City Watch Trilogy come very close.

 

Outside of Discworld, Only You Can Save Mankind and Johnny and the Dead are good reads

[Malarkey]

im trying to get into that book.................stalingrad

[madstock]

The City Watch Trilogy come close

 

Indeedy, Vimes, Carrot, Nobby et al are inspired characters, and I think that "Men At Arms" is probably my favourite of all - it just seems to me that he rather churns out novels nowadays without the "wow factor" of the likes of "Soul Music", "Reaper Man", etc.

 

I do agree that most of his pulp is still very readable pulp though.

[Remmie]

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.

The Red Dwarf books are fucking quality, makes the TV show seem shit in comparison

[Sut]

Just started Moby Dick again.

[Guest PaddyBerger15]

The Red Dwarf books are fucking quality, makes the TV show seem shit in comparison

 

:yes:

They are indeed a good read. They are ideal holiday books, lying on a sunbed with a beer, they entertain you and flow over you without having to do too much analysis or concentrating.

[madstock]

I have just started "Aberystwyth Mon Amour" by Malcolm Pryce; within the first couple of pages it has raised a titter or two.

 

Which bodes well.

[Anubis]

Steal This Computer Book 4.0. it's about the hacker mindset.