The GF book thread

[RedKnight]

Have you read Stalingrad by Antony Beevor?

 

Yep that's superb too. His book on the Spanish Civil War is good reading too but it's more meaty than the two WWII books. It has a lot to do with Spanish politics which is alright but after a while you tend to blank some names out because you can't absorb any more.

[JER]

Fear Itself by Walter Mosley - great read.

[Strontium]

Currently re-reading the Adrian Mole books cos I haven't read them since I was a kid. And they're still uproariously funny.

 

Just finished The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks, which is... unforgettably bizarre.

[Guest Jay W]

Immediate Action by Andy McNab

 

A sergant advised me to read it and I can't put it down because it's a book that I can relate to, it can be quite funny at times too, well, maybe only for squaddies.

[ScouseJim]

class read that, you read the first one? The battle scenes in them are amazing ;]

 

Not read the first one no.. so far am really enjoying it and shows what a class writer Bernard Cornwell is..

[Hermes]

How to become an accountant - by Adam Wright.

[ScouseJim]

Parachuting for Beginnners - Hugo First

[Paul]

1980 by David Peace. It's fucking bleak. Good, though.

[RedinSweden]

Northern Lights, Philip Pullman. I only started it last night but my missus recommended it.

[Stouffer]

Sleepyhead by Mark Billingham.

[kopitegaz]

Just started Omerta by Mario Puzo

[Neil G]

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. At first I thought it was going to be a struggle with the made-up language, but I'm loving it.

[Fink]

Just finished that Cocky book about that smack dealer from toxteth...just about to start a farewell to arms.

[Uncle_Meat]

Hitlers War - David Irving

Assassin - Shaun Hutson

The Number of the Beast - Robert Heinlein

 

All easy, light bedtime/khazi-time tomes...

[reder]

Breaking Las Vegas. Its about the MIT team that made millions by playing Blackjack.

[Guest hyypiagirl]

I'm reading the Stevie Gerrard autobiography it's so cool

[gazelle]

Breaking Las Vegas. Its about the MIT team that made millions by playing Blackjack.

 

I just finished Bringing down the house, about the same MIT boys - excellant..

[LEF]

Immediate Action by Andy McNab

 

A sergant advised me to read it and I can't put it down because it's a book that I can relate to, it can be quite funny at times too, well, maybe only for squaddies.

 

Iv liked all his books including the 2 fiction series he writes. I think they are very easy reads you can just sit back and relex without having to have your brain work overtime. He goes into a lot of detail in parts about shiting in clingfilm ect.

 

Im currently reading a Ian rankin "rebus" one at the mo.

[Fink]

Breaking Las Vegas. Its about the MIT team that made millions by playing Blackjack.

 

Bringing down the house by Ben Mezreich you mean or a different one?

[captainharris]

Just finished reading the Roy Chubby Brown autobiography. Excellent read.

[Paco]

ham on rye by charles bukowski

[gazelle]

He has wrote a couple i think..

[Guest molbyscorchio]

The Dice Man is my favourite book. I have had a couple on the go. Just finished How to be Good by Nick Hornby and am also reading A Trip Round Ireland - With a Fridge.

 

Tony Hawks is a fab writer - very understated, very 'nice' - when that word meant something good. Try his tennis one, and the one about him buying a house in France. Both excellent. I think Nick Hornby is a bit of a one trick pony and very 1990, and I found that book a bit depressing, largely because the quality of the writing and dialogue. I'll never read another of his.

 

I don't know the Dice Man - who's it by?

[gazelle]

Tony Hawks is a fab writer - very understated, very 'nice' - when that word meant something good. Try his tennis one, and the one about him buying a house in France. Both excellent. I think Nick Hornby is a bit of a one trick pony and very 1990, and I found that book a bit depressing, largely because the quality of the writing and dialogue. I'll never read another of his.

 

I don't know the Dice Man - who's it by?

 

Luke Rhinehart

[Guest molbyscorchio]

Just finished my latest top up of cynical geopolitics - Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival. Have got two others on the go - Will Self - the book of Dave, and Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel. I think Will Self is a underrated writer. Try Ali Smith - the Accidental - I enjoyed this recently.