Just finishing: Tobias Wolff's Our Story Begins - short & perfectly executed forays into the American hinterland.
Just starting: Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart - much hyped, for sure, but hopefully it will live up to its title...
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What ya reading? Return of the occasional STW book club thread...
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Managing My Life- Sir Alex Ferguson.
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I have not read a book from cover to cover since being at university 20 years ago
My attention span is pants, not sure why to be honest.
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EDIT: Oh and this was the last book I read, and it's superb.
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I'm halfway through the Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson, for about the 5th time. And it's no less fantastic on repeats than it was first time through.
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Very funny and even contains a couple of pensioners taking to a bit of impromptu DH riding!
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The case for working with your hands
"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"
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Mrs bought me a Grisham novel to read on holiday, about a kid who fancies himself as a lawyer. It was crap, very very crap.
Best read of late has been Irma Kurtz, "Great American Bus Ride", although its been out a few years.
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French Revolutions by Tim Moore. Normal bloke rides the Tour de France route. Very funny and much people on here will relate to.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Mary Ann Schaffer. World war 2 as experienced in Guernsey. Sad in places, a bit scmaltzy but a good read.
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Racing Through The Dark - by David Millar
Very interesting - well written too.
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Ooh blimey, always have loads on the go.
Taming the Badger which is excellent, very interesting.
Hello, Android - I keep putting it down, it's quite hard work.
Beginning Android Games - this is much better
The day after tomorrow is my current bog book, trashy thriller.
The Great Gatsby
To kill a mockingbirdPosted 9 months ago # -
Ho hum - Member
I have not read a book from cover to cover since being at university 20 years ago
My attention span is pants, not sure why to be honest.
This.Currently have Peter Ackroyd's biography of Blake, Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf and Pure Effect by Derren Brown sat here that I keep meaning to read but somehow t'internet and magazines always get in the way in terms of reading material.
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I enjoyed the Tim Moore - French Revoloutions book too.
I've just read Mark Cavendish's book, great read.
I've heard that Dave Millars book is good, so I'll be looking for that one next.
They're all roadies though.Posted 9 months ago # -
I'm interested to hear how you like Super Sad True Love Story, noteeth. It's on my list.
I liked The Case For Working With Your Hands (but then he was preaching to the converted) but felt he got a bit smug. A great companion to this is Jenny Uglow's biography of Thomas Berwick, a fantastic engraver from 18th century; a beautifully written book.
Just finished Leviathan by Phillip Hoare (not Hobbes) - again, a great read even if you're not as into whales as I am. Extraordinary how close we pushed some species to extinction, just a handful were left.
Next book is The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe because I need to read about some derring-do and I know I like his work.
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(but then he was preaching to the converted) but felt he got a bit smug
Those of us who are converted probably are a little bit smug
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The Fearless Harry Grb by Bill Paxton.
Superb read on one of the games most iconic characters.
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I have a new Kindle and have decide to re-read a lot of things I read many years ago (mostly because they are free!) Just finished Tolstoy - Anna Karinina, Brilliant if a bit long winded. Now on D H Lawrence - the Trespassers, not so briliant.
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Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, it's rather good actually.
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One Day - handed over from the wife and a very easy read!
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Just picked up The Flying Scotsman (Obree not the train)
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'The snow geese' William Fiennes
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Samuel Beckett's 'Malone Dies' which is very, very rambling, but there, it's supposed to be! And also, 'Decline and Fall' by Evelyn Waugh, which is very entertaining - truly a page turner.
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Struggling through Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. Loved No Country For Old Men, but this one is just weird. Really tough going, gave up on it for a while, decided to give it another go. Not quite sure what all the fuss is about yet.
Also just finishing up a Chris Ryan book. I know, I know. Guilty pleasures and all that. Taliban, sex, guns, stuff that blows up, and finding your long lost daughter is all anyone really wants, and you know it. Although to be honest I might have read this one before, they're all so similar.
Got so many books on my list, but I struggle to get them. Books are so expensive. I should probably use a library, come to think about it.
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Turn the lights out and go to sleep, its too late to be reading books.
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Slowly working through Nothing to Envy and Infinite Jest. No idea why the latter is supposed to be so ace; it's a bit frustrating, and I feel that I need something light and fluffy to read.
Blood Meridian was good, I thought, if pretty brutal.
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61 Hours by Lee Child. Good thriller-type story. I only like this sort of book, easy to read and entertaining.
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Light in August by William Faulkner.
like Hemmingway, a little disapointing (to me)
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Re-reading the Baroque cycle by Neal Stephenson. Reading Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham as well as Get Real by 37 Signals.
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127 Hours. Very different perspective to the film. He is even more annoying in the book, but some definite lessons there. Want to go back to Moab!
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Working through the free ebooks that came on my Android Phone, read Dracula, then 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, and now on White Fang by Jack London.
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Riding Rockets by Mike Mullane, who was one of the first to be selected for the Shuttle programme in the late 70's/early 80's.
If you guys liked French Revolutions (I loved it too), then read Tim Moore's other book, Travels with a Donkey.
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Will Adams, Archaeological adventure stuff.. good romping read.
Sam Bourne, Archaeological adventure stuff..(again) his latest (he's done a few of these now..
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Just finished Jack Higgins Pay the Devil and just starting Jack Higgins East of Desolation.
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