World War Z by Max Brooks

Finally getting round to reading this and it’s highly enjoyable. Forget about the film, this is a series of interviews with “survivors” of the war against the infected. I’m about a third of the way through, it does paint an all too realistic picture of political failure.

+1 for ‘The Goldfinch’ by Donna Tartt

Also loved ‘may we be forgiven’ by a.m.holmes

‘The Corrections’ by Jonathan Franzen

OP:

Try Pedalling To Hawaii: A Human Powered Adventure by Stevie Smith if you’re looking to power-up your wonder lust a bit more.

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‘I am Pilgrim’ by Terry Hayes

I think it’s been described as Homeland/The Wire/Bourne Ultimatum all rolled into one

Currently dragging myself to the end of my first and very definitely last Lee Child book. What was I thinking when I ordered this; the very definition of literature for morons to be filed next to Jeffery Archer and Tom Clancy. I thought I needed something easy and light – turns out I hate easy and light (at least the way Childs writes it).

Read it a while ago, but Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry is an amazing book that will make you wish you were a cowboy. The sequels are OK, but not in the same league. Most of Haruki Murakami’s stuff is good if you like surreal fiction. His non-fiction book about running marathons is also very good.

I’ll have to disagree with Mr Lager, the second Rothfuss book is as good as the first.

+1 for that. I enjoyed them both equally and i also wonder if the 3rd book will ever be finished. Patrick was also surprised – see the first review of the new book ‘Doors of Stone here

On the back of a recommendation on here i have recently ready ‘First Light’ by Geoffrey Wellum. It was highly recommended by a few but sadly not really my taste. Good but not great.

Of the cycling related books i would hugely recommend ‘The Secret Race’ by Tyler Hamilton and Ned Boulting’s ‘On the Road Bike’.

Next up for me will be Guy Martin’s autobiography – unashamed manlove!

Try Jupiters Travels by Ted Simon. Real BITD wanderlust epic. On a slight tangent, I’d been reading Conn Igguldens books, the Genghis Khan series had me enthralled, the descriptions of Mongolia and further afield piqued a real interest in the area and culture.

Not a book but try Bunyan Velo(Digital) and Sidetracked (available in paper format). Beautiful publications with some amazing photography.

I’m on Market Forces by Richard Morgan. Not a patch on his other stuff and I was quite surprised to see the order they were written in- I’d have assumed this was his first one!
Still turning the pages though..

Just read “THe Redeemer” by Jo Nesbo. I have an Ebay Nesbo bundle on the way…

Just read “THe Redeemer” by Jo Nesbo. I have an Ebay Nesbo bundle on the way…

They get a bit samey imo

Me?
The final testimony of Raphael Ignatus Pheonix, by Paul Sussman.

Scar Tissue the Anthony Kiedis biography. How he is still alive is beyond me 😕