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Old 31-03-2008, 11:51   #421 (permalink)

 
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Just about to start reading Mark Everetts book, 'Things the grandchildren should know'. Which judging by mister everett should be a pretty decent read. If not very good.
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I'm working through "King Of The World" by David Remnick, which is about Muhammad Ali (which i've already read twice, but it's brilliant)
Amazon.co.uk: King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of the American Hero: David Remnick: Books


And also reading "Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk , which I've only just started.
Amazon.co.uk: Choke: Chuck Palahniuk: Books .

And I've also just ordered "A Lion's Tale : Around The World In Spandex" by Chris Jericho, and "Paul Le Guen: L'Enigma - A Chronicle of Trauma and Turmoil at Rangers" by Graham Spiers. Although I'm not a hun I'm interested in how he managed to fuck things up so spectacularly and I think it'll be a good story. The only thing I feel bad about is that I'm lining Graham Spiers' pockets and he's a total cunt.
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Just finished the graphic novel "Watchmen".
What an absolutely stunning book / comic.
I hear the movie's coming out next year. There's absolutely no way the Hollywood treatment is ever going to do it justice. This is a must read. (I've been putting it off for about 10 years because I'd gone off comics... how stupid of me.)
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Finished 'I, Lucifer' by Glen Duncan and now on 'Blood Meridian' by Cormac McCarthy.
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I just finished the Adventures of Tom Sawyer and I'm now reading The Amateur Emigrant by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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I've just finished Atonement. Haven't seen the film, and I don't know if I'll bother. The book was so well written that my imagination was able to pictures the scenes.
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And I've also just ordered "A Lion's Tale : Around The World In Spandex" by Chris Jericho, and "Paul Le Guen: L'Enigma - A Chronicle of Trauma and Turmoil at Rangers" by Graham Spiers. Although I'm not a hun I'm interested in how he managed to fuck things up so spectacularly and I think it'll be a good story. The only thing I feel bad about is that I'm lining Graham Spiers' pockets and he's a total cunt.

The Chris Jericho book was amazing! Great read, really entertaining, the Paul le Guen one was a waste of time, didn't offer any information I didn't already know and alot of the author's conclusions about why PLG failed so badly were questionable, and appeared to be mostly guesswork, which I could have done myself.
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It's by Graham Spiers... Enough said! I'm glad he doesn't write for The Herald anymore!
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Finally got round to finishing Please Kill Me today, best book I've read in a long time. Now onto Nikki Sixx's Heroin Diaries. I don't even like Motley Crue, but it was a fiver
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It's by Graham Spiers... Enough said! I'm glad he doesn't write for The Herald anymore!
It's true, he is a fud. Reading the book reminded me why I hate the smug little fucker so much in the first place.

I'm onto "Choke" by Chuch Palahniuk now. It's OK but nowhere near as good as Fight Club. The premise of it is entirely unbelievable.
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