Meg Posted March 3, 2008 Report Share Posted March 3, 2008 I've just finished You've Been Warned by James Patterson, which was bought for me for Christmas. It was, well, unimpressive. You can fly through it quickly, the storyline is fairly original in that it's not been done to death, but I finished it feeling it was a little too quick and the ending left me disappointed that there wasn't enough actually explained. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brucies Bonus Posted March 3, 2008 Report Share Posted March 3, 2008 Derren Browns Trick of the Mind Book is my read of 2008 so far..... Boy's a legend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimyReizeger Posted March 3, 2008 Report Share Posted March 3, 2008 Thought it was a peach myself, went on to read a book with a bunch of Conrad's short stories..The name escapes me, but I also read a Conrad short story about these two incompetents running an ivory camp. Very similar, but simpler and more to the point in my opinion (naturally, being a short story). Recognise it at all?Edit: 'An Outpost of Progress' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovers_spit Posted March 10, 2008 Report Share Posted March 10, 2008 Seven Days of Peter Crumb, by Jonny Glynn.Immense book, very dark humour.Anne of Green Gables, which is dissapointing.Baudaleire likewise isnt doing much for me.Saved by "Letters to Felice" which shows correspondents between his lover and him. Anyone ever read it? Gross invasion of privacy but very compelling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted March 10, 2008 Report Share Posted March 10, 2008 Currently reading My Life - Fidel Castro with Ignacio RamonetOnly a couple of chapters in but I'm enjoying it so far. I life the interview / biography style.Read quite a few books recently, the best ones being: Candide - Voltaire, The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck, Things fall apart - Achebe & The Dubliners - Joyce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimyReizeger Posted March 11, 2008 Report Share Posted March 11, 2008 Just about finished Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde - what a banger, seriously; not a word wasted!Also read 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, which is a short, insight into a 1950s Russian hard-labour camp.Onto Ulysses tomorrow.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehunger Posted March 11, 2008 Report Share Posted March 11, 2008 Also read 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, which is a short, insight into a 1950s Russian hard-labour camp.I remember reading that at school...he hid his bread. I think.I liked that book.I'm reading the second part of the Aldous Huxley book 'Heaven and Hell'. It needs re-read. I'm not taking any of it in... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepeep Posted March 11, 2008 Report Share Posted March 11, 2008 I remember reading that at school...he hid his bread. I think....and bosh, wonga, he bought chelsea when he got out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimyReizeger Posted March 12, 2008 Report Share Posted March 12, 2008 What is it with schools and anti-Soviet literature? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camie Posted March 14, 2008 Report Share Posted March 14, 2008 Finished Northern Lights by Philip Pullman and about to start The Subtle Knife which is the next book in the "His Dark Materials" series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemz Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Im reading George Galloways - Im Not The Only One...WOW... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemz Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 The Last book i read was Deceived by Sarah Smith...Couldnt put it down an finished it in about 4 days... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimyReizeger Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Im reading George Galloways - Im Not The Only One...WOW...What's WOW about it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bluesxman Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Just finished 'No Country For Old Men' by Cormac McCarthy, now onto 'Head On' by Julian Cope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.Pel Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 just bought ''the rule of the bone'' by russel banks off ebay; it was my favourite teacher at schools favourite book.I just know its gonna be brilliant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 I keep starting books and abandoning them halfway through 'cos I buy other ones and just forget about them. I won't list all the ones I've yet to finish, but currently reading Please Kill Me: An Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil. So good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Stu Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Currently struggling with The Algebraist, by Iain M Banks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveCrisis Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Currently struggling with The Algebraist, by Iain M Banks.Ouch! Struggled with that one too.Almost done with No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy then getting to grips with Oil! by Upton Sinclair (the source material for There Will Be Blood) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diarmaid Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 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: BooksAnd 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Denim.. Posted April 9, 2008 Report Share Posted April 9, 2008 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.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bluesxman Posted April 10, 2008 Report Share Posted April 10, 2008 Finished 'I, Lucifer' by Glen Duncan and now on 'Blood Meridian' by Cormac McCarthy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen B Posted April 10, 2008 Report Share Posted April 10, 2008 I just finished the Adventures of Tom Sawyer and I'm now reading The Amateur Emigrant by Robert Louis Stevenson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeanette Posted April 10, 2008 Report Share Posted April 10, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted April 10, 2008 Report Share Posted April 10, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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