Spoonie Posted July 29, 2016 Report Share Posted July 29, 2016 Powered through Live and Let Die this week. They're not particularly well written but they're enjoyable stories, the Bond novels. Currently reading some books on people skills which were recommended in a podcast but are short and filled with really obvious statements. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Broonbreed Posted August 4, 2016 Report Share Posted August 4, 2016 Rereading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Top notch Dick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted August 4, 2016 Report Share Posted August 4, 2016 Insomnia - Stephen King. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trikelops Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 Now And Then by Joseph Heller. A bit slow going at times but makes you see where the inspiration for Catch-22 came from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted August 11, 2016 Report Share Posted August 11, 2016 Just finished Russ Roberts - How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness which I really enjoyed. I'm a big fan of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments and this was a great take on it. Now I'm onto George Lakoff - The All New Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate. It's about how Conservatives in the US frame debates and arguments better than Progressives and how o turn the tide on that. only 7% into it but enjoyable so far. Can't remember where I heard about it from but I think it was a news article linked on Facebook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted September 6, 2016 Report Share Posted September 6, 2016 Really enjoyed both Don't Think of an Elephant and Steven Kotler's The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance. The latter is a discussion about how huge leaps have been made in relatively short time in adventure and extreme sports and uses some great case studies like Danny Way, Shaun McConkey, Laird Hamilton, etc and uses the idea of a 'flow state' to explain their success and progress. Well worth a read just for the stories and anecdotes. Currently reading Michael Lewis' Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour which is effectively a follow-up from The Big Short where he visits the countries worst affected by the financial crisis and discuses what they did and some of the historic reasons why, and then looks at the outcomes. Very well written as always and some terrifying stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted September 15, 2016 Report Share Posted September 15, 2016 (edited) On 04/08/2016 at 5:10 PM, Lemonade said: Insomnia - Stephen King. Took me 6 weeks to read this and it was not worth the effort. Gargantuan book, way too long, and it's a confusing mix of Greek mythology and Dark Tower mythology, which if you haven't read, then massive swathes of this book make no sense. It's a Dark Tower companion piece. Avoid. Also recently finished 80s footballer Viv Anderson's terrible autobiography, and "Nerve" by Jeanne Ryan, also terrible. Now reading "Truth Like The Sun" by Jim Lynch. Edited September 15, 2016 by Lemonade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Broonbreed Posted September 15, 2016 Report Share Posted September 15, 2016 The Master and Margerita - Mikhail Bulgakov. Devil comes to town store with a big, black bipedal cat who rips someones head off. the first 30% is good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted September 16, 2016 Report Share Posted September 16, 2016 Finished some old books on dealing with people by Les Gilbin and now going back to Inverting the Pyramid which I started a while back and never finished, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted September 22, 2016 Report Share Posted September 22, 2016 Finished Inverting the Pyramid and really glad I did. An excellent book and the level of research it must have taken is impressive. Now started onto Talking Tactics: You’ll Never Look at Football the Same Way Again by Mihail Vladimirov and Bob Pearce which is written as a sort of Q&A with Pearce asking the questions from the point of view of watching a game of football and developing an understanding of how tactics and formations operate. Just started it this morning but I really like the format and style so far Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted September 24, 2016 Report Share Posted September 24, 2016 On 9/15/2016 at 1:00 PM, James Broonbreed said: The Master and Margerita - Mikhail Bulgakov. Devil comes to town store with a big, black bipedal cat who rips someones head off. the first 30% is good. Best book! Starring the only cat I've ever liked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Broonbreed Posted September 24, 2016 Report Share Posted September 24, 2016 2 hours ago, kirsten said: Best book! Starring the only cat I've ever liked. I must admit to getting a tad confusing now... I might need to to a quick Wikipedia to catch myself up... the he fatty from the cat returns is also a cool cat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyboy Posted September 25, 2016 Report Share Posted September 25, 2016 On 5/11/2015 at 8:44 PM, scottyboy said: I don't have much hope of finding a copy here in Poland (now) either... Well I'll be damned, I just bought a copy of Fahrenheit 451 in a bookshop in the Socialist Republic of Poland... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted October 3, 2016 Report Share Posted October 3, 2016 Currently reading The Damned Utd which is excellent so far! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted October 17, 2016 Report Share Posted October 17, 2016 On 16/05/2016 at 7:44 AM, Lemonade said: Finished "Lisey's Story" by Stephen King. Shit. Also Finished "Billy" by Pamela Stephenson, which was good and "The Irish Scissor Sisters" by Mick McCaffrey, which is a true crime book about a famous murder case that happened in Dublin a few years ago. Now reading "Revolutionary Road" by Richard Yates. I'm only just starting it but its beautifully written so far. Forgot about this and went back to it this week. It was excellent. 5/5. Would read again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 Ploughed through seven books on holiday, the highlights of which were the Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn adventures by Mark Twain. Great reads! Currently reading American Rust by Philipp Meyer which is good so far Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 Currently baws-deep into "A Study In Scarlet", the first Sherlock Holmes book by Arthur Conan Doyle. A surprisingly light and easy read for a book from the 1800s. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trikelops Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 Finished NYPD Red by James Patterson, good of you like his stuff. I'm now started into Witch Light by Susan Fletcher. Strange book about a young witch that befriended the McDonalds prior to the Glencoe massacre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted October 27, 2016 Report Share Posted October 27, 2016 The Sherlock Holmes books are ace! I powered through a load of them a while back. Finished American Rust which was really enjoyable and started on The Road by Cormack McCarthy. Never read any of his stuff. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted November 7, 2016 Report Share Posted November 7, 2016 (edited) Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk , which I thought I'd read but I definitely haven't. Love the film so it's cool to enjoy a different version of the story. I've read most of Chuck's stuff but apparently missed this one. My wife bought me Fight Club 2 for our anniversary (it's a graphic novel written by Chuck) so I thought I'd brush up on the original first. It's hard not to read it in Ed Norton's voice. Edited November 7, 2016 by Lemonade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trikelops Posted November 9, 2016 Report Share Posted November 9, 2016 Sleep No More by Greg Iles. He's an author I came across not long ago, both books I have read of his are nice easy reading with both stories based around Natchez in the deep south of America. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted November 11, 2016 Report Share Posted November 11, 2016 Read A River Runs Through It, by Norman MacLean. Had seen the film years ago and loved it and the book is excellent. Currently reading Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal which is about the changing structure of the joint special forces command in the US military to meet the demands of fighting Al Queda in Iraq who were a decentralised force rather than what they'd been built to take on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted November 30, 2016 Report Share Posted November 30, 2016 Took a while to read but Team of Teams was excellent and brought in some good stories from other places too. Now reading How to Live a Good Life by Jonathan Fields after I heard him on a podcast last week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted November 30, 2016 Report Share Posted November 30, 2016 Stephen King - Mr Mercedes. Not one of his usual, this is a straightforward detective novel, and a damn good one so far. Retired detective is pulled back in when the last case he had left unsolved - a mass killing where a masked man intentionally drove a Mercedes into a crowd of people - suddenly goes warm again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted December 1, 2016 Report Share Posted December 1, 2016 Started another too; Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison. Fairly pacy start Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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