NFR - Books

[BalDrick]

What's everyone reading at the moment? Any recommendations?

I finished One Day by David Nicholls yesterday - surprisingly good in fact (http://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Day-David-Nicholls/dp/0340896981/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1294756724&sr=1-1).

Just started Crown & Country - A History of England Through the Monarchy by David Starkey (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crown-Country-History-England-Monarchy/dp/0007307705/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1294756756&sr=1-1). A very good author for history, particularly the Tudors.

[Burt]

I have a number of books on the go, it depends on my mood as to what I read.

I have just finished "One Day" - excellent book, slightly unexpected twist at the end.

On the fiction side of things having read Olssen's Millenium Trilogy ("Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", etc) someone recommended the Harry Hole novels by Nesbø so I have just started one, its a good read and I'll get around to the rest of them over time.

I also have had Blair's autobiography on the go since it came out, only half way through that.

And for light relief I have Lynn & Jay's "Yes Prime Minister" on my bedside table, and my collection of Fulham Reviews inside it  :003:

[AlFayedsChequebook]

Just finished 'The Age of Reason' by Thomas Paine, which is a fantastic diatribe against organised religion written 200 years ago.

Just started 'Futebol: A Brazilian way of life' by Alex Bellos which is already proving to be an entertaining read!

[King_Crud]

Just finished A Year With Verona, and WG Grace Ate My Pedalo. Both brilliant books in different ways, the Verona book would be the best football book I've read.

Currently reading The Miracle of Castel Di Sangro. Not a great book, too much of a focus on the author and not on the subject.

[TonyGilroy]

One guy I'd recommend is a science fiction writer called Robert Charles Wilson.

He has zero profile but he's a superb novelist who is able to create real characters in situations that may be futuristic but are not ridiculous. No dragons or space ship fights. I look forward to each new novel and he's the only writer I buy in hardback because I can't wait.

Try "Spin" first.

A guilty secret is the Time Travellers Wife which is probably the only book that my wife, myself and each of my 3 daughters have read and really liked.

[sipwell]

I am reading the memoires of Cristopher Hitchens, Hitch-22. If you can ignore bits of namedropping once in a while, it is actually a great read.

[LBNo11]

...The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest, the final book in Stieg Larsson's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Millenium Trilogy. An amazing adventure, a real pleasure to read it, and so sad that the author died shortly after presenting them to the publisher so no more tales of Salander, Blomkvist or Berger and Vanger :012:

Highly recommended...


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Girl-Dragon-Tattoo-Millennium-Trilogy/dp/1847245455

[os5889]

Just finished Bequest by A. K. Schevchenko, I enjoyed it, worth a read!

[BalDrick]

...The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest, the final book in Stieg Larsson's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Millenium Trilogy. An amazing adventure, a real pleasure to read it, and so sad that the author died shortly after presenting them to the publisher so no more tales of Salander, Blomkvist or Berger and Vanger :012:

Highly recommended...


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Girl-Dragon-Tattoo-Millennium-Trilogy/dp/1847245455

I gave up halfway through the second; it wasn't a patch on the first which had a really decent story. The second I found little more than Tank Girl in book rather than comic form to be honest. And at the end of Part 1, they discovered a really important link - someone called Sala or Zala - who everyone conveniently forgot for the whole of Part 2, as if to pad the book out. Shame because I loved the first.

[epsomraver]

Just finished birds song for the second time and have been and seen the play, brilliant and poignant book , tells of the ww1 battlefields as no one else can, also reading Sebastian Faulks James Bond novel devil may care, he has really spiced Bond up and returned to the 60's

[richie17]

The new baby's ruined my reading but just finished William Burroughs' Junky, Will Self's Walking to Hollywood and a Peruvian crime novel called "Red April" which got some good reviews but which disappointed me a bit.  JG Ballard's Cocaine Nights was excellent.  Ongoing; Stephanie Pintoff's "In the shadow of gotham" (my brain is only really fit for crime fiction) is quite good, a very different murder thing set in 1905, which makes me wish I was a turn of the century policeman.    Also got Will Self's Junk Mail on the go, which is really good:  his non-fiction is better than his fiction.

[richie17]

Just finished birds song for the second time and have been and seen the play, brilliant and poignant book , tells of the ww1 battlefields as no one else can, also reading Sebastian Faulks James Bond novel devil may care, he has really spiced Bond up and returned to the 60's

Faulks was the only writer in all the lists of "Roy Hodgson" books who could write a female character (Roth, Ford, Donleavy, Bellow, Amis, etc).    Interesting that most of his favourite authors specialised on gifted but flawed males with oversized egos who end up in trouble...

[Peabody]

Just finished Dan Browns "The Lost Symbol" which I found a bit disappointing, rambled quite a bit. Agree with LB and The Millenium books, however, the second book is slightly disappointing but the third book really does bring the series back on form. Also read The Pillars of the earth and World Without End and thouroughly enjoyed them.

[Blingo]

The Beano annual 2011. Great read, even better pictures.

[timmyg]

I'm "reading" Ulysses by James Joyce. I put quotations because I am about 50 pages in and staring at all the words but none of it is making any sense. Am I that dense?

And I would really like the read Death to the BCS but our local library is taking their sweet time in processing it.

[Jimbobob]

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Legionnaire: by Simon Murray. I was lucky to find it at the book store.
"Vive la mort, vive la guerre, vive le sacre mercenaire."
True Grit: by Charles Portis. Very popular movie here now by Conan Brothers. Book is excellent

[CincyFulham1]

Just finished reading "Flashman and the Dragon" by George Macdonald Fraser.  Now I'm toying with rereading "Filth" or "Porno" by Irvine Welsh.  I think "Porno" is the follow up "Trainspotting", atleast it seemed to be.  I've also got some Solzhenitsyn to reread too (1914 and The Gulag Archipelago).  A friend gave me a couple books by alternative history writer Harry Turtledove who I read before, so I may start there.

[epsomraver]

The Beano annual 2011. Great read, even better pictures.

Is that the one with Capello starring as Dennis's dad?

[BalDrick]

'Now I'm toying with rereading "Filth" or "Porno" by Irvine Welsh.  I think "Porno" is the follow up "Trainspotting", atleast it seemed to be.'

Correct, it is and it's bloody good, whereas IMO Filth was rubbish - sort of Rankin pastiche but deliberately bad.

'I'm "reading" Ulysses by James Joyce. I put quotations because I am about 50 pages in and staring at all the words but none of it is making any sense. Am I that dense?'

Well if you are, so am I - apparently it eventually makes sense but it's yet to do so for me.

'Just finished birds song for the second time and have been and seen the play, brilliant and poignant book , tells of the ww1 battlefields as no one else can, also reading Sebastian Faulks James Bond novel devil may care, he has really spiced Bond up and returned to the 60's'

For some reason I'd always thought Faulks was a bit chick-littish (says the man who's just finished One Day), but perhaps not - I shall investigate.

Quite a few posters seem to be able to read two or three books at the same time - have never been able to do that.

[FP]

Finishing Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and about to start Larsson's third part of the Millenium trilogy.

Before all this fiction i read two very interesting history books:

Empire: How Britain made the modern World by Niall Ferguson
The making of modern Britain by Andrew Marr