holiday reading - ideas?

popette
popette Posts: 2,089
edited May 2008 in The bottom bracket
hi - anyone got a recommendation for a good holiday read please?

I'm looking for a page turner, really well written and preferably with lashings of smut.

any ideas?
http://www.2010etape.blogspot.com

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  • robmanic1
    robmanic1 Posts: 2,150
    Discovery Road is on it's 4th read! Leant it to all my cycling mates and they all agree it's a great read, and it's not another Armstrong book, in case you were wondering about the title (no smut though, I'm afraid) :wink:
    Pictures are better than words because some words are big and hard to understand.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/34335188@N07/3336802663/
  • ChrisLS
    ChrisLS Posts: 2,749
    ...On Chesil Beach...by Ian McEwan
    The Book of Dave...by Will Self
    Super Cannes...by J G Ballard


    ...I liked them anyway...
    ...all the way...'til the wheels fall off and burn...
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know - Ranulph Fiennes autobiography.

    Amazingly entertaining - Does tend to make you think you've not done much with your life though :P

    No smut.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    no smut, but if you have not already, a must read is "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel. A brilliant page turner, with a great twist.

    Another of my favorites is a tiny, compact and powerful little book called "Fupp" by Jim Dodge. Short story finishable in one sitting and superb.
    Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I believe in the future of the human race.

    H.G. Wells.
  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    Liar - Stephen Fry
    anything by Carl Hiaasen is a great holiday read
    Purveyor of sonic doom

    Very Hairy Roadie - FCN 4
    Fixed Pista- FCN 5
    Beared Bromptonite - FCN 14
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Anything in the Flashman series by the recently departed George McDonald Fraser.
    Ticks all yer boxes! :wink:
    Head Hands Heart Lungs Legs
  • Harry B
    Harry B Posts: 1,239
    popette wrote:
    hi - anyone got a recommendation for a good holiday read please?

    I'm looking for a page turner, really well written and preferably with lashings of smut.

    any ideas?

    You haven't got time to be ready smutty books. You should be training, traning and then more training. Take some rollers and your bike with you and you could keep on rolling whilst keeping an eye on the kids thereby allowing Mr Popette to relax in the bar with a beer or two :wink:
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  • CHRISNOIR
    CHRISNOIR Posts: 1,400
    Clever Pun wrote:
    ...anything by Carl Hiaasen is a great holiday read

    This is true, I've just finished Lucky You and thoroughly enjoyed it! Why not combine cycling and smut with this? I've got it on order and I think there were a few favourable reviews on here. A mother / daughter three-way? Now that's smutty...
  • popette
    popette Posts: 2,089
    Cheers guys,
    My amazon shopping basket is starting to fill up :)

    The Flashman book has a review by someone called Peregrine Buckfastleigh Snetterton-Nafferton ...!!! Is it a book that will appeal to women or is it one for the boys?
    http://www.2010etape.blogspot.com
  • robbie the roadie
    robbie the roadie Posts: 423
    if you haven't already read it then The Rider - Tim Krabbe is a must.
    Cycling - The pastime of spending large sums of money you don't really have on something you don't really need.
  • johnnypipe85
    johnnypipe85 Posts: 145
    my girlfriend read BravoTwoZero by Andy McNab. I know it was quite criticized and it's not really a women's book, but she loved it!
  • robmanic1
    robmanic1 Posts: 2,150
    johnnypipe85 wrote:
    my girlfriend read BravoTwoZero by Andy McNab. I know it was quite criticized and it's not really a women's book, but she loved it!


    ........again, distinct lack of smut as far as I remember. Looks like a smut-free holiday for you Poppette! :wink:
    Pictures are better than words because some words are big and hard to understand.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/34335188@N07/3336802663/
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Popette,
    Flashman is generally regarded as a man's man with a "traditional" view of women... However, it is written with tongue thoroughly in cheek, and is full of accurate historical details alongside the rodgering... :wink:
    Head Hands Heart Lungs Legs
  • dombo6
    dombo6 Posts: 582
    The Godfather - Mario Puzo
    Into the Blue - Robert Goddard
    The Adventurers - Harold Robbins
    The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth

    Of the four the Harold Robbins has the most smut and is a real page turner, the Goddard is superbly well written and has more twists then the Stelvio Pass, TG and TDotJ are their respective authors first novels and in my view their best efforts.
  • Nuggs
    Nuggs Posts: 1,804
    Anything by Haruki Murakami. Oh yes.
  • popette
    popette Posts: 2,089
    CHRISNOIR wrote:
    Clever Pun wrote:
    ...anything by Carl Hiaasen is a great holiday read

    This is true, I've just finished Lucky You and thoroughly enjoyed it! Why not combine cycling and smut with this? I've got it on order and I think there were a few favourable reviews on here. A mother / daughter three-way? Now that's smutty...

    That goes a bit too far, even for me. God the thought makes me want to puke, bllurrrrrgggghhhhhhh.
    http://www.2010etape.blogspot.com
  • TheBoyBilly
    TheBoyBilly Posts: 749
    How about "I'm with the Band-confessions of a Groupie" by Pamela Des Barres. Should be enough smut in there :lol:
    To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity - Oscar Wilde
  • popette
    popette Posts: 2,089
    Harry B wrote:
    You haven't got time to be ready smutty books. You should be training, traning and then more training. Take some rollers and your bike with you and you could keep on rolling whilst keeping an eye on the kids thereby allowing Mr Popette to relax in the bar with a beer or two :wink:

    :wink:
    Never fear Harry B, we're taking the bikes (and a babysitter) so we should be able to get a couple of mornings cycling done AND have some adult time when the kids are in bed! ohhhhhh yehhhhhhhh. :P
    http://www.2010etape.blogspot.com
  • robmanic1
    robmanic1 Posts: 2,150
    I read a book once, green it was!
    Pictures are better than words because some words are big and hard to understand.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/34335188@N07/3336802663/
  • IanTrcp
    IanTrcp Posts: 761
    Nuggs wrote:
    Anything by Haruki Murakami. Oh yes.

    Seconded.

    Link here:

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=sr_kk_1?i ... 20murakami

    Originally conceived and written in Japanese. Translated by someone with a wonderful grasp of the english language. Complex, subtle, beguiling and not easy to put down....
  • red dragon
    red dragon Posts: 263
    How about:
    BIKIE - Charlie Woods
    Dancing uphill (Charles Holland) - Frances Holland
    In Pursuit of Stardom - Tony Hewson
    Okay not smut, good books about real people who follow what they want to do.
  • howiejmidlands
    howiejmidlands Posts: 389
    Anything by Irvine Welsh, i especially liked Porno! Great cover as well, especially reading it in airport lounges gets you noticed!
    Oh War and Peace, now there is a cracker. Took me 6 months to read that one.
    Just a fat bloke on a bike

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