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  • MattC59
    MattC59 Posts: 5,408
    I think that if the thread of the moment is to be believed, then everything posted here is BS, as you're all reading 'Club', 'Mayfair' and 'Men's World'.
    (With some reading 'Razzle')
    :lol:
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  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    Malloren quintology by David Eddings, and by reading I mean re-reading for the nth time. Oh and on my phone too, none of this paper lark atm.
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  • Paul E
    Paul E Posts: 2,052
    Drive
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,893
    MattC59 wrote:
    I think that if the thread of the moment is to be believed, then everything posted here is BS, as you're all reading 'Club', 'Mayfair' and 'Men's World'.
    (With some reading 'Razzle')
    :lol:

    Thread of the moment? If you are referring to Girls...gate then that is so last week.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    rjsterry wrote:
    MattC59 wrote:
    I think that if the thread of the moment is to be believed, then everything posted here is BS, as you're all reading 'Club', 'Mayfair' and 'Men's World'.
    (With some reading 'Razzle')
    :lol:

    Thread of the moment? If you are referring to Girls...gate then that is so last week.

    It's a pretty generous use of the word 'reading'.
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  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    MattC59 wrote:
    I think that if the thread of the moment is to be believed, then everything posted here is BS, as you're all reading 'Club', 'Mayfair' and 'Men's World'.
    (With some reading 'Razzle')
    :lol:
    Thread of the moment? If you are referring to Girls...gate then that is so last week.
    It's a pretty generous use of the word 'reading'.

    Yeah, the eyes would be going up and down rather than side to side :D
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  • SteppenHerring
    SteppenHerring Posts: 720
    Just finished Sex Lies and Handlebar Tape. Not sure what to read next.
  • robmanic1
    robmanic1 Posts: 2,150
    A Pirate Of Exquisite Mind, about William Dampier.

    Can anyone tell me why pirate books are so good?
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  • FoldingJoe
    FoldingJoe Posts: 1,327
    Robmanic1 wrote:
    A Pirate Of Exquisite Mind, about William Dampier.

    Can anyone tell me why pirate books are so good?

    ...becaused they arrrrrggghhhhhhh... :oops:

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  • Ben6899
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    Minority Report - PK Dick. Just started the second chapter.
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  • clarkey cat
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    Clash of Kings - George RR Martin

    Song of Stone - Iain Banks

    Cases that Changed Our Lives - Ian McDougall
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  • Gussio
    Gussio Posts: 2,452
    clarkey cat wrote:
    Clash of Kings - George RR Martin

    Song of Stone - Iain Banks

    Cases that Changed Our Lives - Ian McDougall

    I just finished Clash of Kings. Good stuff. A Storm of Swords (both volumes) on their way from Amazon......
  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    MattC59 wrote:
    I think that if the thread of the moment is to be believed, then everything posted here is BS, as you're all reading 'Club', 'Mayfair' and 'Men's World'.
    (With some reading 'Razzle')
    :lol:
    Thread of the moment? If you are referring to Girls...gate then that is so last week.
    It's a pretty generous use of the word 'reading'.

    Yeah, the eyes would be going up and down rather than side to side :D
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    BigJimmyB wrote:
    Last of the Dragon Tattoo trilogy.

    Would highly receommend.

    A very enjoyable trilogy. I'm steering clear of the Hollywood films because we all know what they do to a good story. It/they star Daniel Craig and anyone who saw The Golden Compass as well as reading that trilogy will know it was butchered and he was one of the stars of that too.
    He's an OK Bond though.

    I've been reading the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan books "Hunt for Red October", "Clear And Present Danger" etc recently. Unfortunately I'm not reading them in order and I've just finished Red Rabbit which is one of the earlier ones (Thatcher The Milk Snatcher and Ronald RayGun as PM and prez). Cold War-tastic!! That reminds me, I've got to take it back to the pub I nicked it from.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    I've been reading the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan books "Hunt for Red October", "Clear And Present Danger" etc recently. Unfortunately I'm not reading them in order and I've just finished Red Rabbit which is one of the earlier ones (Thatcher The Milk Snatcher and Ronald RayGun as PM and prez). Cold War-tastic!! That reminds me, I've got to take it back to the pub I nicked it from.

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  • davis
    davis Posts: 2,506
    essex-commuter wrote:
    Just finished 'You've Gone Too Far This TIme Sir' - Danny Bent. (Excellent)


    Really didn't rate that one all that much.

    Currently should be reading the first of the Game of Thrones books and the Call of the Wild by Jack London, except I dropped my Kindle at the weekend -- anyone know if the screen from the (cheaper) Kindle will fit my broken Kindle keyboard? Really rather annoyed with myself for the clumsiness
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  • lostboysaint
    lostboysaint Posts: 4,250
    Just getting into George Pelecanos. He was recommended to me and so far so good. I'm on his Derek Strange series of books at the moment, just finished Right as Rain (the first one) but had already done his most recent which was a pre-quel! It's all about a black Washington DC private dick. Excellent reading and only having read the first one and thought "this reminds me of The Wire" did I find out that he'd done a lot of writing and production on The Wire.
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  • MonkeyMonster
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    davis wrote:
    Call of the Wild by Jack London

    Love that book.
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  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    davis wrote:
    Call of the Wild by Jack London

    Love that book.
    Me too.

    Also enjoyed The People of the Abyss, but thats non-fiction.
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  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    Last night on twisted river, John Irving

    Banker, Dick Frances (cistern book)

    Men without women, Hemingway (bedside book)

    Dillon's autobiography, can't recall title (glove compartment book)
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    The Patrick O'Brian Aubrey/Maturin books are fantastic. It took me years to read them all, but they are brilliant.

    Master and Commander
    Post Captain
    HMS Surprise
    The Mauritius Command
    Desolation Island
    The Fortune of War
    The Surgeon's Mate
    The Ionian Mission
    Treason's Harbour
    The Far Side of the World
    The Reverse of the Medal
    The Letter of Marque
    The Thirteen Gun Salute
    The Nutmeg of Consolation
    Clarissa Oakes
    The Wine-Dark Sea
    The Commodore
    The Yellow Admiral
    The Hundred Days
    Blue at the Mizzen
    The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey
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  • rml380z
    rml380z Posts: 244
    rjsterry wrote:
    Gussio wrote:
    London Under by Peter Ackroyd. Making me want to do some urban exploration.....

    I read Hawksmoor a while back. I really struggled to get much out of it

    I'm glad it wasn't just me struggling with Hawksmoor! I read it expecting great things but I really didn't get it at all.
  • sketchley
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  • Stone Glider
    Stone Glider Posts: 1,227
    Just finished 'How Cav won.......' by Ned Boulting which is a codicil to his TdF book and worth the £2.74 that I paid on Kindle. I have the Danny Bent book loaded but have yet to start. Beside the bed is 'Naseby' by Glenn Ffoard which is a detailed account of the battle with particular attention to the impact of the campaign on the populace. As I live in the county this approach to the story makes it particularly vivid.
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  • rjsterry
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    rml380z wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    Gussio wrote:
    London Under by Peter Ackroyd. Making me want to do some urban exploration.....

    I read Hawksmoor a while back. I really struggled to get much out of it

    I'm glad it wasn't just me struggling with Hawksmoor! I read it expecting great things but I really didn't get it at all.

    Apparently it was inspired by Iain Sinclair's poem 'Lud Heat' - Sinclair has a bit of a reputation for somewhat impenetrable writing on London. For my money, it's rather too interested in symbolism and anti-enlightenment occultism at the expense of a good story.
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  • cjcp
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    It's All About The Bike, by Robert Penn.

    Just finished French Revolutions.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    cjcp wrote:
    Just finished French Revolutions.

    Love that book.
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  • Paulie W
    Paulie W Posts: 1,492
    Just finished 1984 by David Peace - pretty intense. Would recommend all of his books especially the Red Riding books.
  • Maxticate
    Maxticate Posts: 193
    Just finished

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    Manual of Darkness. Really enjoyed the first half. Second half was not so good but still definitely worth reading.

    and

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    The Sisters Brothers.

    A real page turner. I finished it in two sittings. I think whilst the story is simple the style with which it is written makes it enjoyable to read.

    With regards to submarine books I liked

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    The terrible hours. A tale of a man's fight to get the US navy to adopt his solution to extricate submariners from their would be sunken tombs.
  • Gussio
    Gussio Posts: 2,452
    edited March 2012
    Paulie W wrote:
    Just finished 1984 by David Peace - pretty intense. Would recommend all of his books especially the Red Riding books.

    GB84 is an outstanding book. I found it quite hard going and sometimes difficult to follow, but it really captured the misery of the miners strike. Well worth reading.

    Enjoyed The Damned United and intend to read the Tokyo Trilogy at some point soon.

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