[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[Surf's Up]

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Skagboys - Irvine Welsh's prequel to Trainspotting. Good read!

 

[BadFish]

Just finished My Booky Wook, Stupid title but a well written, insightful and interesting book (if you are interested in Russel Brand, otherwise it is just more of his crap)

 

[rcf0712]

Madman, and loving it

 

[Ludensian Gull]

Hide & Seek. One of the Rebus novels by Ian Rankin

 

[Steve in Japan]

Cockroaches, Jo Nesbo. Written 15 years ago but only just translated into English. It`s OK but not as good as his later work, IMO

 

[Pevenseagull]

Going to sea in a sieve - Danny Baker Autobiography


bloody great fun

 

[XYZ123]

Currently PG Wodehouse - Righty Ho, Jeeves. Light intermittent reading from the master himself - there isn't anyone who comes close to Wodehouse.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

The Famous Five,wonderful stuff.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

This Boy by Alan Johnson.

In an age where politicians all seem to be cut from the same cloth - here was an upbringing. Quite a lot of it by his sister mind. Finishes when he is eighteen - having worked since he was 15 - and married with an adopted daughter. These are not spoilers by the way.

So none of the politics.

 

[Norman Potting]

"A Man Of No Consequence" by Sussex writer, singer and legend Bob Copper. Final part of his live story which fills in details of his (brief) military service, time with the West Sussex Police and his emergence as a chronicler of a bygone Sussex era that lasted for centuries but is now gone for good.

 

[Silk]

Just started "Stand on Zanzibar" by John Brunner.

 

[keaton]

I've just finished Hatchet Job by Mark Kermode. Not as good as his previous but still very enjoyable with lots of good anecdotes, and stories about film-making and a good piece about what film criticism is nowadays

 

[Fitzcarraldo]

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. A cracking read.

 

[Footsoldier]

Nearly finished this book by Annis Abraham Jnr and what a read. Gives great insight into the life of probably the most notorious fanatic Cardiff City football fan. I purchased it from his main website and the fella even signed it for me and a discount as well

 

[XYZ123]

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. A cracking read.

Revisiting Scoop by Waugh. Fantastically funny - Gives a humorous insight into the Fleet Street of the late 1930's.

 

[Tarpon]

Why do you have to get passed their privileged background? That is what enabled them to take part in all these adventures and instilled in them duty, service and sacrifice, for our benefit and theirs.
Even today most of the adventurers dead and alive are from a similar background.
Anyway thanks for posting about this book, the research is amazing. I am only a couple of hundred pages in so far, and just found out that Rupert Brook, he of.........If I should die, think only this of me.... Died of sepsis due to being stung by a wasp, and his piece of foreign field is in Skyros a small Greek island.
Great book! Good value for money too, with 623 pages plus 25 pages of index.

The inequality of opportunity founded on inherited wealth & privilege and the work of others grates is all - 'twas ever thus. No particular issue with the individuals and their, sometimes astonishing, achievements but there were plenty with the same sense of duty, service and sacrifice that were back down mines at the same time. What a book though - my read of 2013 without doubt. Highly recommended.

 

[Jbanged]

The second hunger games book.

 

[TheJasperCo]

Finished The Hobbit and have spent the last few weeks starting on Lord of the Rings. An epic in every sense of the word.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Just finished The Fry Chronicles, which was good. Read Morrissey's Autobiograpy not long ago, which is interesting but is a study in writing well but not saying much! Now started Mad Man by Enrest, oh no, sorry, some bloke called Knight. Am looking forward to reading The Great Escaper, the story of Roger Bushell.