[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[Spun Cuppa]

Irvine Welsh - The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs

Having read Filth and Ecstasy recently, and starting this one, I think I am reading the definitive writer on all things geezer/violence/footy/drug taking/chavvy dimwit...

 

[Eeyore]

The Uses Of Literacy- Richard Hoggart (1957)

Brilliant social commentary on life in the mid twentieth century. Very prophetic too, when talking of the onset of mass media in cultural influence.

 

[Phat Baz 68]

Hunting Evil
About Suffolk Strangler Steve Wright.
No not the DJ !!!

 

[Phat Baz 68]

Irvine Welsh - The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs

Having read Filth and Ecstasy recently, and starting this one, I think I am reading the definitive writer on all things geezer/violence/footy/drug taking/chavvy dimwit...[/QUOTE

Have you read the Acid House absolutely brilliant the best story in it is in Eurotrash creepy as **** !

 

[Eeyore]

Pies and Prejudice In Search Of The North by Stuart Maconie

Not too bad but very skewed to the North as you would expect.

I enjoyed that book. He did a follow up called 'Adventures on the High Teas' a book about 'Middle England' -worth a read.

 

[Norman Potting]

Coinicidentally I have just started to read his "The People's Songs - The Story Of Modern Britain in 50 songs". which is excellent, as are his other books. Also worth a read are the books from Mark Radcliffe, his D.J. 'ing partner in crime, which include a half decent novel set in the folk clubs of '60's Northern England, "Northern Sky".

 

[AmexRuislip]

Harry Redknapp autobiography, bit of an eye opener.

 

[Silk]

Vanished by Tim Weaver.

Utter crap.

 

[Marshy]

Travels with Charley - John Steinback

Anyone with itchy travel feet should read this.... awesome

 

[Blue3]

Europe a History by Norman Davies and I have to say its a dam fine read

 

[Mackenzie]

Last Bus To Woodstock by Colin Dexter


An inspector Morse book, they are a good read.

 

[tinycowboy]

Catcher In The Rye - J. D. Salinger.

Haven't read this since my teens. Hugely enjoyable so far.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

12 Years a Slave - damn that field negro can write! An incredible read for so many reasons.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Broken Homes - Ben Aaronovitch

Book 4 in this Rivers of London series. Love his descriptions of the hidden layers of London. Gritty crime drama meets Harry Potter with a sprinkle of Peter Ackroyd.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Irvine Welsh - The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs

Having read Filth and Ecstasy recently, and starting this one, I think I am reading the definitive writer on all things geezer/violence/footy/drug taking/chavvy dimwit...

He's doing the Brighton Festival again this year, on Sunday at the Old Market. Tickets only a tenner. Usually pretty entertaining.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

He's doing the Brighton Festival again this year, on Sunday at the Old Market. Tickets only a tenner. Usually pretty entertaining.

Great heads-up. Tickets bought. Cheers.

 

[crasher]

I've just read Brighton Rock. No idea why it's taken me so long to get round to it but it's a marvellous, chilling, read. And there's nothing quite like reading a fictional story where you can envisage almost every single scene and location (even if it is set 80 years ago).

 

[Braggfan]

The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

A brilliantly depressing tale of a man and his boy trying to make their way across post-nuclear holocaust America.

The Road is an incredible book, it's very dark though. You'd imagine that the horrible scenes would be worse when you see them in the film adaptation but personally I think they're reading about them was far worse. I remember feeling glum for the rest of the day after reading certain sections. Ha ha brilliant recommendation by me there, but it is seriously great.

 

[Hiney]

Just finished 'Dominion' by CJ Sansom.

London in the 1950s if we had not won WWII

Very good.

 

[banjo]

Mo Hayder. Ritual.