coda Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Ive got a third of the way through 'Life' Kieth Richards autobiography...i will tell you now it's shit! Given up on it. I was planning on buying Keef's book to cheer me up after reading Primo Levi's If This Is a Man. Is it not worth reading? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted June 4, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted June 4, 2011 Have three books set to arrive from Amazon in the next month or so: The Declaration of Independents Far and Away: A Prize Every Time (tbf, the book is basically an anthology of a few years worth of blog entries from Neil Peart's website) Carte Blanche (probably not the most surprising list, I admit...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbr600rr Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 yep..best auto i have read was stan collymore! i could not put it down,great read,also stevie g was good,paul magrath book was the one that got me on how he lived his life away from playing & how he didnt want to join the villa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pelle Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Found a little gem at Brum international when waiting for the flight home. "The Genesis plague" by Michael Byrnes. Half way through it now, and I like it a lot. Think I'm about to continue reading it now, out in the sun, actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 I've just completed Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945. Seeing as i'm on the bus for 45 minutes, it's perfect to get into a book and you don't even realise you've reached your stop until someone taps you on the shoulder. I got that the other day, very accessible. The perfect book for me at the moment as I've been looking for a broad overview of that scale to tuck into. Fiction wise, based on recently watching Sagan's Cosmos series I've bought Contact and my friend has forced Brave New World upon me, so i look forward to those as well! recently finished a black crime caper ' Rage in Harlem' by Chester Himes which was a good fun quickie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 You read multiple books at once Mike?Oh ****, where do I begin... Yes. First off, I always have a novel on the go. This is invariably my bedtime reading, usually 30 mins to an hour each night. EDIT: Forgot to mention - for the odd occasion when I don't fancy an instalment of the current novel, or I'm between books, I also have several volumes of short stories by the bed. Currently, collections by Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov and Irwin Shaw. Then there's my secondary book, almost always non-fiction (typically history or popular science). This I take to work each day, and every lunchtime I stroll down to Starbucks and read for 30-45 minutes, over a coffee or two. In addition, I have in my desk drawer Clive James' "Cultural Amnesia", a superb book of essays that I occasionally read a page or two of first thing in the morning while my PC boots up. Back home again, our toilet is a considerable library in its own right - full of books designed to be read a few pages at a time (while having a shit, basically!) - poetry, anthologies, etc. Having said that, my current "bog book" is the rather weighty "Landscape and Memory" by Simon Schama - but I pick up others as the mood takes me. The living room is also book-lined, and if the missus is watching something crap on TV (and I'm not on VT), I often take down something from the shelf for a bit of infill reading. Also, for the last couple of years I have been working my way through Charles Allen's "Plain Tales from the British Empire" - purely in the garden, when the weather is sufficiently sunny to sit out. That's just the "regular stuff". I could pick up other books at odd times in odd places if I have a spare five minutes. If I'm going on holiday, I plan out my reading to go with the destination - on the "one novel, one history, one travelogue" principle. You get the picture? Stupefying. What I would give right now for the time and money to read like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alf_stewart Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Just ordered Things Fall Apart, Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World for the summer. Getting through as many 20th century classics as I can at the mo; 'before you die' type reads. Any recommendations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 just checked last page Zeno's Conscience was a really enjoyable book I thought. I read it a month or two ago. trivia for it, only got published and spread properly as the author italo svevo was friends with james joyce who helped him get it going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Said it before but the Kindle I just got for the missus is superb. Hundreds of books and no storage issues Just doesn't feel right to me.This. I just bought one for my wife, too. She really likes it, and I can see the advantages, but it just doesn't feel right to me. I love the look, feel, smell even, of books. I like to see them on the shelves. :nod: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted June 4, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted June 4, 2011 Brave New World is a great idea in a decent book. Good read though, compare it with 1984 for some interesting contrasts on the contrast of a dystopia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Finally got round to The Wasp Factory (Iain Banks), that smiling baby thing...that's not leaving my mind for a while yet. Good book though, even if the end was a bit jolted. Moving on to Solar by Ian McEwan, heard good things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaretMahoney Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Reading Donald Miller's A Million Miles in a Thousand Years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Current main two (there are of course others dotted around the house and at work): John Barrow ! :notworthy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danwichmann Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 Just finished and currently reading Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 has anyone read game of thrones? i love the tv program and picked the book up from tescos for £3.50 but it looks a bit on the heavy side for me, im still only half way through empire of the sun which i started sometime in march Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ME Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas. I really did enjoy this book from start to finish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted July 4, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted July 4, 2011 You read multiple books at once Mike?Oh ****, where do I begin... Yes. First off, I always have a novel on the go. This is invariably my bedtime reading, usually 30 mins to an hour each night. EDIT: Forgot to mention - for the odd occasion when I don't fancy an instalment of the current novel, or I'm between books, I also have several volumes of short stories by the bed. Currently, collections by Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov and Irwin Shaw. Then there's my secondary book, almost always non-fiction (typically history or popular science). This I take to work each day, and every lunchtime I stroll down to Starbucks and read for 30-45 minutes, over a coffee or two. In addition, I have in my desk drawer Clive James' "Cultural Amnesia", a superb book of essays that I occasionally read a page or two of first thing in the morning while my PC boots up. Back home again, our toilet is a considerable library in its own right - full of books designed to be read a few pages at a time (while having a shit, basically!) - poetry, anthologies, etc. Having said that, my current "bog book" is the rather weighty "Landscape and Memory" by Simon Schama - but I pick up others as the mood takes me. The living room is also book-lined, and if the missus is watching something crap on TV (and I'm not on VT), I often take down something from the shelf for a bit of infill reading. Also, for the last couple of years I have been working my way through Charles Allen's "Plain Tales from the British Empire" - purely in the garden, when the weather is sufficiently sunny to sit out. That's just the "regular stuff". I could pick up other books at odd times in odd places if I have a spare five minutes. If I'm going on holiday, I plan out my reading to go with the destination - on the "one novel, one history, one travelogue" principle. You get the picture? Stupefying. What I would give right now for the time and money to read like that. Keeping you busy in the army, are they? Dunno about time, but money needn't be an issue. I buy lots of books secondhand, from charity shops, or remaindered, or from Amazon resellers - sometimes for as little as a penny (plus postage). Currently on: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 Read this over the weekend. :shock: It was a deal struck with the missus; if I was to get her to watch Sharpe I would have to read P&P. Fortunately for me, she didn't specify that it had to be the novel and not Marvel's wonderfully condensed adaptation. 8) That Wickham though; what a cad eh?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 I enjoyed A Room with a View. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theunderstudy Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 The Emperor series are well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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