Question What are you reading?

[Tangled up in Blue]

Enjoyed Ian Rankin's Let it Bleed and Jake Arnott's True Crime.Good beach reads.

 

[AdamTheShrimper]

The nowhere men. A investigation into football scouts, what they do, how they operate etc and also how modern technology has affected the scouting network, for example the boom of statistics.

I've also recently read forbidden forward, the story of Justin Fashanu, which was a good read.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Sociey of the Spectacle.Guy Debord.

This was The Angry Brigade's bible.

It's completely unreadable, (must be more of a Marxist still than I thought).:whistling:

 

[Napster]

Just read a few books;

Never go Back - a Jack Reacher book. Standard Reacher fare - bit cliche now but decent enough
Skagboys - prequel to Trainspotting. No real plot, more a bunch of sketches some of which are amusing, some horrific. But overall a tad disappointing
The Shining Girls - after all the puff pieces, expected better. No real motivation, no real reasoning, prose was OK but the story wasn't there
Night Film - excellent - a journalist looks into the film director Cordova. This is excellent writing - solid characters with good motives, bit of humour, bit of tension, a few scares.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Currently reading Ian Rankin's Black and Blue.

Saw the TV version quite recently (on DVD) but good as that was, it's nowhere near as good as the novel.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started The Too Difficult Box :The Big Issues Politicians Can't Crack.Edited by Charles Clarke.

Looks interesting.

 

[prawntobewild]

Read Final Edition by Val Mcdermid whilst away on me hols.

 

[prawntobewild]

Now rattling through Nemesis by Jo Nesbo (Harry Hole #4) - it's a 700 pager - finding it easy to read as it so well written.

 

[steveo]

Slightly off topic. As a digital reader, I was finding it was becoming quite expensive to keep buying book after book. I got a random email form bookbub and signed up for it. You get 1 email each day listing bargain - often free -books available on Amazon usually as special offers for a day.
Saves a lot of time trawling through for bargains.
http://landers.bookbub.com

 

[prawntobewild]

Slightly off topic. As a digital reader, I was finding it was becoming quite expensive to keep buying book after book. I got a random email form bookbub and signed up for it. You get 1 email each day listing bargain - often free -books available on Amazon usually as special offers for a day.
Saves a lot of time trawling through for bargains.
http://landers.bookbub.com

Sounds handy - sadly I am a luddite & enjoy the experience of looking through the charity shops for my bargain reads after spending my book vouchers!

 

[MK Shrimper]

Sounds handy - sadly I am a luddite & enjoy the experience of looking through the charity shops for my bargain reads after spending my book vouchers!

Shame I don't live closer - I've got loads that I can't give away via Freecycle and I'd hate to dump them into landfill.

 

[londonblue]

Shame I don't live closer - I've got loads that I can't give away via Freecycle and I'd hate to dump them into landfill.

So give them to your local charity shop. That's what I used to do until I got a Kindle.

Anyway, currently reading Day of the Jackal, it's very good.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Accidentally bought An Exquisite Sense of What Is Beautiful by J. David Simmons - was only 99p and it seems ok so I'll give it a go,.

 

[Pubey]

Just finished I am Pilgrim. Perfectly enjoyable trashy crime thriller. Being turned into a film apparently.

 

[Napster]

Now rattling through Nemesis by Jo Nesbo (Harry Hole #4) - it's a 700 pager - finding it easy to read as it so well written.

The latest Harry Hole "Police" is excellent

 

[Napster]

Just read Gone Girl, which was superb and can't wait for the film
Also read a Tim Moore travel/comic/journal which was a good read on the coach to Carlisle
Now reading Kathryn Schulz's treatise on being wrong. http://www.beingwrongbook.com/

It is excellent and frequently mentions Barnablue.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Enjoying 'The Guts' by Roddy Doyle. Great to be re-introduced to the Rabbitte family after all these years.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Enjoying 'The Guts' by Roddy Doyle. Great to be re-introduced to the Rabbitte family after all these years.

Let me know what you think when you've finished it.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Let me know what you think when you've finished it.

I will so. Yer fecker.

 

[MK Shrimper]

I will so. Yer fecker.

Grand :winking: